Add-ons/Bi-weekly-minutes-20151020

Add-ons Ecosystem Bi-Weekly Extended Team Meeting

October 20, 2015

Present:

• Amy
• Andreas
• Andrew
• Andy
• Blake
• Dave
• DVeditz
• John Gruen
• Jordan Lund
• Jorge
• Kev
• Kim
• Kris
• Kumar
• Larissa
• Lisa
• Mark
• Madhava
• Markus
• Mathieu
• Matthew
• Michael
• Philip
• Stuart

Agenda:

Product:

• WebExtensions 1.0 triage complete, translating to Roadmap
• Moving beyond 1.0, working towards identifying > 1.0 features and prioritization
• Extension signing enforcement (pref-able) moving to Beta in 43 per schedule. Additional information on release channel still required to gauge impact of release on 43.

UX Update [Markus]

• extended Add-ons UX-Team to meet proposed Goals
• John, Markus - Add-on Discovery Exploration (AMO and Firefox)
  • suggestions based on behaviour (visual design draft)
• John - AMO quick UI refresh + Add-ons manager prototypes:
  • currently in the process of deprecating this.
  • in favor of a clickable demo (WIP)
• Bram - AMO for Devs - starting on research (involve community)
• Blake, Markus - WebExtensions (defining Add-ons UI & aligning w StyleGuide)
• Bill, Markus - Add-ons Mental Model Research (Clip of the Week)

AMMO update

• Launched add-on submission beta for FxOS
• Uptake is modest, bugs being filed
• Update on MDN overhaul plan
• Interviewed contractor candidate
• Headcount conversations WIP (Kris backfill + doc writer + 1 more reviewer maybe)
• Submission fixes prioritization
• More work on consolidating policy docs
• Integrating with FxOS participation hub
• Brainstorming for ways to participate/contribute to WebExtensions
• Review super-escalations
• Intel/McAfee + sizzle.js
• Cliqz
• Yahoo ad security meeting tues (clarity ray)
• Bi-weekly community meeting: https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/ammo-community-meeting-101315
• Bi-weekly goodfirstbugs triage https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EoLSXHKCqJzTatj6CLLpjomwXnN5zUOA897brO_1aJQ/edit

Engineering update

Last two weeks

• We are in the last stage with one new hire - elance, so a bit slower than usual.
• Signing API
  • Auth infrastructure in place
  • See it on dev at https://addons-dev.allizom.org/en-US/developers/addon/api/key

• Unsigned add-ons in Firefox stable
  • No move, escalating

• JS Validator
  • Scanners for all types of content (CSS/JS/HTML/Chrome.manifest/RDF) in place
  • Diagrams, yay
  • Configurable logging added
  • coverage tooling added coverage upped to 100%

+1

• Web Extensions
  • ~12 bugs closed, including:
    • partial implementation of bookmarks
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1208907
    • implementation of pageAction
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1197422
    • 3 of those bugs were from contributors
  • 2 major triages to figure out what should be in 1.0
    • tracking bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1214433
    • 89 bugs to go (there will be many more)
  • talked about at monday project meeting

Miscellaneous Firefox Account planning 31 other AMO bug fixed http://mzl.la/1OQby2t including, terms are skipped in the submission flow if you’ve already agreed to them: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1205904

Next two weeks Not in this meeting, but please say hello to Christopher Grebs, new engineer based in Berlin. New pipeline for hiring the remaining 3 positions

Signing API New version API almost ready On schedule for going live end of next week Unsigned add-ons in Firefox stable Hoping we can get something landed, but Andy will see what he can find out.

JS Validator Rules, rules, rules! Nolski helping Tofumatt and Stuart out Speaking at the next monday meeting to get contributors

Web Extensions https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?f1=cf_fx_iteration&list_id=12624633&o1=anywords&resolution=---&query_format=advanced&v1=44.3&component=WebExtensions&product=Toolkit Short week for some

Miscellaneous AWS Addons.mozilla.org -dev is now on AWS Stage will happen after Thursdays push Prod aiming for Nov 9th