And not just whiteboard tags: be aggressive about re-prioritizing or WONTFIXing work that's not worth the time! Bugs breed!
On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Margaret Leibovic < [email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for leading this effort, Mike! I'm happy to see us tending our "bug > garden". > > This is also a friendly reminder that we should all take a look at our own > mentor bugs to see if they could use additional whiteboard tags. > > Margaret > > On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Michael Comella < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> All "UNCONFIRMED", "NEW", "ASSIGNED", and "REOPENED" bugs within the >> "Firefox for Android" and "Android Background Services" products with >> "[good second bug]" or "[good third bug]" whiteboard tags (4th+ didn't >> exist) have been changed to have "[good next bug]" tags instead. >> >> Note that Firefox for iOS had no such bugs. >> >> Please let me know if you see any issues. >> - Mike (:mcomella) >> >> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Michael Comella < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello, everyone! >>> >>> We had a discussion today during our weekly front-end meeting about >>> mentored bugs and our current use of the [good first bug], [good second >>> bug], ... [good nth bug] tags. We decided that the use of these tags beyond >>> [good first bug] was subjective by the reportee and different per >>> contributor, and thus not very useful. >>> >>> Instead, we decided to have the following standardized whiteboard tags >>> for bugs with assigned mentors: >>> >>> 1. [good first bug] - a bug in which the code change is trivial so >>> the experience is more about setting up a build environment and learning >>> the code check-in process >>> 2. [good next bug] - a bug to tackle after a [good first bug] - >>> involves code changes that are accessible to developers unintiated with >>> the >>> Firefox for Android code base >>> 3. (no whiteboard tags) - generally a bug to tackle after a [good >>> next bug] (or a few [good next bug]s), requires some knowledge of the >>> Firefox for Android code base to tackle >>> >>> Continue to use [lang=*] tags for bugs as well as ad-hoc tags (e.g. >>> [needs db experience], [bad first bug]) to point out things not immediately >>> apparent. >>> >>> Note: I will move all [good nth bug] tags (that are not "first") via a >>> mass bugzilla query - I will reply to the message when the transition is >>> complete. >>> >>> Thanks! >>> - Mike (:mcomella) >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> mobile-firefox-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-firefox-dev >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > mobile-firefox-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-firefox-dev > >
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