Meta Bugs

This addon improves bugzilla user experience with additional information to help with the triage and resolution efforts.

When installed and enabled, this addon will:

• Building a transitive list of bugs blocked.
• Highlight in red fields which have to be set when triaging.
  • Priorities should be set.
  • Severity should be set to N/A for non-defects, and to some value for defects.
  • Block list of bug should transitively block Bug SpiderMonkey.
• Replace file names of source files by links to searchfox when possible.
• Query crash-stats to display bugs with similar signatures.

This addon is available at https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/meta-bugs/

Testing locally

This is a Firefox addon, which might also work in other browsers.

Before testing your modification, make sure to disable the addon coming from https://addons.mozilla.org/ by navigating to about:addons.

To test your modifications within Firefox, open about:debugging, and load the manifest.json as a temporary addon.

Packaging

To package this repository into an addon, you can use nix build, which will create a symbolic link named result which will contain the zip file to be uploaded.