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Posted by: stak
Tags: mozilla
Posted on: 2012-08-20 15:35:27
Something that came up during the "Community"-focused discussion at the Boston mobile work week last week was the availability of "mentored bugs" to attract and retain new contributors. I realized after the discussion that traditionally bugs we have at Mozilla involve writing patches in C++, JS, or Python. In Firefox for Android, however, we now have a non-trivial amount of code in Java as well. As a result, there is one less roadblock for new contributors who are comfortable with Java and want to help us out.
In order to take advantage of this, I went through my list of "I'll get to them sometime" bugs and tagged a few of them as mentored bugs, and I'd encourage everybody else on the mobile team do the same. To tag a Java bug as a mentored bug, just add the following whiteboard tags to the bug: "[good first bug][lang=java][mentor=XXX]" (replacing XXX with your handle or email address). You can also see the list of current Java-language mentored bugs here:
Good first Java-language bugs
Unfortunately our codebase isn't very IDE-friendly at the moment, so people trying to use Eclipse or other Java IDEs to contribute may have a harder time, but of course, we welcome patches to improve that situation as well! :) Finally, I would just like to link to Josh Matthew's blog post on Making bugs more attractive for other people to fix for more information on what is a good mentored bug and why we should have mentored bugs.
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