1081784 - status-b2g-* and relnote-b2g tracking flags shouldn't show for the Firefox product

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: Administration, task)

Description

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

These flags add unnecessary noise in Firefox::*.

If a bug needs one of these flags then it very likely doesn't belong in Firefox::*.

Comment 1

[:glob ✱]

done.

Comment 2

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

(In reply to Matthew N. [:MattN] from comment #0)
> These flags add unnecessary noise in Firefox::*.
> 
> If a bug needs one of these flags then it very likely doesn't belong in
> Firefox::*.

In THEORY. Then you have bugs like bug 1113431 for which the patch had a significant Core check-in. In THEORY the assignee should have created a Core bug for that bit and made the Firefox bug "Depend on" it. In practice no one does that and now the security team has no good way to track which Firefox bugs do or don't need bits back-ported to b2g branches.

Yes, we can go through all the Firefox bugs and clone the ones we need into the Firefox OS product, but then we have to keep track of which bugs we've triaged in this way and which have yet to be done. There's no flag for that so we'll have to use a whiteboard marking. You haven't gotten rid of the noise, you've just made it more random since now the "noise" in the Firefox product differs from all the other client products.

Comment 3

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

(In reply to Daniel Veditz [:dveditz] from comment #2)
> (In reply to Matthew N. [:MattN] from comment #0)
> > These flags add unnecessary noise in Firefox::*.
> > 
> > If a bug needs one of these flags then it very likely doesn't belong in
> > Firefox::*.
> 
> In THEORY. Then you have bugs like bug 1113431 for which the patch had a
> significant Core check-in. In THEORY the assignee should have created a Core
> bug for that bit and made the Firefox bug "Depend on" it. In practice no one
> does that and now the security team has no good way to track which Firefox
> bugs do or don't need bits back-ported to b2g branches.

Filing the core bug now like what should have been done seems like a good solution.

> You haven't gotten rid of the
> noise, you've just made it more random since now the "noise" in the Firefox
> product differs from all the other client products.

Yes we have gotten rid of the noise on the 99.9% of bugs that don't need backports from the Firefox product to B2G.

Comment 4

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Filing the core spin-off from bug 1113431 doesn't solve anything (apart from making sure that one bug gets backported). The FxOS security team still has to go through Firefox product security bugs just in case there are more like bug 1113431, and they'll have to mark the bugs they've looked at in some way that can be queried ("noise") so they can find the ones they haven't looked at.