Hi all,
Recently I've noted a significant increase in the number of bug comments
that are meta-information and not particularly relevant to the bug
itself. Often these comments are product/planning people moving the bug
around asking for attention on it (this particularly happens in B2G-land
bugs because of the various partner deadlines).
While I understand that these comments are part of a bug lifecycle at
Mozilla, it would be nice to not have to wade through these kinds of
comments every time you're reading through a bug and just want the
technical details and/or decisions that were made. To help accomplish
this I've started making more liberal use of the "tag" feature in
Bugzilla to tag comments, so that I can quickly find things I care about.
I would like to encourage everybody to do the same, since this sort of
thing works better when everybody's on the same page. I don't expect
everybody to be using the same set of tags to mean the same thing (this
is Mozilla, after all) but as a starting point here's some of the tags
I've been using to flag things:
landing - For comments that include commit URLs
summary - For comments that summarize a previously lengthy discussion
workaround - For comments that include a workaround for an unfixed bug
spam - For comments that don't provide technical content
Note that the "spam" label is particularly useful as comments tagged as
spam are collapsed by default.
Please feel free to add to the list.
Cheers,
kats
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