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)
>>
>
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