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Mozilla will move Firefox development from Mercurial to Microsoft’s GitHub (devclass.com)
submitted 11 months ago by thehatfox@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev
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[–] knopwob@programming.dev 61 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Imho the main argument for github is that it lowers the hurdle for new ane ad-hoc contributions like issues. I'm problably too lazy to registsr a new account for your instance just to open a bug report.

I'd love a federated git/issue/wiki thing

[–] SomeRandomWords@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Are they moving issues or just code storage to GitHub?

[–] allywilson@sopuli.xyz 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Code storage. They're keeping bugzilla.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago

It wouldn't make it more difficult than with mercurial, which isn't supported by github either.

[–] xoggy@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

In my opinion that sounds like a plus. People that are too lazy to register an account to put in a code merge request or report a bug aren't going to be writing quality code or quality bug reports.

[–] jack@monero.town 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes but knowing of a bug is better than not knowing of a bug

[–] xoggy@programming.dev 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Working in a busy codebase for a long time when I have to spend time a non-trivial amount of time triaging through tickets I can't reproduce that is taking time away from legitimate bug and request tickets I can be working on. It can seriously lead to burnout.

[–] jack@monero.town 1 points 11 months ago

You don't have to fix every issue, there are also other volunteers who might look at it.

If the reproducible instructions aren't clear enough or are missing, just ask for more info. If they can't deliver on that, close it or just move on and other people might take care of it

[–] dragnet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Speak for yourself, I've been prepared to submit detailed bug reports before the process in place to do so turned me off.

[–] xoggy@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago

I did speak for myself. I said "In my opinion".

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 2 points 10 months ago

GitHub will just serve as code mirror. Patches and bugs will still go through Mozilla's usually channels.

[–] ericjmorey@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

They're going to continue using Bugzilla for bug reports.