Gaia/UX Branch

V1 UX Branch

Background:

As of Nov 8, it has been hard to get UX fixes into `mozilla-b2g/gaia` because engineers are trying hard to get stability up and bug counts down. UX improvements/fixes are difficult to get merged because the review process is focused first on blocking and broken issues.

As a temporary approach, we've set up a UX branch at https://github.com/gordonbrander/gaia/tree/ux to keep the needle moving forward on UX fixes. Engineering can cherry-pick fixes from this branch into master. The goal is to show a significant improvement in this branch and to get QA signing off on it.

How:

• Primary: get bugs flagged blocking+ and dev assigned.
• Secondary: for bugs that do not qualify as blocking+, prioritize and build on UX branch, then apply to merge to main branch.

High level process for UX branch:

1. Identify bugs
2. Patryk + Steve triage to nom as blocking+, and prioritize the non-blockers.
3. Submit patches for prioritized patches
4. QA test
5. Pull request once weekly

Setting up the UX Branch

Sign into Github, fork http://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia (if you haven't already).

Add my repository as a remote to your fork:

   git remote add gordonbrander https://github.com/gordonbrander/gaia.git

Create a new local branch and set it up to track the remote branch:

   git checkout --track -b ux gordonbrander/ux

Getting upstream changes from `gordonbrander/ux`:

   git pull gordonbrander ux

Etiquette

We want to be model citizens when it comes to doing development.

• File a bug for the issue. Describe it in detail.
• Create a local branch for each bug: `git branch issue-xxxxx`.
• Each commit message must start with the bug #: `Bug xxxxx - My Message`.
• Rebase changes in your bug branch before issuing a pull request to `gordonbrander/ux`. See https://help.github.com/articles/interactive-rebase. We should be merging one commit per fix so that fixes can be easily cherry-picked.
• Create a patch (diff file): `git diff > issue-xxxxx.diff`. Attach it to the bug.
• Follow any code style guidelines.
• Issue pull request to `gordonbrander/ux`.
• Changing JavaScript or working on any non-trivial commit? Go through the normal submission channels first. Issue a pull request from your issue branch to mozilla-b2g/gaia, then also issue a pull request to gordonbrander/ux. Moral of the story: if you need it smoketested, pull request to mozilla-b2g/gaia.