Performance/Addons
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Measuring and communicating the performance effect of addons in Firefox.
Status
- Dietrich Ayala is working on and corralling others to work on the best-practices document, and spec'ing out a client-side benchmark suite.
Goals
- Inform users of the performance of a given addon on AMO
- Educate addon developers on performance best-practices
- Provide users a way to measure performance in Firefox
- Provide developers performance feedback inside Firefox
Activity
| Group | Description | Leader | Status | Details |
| Docs | Best Practices guide on MDC | Dietrich | IN PROGRESS | View. It's sufficiently full. Next step is to clean it up and migrate it to MDC. |
| Docs | Recommend JAR packaging | Unowned | NOT STARTED | |
| AMO | Show addon performance data | Heather/Clint | IN PROGRESS | bug 559929, see also wiki page |
| AMO | Have reviewers and validator warn when addon is not using a JAR | Unowned | NOT STARTED | bug 551714, needs AMO evang/docs changes |
| AMO | Have automated review warn when addon is not using a JAR | Unowned | NOT STARTED | needs webdev |
| Rel-eng | Try-server for extension testing | Unowned | NOT STARTED | bug 553637, needs rel-eng and AMO devs |
| Jetpack | Ensure generated Jetpacks use JAR | Unowned | NOT STARTED | bug 552865 |
| Fx-team/Platform | Warn on non-JAR file access | Unowned | NOT STARTED | bug 552863 |
| Fx-team | Perf benchmarking suite | NOT STARTED | draft spec from Limi | |
| Fx-team/Platform | Enable JARing of all files in an addon | Unowned | NOT STARTED | bug 552855 |
