Regarding your second point. This is sci-fi in case of small projects,
it maybe works for large ones, but for example when I create a bug for
huggle or wm-bot where PHP, python, or JS guy is needed, nobody ever
notice that. BTW mozilla is already doing this and it seems to be
pretty effective, I think wikimedia could get inspired a bit (this
idea is actually not from my head) :P

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote:
> No, they wouldn't need to do this, it would more like optional feature
> for new bugs and only for these which are created by person who need
> assistance from someone who understand the language. For example if I
> needed something in JS, I could just flag it so that pool of
> programmers we have on wikimedia project would know someone need their
> help and did it.
>
> For example I can resolve probably any C/C++/C#/VB bug we have on
> bugzilla. But I will not do that because I have no idea which bugs are
> these.
>
> If there was such a keyword, PHP programmer who need help from some
> HTML5 programmer, could create a bug for some feature and set HTML5
> keyword so that HTML5 people are aware of that bug, it would same as
> "ops" keyword now. It exist just to inform ops that there is a bug
> which they can resolve. Now we would have it for other "teams" as
> well.
>
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Andre Klapper <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 10:44 +0200, Petr Bena wrote:
>>> Can we have that? so that people can filter out bugs that are require
>>> skills for certain languages only?
>>> For example if I needed to fix something that is C++ I would just tag
>>> it so, same for PHP, JS, etc... So that C++ devs could filter out only
>>> all bugs that require C++ knowledge and see all bugs across all of
>>> wikimedia that can be fixed in that language.
>>>
>>> Developers could then simply filter out only bugs that they are
>>> interested in or able to fix.
>>
>> Well, before developers can simply filter out bugs, somebody would have
>> to go through ~14000 open tickets, understand which language(s) a bug
>> report is about, and set the language(s) on all of these tickets.
>> Would you like to volunteer? :)
>>
>> More seriously, doesn't the Bugzilla product or component that a bug
>> report belongs to already pretty much define the programming language(s)
>> in that area? That's the level where I'd expect such information to be
>> located. (Or in a <programming-language> tag of a project's DOAP file in
>> its code repository.)
>>
>> andre
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