Bugzilla 7 Roadmap

Coming (hopefully) 2020. Triage needed.

Site-wide enhancements

• Refine UI design with new custom icons
• Basic mobile support
• Create hovercards for user, bug, product, component

Bug detail page

• UX analysis
• Real time updates (avoid mid-air collisions)
  • Bugzfeed was based on WebSockets which doesn’t work with HTTP/2
  • Web Push is not supported in Mojolicious yet, but server-sent events can be used instead
• Ajaxify comment posting
• Bug tags replacing keywords
• Show bug references inline (auto linking whenever a comment is posted) like GitHub issues
• Use syntax highlighting for patches
• Implement attachment overlay (drag & drop, multiple file support)
• Implement comment reactions with emoji

New bug page

• UX analysis
• Merge enhancements from the new-bug page

Comment editing

• Support easy emoji input like :+1: or :smile:
• Support using user mentions in comments to tag people for needinfo

Advanced search page

• UX analysis

Home page

• Personalized inbox like BzDeck
  • The initial implementation can just be a bug list taken from My Dashboard plus an <iframe> showing header-less bug page

Preferences page

• UX analysis

Better tools

• Enhanced quick search bar
• Kanban board
  • Make it easier to manage bugs in particular products
• Redesign profile page
  • Add contribution graph like GitHub
• Product/component dashboards
  • Replace the current component description pages
  • Show open/closed bug charts, top contributors, recent bugs

Integrations

• Bugzilla GraphQL API v1
• GitHub integration
  • Webhook support: Automatically attach pull request links and close bugs without a 3rd party bot
  • Migration support: Requires multiple assignees, reviewers field etc. so Bugzilla will be compatible with GitHub
  • and more...
• Slack integration

Even more

• Research and optimize the onboarding experience, for both Mozilla employees and contributors
  • Talk to Mozilla’s internal teams handling these areas (stakeholder interviews)
  • Implement password generator or requirements checker
  • Add support for Google and Firefox accounts?
  • Create an entire customer journey map
  • Make Component Watching more noticeable so they won’t miss any change
• Organize scattered documents/help on Wiki (BMO & upstream), Read the Docs (BMO & upstream), in-product pages
• Review page titles and social sharing metadata
• Review status, resolution (bug life cycle) and other fields
• More ideas from BzDeck

Non-product stuff

• Develop UX brief, high-level plan
• Create blog
• Triage UI bugs on Bugzilla
• BMO user survey
• Reboot bugzilla.org