<div dir="ltr">I just started using the flag today to build a Desktop Sync backlog.<div><br></div><div>-chris</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Matthew N. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:MattN+firefox-dev@mozilla.com" target="_blank">MattN+firefox-dev@mozilla.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I just had a realization that now that we're not using a single backlog for all desktop work (we have various smaller project teams), it's not clear to me what the purpose of the firefox-backlog flag is. There are 1629 bugs set to '+'[1] which seems like a lot given that this flag was intended as a way to mark bugs that we would likely work on in approximately the next 6 months. There are bugs in there that don't seem like they are actually things we want to do.<br><br>I'm curious to hear how/if people are currently using the flag and whether anyone is actually pulling bugs from there outside of bugs identified for a specific project. There are searches for good bugs from <a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/IterativeDevelopment#Contribute_to_Firefox_Desktop" target="_blank">https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/IterativeDevelopment#Contribute_to_Firefox_Desktop</a> but I don't know if contributors are using them over bugsahoy.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Perhaps the backlog is the place where the upcoming quality teams will pull from as its ideally  identifying important issues in all of our components. A follow-up question would be if anyone is pruning this list?<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Cheers,<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Matthew N. (:MattN)<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>[1] <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?f1=flagtypes.name&list_id=12437184&o1=equals&query_format=advanced&resolution=---&v1=firefox-backlog%2B&order=bug_id&limit=0" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?f1=flagtypes.name&list_id=12437184&o1=equals&query_format=advanced&resolution=---&v1=firefox-backlog%2B&order=bug_id&limit=0</a><br></div></div>
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