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Alex Keybl
Jul 31, 2012, 3:52:02 PM7/31/12
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One action we took (well, really the BZ guys took) from our conversation in [1] was to enable engineers to better filter time sensitive bugmail to their inbox (tracked in [2]). Here are some possible use cases, followed by how to filter in a few apps.
Use cases:
1) Ensuring that any bugmail with a tracking + flag gets into your inbox (X-Bugzilla-Tracking contains +)
- this is the easiest to set up, and will give the most visibility
2) Ensuring that any bugmail with a tracking + flag for an upcoming release ends up in your inbox (X-Bugzilla-Tracking contains tracking-firefox15:+ or tracking-firefox16:+)
- note that you'd have to change this on each merge date
3) Ensuring that any bugmail with a tracking + flag for an upcoming release, unfixed in that release, ends up in your inbox
- #2, while also using the status flags also found in X-Bugzilla-Tracking. More complex.
If you use Zimbra for filtering:
* Log into Zimbra
* Click the 'Preferences' tab
* 'Mail > Filters > New Filter'
* Click 'Subject' and change it to 'Header Named'
* Replace 'header' with 'X-Bugzilla-Tracking'
* Note: if the header doesn't exist, the 'contains' condition will not be met (this is good)
If you use Mail.app for filtering (untested):
* 'Mail > Preferences > Rules > Add Rule'
* Click 'Any Recipient > Edit Header List...'
* Click '+'
* Add 'X-Bugzilla-Tracking' (without quotes)
* Select 'X-Bugzilla-Tracking'
If you use Gmail for filtering:
My understanding is that Gmail does not currently allow users to filter on headers. Bug 773327 (slated for 4.2, see [3]) will resolve this by adding tracking flags into the
-Alex
[1] https://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.planning/browse_thread/thread/56f2b3052b6700e9/cb8c97041e70983a
[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772994
[3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773327
Use cases:
1) Ensuring that any bugmail with a tracking + flag gets into your inbox (X-Bugzilla-Tracking contains +)
- this is the easiest to set up, and will give the most visibility
2) Ensuring that any bugmail with a tracking + flag for an upcoming release ends up in your inbox (X-Bugzilla-Tracking contains tracking-firefox15:+ or tracking-firefox16:+)
- note that you'd have to change this on each merge date
3) Ensuring that any bugmail with a tracking + flag for an upcoming release, unfixed in that release, ends up in your inbox
- #2, while also using the status flags also found in X-Bugzilla-Tracking. More complex.
If you use Zimbra for filtering:
* Log into Zimbra
* Click the 'Preferences' tab
* 'Mail > Filters > New Filter'
* Click 'Subject' and change it to 'Header Named'
* Replace 'header' with 'X-Bugzilla-Tracking'
* Note: if the header doesn't exist, the 'contains' condition will not be met (this is good)
If you use Mail.app for filtering (untested):
* 'Mail > Preferences > Rules > Add Rule'
* Click 'Any Recipient > Edit Header List...'
* Click '+'
* Add 'X-Bugzilla-Tracking' (without quotes)
* Select 'X-Bugzilla-Tracking'
If you use Gmail for filtering:
My understanding is that Gmail does not currently allow users to filter on headers. Bug 773327 (slated for 4.2, see [3]) will resolve this by adding tracking flags into the
-Alex
[1] https://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.planning/browse_thread/thread/56f2b3052b6700e9/cb8c97041e70983a
[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772994
[3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773327
Dave Mandelin
Aug 2, 2012, 2:32:19 PM8/2/12
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On Tuesday, July 31, 2012 12:52:02 PM UTC-7, Alex Keybl wrote:
> One action we took (well, really the BZ guys took) from our conversation in [1] was to enable engineers to better filter time sensitive bugmail to their inbox (tracked in [2]).
+1. My bugmail got unmanageable a while ago, so recently I switched to a custom notification feed. My feed actually includes all comments to tracking+ bugs in the JS engine component, regardless of whether I'm cc:'d on the bug. But anything that helps people filter bugmail and pick out the relatively small important important fraction is very welcome.
> One action we took (well, really the BZ guys took) from our conversation in [1] was to enable engineers to better filter time sensitive bugmail to their inbox (tracked in [2]).
Dave
Dave Mandelin
Aug 2, 2012, 2:32:19 PM8/2/12
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On Tuesday, July 31, 2012 12:52:02 PM UTC-7, Alex Keybl wrote:
> One action we took (well, really the BZ guys took) from our conversation in [1] was to enable engineers to better filter time sensitive bugmail to their inbox (tracked in [2]).
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