AMO:Meeting Notes
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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: 300
Common AMO Bugzilla Queries
- 5.7 open bugs, fixed bugs Freeze 2/16 - Launch 2/23
- 5.6 open bugs, fixed bugs Freeze 1/26 - Launch 2/2
- Good First Bugs New to contributing? These are a good start.
- Template for meeting notes
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!@!
Other
Earlier Meeting Notes
- October – December 31 2009
- July – September 2009
- April – June 2009
- January – March 2009
- October – December 2008
- July – September 2008
- April – June 2008
- November 2007 – March 2008
- October – November 2007
- August – September 2007
- December 2006 – July 2007
- October – November 2006
- August – September 2006
