I contributed to Firefox. The Mozilla guys are awesome.
But if you are used to Github/PRs their Bugzilla/Hg-Patches workflow feels like going back in time... way back to the old days.
But if you are used to Github/PRs their Bugzilla/Hg-Patches workflow feels like going back in time... way back to the old days.
It's part of my job role at Mozilla to bring this process into modernity. We're getting there. Slowly. GitHub pull requests will be supported in some form. Hopefully by July.
Modern hg is far better than MQ, and in some situations, better than git. You can edit, you can rebase, you can amend, you can evolve.
They stopped using? Even on the main Firefox repo?
I actually rather like email-based code review. It's really easy to keep editing and rebasing your patch while people comment on it. If Mercurial Evolve picks up, this will be an awesome new way to work, especially if Kallithea or Bitbucket grows the features to support it.
However, current Mozilla development, AIUI, is moving towards ReviewBoard, although I have heard a growing mutinous group in Mozilla who just wants to chuck all homegrown solutions and slap all of their code on github like everyone else.