AMO:Meeting Notes

AMO Project Meeting Details

Wednesdays, 10:00am Pacific, 1:00pm Eastern
1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) or 1-650-215-1282 or 1-650-903-0800
Conferencing Center: x92
Conference ID: 366

Common AMO Bugzilla Queries

• 5.7 open bugs, fixed bugs Freeze 2/16 - Launch 2/23
• Good First Bugs New to contributing? These are a good start.
• Template for meeting notes

Feb. 10, 2010

NEW ROOM NUMBER: 366

Product

[AMO:Goals/2010/Q1 Goals Review]

Developer Relations

• MAOW in Lima, Perú scheduled for the 27th.
• Investigate malware in add-ons.
  • 2 infected add-ons identified.
  • Turns out one of them (the most serious case due to exposure time) was just a false positive. Blog post coming soon.
  • Planning possible improvements to the AMO system. No proposal yet.
• Jetpack Ambassadors Program.
• Performing scheduled trusted add-on review.

Feb. 3, 2010

Development

• We shouldn't rely on a contributions platform where email & meetings are the best API docs.
• 5.6 push issues
  • bug 543920 - API search broken until 6am because it wasn't svn upped
  • push bug was verified with API search broken
  • sphinx issues
  • bug 543920 - add-on icons not working/mixed up
• dd's rants
  • Have a runbook for what things need pushing
  • Push earlier if we have minimal downtime
  • Do sphinx upgrades during the day

QA

• Some way to tag regression-prone fixes?
• Testing Zamboni

Product

• http://iampaddy.com/lifebelow600/
• Clearleft update
• Discovery Pane
• Statistics dashboard update (wireframes [1], visual design [2] )
• Rock Your Firefox first iteration [3]
• Contributions up 40% in January!

Developer Relations

• Review queues are stable at around 100 updates and 300 nominations. New editor applications almost every week.
• Reviewed most Facebook Dislike add-ons looking for adware, spyware and code duplication. Only one add-on was disabled due to copied code. The rest were OK.
• Coordinating MAOW in Lima, Perú.
• Performing scheduled trusted add-on review.

Marketing

• Jetpack Ambassadors: business cards, presentation trainining, agnenda for next week
• Rock Your Firefox: writing copy
• AMO: reviewing categories, selecting category/feature recommended

Other

Recent Past Meetings]

Jan. 27, 2010

Development

• 5.6 is code frozen. On track for launch on 2/2.
  • 68 bugs closed by 13 people. Thanks everyone
  • major front end changes in editor tools
• clouserw is out on 2/2. Depending on how things work out, I'll be able to get everything ready on 2/1. Otherwise, jbalogh will run the build.py script. User:Clouserw/AMO:Remora_Prod
• [z] is on preview, check it out!
• If you're filing a zamboni bug, make sure [z] is in the whiteboard
• If you have a bug that doesn't need QA, add [qa-] in the whiteboard
• 5.7 (freeze: feb 16):
  • services.amo on [z], including JSON output (davedash)
  • stats backend on [z] (mccammos)
  • flesh out admin tools on [z] (jbalogh)
  • browse/category pages on [z] (jbalogh)
  • gift sharing on remora (mccammos)
  • user profiles on [z] (wenzel/clouserw)
• License: BSD?
  • http://yehudakatz.com/2010/01/05/the-maximal-usage-doctrine-for-open-source/
  • Discussion limit: 60 seconds

QA

• We have around 10 bugs in our queue for 5.6.
• Editor tools reskin-scope of testing

Product

• Please review Phase I of ZPP
• Intern!
• New dashboard designs from CHowse

Developer Relations

• Release of 3.6 is triggering lots of updates, but they're under control.
• Blog post on incorrect state in add-on updates. About 10 fixes so far because of it.
• Sent email to authors flagged for the Gmail in German issue. Will revisit in a couple of weeks.
• 5.6 fixes. First commit (yay!).

Community

Marketing

• Firefox Gear shall henceforth be known as Rock Your Firefox

Other

Jan. 20, 2010

Development

• 5.5 is done
• 5.6 is underway. I'm going to bug people about it today
• zamboni

QA

• 50+ bugs still open;5.6 includes fixes for buttons and sorting which are prone to regression.Consider moving the launch date to 2/9 to let QA do a thorough job of testing.

• Presentation on the Hudson setup

Product

• ZPP
• Operation: Gravity
• Clearleft Update
• chowse update if available
• Mobile Challenge

Developer Relations

• Checking again for "Gmail" references in German.
• Mario: getting started with Mobile Firefox Reporter.
• Update queue: 5 add-ons waiting more than 3 weeks, 9 waiting between 1 and 3 weeks, 71 waiting less than one week.
• Admin / binary reviews.
• Jorge going to MV Feb 7th -> Feb 14th. Mario as well?

Community

• Extend Firefox prizes wrapped up completely

Marketing

• Firefox Gear name
• Julie starts tomorrow
• Featured personas rotation on AMO

Other

Jan. 13, 2010

Development

• krupa keeps reopening our bugs
• 5.5 launched uneventfully. Thanks everyone
• 5.6 freeze is 1/26. I'll start bugging people next week
• zamboni
  • over 40 tests now
  • dd has the user/group stuff done. land plz.
  • clouserw has selenium integration 95% done. Waiting on user/group branch.
  • jbalogh has moved us to trunk and setup multidb stuff

QA

• Sign off from dev on our release test plan
• Help charting out different testcases for beta channel
• 19 button bugs-can we target them in 5.6?

Product

• ZPP update
• Zamboni design update [c,cl,pm]
• Google Docs shared folder
• upload bug?

Developer Relations

• Queue reviewing is back on track. Many new editor applications.
• Updating AMO Editor wiki and other related wiki pages.
• Working on admin reviews. Mass admin-review unflagging.

Community

Marketing

• Firefox Gear naming survey results were mixed.
• Current front runners:
  • Add-on All-stars
  • All-star Add-ons
  • Add-ons Hall of Fame
  • Add-on Jamboree

Other

Jan. 6, 2010

Welcome to 2010

Development

• 5.5 is code frozen. Launch on 5/12.
• 5.6 bugs TBD today, Radar for AMO+Q1 is almost done
• What happened in 5.5?
  • 60+ bugs closed; lots of fixes for long-open bugs. Bugs assigned to 13 people were fixed. You're all awesome.
  • global and specific l10n dashboards
  • Gearman setup and being used
  • Hudson setup and being used
  • Thumbs up for using highcharts on AMO. Expect to see this replacing timeplot in Q1.
  • Editor tools redesigned
  • All bugs triaged, bug count hovering around 500
  • If you haven't installed zamboni yet, check out the docs. We can help if you need a hand getting started or with github workflow.
  • Zamboni updates:
    • Deployment: Implemented, easy with virtualenv+pip
    • Testing: Implemented with great coverage
    • Translations: Implemented
    • L10n: Extraction scripts done. Syncing between PHP and Python not started.
    • URLs: recognizes locale and app
    • Scaffolding: Implemented on a half dozen models

QA

https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Execution/Web_Testing/AMO/Current_Release/5.5

Product

• firefoxaddons.com secured!
• 2010 Releases page started

Developer Relations

• Updating AMO Editor wiki and other related wiki pages.
• Working on admin reviews.
• Java Console updates approved by QA. Next step is to upload them to AMO.
• Need to set new French dictionaries at https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/browse/type:3.

Community

Marketing

• Some of the top Firefox Gear naming suggestions (add "Firefox" as appropriate)
  • Add-ons Underground
  • Add-on Showcase
  • Add-on Spotlight
  • Museum of Modern Add-ons
  • Add-on Garden
  • Add-ons Illustrated
  • Add-on Vault
  • Add-on Wednesdays
  • The Add-on Minute
  • Add-on FIRE SALE!@!

Other

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