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

Reply via email to