Author Archives: Josh Matthews

Bugs Ahoy: The Next Generation

Posted on September 13, 2018 by Josh Matthews

There’s a new Bugs Ahoy in town, and it’s called Codetribute. The past I started the Bugs Ahoy project in October 2011 partly because I was procrastinating from studying for midterms, but mostly because I saw new contributors being overwhelmed … Continue reading →

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Code review: gatekeepers vs. coaches

Posted on February 7, 2017 by Josh Matthews

I wrote a list of code review guidelines for the Servo project last year. They encapsulate the feedback that we expect our project contributors to provide when reviewing code changes, but I want to explore the motivation behind them. You’ll … Continue reading →

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Creating a C API for a Rust library

Posted on October 17, 2015 by Josh Matthews

Yoric has been doing great work porting Firefox’s client backend to Rust for use in Servo (see telemetry.rs), so I decided to create a C API to allow using it from other contexts. You can observe the general direction of … Continue reading →

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You are receiving this mail because you are mentoring this bug

Posted on December 10, 2013 by Josh Matthews

Good news! As of today, Bugzilla now sends out emails containing both an X-Bugzilla-Mentors header and a “You are mentoring this bug” message. This means that it’s now possible to highlight activity in your mentored bugs in your favourite email … Continue reading →

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Taking a page from roc’s book

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Josh Matthews

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Next steps for Bugs Ahoy: patches desired!

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Josh Matthews

Bugs Ahoy is coasting along right now, and that’s fine. It fills a need, and apparently it does that pretty well from what I hear. However, there is a greater need – Mozilla needs a task board for all activities, … Continue reading →

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Numbers rule the world

Posted on November 30, 2012 by Josh Matthews

One thing that has become clear in my work as a Firefox coding steward is that we have no idea how healthy our community is. When people ask me how many unpaid contributors we have, I don’t have an answer … Continue reading →

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Help wanted: using the github API with authentication

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Josh Matthews

Bugs Ahoy retrieves issues from Github for certain categories (such as B2G and Test Automation). Unfortunately, I learned recently that unauthenticated API users are now limited to 60 requests an hour, and that means that these categories often end up … Continue reading →

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Private Browsing and You

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Josh Matthews

Hello everyone, it’s your resident Private Browsing developer here! I’ll state it up front – the release of 15.0.1 was triggered by code I wrote that broke private browsing mode in significant, privacy-affecting ways. Ehsan and I fixed that for … Continue reading →

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Get your project listed in whatcanidoformozilla.org!

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Josh Matthews

Back in June I created the slightly-misnamed What Can I Do For Mozilla tool (misnamed since it only focuses on code that needs writing, ignoring any other useful skills). It took off all over twitter, but I never actually formally … Continue reading →

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