On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Quim Gil <q...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi, thanks to the metrics reports now we know that the top bug fixers in > November were Nobody (228) and Wikidata bugs (83)... followed by Michael > Dale (28), Roan Kattouw (23), etc. > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_metrics/November_2012#People > > Even if the visible problem is a less accurate Bugzilla hall of fame, the > actual problem is that a big bunch of developers don't notify when they are > taking a bug. This decreases transparency and increases the chances of > duplicated work. > > This wouldn't be a big deal if it wouldn't happen to 55% of the bugs > resolved as FIXED last month. In practice this means that you can't be > really sure that a NEW bug is being fixed by someone while you are looking > at it. > > Can we solve this? Actual and potential contributors will be happier, and > probably you as well. At the end we are talking about the practice of a > small, very active group of (probably full time employed) developers. The > solution is simply to click "take" and "assigned" when you start working > with a bug. > > See this report of November: http://bit.ly/TJZLWU > > "Wikidata bugs" is focused in 5 components: WikidataRepo, WikidataClient, > ContentHandler, Wikidata, OAI. > > "Nobody" is all over but these are the top 10 components that could start > fixing their practices: > > * Semantic MediaWiki 23 > * Wikimedia & MediaWiki General/Unknown 20 > * Wikimedia Site requests 17 > * MobileFrontend (Beta) 12 > * MediaWiki Interface 10 > * UploadWizard 10 > * MobileFrontend 9 > * MediaWiki Internationalization 8 > * Wikimedia Bugzilla 8 > * ArticleFeedbackv5 8 > > There's hope to see progress in the next Metrics report. :)
For Wikidata at least we do set bugs to ASSIGNED most of the time. But we do leave the assignee set to the mailing list. If there is a strong preference to also change the assignee I can bring it up in the team. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
