Bugzilla 6 Roadmap

What can we do before the release of Bugzilla 6.0 in late 2018?

Site-wide redesign

• Create & implement new style guide
• Add dark theme

Global navigation

• [SHIPPED] UX analysis
• [SHIPPED] Implement compact, fixed header
• [SHIPPED] Remove footer
• [SHIPPED] Implement Requests quick look dropdown
• [WIP] Allow to instantly search recently visited bugs, keywords and components in the quick search bar
• Notify unread requests and mark them in the Requests dropdown
• Redesign mini login widget

Bug detail page

• [SHIPPED] Implement the "new changes since" indicator using the bug_user_last_visit API method
• [SHIPPED] Give feedback when the Copy Summary button is clicked
• [WIP] Show image/text attachments inline
• UX analysis
• Implement 2-column layout like Xfce's Bugzilla
• Auto-scroll down to new comments/changes
• Implement comment reactions with emoji

Bug filing & editing

• [SHIPPED] Modify product selector layout on Browse and Enter Bug pages
• [WIP] Show number of review/feedback/needinfo in user autocomplete and prevent person from being added if requests are blocked
• Show often/recently used products/components on New Bug page

Comment editing

• [SHIPPED] Enable emoji support
• [WIP] Enable Markdown support
• [WIP] Allow users in editbugs group to edit comments
• Implement text formatting toolbar for comment field
• Support easy emoji input like :+1: or :smile:
• Support using user mentions in comments to tag people for needinfo

File attaching

• [SHIPPED] Check attachment size client-side for too large files
• [SHIPPED] Support drag & drop and and copy & paste on the attachment uploader

Even more

• [SHIPPED] Reimplement Google Analytics on bugzilla.mozilla.org
• [SHIPPED] Implement one-click component watching
• Support user name other than email address
• Provide new favicon

Non-product stuff

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