Bugzilla Fixup

We have kicked off a project to improve Bugzilla, specifically to help the Mozilla team be more efficient and effective when using the tool. In this first stage, we are looking to address low-hanging fruit that can addressed quickly with minimal change. In later phases we'll address some of the longer term issues.

Please add suggestions under "Suggestions/nominations" along with your name/email. We'll evaluate the the suggestions and fit it in ASAP based on all feedback and difficulty.

• Stage 1
  • Send mail asynchronously - don't block the results page while mail is sending when editing a bug.
  • Add Microsummary feed type (similar to rss)
  • Security fixes
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38862
  • Create way to obsolete or hide past milestones
  • Add reports for (usually for past 7 and 14 days)
    • What people are working on (i.e. activity)
    • What a person has attached/landed
    • What has been checked in
    • What has a blocking flag, but not resolved
    • Whats been fixed in the last week
    • Whats been fixed between releases
  • Way to tell if a patch has been landed, and if so, where?
  • ajax front end type stuff to speed up front end and lower server load
    • i.e. re-sorts on client side should be done via JS
  • Solidify the XML API so a new UI can be build (kinda a P2, but needs to get started for long term progress)
  • Fix search clobbering. If you have two searches in two windows (same instance), the first search will fall out of scope and links won't work.
• Stage 2
  • Add a column in search results containing patches with current review flags or display more obviously an attachment is a patch. Also, display the status of a patch (review?/+/-, etc)
  • Reports - can't edit reports, have to share on create, one shot to create report - can't edit, can't delete - just improve this
  • Multi-state flag (nominate, blocks release, blocks final, arbitrary), deprecate options, one flag per branch
  • Replace the barely functional branch-tracking flags: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336790
  • Back-port 3.2 addition of flags and groups to quicksearch
• Stage 3
  • better bug reporting forum (more wizard like)
  • In bugmail, include a quick header which includes (customizable): flags, any patch status, priority, component, and bug assignee.
  • Add a "view source" link to attachments: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346255
  • New UI for bugzilla using the API
  • Create user pref for user keybindings
• Suggestions/nominations
  • roc: user profile checkboxes to control whether or not each user is currently accepting review requests of each type; ONLY those users are accepted as review request targets. No more blank/blackholed review requests. Use only those users for autocompletion of partial names, of course. (+1)
  • callek: Per Product/Component "watches" rather than a user needing to know a default QA/Assignee for the product/component.
    • callek: Ability for bug "moves" to generate mail when entering+leaving said product/component.