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Bug 55628 - Add a bugzilla component for Extension:MediaWikiAuth
Add a bugzilla component for Extension:MediaWikiAuth
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: Wikimedia
Classification: Unclassified
Bugzilla (Other open bugs)
wmf-deployment
All All
: Normal normal (vote)
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Assigned To: Andre Klapper
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Depends on:
Blocks:
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Reported: 2013-10-11 16:27 UTC by Isarra
Modified: 2013-10-11 22:52 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---


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Description Isarra 2013-10-11 16:27:53 UTC
We needs TRACKING. Please.
Comment 2 Kunal Mehta (Legoktm) 2013-10-11 16:54:12 UTC
Description: "The MediaWikiAuth extension transparently logs a user in to a remote wiki, importing the user's account and preferences to the local wiki." ([[mw:Extension:MediaWikiAuth]])

Default CC can be myself, Isarra, Jack Phoenix, and Skizzerz.
Comment 3 Isarra 2013-10-11 17:11:47 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> See
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/
> Project_Maintainers#To_add_a_project_or_component
> for required info. :)

It's an extension. All of that information is on the extension description page (which I actually kind of expected it to link to, but I guess not). Legoktm was kind enough to paste it here, but should that really be necessary?

Also I should probably point out that if you want people to follow a specific page when requesting components, it would help if there were some clear reference to said page when requesting component. Just a thought.
Comment 4 Andre Klapper 2013-10-11 18:02:09 UTC
legoktm: Thanks!

(In reply to comment #3)
> It's an extension. All of that information is on the extension description
> page

You could provide a link to the extension description page in your initial comment. You probably know https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_report_a_bug but of course I can also try to search for the homepage myself if I have time... ;)

> Also I should probably point out that if you want people to follow a specific
> page when requesting components, it would help if there were some clear
> reference to said page when requesting component.

Where would that reference be? Component description? I wouldn't try to cover all cases why a ticket might be filed under the Bugzilla component in Wikimedia Bugzilla as there's lots of other requests than component creation ones...
Comment 5 Andre Klapper 2013-10-11 18:13:03 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> (which I actually kind of expected it to link to, but I guess not).

If you want to link to something, you can use usual Mediawiki markup. Just writing Extension:textinthisway won't create a link. However this might be a nice idea for code which is at http://git.wikimedia.org/blob/wikimedia%2Fbugzilla%2Fmodifications.git/HEAD/extensions%2FWikimedia%2FExtension.pm

Anyway, component created. :)
Comment 6 Isarra 2013-10-11 18:18:33 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> 
> You could provide a link to the extension description page in your initial
> comment. You probably know https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_report_a_bug
> but of course I can also try to search for the homepage myself if I have
> time... ;)

As I said, I expected bugzilla to understand Extension:Blah to be a mediawiki extension and link it, given the regularity under which extensions come up here. Unfortunately what is and isn't turned into links seems to be pretty arbitrary, and there's no way to preview things.

> > Also I should probably point out that if you want people to follow a specific
> > page when requesting components, it would help if there were some clear
> > reference to said page when requesting component.
> 
> Where would that reference be? Component description? I wouldn't try to cover
> all cases why a ticket might be filed under the Bugzilla component in
> Wikimedia
> Bugzilla as there's lots of other requests than component creation ones...

Indeed; Bugzilla seems ill-equipped to properly handle these kinds of requests. You cannot reasonably expect people to find the related pages on mw.org when there's no mention of them when they  do exist (and in other cases they don't at all), but nor is there any way in the interface to make such clear or even link to related information.

Hopefully you may come up with some ideas of what can be done about this, because I've got nothing at the moment that don't involve hurling the entire bugzilla UI out the window.
Comment 7 Isarra 2013-10-11 18:24:15 UTC
(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > (which I actually kind of expected it to link to, but I guess not).
> 
> If you want to link to something, you can use usual Mediawiki markup. Just
> writing Extension:textinthisway won't create a link. However this might be a
> nice idea for code which is at
> http://git.wikimedia.org/blob/wikimedia%2Fbugzilla%2Fmodifications.git/HEAD/
> extensions%2FWikimedia%2FExtension.pm

How would the markup actually work? Does it support interwikis? How are we supposed to figure it out? Just leave a bunch of test comments on a random bug? MediaWiki's markup is far from intuitive, and trying to use it here is even less so, especially when there's no way to test it without saving things, most of which cannot be edited later.

> Anyway, component created. :)

Thank you.
Comment 8 Andre Klapper 2013-10-11 22:52:35 UTC
(In reply to comment #6)
> You cannot reasonably expect people to find the related pages on mw.org when
> there's no mention of them when they  do exist

I don't expect people to find them. So I manually link to them.

> Hopefully you may come up with some ideas of what can be done about this,
> because I've got nothing at the moment that don't involve hurling the entire
> bugzilla UI out the window.

Hehe. :) Yes, working on it.

(In reply to comment #7)
> How would the markup actually work? Does it support interwikis? How are we
> supposed to figure it out?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BUGZILLA#Linking_to_bugs_from_Wikipedia covers this a bit (but the page predates my Wikimedia life).

> Just leave a bunch of test comments on a random bug?

If you really want to test, I'd rather recommend using http://boogs.wmflabs.org/

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