UX Branch

What is the UX branch?

Note: The UX Branch is currently reserved for Australis dogfooding. Only finalized and reviewed Australis patches to merge to mozilla-central should land here.

The UX branch is historically a project branch for landing experimental UX changes before they are ready to land on mozilla-central. Developers could use this branch to gather feedback on un-reviewed patches and work with the UX team to iterate on UX design. After a final design is reached, patches would go through the normal review process before landing on mozilla-central.

Presently, the UX branch is used as a future feeder for mozilla-central, so all previous UX-branch rules are set aside, and the UX branch follows the normal mozilla-central process.

Can I use my clone of mozilla-central to write patches for the UX branch?

No, this is not a recommended approach to working on the UX branch. You should instead clone the UX repository. While anything is possible, using mozilla-central to contribute patches for UX will introduce more work and increased chances of things going wrong. It's just not worth it ;-)

Where is the UX branch?

The hg repository is available at: https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/ux

Nightly builds are available at: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-ux/. You can use http://msuja.ws/ux as a more friendly URL to share.

What are the rules for the UX branch?

• The UX branch is currently being used as a staging ground for the upcoming Australis feature set.
• All patches that land on the UX branch need to follow the same review process that patches destined for mozilla-central need to follow.
• When a patch for the UX branch is checked in, the bug's whiteboard should be updated with the phrase '[fixed-in-ux]' (minus the single quotes).
  • You can refer to https://people.mozilla.com/~mnoorenberghe/australis/ for the Australis dashboard to see which bugs have higher priorities and the status of all Australis bugs. This site is recommended as it treats [fixed-in-ux] bugs as fixed, whereas generic Bugzilla queries won't.

What if I have questions?

You can ask for help in #ux or #fx-team on irc.mozilla.org. Particularly, you may want to message the following people on IRC: mconley, jaws, MattN, Gijs, Unfocused, mikedeboer, or shorlander.