The Firefox desktop team is heavily relying on bugs being marked in some way to know if we need to verify them or perform some other action on them. For that, our QA drivers for example triage the bugs fixed in every development cycle and mark them "verifyme" or [qa-]. I've also seen [qa+] float around, and nowadays the whiteboard tags are even sometimes in the normal whiteboard and sometimes in the newly created QA whiteboard field. For bugs we need to investigate, the "qawanted" keyword is also in use to get our attention.
I wonder if it's really a good idea to have this mixed bag of whiteboards and keywords floating around or if we should consolidate that, for example to using keywords for everything ([qa-] could be replaced by a new "noverify" or similar keyword). I think the Bugzilla DB is better at queries for keywords than whiteboard tags, as keywords are structured, also it's harder to mistype them, so I personally prefer them over whiteboard tags for cases like this. What's your opinion on that? (Please post discussion items on dev-quality, I'll post to the other lists as well when we reach a conclusion.) Robert Kaiser _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
