BMO/UserGuide/Whiteboard

Each bug has a free-form single line text entry box for adding tags and status information. This wiki page is dedicated to collect a comprehensive list of whiteboard tags used in the Mozilla project.

Contributor mentoring

For more information, see Mentors.

• [good first bug]: Indicate this is a good first bug for new contributors.
• [lang=]: The programming language involved for this bug.
• [mentor=]: Mentor of this bug that will help the contributor fixing the issue. Also triggers special headers and body footers in bugmail (see bug 869989)
• [mentor-lang=]: (human/natural) language other than English the mentor will be able to communicate to the contributor with.

Automated Testing

(description here)

• [test disabled]: Indicates an automated test has been disabled. Typically used in bugs filed for intermittent test failures, to indicate that the absence of new failures in the bug is due to the test being disabled - as well as remind module owners that the test needs fixing and re-enabling.

Sheriffing

(description here)

• [leave open]: This has been depreciated in favour of the 'leave-open' keyword. Used to ensure that the bug updating tool mcMerge does not close the bug when commits referencing it are merged into mozilla-central.

Firefox

(description here)

Firefox OS

• [POVB]: Part of vendor build; the fix of this bug is not in the Mozilla codebase, but it's in our interest to track it.
• [tarako_only]: Special pref or feature that only lands on branch for Tarako (low memory phone), i.e. 1.3T branch of Gaia and Gecko. To be picked up on future releases.
• [p=]: A rough estimate from engineer on how long the bug is going to take.

Web Compatibility

Our whiteboard keywords are already described.