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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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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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smartmake redux: harder, better, faster, stronger

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Josh Matthews

Do you get frustrated about how long it takes to build Firefox after you’ve only made a small change to a single file? Have you heard the words “incremental build”, or tried to only build one or two directories but … Continue reading →

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A Firefox regression hunter VM!

Posted on January 7, 2012 by Josh Matthews

I am happy to announce the first public unveiling of my Fox in a Box project. The enthusiasm for my idea of putting together a dev VM was loud and clear in my last post, mainly from testers who expressed … Continue reading →

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The Fast and the Furious: bzexport

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Josh Matthews

If you’re a bzexport user, you’ll want to pull the latest revision. It’s recently been getting slower due to the number of http requests that need to be made (the tradeoff here is that it’s also been getting more correct), … Continue reading →

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nsCOMPtr has never been so pretty

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Josh Matthews

Jim Blandy announced his archer-mozilla pretty-printers for Spidermonkey late last year. I’ve used them a few times while working on some JS proxy bugs, and I’ve found them to be invaluable. So invaluable, in fact, that I’ve written a bunch … Continue reading →

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