Are they moving issues or just code storage to GitHub?
Comment on Mozilla will move Firefox development from Mercurial to Microsoft’s GitHub
knopwob@programming.dev 10 months agoImho the main argument for github is that it lowers the hurdle for new ane ad-hoc contributions like issues. I’m problably too lazy to registsr a new account for your instance just to open a bug report.
I’d love a federated git/issue/wiki thing
SomeRandomWords@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
allywilson@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Code storage. They’re keeping bugzilla.
ericjmorey@programming.dev 10 months ago
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ericjmorey@programming.dev 10 months ago
They’re going to continue using Bugzilla for bug reports.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 10 months ago
It wouldn’t make it more difficult than with mercurial, which isn’t supported by github either.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 10 months ago
GitHub will just serve as code mirror. Patches and bugs will still go through Mozilla’s usually channels.
xoggy@programming.dev 10 months ago
In my opinion that sounds like a plus. People that are too lazy to register an account to put in a code merge request or report a bug aren’t going to be writing quality code or quality bug reports.
jack@monero.town 10 months ago
Yes but knowing of a bug is better than not knowing of a bug
xoggy@programming.dev 10 months ago
Working in a busy codebase for a long time when I have to spend time a non-trivial amount of time triaging through tickets I can’t reproduce that is taking time away from legitimate bug and request tickets I can be working on. It can seriously lead to burnout.
jack@monero.town 10 months ago
You don’t have to fix every issue, there are also other volunteers who might look at it.
If the reproducible instructions aren’t clear enough or are missing, just ask for more info. If they can’t deliver on that, close it or just move on and other people might take care of it
dragnet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Speak for yourself, I’ve been prepared to submit detailed bug reports before the process in place to do so turned me off.
xoggy@programming.dev 10 months ago
I did speak for myself. I said “In my opinion”.