New Contributors to Perftest 🔥🦊⏱

This page is aimed at people who are new to Mozilla and want to contribute to Mozilla source code related to Performance Testing. Mozilla has both git and Mercurial repositories, but this guide only describes Mercurial - there are some guides for git in the Resources section.

If you run into issues or have doubts, check out the Resources section below and don’t hesitate to ask questions. :) The goal of these steps is to make sure you have the basics of your development environment working. Once you do, we can get you started with working on an actual bug, yay!

Accounts, communication

1. Set up a Bugzilla account (and, if you like, a Mozillians profile). Please include your Riot/IRC nickname in both of these accounts so we can work with you more easily. For example, Eve Smith would set the Bugzilla name to “Eve Smith (:esmith)”, where “esmith” is an example of a common Riot/IRC nickname pattern. You can also pick a fun nickname for yourself.
2. For direct communication with us it will be beneficial to setup Riot using these instructions.
3. Join our #perftest channel, and introduce yourself to the team. Check this page for who you can ping for help or to chat. We’re nice, I promise, but we might not answer right away due to different time zones, time off, etc. So please be patient.
4. When you want to ask a question on Riot, just go ahead and ask it even if no one appears to be around/responding. Provide lots of detail so that we have a better chance of helping you. If you don’t get an answer right away, check again in a few hours – someone may have answered you in the meantime.
5. If you’re having trouble reaching us over Riot, you are welcome to send an email to us instead. It’s a good idea to include your Riot nick in your email message.