Category Archives: planetmozilla

File a bug: the missing manual, now with unicorns

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Liz Henry

At countless conference talks I have heard standard advice on “how to get involved in an open source project”. It goes something like this: Step 1. File a bug! Step 2. Submit a patch! (repeat steps 1 and 2 for … Continue reading →

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Screen reader and accessibility bug day

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Liz Henry

Tomorrow Mozilla is hosting a screen reader and general accessibility bug day. Len Burns and I have invited screen reader users of Firefox and other Mozilla products to join us in sorting through existing accessibility bugs. Some folks from the … Continue reading →

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Bugzilla hijinks, Tuesday March 5

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Liz Henry

Tomorrow evening (Pacific time) the bugzilla.mozilla.org and IT folks will be moving BMO to a new infrastructure and upgrading to Bugzilla 4.2. I’ll be up on the 7th floor of the SF office with Shyam and probably others. I know … Continue reading →

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CodeTriage looks very cool!

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Liz Henry

André Klapper showed me a nifty tool called CodeTriage yesterday. I really like its simplicity, its friendliness, and what it conveys about open source bug management. Once you sign into CodeTriage with your github account you can browse code repositories … Continue reading →

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Bugs and sheriffs in London

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Liz Henry

Travelling Bugmaster update! I am in London with a bunch of the automation tools team for a work week. Ed, jeads, Chris, Ryan, dave, and mauro have been neck deep in making decisions about the structure of a new version … Continue reading →

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Walking through early bug triage

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Liz Henry

Here is a good example of a bug that went through several stages of triaging: Scrolling a page up leaves residue in GTK slider. I would like to walk through what happens in triaging this bug. Blow by blow report! … Continue reading →

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Bug history and conversations

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Liz Henry

David Baron wrote an interesting post recently, Moving bug history out of the primary display of a bug report. I have noticed this problem in Bugzilla, that even if a bug is “ready to be fixed” or has patches submitted … Continue reading →

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Thrills, chills, filters, and bugmail

Posted on January 17, 2013 by Liz Henry

Any bugmail at all is probably way too much bugmail. That means you will need to set up some structures to filter it! This explanation may be useful for anyone interested in contributing to Mozilla — especially bugmasters, triagers, and … Continue reading →

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