Perhaps Engineering Community as well? Unlike Community Tech, CE has a manager and therefore perhaps more ability to address this sooner. Any comments, Quim?
Thanks! Pine On Jul 15, 2015 10:16 PM, "Jon Robson" <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm encountering a similar problem now - > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T99361 > > On phabricator should there be a gadgets project? Community project? > > I hit this issue all the time and to me is the biggest flaw with the > fact editors can introduce code. Templates/gadgets for me are hard to > debug, as it's hard for me to first locate the code, to understand it > (since it's not hosted in the same way as our other code and is > typically written very differently) and then to identify who owns it > and who I can discuss fixing with. > > This would be a great problem for the new community dev team to think > about imo. > > On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Amir E. Aharoni > <[email protected]> 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 > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > -- > Jon Robson > * http://jonrobson.me.uk > * https://www.facebook.com/jonrobson > * @rakugojon > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
