Re: New Policy: Marking Bugzilla bugs for features riding behind a pref

2018-05-04 Thread Emma Humphries
My thanks to everyone who had commented on this so far. I’m replying to your questions and comments in this email so that we don’t have a threading catastrophe. First, several of you mentioned the typo where I wrote qa-verify when the flag is qe-verify. The policy document has the correct flag nam

Re: New Policy: Marking Bugzilla bugs for features riding behind a pref

2018-05-04 Thread Jared Wein
I have a bug that will introduce a pref/feature-flag, but that is just one bug that blocks a meta bug. The meta bug covers the whole feature. Should these flags get set on the meta bug or on the bug that introduces the pref? Testing the specific bug that introduces the pref won't provide much cove

Re: New Policy: Marking Bugzilla bugs for features riding behind a pref

2018-05-03 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 03/05/2018 00:57, Emma Humphries wrote: To summarize, when you are releasing a feature that "rides behind a flag", on the bug for the feature: * set the behind-pref flag to + * set the qa-verify flag to ? * note the bug in the Firefox Feature Trello board We expect qa-verify to be set to +

Re: New Policy: Marking Bugzilla bugs for features riding behind a pref

2018-05-03 Thread Robert Helmer
On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 11:57 AM, Adam Roach wrote: > On 5/3/18 12:18 PM, Nicholas Alexander wrote: >> >> Not all features are feasible to ship behind feature flags. > > > I'm pretty sure the proposed policy isn't intended to change anything > regarding features that ship without associated feature

Re: New Policy: Marking Bugzilla bugs for features riding behind a pref

2018-05-03 Thread Adam Roach
On 5/3/18 12:18 PM, Nicholas Alexander wrote: Not all features are feasible to ship behind feature flags. I'm pretty sure the proposed policy isn't intended to change anything regarding features that ship without associated feature flags, nor is it trying to get more features to ship behind f

Re: New Policy: Marking Bugzilla bugs for features riding behind a pref

2018-05-03 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 4:57 PM, Emma Humphries wrote: > Hello, > > We control enabling many features and changes to Firefox using preferences. > > Program and Release management as well as PI need a better view of this. > > We've written a new policy which you can read on our nascent bug-handling