BMO/Roadmap 2014

Context

This was drawn up in July 2014 and last updated November 2015. This document is for historical purposes; see BMO/Road Map for our current road map. As noted below, many items were completed, and the rest are being carried over, possibly with different priorities.

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• [p1] Most Important
• [p4] Least Important

API

• [DONE] [p1] bzapi compatibility extension
  • deprecating and decommissioning api-dev endpoint
• [p2] rest redesign
  • redesign endpoints, drawing heavily from bzapi's design
  • [DONE] investigate using oauth with api-keys instead of user/pass
• [DONE] [p2] system for tracking a review's lifetime

UI/UX

• [p3] responsive design
  • [DONE] tables for layout --> divs
  • show_bug only
• [p3] user roles / show_bug alternatives
  • required: responsive design
  • initially javascript to hide/show selected fields
• [p3] complete sandstone (footer, etc)
• [ON TRACK] [p3] migrate from yui2 to yui3 or jquery
  • propose splitting the bug and work:
    • a line-for-line yui2 --> yui3 migration
    • then change to more modern js (csp, etc)
• [DONE] (but needs to be made default) [p4] show/edit mode
  • requires: responsive design
  • default to show
  • hide fields without values set
  • edit to show all fields
• [ON TRACK] (we'll get this when we merge in upstream trunk) [p4] markdown support
  • requires custom markdown library
  • limited markdown code only (no html, no image embedding)
  • glob has a functional POC
• [p1] inbound email
• [p2] (in upstream trunk) bug updates without bugmail
  • "minor edit" mode
  • allows bulk updates through API without generating tonnes of bugmail; means we don't have to script things
  • restricted to a group
• [p2] quick edits
  • allows updating of comment within a short period; no bugmail sent for email
  • edit period ends if bug changes
• [DONE] [p3] bitly URLs for searches
• [DONE] [p3] OS/platform fields
  • trim list
  • improve behaviour (bug 579089 comment #17)
• [p2] clean up attachment page
• [p4] instant search expansion
• [p4] search UX
  • common searches

Performance

• [DONE] [p1] memcached
• [p1] api throttling
  • required: memcache
  • cache REST requests with memcache
  • prevent too-frequent polling with identical requests, and accidental DDOS
  • a 5 minute cache of duplicate bzapi requests would have a 25% hit rate
• [DONE] [p2] standardise instrumentation
• [DONE] [p2] build standard system for logging
  • currently just write to apache's error log, access via syslog
  • need to log all api calls, which aren't currently visible (POSTs)
  • log to database table, in background process?
• [DONE] [p3] push notifications
  • pub/sub system (pulse and websockets)
  • just push the bug-id and delta-ts
• [DONE] [p4] explore consolidation of stylesheets at checksetup time
  • requires an "is development" setting in localconfig
• [p1] enter_bug perf