Bugwrangler

The bugwrangler, bugmaster or bugmeister is a Wikimedia Foundation employee who coordinates bug management. The current bugwrangler is Andre Klapper. His duties are to, among other things:

• Review and assess bug reports and enhancement requests; close reports where possible, or find an appropriate assignee
• Grow a community of volunteer bug responders who help transfer issue reports from other communication channels to the bug tracker, and who share bug management responsibilities
• Clean up and organize the existing bug tracker backlog, identifying duplicated and outdated bugs
• Work with members of the community who report bugs to clarify any ambiguity in the bug descriptions and get all the information required to reproduce the bugs
• Work closely with product managers and developers to prioritize, categorize and assign bugs based on Mediawiki features and extensions
• Manage expectations about deployment of fixes and communicate the status of major bugs to bug reporters
• Work with product managers and developers to improve the process of bug submission and bug status workflow
• Communicate widely and frequently via mailing lists, IRC, wikis, and bug tracker comments

History

WMF's first bugmeister was User:MarkAHershberger.