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* Maintenance script | * Maintenance script | ||
* New template | * New template | ||
* | * Versioning hell | ||
== Where Do We Go From Here? == | == Where Do We Go From Here? == | ||
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=== Who is Going to Do All of This? === | === Who is Going to Do All of This? === | ||
* Existing volunteers | |||
** Testing, QA | |||
** Bugzilla management | |||
** FAQ and support | |||
* Contractors and MoCo | |||
** Drive development and priorities | |||
** Set requirements, standards, timeline and stick to them | |||
=== | ==== Human Resources -- why do we need a change? ==== | ||
Since April, the project has been in the hands of volunteers without a dirving force behind the project. Some of the challeneges we've faced are: | |||
* distributed volunteer base | |||
* lots of inexperience programmers | |||
* lack of testing for submitted patches (leads to a -) | |||
* some developers want to use php5 | |||
* not enough time to organize all incoming requests | |||
* not enough time to satisfy all requirements from all groups | |||
** Sysadmins | |||
** Marketing | |||
** Product management | |||
** Add-on developer community | |||
** AMO site developer community | |||
** AMO users | |||
** Mozilla Security | |||
** Other parties | |||
=== What Additional Resources Do We Need? === | |||
My conclusion (My == morgamic) is that the project suffers from a lack of organization that needs to be fixed by more involvement on behalf of MoCo. I would like to see the hiring/contracting of some key players that have been lacking over the course of the last year: | |||
* A project manager to help relieve the pressure developers feel from all angles | |||
* A project lead to set reasonable requirements and standards (this is morgamic, pretty much) | |||
* A developer core, probably contractors, that is paid -- and held accountable for progress of a structured rewrite | |||
Additional resources would help set aside much-needed development time and organization of the project that has served as a major obstacle to progress in the past year. | |||
The bottom line is we tried to get everything done with a volunteer developer base, but that fell through because of lack of resources -- and we can't afford to keep things going the way they are. | |||
== What's Up With v2.0? == | == What's Up With v2.0? == | ||
* Public side is almost done but... a lot has happened since the summer and we should get our bearing. | * Public side is almost done but... a lot has happened since the summer and we should get our bearing. | ||
** Migration to PHP5 | ** Migration to PHP5 | ||
** Adoption of a broader framework, dropping Smarty and PEAR | ** Adoption of a broader framework, dropping Smarty and PEAR? | ||
** Database redesign a necessity given other discussed changes | ** Database redesign a necessity given other discussed changes | ||
* AMO 1.5? | |||
** Release current v2.0 code as a new public-facing version of AMO that is simplified and more reliable. | |||
** After this is released, refocus efforts on an improved rewrite/refactoring. | |||