1548474 - Firefox Build System::Mach Core shouldn't have "enhancement" by default

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

There are many defects in the build system, so I would consider it like other products.

Comment 1

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

Actually, only Mach Core is enhancement by defualt.

Comment 2

[David Lawrence [:dkl]]

(In reply to Marco Castelluccio [:marco] from comment #1)

Actually, only Mach Core is enhancement by defualt.

Shall I leave it as enhancement then? Or maybe change it to 'task'? The description
states the component is for tracking and feature requests.

Comment 3

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

I would say it is a component like any other, not specifically for tracking and feature requests (indeed, I see a lot of defects if I search for bugs in this component).

Let's ask ahal or glandium who are assigned to many bugs in this component.

Comment 4

[Andrew Halberstadt [:ahal]]

I don't have strong opinions, but aligning it with the rest of the build system product makes sense to me.

Comment 5

[Chris Manchester (limited bugmail, email directly)]

I see about 36 bugs in this component that have been touched this year, two of which are marked as defects, the rest of which are marked as enhancements. Of those that are marked as enhancements, the bug summaries suggest they are, in fact, defects for about 15.

That number sort of suggests the default is working fine, as the remaining bugs, slightly more than half, mainly seem like enhancements. However, of the total number many seem to be in the wrong component, so I will try to more vigilante about re-categorizing these during weekly triage. The result of that may change things: as I understand it this component is intended to be for the code that composes mach itself (under python/mach), so for the small number of bugs that truly belong in this component it's harder to say.

Comment 6

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

I think it's preferable to misclassify an enhancement as a defect rather than the opposite, as you don't risk not noticing a defect this way. Even if the majority is indeed enhancements, it might still be worth using 'defect' as default (unless the majority is actually a very large majority).

Comment 7

[Emma Humphries ☕️🎸🧞‍♀️✨ (she/they) [:emceeaich] (Pacific Time) use needinfo]

Changed default to defect.