DevTools/Creating Good First Bugs

Getting started working on a first bug is hard. This guide is meant to provide a short list of steps to provide the necessary information to complete a bug. New contributors can easily get overwhelmed and frustrated with making an easy fix, as the DevTools environment can be complicated.

• Explain the problem in depth and provide the steps to reproduce.
• List files and lines of code that may need to be modified. Ideally provide a patch for getting started.
• Include link to Simple Firefox Build: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Build_Instructions/Simple_Firefox_build
• Add the keyword good-first-bug.

Automatically post a patch to a gist

• Install a gist-cli: npm install -g gist-cli
• In your bash profile add:
  • git: alias gist-patch="git diff | gist -o -t patch"
  • hg: alias gist-patch="hg diff | gist -o -t patch"
• Then go to a clean repo, modify the files, and run the command gist-patch