Last modified: 2014-11-03 16:38:56 UTC
10 open bugs, mostly years old and inactive since a long time, for a piece of software Wikimedia (or anyone?) is no longer using or developing. Andre has already posted messages about the deprecation of the software/component a while ago, as far as I can see. No reason to clutter https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi with the 21st product; please close the product for new bug submission. Or move under another product, like MediaWiki extensions: it's just for some extensions after all (the users don't care about where the code is placed or if we consider it an upstream library).
General "Where to put Cortado bug reports" discussions: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.multimedia.ogg.theora.devel/3243 http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/theora-dev/2009-July/003946.html I agree that mwEmbed and Cortado feel overexposed in the current Bugzilla taxomony (being top-level products) but especially for Cortado and for some of the subcomponents of "mwEmbed" I am not informed enough myself to say how much they are still actually used in our Wikimedia server setup. However, quoting https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/InitialiseSettings.php.txt : // NOTE: TMH *requires* MwEmbedSupport to function In my humble opinion, we probably should mass-close the 10 open Cortado tickets with a comment explaining to upstream these tickets if still valid, and delete the Cortado product by moving all Cortado tickets * either under product "MediaWiki extensions" in a new component "Cortado", * or even under the existing component "TimedMediaHandler" nowadays. On a related note, wondering if https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Media_help_%28Ogg%29 is still up-to-date; I am also surprised that https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TimedMediaHandler#Wikimedia_status says that TMH is in beta status. @mtraceur: Could you clarify and/or tell me more about the use of Cortado and the mwEmbed subcomponents listed on https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=mwEmbed nowadays?
I think that makes sense. For mwEmbed: Add media wizard -- no longer supported. Firefogg -- upstream location: https://launchpad.net/firefogg General/Unknown -- can be moved to "MwEmbedSupport" extension, or otherwise closed and re-openended there since there is good amout of code distance from the two. Script loader -- became resource loader, can remove these bugs as deprecated. Sequence editor -- no longer supported. Timed text -- should be moved to TimedMediaHandler, or deprecated / removed. Video player -- should be moved to TimedMediaHandler, or upstream: https://github.com/kaltura/mwEmbed, or otherwise removed because they are filed against old code.
[Broadening scope in bug summary as per last two comments.] mdale: Thanks, this comment was *extremely* helpful. I've went through the remaining open mwEmbed tickets and closed/moved them by adding a comment explaining the reasons. I have also closed the "mwEmbed" product for creation of new bug reports.
I triaged some and closed all remaining open "Cortado" tickets. Furthermore, the "Cortado" product is now closed to new bugs. Keeping this bug open as I haven't made up my mind where and if to move the Cortado and mwEmbed products/tickets.
Problem might "solve" itself by moving from Bugzilla to Phabricator with its flat namespace for projects.
