On Thursday, May 29, 2014, Mark Holmquist <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > For the nth time, in #mediawiki, I've had someone ask how to be able to > mark a bug as resolved, or claim it, or mark it as a duplicate of another > bug. I conceptually know that this means "getting editbugs permissions" but > it happens so infrequently that I never know where to go. > > Usually what happens is this: > 1. I wrack my brain trying to remember the process for about 30 seconds > 2. Failing, I try to ping Andre, Quim, and Sumana (none of whom are in the > channel, sadly) > 3. I search with duckduckgo and pull up nothing of any use > 4. I search MediaWiki.org and find outdated status reports about > greasemonkey scripts but nothing useful > 5. I go to the developer hub pages and look at the > welcome-to-the-community process but again find nothing describing this > process > > Solution: We've made every editbugs user able to add editbugs to an > account. I've documented the process here: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bugzilla#Why_can.27t_I_claim_a_bug_or_mark_it_resolved.3F > > Thanks to Chad for the quick resolution on this, hopefully this will be a > positive change overall. > > -- > Mark Holmquist Thank you! This is extremely sensible. Hopefully we can make sure avoid duplicating this problem again in Phabricator. > Software Engineer, Multimedia > Wikimedia Foundation > [email protected] <javascript:;> > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:MHolmquist > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
