Open shell bugs

For the records, "shell" is not used anymore, see T87623. If there are relevant open tickets they should be added to corresponding active projects.

Thanks Chad, this work is sorely needed. I went through the Site Requests component in Bugzilla some time ago and was dismayed at the lack of progress on some issues.

A number of tasks are quite easy, such as those asking for obsolete DB tables to be dropped. Additionally, there are a number of requests to rename wikis - I would love to see progress on this. Reedy did look at this at one point. There are also some tracking bugs that should be converted to projects.

Ideally the Wikimedia-Site-requests project would be split up. Most(?) issues in there are not actually "site requests" (requests relating to an individual wiki). I would say there is a need for categories/projects for:

• "Wikimedia general requests" for requests that do not pertain to an individual wiki but to all wikis, or the WMF cluster as a whole, e.g. T19316: Redesign the Wikimedia 404 error page T64494: Add exception in robots.txt to allow the Internet Archiver to index action=raw T45956: Rename $wmf* to $wmg* in wmf-config T59788: Schedule initSiteStats.php maintenance script regularly T17583: Enable importing across all Wikimedia projects
• "Wikimedia-specific bugs" for bugs in MediaWiki et al. that only occur on Wikimedia wikis, like T45936: High priority jobs like enotifs are executed very slowly T18674: Broken revisions with rev_page=0 T37969: Text contained in the head element is displayed in Japanese old mobile phone T37337: Ensure all site logos support HiDPI screens to avoid pixelated/blurry look

In T90468#1062029, @TTO wrote:

Additionally, there are a number of requests to rename wikis - I would love to see progress on this. Reedy did look at this at one point.

Yeah, T21986 needs a lot of love. I'd really like to see us make progress on this in Lyon.

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@Krenair has anything been achieved ? @Qgil might want to hear about it for the hackathon report.

@hashar: please read the last few comments, this is for Wikimania now, not Lyon

Looks like Wikimedia-Extension-setup could do with some review as well

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In T90468#1474270, @Aklapper wrote:

What is the status of this task, now that Wikimania 2015 is over?

Still going. I managed to look through about half of the workboard and process a load of tickets/commits.

In T90468#1474270, @Aklapper wrote:

Please provide an update and potentially summarize findings

I found that people could create new tickets at what felt like half as fast as I could resolve existing ones. :( There was one or two people who came to me with things they wanted fixed, but mostly I was the only person focusing on this and getting occasional useful insight into individual issues from people at my table. I also used part of the time to work with people on semi-related things like the OS migration and a beta cluster issue or two.

Thanks @Krenair

@Krenair: Big thanks for your work! Appreciated.