Category Archives: computer
Bugzilla Tips (II): Changing the columns in search results
This posting is part of a series on small and sometimes not-so-easy-to-discover functionality in Bugzilla that makes developers’ and users’ lifes more comfortable. It’s based on conversations with users and developers in the last months. Sometimes you run a search … Continue reading
Bugzilla Tips (I): Autocompletion
This posting is part of a series on small and sometimes not-so-easy-to-discover functionality in Bugzilla that makes developers’ and users’ lifes more comfortable. It’s based on conversations with users and developers in the last months. People can be impatient, so … Continue reading
Understanding Bugzilla groups and admin rights
As part of my work for the Wikimedia Foundation I recently tried to understand Bugzilla groups a bit better, specifically which tasks can only be done by Bugzilla administrators. In general, permissions to do stuff in Bugzilla (e.g. editing keywords, … Continue reading
Wikimedia Bug Management and the Outreach Program for Women
For the last three months I had the pleasure to have an intern for my bugmaster job at Wikimedia, as part of the Outreach Program for Women (OPW) for Free and Open Source Software. It is organized by GNOME and … Continue reading
Wikimedia’s Bug Management
About three months ago I started as bugmaster / bugwrangler of the Wikimedia Foundation (the non-profit organization behind Wikipedia). It’s about time to finally blog before everybody expects WMF to be the same black hole that Google is seen as … Continue reading
Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit 2012
Marina, Daniel, Muslim and I represented GNOME at the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit. As a nice coincidence, my colleagues Sumana and Rob also went their representing the Wikimedia Foundation. After attending a session about project management I realized … Continue reading
GNOME: Do you want to participate in Google Code-In?
While I organized and ran Google Code-In for GNOME for the last years (a contest for 13-17 year old students) I won’t have enough spare time this year. So the question is if GNOME wants to take part in it … Continue reading
Free knowledge: Here we go.
I am very happy to announce that from next week on I am going to help Wikimedia Foundation (the organization behind Wikipedia and further projects) tame their bug tracker and manage everything and anything related to issue reports and feature … Continue reading
GUADEC 2012: Discussions!
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said ‘a faster horse’” — Henry Ford Continuing to write about this year’s GUADEC conference that ended a few days ago. It should be obvious that opinions in this … Continue reading
A Monday at GUADEC 2012
Today was the first of two BoF session days at this year’s GUADEC in not-too-hot Galicia. There are quite some BoFs taking place. As planned a few weeks ago I spent this morning with GNOME’s wonderful Accessibility crew. This led … Continue reading
