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There s a new Bugs Ahoy in town, and it s called Codetribute. The past I started the Bugs Ahoy project in October 2011 partly because I was procrastinating from studying for midterms, but mostly because I saw new contributors being overwhelmed Continue reading
I wrote a list of code review guidelines for the Servo project last year. They encapsulate the feedback that we expect our project contributors to provide when reviewing code changes, but I want to explore the motivation behind them. You ll Continue reading
Yoric has been doing great work porting Firefox s client backend to Rust for use in Servo (see telemetry.rs), so I decided to create a C API to allow using it from other contexts. You can observe the general direction of Continue reading
Good news! As of today, Bugzilla now sends out emails containing both an X-Bugzilla-Mentors header and a You are mentoring this bug message. This means that it s now possible to highlight activity in your mentored bugs in your favourite email Continue reading
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Bugs Ahoy is coasting along right now, and that s fine. It fills a need, and apparently it does that pretty well from what I hear. However, there is a greater need Mozilla needs a task board for all activities, Continue reading
One thing that has become clear in my work as a Firefox coding steward is that we have no idea how healthy our community is. When people ask me how many unpaid contributors we have, I don t have an answer Continue reading
Bugs Ahoy retrieves issues from Github for certain categories (such as B2G and Test Automation). Unfortunately, I learned recently that unauthenticated API users are now limited to 60 requests an hour, and that means that these categories often end up Continue reading
Hello everyone, it s your resident Private Browsing developer here! I ll state it up front the release of 15.0.1 was triggered by code I wrote that broke private browsing mode in significant, privacy-affecting ways. Ehsan and I fixed that for Continue reading
Back in June I created the slightly-misnamed What Can I Do For Mozilla tool (misnamed since it only focuses on code that needs writing, ignoring any other useful skills). It took off all over twitter, but I never actually formally Continue reading