A very large number of Gecko bugs get filed under Gaia::Browser as the browser app is the most likely place for them to manifest themselves. I spend quite a lot of time triaging the Gaia::Browser component and moving bugs to the General component. I imagine there are also people who spend a lot of time triaging the General component and moving all the obvious Gaia bugs into the Gaia component and have to read through all the platform bugs I've already identified!
I think it would make everyone's life easier if there was an explicit "Platform" component for bugs which are Boot2Gecko specific, but are likely not Gaia bugs. The General component is still useful for users who have no idea where the bug should be filed. Bugs in the Platform component may eventually end up in Core or elsewhere, but at least they're getting closer to the eyes that really need to see them. Ben On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:36 AM, Jason Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > A problem that appears to be happening by our bug filers is confusion over > what should be filed in the BootToGecko --> General component. I've seen a > good amount of bugs end up in there that were obvious Gaia bugs. I'm > wondering if the root cause of issue is perhaps that we're calling the name > of the component General, which implies a default filing location. The bugs > I've seen in that component are typically tracked on the platform side, so > I think we should make that distinction clear (i.e. platform level). > > The proposal I have is to change the name of the component from "General" > to "Platform," as that would give better indication to a bug filer that > bugs go there are general bugs about platform of FF OS that don't fit into > a Core component. > > Thoughts? > > -- > Sincerely, > Jason Smith > > Desktop QA Engineer > Mozilla Corporation > https://quality.mozilla.com > > ______________________________**_________________ > dev-b2g mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/**listinfo/dev-b2g<https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g> > -- Ben Francis http://tola.me.uk _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
