[Update] I had previously linked to Christian Legnitto’s personal github repo. The correct canonical github repo is https://github.com/mozilla/mediawiki-bugzilla.

I’m excited, nay thrilled, to announce that you can now embed Bugzilla data in wiki pages on wiki.mozilla.org via the mediawiki-bugzilla extension. Let me jump into two samples to show you the value:

• Keep your feature pages up-to-date by embedding live bug data to show real time status of related bugs. See the development sections of the Silent Update: Removal of OS security dialog for Windows and Silent Update: Background updates feature pages for live samples.
  
• Keep project pages current by automatically pulling bug lists and show a rolled up view of status via charts. See the project Snappy page for an example use of charts.
  

You can also setup personal and team work pages with custom views of bug data and create kanban style and other dashboards.

To embed bug data in your own pages use the following markup:

<bugzilla>
    {
        json query using Bugzilla REST API
    }
</bugzilla>

Here are some examples to get you started.

Show a listing of 3 specific bugs:

<bugzilla>
    {
        "id": "691829,706936,721366"
    }
</bugzilla>

Show all new bugs with the whiteboard value [telemetry:p1]:

<bugzilla>
    {
        "whiteboard": "[telemetry:p1]",
        "status": "new"
    }
</bugzilla>

Show a chart of the telemetry:p1 bugs by status

<bugzilla type="count" display="bar">
    {
        "whiteboard": "[telemetry:p1]",
        "x_axis_field": "status"
    }
</bugzilla>

Further information and examples are available in the readme.

There are some issues that you should be aware of when using this extension:

1. Data is pulled anonymously. There is no way to pull private bugzilla data including security and other confidential bugs.
2. There is no current way to specify multiple values for parameters (like status) that require multiple query parameters in the bugzilla api (bug 729259).
3. Only bar charts are currently supported.
4. Data that exceeds the wikimedia memory limit will result in a blank page. The readme has instructions on recovering from this scenario.

Thanks to Christian Legnitto for kicking off this project last summer and Brandon Savage and Jake Maul for getting the code into a production ready state and deployed on wikimo.

Bugs can be filed here.

If you’re interested in contributing to this extension or using it with your own mediawiki installation, you can find the source on github.