mozilla-services / mozilla-services/updatebot
Firefox Development Is Moving From Mercurial To Git
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- Dominant language
- Python
- Stars
- 9
- Forks
- 8
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
While the currently announced plan does not have a timeline communicated, we should make sure that updatebot continues to work when the switch has been made
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing updatebot's Mercurial handling and the path used for Firefox library updates; the issue does not name specific files or tests. Determine what changes are needed for Firefox's move to Git, then verify that updatebot still updates the relevant third-party libraries after the migration.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100