Featured bug #1 in Firefox for Android
December 07, 2012
Keeping a list of good first bugs for new contributors is a common practice in some large open source projects. e.g. the Mozilla community marks these bugs with “good first bug” and the GNOME folks tag them with “gnome-love” in Bugzilla. The problem with these lists is that they tend to grow very quickly and become overwhelming to go through—which kind of kills their original purpose of helping new contributors to find a task to get started.
I’d like to start a little experiment. What if we feature only one good first bug every other week? Featured bugs will have an assigned mentor and some initial overview of what has to be done. The effort to decide if you’re up for the task then gets much smaller, right? And if you don’t have time to work on the current featured bug, you can wait for the next one, no problem!
So, here we go: the first featured bug is bug 774309, mentored by Brian Nicholson (bnicholson). This bug is about adding support for Android’s voice search in Firefox. Brian has provided some initial code pointers in the bug. Interested? Just add a comment to the bug to take it. I strongly recommend joining us on IRC (irc.mozilla.org #mobile) to get some support on setting up your development environment.