/meta-bugs

Find the transitive list of blocked bugs.

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Meta Bugs

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When visiting bugzilla, a bug has a list of dependencies and a list of blocked bug. This addons add a new read-only section which displays the transitive list of blocked bug.

The addon is used as a discovery mechanism for finding siblings of existing bugs, or to know what part of the project the current bug is contributing to.

Additionally it will highlight areas which have to be updated while triaging the bugs, by adding an extra red border around fields which have to be updated.

This addon is available at https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/meta-bugs/

Testing locally

This is a Firefox addon, which might also work in other browsers.

Before testing your modification, make sure to disable the addon coming from https://addons.mozilla.org/ by navigating to about:addons.

To test your modifications within Firefox, open about:debugging, and load the manifest.json as a temporary addon.

Packaging

To package this repository into an addon, you can either use nix build, which will create a symbolic link named result which will contain the zip file to be uploaded.