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* <code>[mentor-lang=]</code>: (human/natural) language other than English the mentor will be able to communicate to the contributor with. | * <code>[mentor-lang=]</code>: (human/natural) language other than English the mentor will be able to communicate to the contributor with. |
Revision as of 20:48, 26 April 2019
Each bug has a free-form single line text entry box for adding tags and status information. This wiki page is dedicated to collect a comprehensive list of whiteboard tags used in the Mozilla project.
Contents
Contributor mentoring
For more information, see Mentors.
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[lang=]
: The programming language involved for this bug. -
[mentor-lang=]
: (human/natural) language other than English the mentor will be able to communicate to the contributor with.
Automated Testing
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[test disabled]
: Indicates an automated test has been disabled. Typically used in bugs filed for intermittent test failures, to indicate that the absence of new failures in the bug is due to the test being disabled - as well as remind module owners that the test needs fixing and re-enabling.
Release Engineering
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[capacity]
: This bug will help increase (or free up) capacity for our automated build & test machines.
Sheriffing
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[leave open]
: This has been deprecated in favour of the 'leave-open' keyword. Used to ensure that the bug updating tool mcMerge does not close the bug when commits referencing it are merged into mozilla-central.
Firefox
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dupeme
,dupme
, orDUPEME
: we're pretty sure this bug report is a duplicate of another bug, but cannot recall which one or cannot find it. -
[qa-]
: QE (Quality Engineering) verification not required - superseded by the qe-verify flag. -
[adv-mainNN+]
(whereNN
is some number): a security advisory about this bug for the releaseNN
will be (has been) written.
Community reported bugs
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[nightly-community]
: This bug was reported by a member of the Firefox Nightly community. Used to triage community-reported bugs and measure the impact of our core community on product quality. -
[mozfr-community]
: This bug was reported by a member of the MozFR French-speaking community. Used to evaluate the impact of the mozfr.org community on product quality.
Firefox OS
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[POVB]
: Part of vendor build; the fix of this bug is not in the Mozilla codebase, but it's in our interest to track it. -
[priority]
: Indicates we are asked by a partner to address this issue with priority. -
[tarako_only]
: Special pref or feature that only lands on branch for Tarako (low memory phone), i.e. 1.3T branch of Gaia and Gecko. To be picked up on future releases. -
[p=]/[u=]/[c=]/[s=]
: See Scrum Development. Firefox OS uses the u= tag as the milestone instead, see Firefox OS Performance Triage -
[ft:<name of the team>]
,[systemsfe]
, etc: Bugs identified to be owned by a "functional team" within B2G engineering. Each team owns a specific set of Bugzilla components, and tags are used to denote owned bugs outside of these components.
Tor
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[tor ###]
Part of the Tor uplift project. For example,[tor 16620]
indicates a corresponding ticket at https://trac.torproject.org/16620. See also https://torpat.ch/uplift
Web Compatibility
Our whiteboard keywords are already described.
Scrum Development
The following flags are used by tools like scrumbu.gs for managing sprints using the scrum development framework:
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[p=]
: A rough estimate from engineer on how long the bug is going to take. -
[u=]
: The user (in the scrum sense) that this story affects -
[c=]
: The component (in the scrum sense) that this story affects -
[s=]
: An explicit sprint slug this bug should belong to.
If you are not managing a product, you probably don't have to set these.
What does this whiteboard keyword mean?
If you know what one of the following whiteboard keywords means, please describe it and put it into one of the above categories above (or create a new one):
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[2.0-FL-bug-bash]
(example: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1021384) -
[games]
(example: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1017892) -
[MemShrink]
-
[reserve-photon-structure]
(examples) -
[TCP]
(example: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=920036)- my guess: Tablet Contribution Program?