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

• 5.10 open bugs, fixed bugs Freeze 4/27 - Launch 5/4
• Good First Bugs New to contributing? These are a good start.
• Template for meeting notes

April 28, 2010

Development

• We are not code frozen, but we'd like to be by Thursday
• Potch started this week, woo
• Currently a webdev onsite
• rabbitmq is setup
• Put a commit url in the comment when you close a bug: http://gist.github.com/382311

QA

• Thanks for fixing preview!
• Test paypal accounts

Product

• User Testing!
• Electric Bandwagon spec
• Featured Add-ons spec

Developer Relations

• On the way to MV. I may be able to dial in from the airport, but don't count on me attending - Jorge.
• Mostly done with 5.10 bugs. Awaiting feedback from Nick and Justin for bug 547306 (policy text update).
• Admin reviews.
• Trusted add-on review and cleanup.

Other

Recent Past Meetings

April 21, 2010

Development

• Making good progress on 5.10, 84 closed bugs. Reminder of our 4 goals:
  • discovery pane operational
  • jetpack support in validator (done)
  • getting the homepage live
  • getting add-on details page live
• 39 open dev bugs
• we're a bit blocked on bug 560444 and apparently it's not an easy fix because RHEL sucks. I'll continue to get status updates. When this bug is fixed, the random 500 errors should be too.
  • Python 2.6.5 is installed, we just need oremj to update the virtualenvs.
• QA & co have been great about testing the new pages and filing bugs. Thanks.
  • As a result, there are 11 nobody bugs. If you can, please fix them.
• clouserw missing this meeting but in MV after noon

QA

Product

• Electric Bandwagon spec

Developer Relations

• Admin reviews. Nominations are down to less than 2 weeks, and most updates are still less than 5 days.
• "Gmail" in German review. Found about 10 new add-ons that needed updates.
• Working on 5.10 bugs.

Community

Marketing

• Rock Your Firefox London Event: planning for June 30
• Rock Your Firefox: 3 new posts this week
• Recommended add-ons: new feature reco up/ new category by end of week
• Personas: Yashraj engaged, WB still stewing about HP (ask Ryan for deets)

Other

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Development

• Adding a cookie named 'darklaunch' will get you zamboni for every request. witness the flow chart
• We kinda skipped adding priorities when assigning bugs in this milestone because they are all important! ;) Our goal is to get pages live, so all [need:livepages] needs to be done
• next.amo is alive. Pretty pictures for management (and because I wanted to try out google drawing. Turns out you can't host the image automatically..lame)

QA

Product

Developer Relations

• AMO Editor conference call last Saturday. Little attendance but still productive.
• Found over 100 add-on updates with incorrect status due to reopened AMO bug. Editors already took care of them and we're back to having really good numbers.
• Review updates will now be bi-weekly.

Community

Marketing

• Rock Your Firefox London Event: planning for June 30
• Rock Your Firefox: 3 new posts this week
• Recommended add-ons: new feature reco up/ new category by end of week
• Personas: Yashraj engaged, WB still stewing about HP (ask Ryan for deets)

Other

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

Development

• Pushed 5.8.3 on Thursday, Sphinx timeouts have subsided seem reduced
• We only have http_app_addons logs for 3/25 due to bug 556636
• Any objections to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557732?
• we found our blank page problems
• goal for 5.10: get add-on detail pages and home page on zamboni

jbalogh

• working on personas pages (category landing/listing mostly done)
• landed extension category pages
• fixing up buttons every now and then
• New scheme for query awesomeness using queryset-transform: http://github.com/jbalogh/zamboni/commits/transform
  • Roll up all the translation lookups into one big query
  • Could do the same for versions, files, appversions to help the buttons
  • Con: big queries don't cache well
    • Solution: try a cache.multi_get first, then do a query, then cache.multi_set what we found.

dd

• Working on Search Frontend Pages

QA

Product Marketing

• Incubation update
• Discovery Pane
• collections, recommended specs

Real Product Marketing

• coming up with copy for Discovery Pane
• recommended add-ons
• planning a big add-ons meetup for June in Europe
• rock your firefox: seeking guest bloggers
• Firefox Cup (marketing campaign to highlight ways to personalize your World Cup experience using Firefox) - will include a microsite that's hosted on AMO- contact Laura Mesa for development specs

Developer Relations

• Done with XUL School.
• AMO Editor conference call this Saturday.
• Thinking about reducing frequency of Add-ons Review Updates.

Community

Other Marketing

Other

• clouserw and davedash have been practicing a duet for us and would like to perform it
• 319 tests

Mar. 31, 2010

Development

• 5.8 is out
• 5.9 is not
• QA: 5.8.2?
• If we're using omniture, can we get rid of the urchin scripts?
• How would you like your search?

QA

• Thoughts on doing dry-runs of our deployments? (At least in terms of package installation.)

Product

• A/B testing
• Discovery Pane work continues
• Starting on Collections and Dev Tools specs

Developer Relations

• Working on XUL School. About 90% done. Will be done tomorrow today and make announcement.
• Posted Add-on Review Policy Update, covering FatPlug, Conduit and others.

Community

Marketing

• working on getting new add-ons recommendations this week
• 3 new RYFX posts: Morning Coffee, March Collection, Screengrab
• recruiting guest bloggers: reaching out to Mozilla community
• AMO partners: working w/ Amazon Assist & Warner Bros. Harry Potter Personas

Other

Mar. 24, 2010

Development

• 5.8 is live
• Q2 forecast
• AMO URL map
• How would you like your Search
• File bugs if you think search is not giving you the right results.

QA

Product

• Blogged about Incubation proposal
• Q2 Release Planning

Developer Relations

• Working on XUL School. About 60% done. Expecting to be done by the end of March.
• The review queues are showing incredible progress. Most nominations reviewed within 2 weeks and updates down to 3-4 days.

Community

Marketing

• Rock Your Firefox: Fire.fm, Billeo, Text Area Cache
• Q2 Goals
• Recommended add-ons
• Partner chats: NBA, WB, Stumble

Other

Mar. 17, 2010

Development

• 5.8 is frozen; plan to go out next tuesday. 86 bugs closed!
• Most important stuff to QA is: bug 549500, bug 550547, bug 546866, bug 543638, and anything with API in it
  • Don't forget to test L10n
  • Please read through the bugs today and if it's not clear how to test, ask
• some /api/ links are going live. Details in bug 552612
• 5.9 isn't planned yet, but everyone had carryover bugs so just work on those
• dd: development branch would be nice for landing 5.9 bugs during the freeze - and only put showstopper fixes in master? eh?

QA

• Decision about Themes? See bug 550004 and 531691 for details

Product

• Discovery Pane awaiting design work
• Incubation blog post first draft done
• Q2 Goals draft this week

Developer Relations

• Working on XUL School.
• 5.8 bugs.

Marketing

• Rock Your Firefox website launch to date: 5 featured add-ons, 1 intro post, and counting. Here are some stats on referrals from RYFX since we launched on 3/10:
  • Yoono: 1072 / 74,058 downloads (1%)
  • XSticky: 1172 / 2366 downloads (50%)
  • CLIP (Craigslist Image Prefetcher): 571 / 1432 downloads(40%)
    
  • Week of 3/15: RUWT?, St. Patrick's Day Personas, StumbleUpon
• AMO Q2 marketing goals this week
• New recommended add-ons this week

Other

Mar. 10, 2010

Today's meeting will start 15 minutes late.

Development

• Bug update:
  • chowse: rocking designs. Please give feedback in bug 532685 if you have some. Otherwise, let's make a decision.
  • clouserw: L10n is done: whiny blog post. User profile stuff is time consuming because there isn't any code to steal yet. :)
  • craigcook: Search Results and buttons code should be done by the time we're having this meeting. The rest of the bugs should be done by tonight (weds).
  • davedash: Closed a bunch of bugs and dealing with new bugs in the API. Talk of using a library or Jinja to handle the XML. confusing stuff about λ
  • wenzel: finished with add-on details page, save the buttons. Continuing work on the rest of the bugs
  • jbalogh: Closed many bugs so far, working on buttons for his pages and wenzel as P1s.
  • mccammos: done with thank you notes today.
• We're incrementing the API version in the next release. This is last call to add/change fields.
• If you have new sql to run, please add it to zamboni's migrations instead of remora's. This also means it runs automatically on preview.

QA

5.8 testing is in progress.

Product

• RYF launch!
• Discovery Pane
• Incubation blog post
• Jetpacks on AMO

Developer Relations

• Catching up with reviews.
• Working on XUL School.
• 5.8 bugs.
• Get Canadian Visa!

Community

Marketing

• rockyourfirefox.com is now live!
• directing traffic to AMO & featured add-ons
• Featuring
  • 3/10: Yoono & XSticky
  • 3/12: Craigslist Image Prefetcher

Other

• One dandonkulous is equal to a triple-bango.

Mar. 3, 2010

Development

• Craig's stuff is looking good
  • Front end of account settings is done
  • Design of buttons, category pages is done
• clouserw is behind so has been neglecting harassing people. Do you miss me?
• If you have some freetime, poke around the API and help QA (bug 549500)

QA

• QA is having their work week.

• With API/zamboni/redesign changes and new features going into 5.8,there might be scoping issues. Can we consider moving a new feature(Thank You note for contributors) or redesign changes( new buttons) to be moved to 5.9?

• Any help with API testing will be highly appreciated.

Product

• Incubation Proposal
• Foundation contributions? Bug Mocks
• Personas integration Mocks Hi-def

Developer Relations

• Catching up with reviews.
• Working on XUL School
• MAOW in Lima went pretty well, need to rethink how to teach extension development in a short session.

Community

• Nick going to Paris, London, Berlin on March 25-April 5. Let him know if there are add-on developers he should meet with.
  • Also accepting requests for gifts!

Marketing

• we ordered shirts, stickers, banner, bag, and patches
• Austin add-ons meet-up ready set go for 3/12
• copy & PR lock-down in progress
• TO DO: featured/category recommended & intro to add-ons video

Other

Feb. 24, 2010

Development

• 5.7 went out last night, 5.8 codefreeze is 3/9
• let clouserw know about concerns with the 5.8 schedule
• Benchmarked the API (n=1000,c=150)
  • zamboni is around 3-4x faster than remora right now
  • zamboni slows down considerably (around 42%) with more complex add-ons (id: 5326 vs 1865)
• Craig is up and running with templates
• We've got 160 tests now
• Notes (read your amo-developers email):
  • use: from amo.urlresolvers import reverse
  • use: from l10n import ugettext as _

QA

• No update

Product

• [bonus] whiteboard status means we get the bug for free as part of another bug

Developer Relations

• Lots of blogging this week:
  • Updating and porting your add-ons to SeaMonkey 2.
  • Private Browsing Support to be required for add-ons.
  • First Add-ons Review Update.
• Got started with XUL School on MDC.
• MAOW: Lima this weekend. Will be mostly away on Thursday and Friday.

Community

Marketing

• Rock Your Firefox content, collateral, event all underway - 3/10 target for launch
• Amazon Assist: would like to get this add-on ready for primetime promotion- ball is in their court

Other

Feb. 17, 2010

Development

• 30 bugs closed, lots of good stuff: l10n detection, editor tools fixes, [z] core stuff, and some front-end [z] stuff
• missed our freeze date due to zamboni bugs. We're now aiming for Thurs, the 18th
  • SAMO isn't going to be complete. /addon/, /search/, and /list/ are going to be done, the rest (/collections/, /stats/, and a couple other small ones) will be split into another bug.
  • Stats front-end will be finished up in 5.8. CSV output will be completed in 5.7.
  • We'll load test those ^^ pages on weds. and if all goes well we'll be prepared to flip the live site to using them - our first public pages!
• Thanks to wenzel for sticking with remora and adding the "share via email" stuff. <3
• The clearleft stuff is either done or really close to done. New designs look good, thanks fligtar.
• Craig will be helping us with implementing the templates which will help us get back on schedule

QA

• schedule conflict with EU ballot-Feb 23rd
• QA automation efforts- https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkOIUMTNpBYKdFhpLV9oTk1JeW1TdzIyTmF3YU5pWXc&hl=en

Product

• Clearleft update - final mocks update
• Rock Your Firefox implementation underway
• Discovery Pane work
• Statistics dashboard - penultimate designs

Developer Relations

• The Add-on Review Process and YOU.
• Notify SeaMonkey add-on devs about SeaMonkey 2 compatibility. Blog post later today.
• Discussing with editors about Private Browsing Mode and how to enforce it in add-ons.

Community

• Summit Attendees

Marketing

• Finalizing the RYF site
• Selecting consumer-friendly add-ons for launch
• Planning to launch and promote RYF heavily at SXSW
• Jetpack Ambassadors: post-program support w/ conference placement
• Personas: talking to World Cup Soccer folks today

Other

Feb. 10, 2010

NEW ROOM NUMBER: 366

Development

• 5.7 appears to be on track. Wil will (that's right) reconnect with people today.... and wil will reconnect to the conference call.
• If you're working on [z] make sure you are doing `git submodule update --init`

QA

No update

Product

• Discovery Pane (other mocks)
• Latest Rock Your Firefox mock
• 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.
  • Planning possible improvements to the AMO system. No proposal yet.
• Jetpack Ambassadors Program.
• Performing scheduled trusted add-on review.

Community

Marketing

Other

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.

Community

Marketing

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

Other

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!@!

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