On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 4:01 AM, Kartikaya Gupta <kgu...@mozilla.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
There's also stuff that is basically spam. I have an email filter set up to automatically delete all bugmail from a certain eastern European QA contractor ... and I'm sure I'm not alone. - Kyle _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
