User:MarkAHershberger/Weekly reports/2011-11-07


 * 1.18 Tarball
 * We're down to 3 bugs in the 1.18 milestone now after only mentioning the milestone bugs once on wikitech-l. That, plus the triage of the bugs on Friday shows, I think, just about the right balance — the reminder on the list was probably just enough reminding and the triage report today will probably “complete” the reminder.
 * After these three bugs are addressed (either by fixing them or removing them from the tarball milestone), I'll post an update to wikitech-l about the highest priority bugs.
 * (Brion reminded me to get busy on bugs that I've marked up in priority. I appreciate this reminder — and I think we'll continue to see results this week.)


 * FIXME Chasing
 * After Sumana and I re-instituted the MediaWiki roadmap/1.18/Revision report, we got the FIXMEs down to two on 1.18. I'll continue to hound the devs on this.


 * Patch applying
 * Finally I spent some time working on patches. While trying to test a patch, I came across a bug in copy-by-url.  But I have found that working through patches helps me learn more about MediaWiki's functionality.
 * Note that last week's TODOs gave these stats: “39 from the last 2 weeks”. While I didn't get through all 39 patches, the past 3 weeks now shows only 16 patches including 7 from the past week.