Perhaps a solution is to tag as something other than "invalid"; perhaps "downstream dependency"?
Pine On Jul 15, 2015 9:28 PM, "Amir E. Aharoni" <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > Hi, > > In the past it happened to me a few times that I opened bugs about > something wrong that happened on a Wikimedia site, and it was closed as > invalid because the issue was not in MediaWiki code, but in a local gadget, > style or template on that project. > > The bugs were actually fixed, but I'd like to question the "invalid" > closure. > > They were real bugs in real products. The fact that the software is not in > Gerrit doesn't mean that they don't affect the product de facto. Just for > the sake of example, if a bug in a local Gadget affects the Flow extension, > for example, I find it perfectly valid to add tag the Flow tag to it. Core > and extension developers should be curious about how what they developed > behaves in the wild. > > I do wonder what other tags are there to add to such a bug? I'm going to > open one now. > > (P.S. Yes, this raises an issue of whether non-Wikimedia sites should > count. I say - yes, and it shouldn't be limited unless it gets seriously > out of hand. But a URL with reproduction instructions must always be > provided.) > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
