Brian, would you take a look at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_report_a_bug and maybe update it to clarify what sorts of information to try to hold on to for debugging purposes?
On 02/20/2013 07:50 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > On 20 February 2013 12:43, Tim Starling <[email protected]> wrote: >> It's not a test case after you've run action=purge on it. > > Which is why I didn't bother including the URLs in the initial report. > >> If you want >> to report things like this, it's best if you don't run action=purge, >> or even report it to anyone who might be inclined to do such a thing. >> Cache-related test cases are very fragile, so it takes some care to >> get them to a developer intact. > > My top priority was helping the person that reported it to read the > page they wanted to read. > > A little gratitude to someone trying to help you fix a problem > wouldn't go amiss... Thomas, thanks for the bug report. Sorry for the mixed messages here. If you run across the problem again and report it to us before helping your colleague, you can tell him I told you to do it, and blame me! And I have now learned something about two very different relationship experts, thanks to those URLs. :-) -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
