Keeping an eye on blockers
The number of outstanding blockers is a good way to get a feeling for how much work is left to be done before a milestone or final product release. It can be tricky to coax these numbers out of Bugzilla due to some of the more intricate ways we split things into “Gecko 1.9″ and “Firefox 3″. Building on some saved searches that have been built and shared (go into your Bugzilla preferences and click on “saved searches” to add them to your footer) by Mike Connor, here’s a set of queries which you can bookmark and keep a close watch on:
- Gecko 1.9: All Blockers | Unassigned Blockers | Blocker Nominations
- Firefox 3: All Blockers | Unassigned Blockers | Blocker Nominations
Specifically for M9, it might be interesting for people to have the following queries to hand:
- Gecko 1.9: M9 Blockers | Unassigned M9 Blockers
- Firefox 3: M9 Blockers | Unassigned M9 Blockers
With the information from those queries, you can see that…
- More than 100 bugs are blocking Gran Paradiso M9, 13 of which are unassigned
- Another 600 bugs are blocking the final Firefox 3 / Gecko 1.9 release, 200 of which are unassigned
- There are an additional 200 bugs nominated for blocking status, mostly in Gecko 1.9 components
Monitoring these numbers will help us focus on what needs to be done for an upcoming milestone and the march towards our final product release. A convenient way to keep the queries to hand is to make use of this cool Bugzilla Search microsummary generator created by Dietrich Ayala.