This morning we upgraded the Wikimedia Bug Tracker to Bugzilla version 3.4.5. The release notes are available here.

For those of you who have been eagerly awaiting the REST APIs, wait no more. You can now find our Bugzilla server’s APIs at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/bzapi. Documentation about the APIs is available at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bugzilla:REST_API.

If you find any issues with the bugzilla instance or the APIs, submit a bug. Make sure you set the Component to Bugzilla so that it gets my attention.

Thanks to Priyanka’s wonderful work in theming Bugzilla and ironing out the last couple bugs and extensions, we are finally ready to move on with the upgrade. As a side effect, Bugzilla will be down for a couple of hours (let’s say 2 to be on the safe side) around lunch-time.  (Edit Addition: 2010-01-19 between 20:00 GMT and 22:00 GMT)

I’m very pleased to welcome Priyanka Dhanda to the Wikimedia Foundation as Code Maintenance Engineer. Priyanka joins us from SourceForge Inc., where she worked since 2002 as a software developer and also was involved in operations, working on most pieces of the infrastructure, and integrating third party software with the SourceForge platform (including MediaWiki). Priyanka holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of Toledo, Ohio, and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from the Pondicherry Engineering College in India.

She is starting today and will work in the San Francisco office.

Priyanka will be a key interface between software developers and the operations team, helping us to catch up with our code and bug review backlog, to mentor new developers, to push projects to completion, and to improve testing and automation.  Please don’t swamp her immediately with requests as she’ll need some time to get more deeply oriented in the MediaWiki codebase. :-) You’ll be seeing her in the IRC channels, on SVN, Code Review, BugZilla, wikitech-l, and so forth.

Please join me in welcoming Priyanka to the Wikimedia team! :-)

– Erik Moeller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation