Compatibility/Goals

Web Compatibility Team Goals

A place to document what the team is working on.

Now, we are maintaining our quarterly goals on GitHub

2017

Q4 2017

• [karl] Prepare a lightning talk to thank/explain the work of Core dev with regards to webcompat (for All Hands Dec 2017)
• [karl] create a "detailed" graph of webcompat.com interactions

Q3 2017

• [ola] create a CLI script for setting up webcompat.com dev
• [ola] build the website refactoring
• [ola] create a UI that suggest duplicate entries when reporting bugs
• [tom] create a web extension to help diagnose bugs (when having little context about the bugs) and remove reliance on mitmproxy (blocked until the relevant web extension API lands).
• [tom] create a user-agent spoofing web extension that works well on fennec and desktop Firefox.
• [tom] burn down the needsdiagnosis queue for desktop/fennec as much as possible.
• [tom] continue work on the website regression tool, making it work with at least 5 topsites and getting it to work with CI (blocked until the relevant web extension API lands).
• [eric] create a web extension to cross-post information from webcompat.com to moz-bugzilla in one click
• [dennis] solve the compatibility issue for webcompat gofaster extension with Quantum
• [dennis] finalize the JS and CSS override for webcompat gofaster extension
• [dennis] Ship for webcompat gofaster extension to fennec so we have a simpler UA override.
• [dennis] Add a webcompat panel to the developer tools.
• [dennis] Release 3 screencasts, including one about gofaster
• [mike] Do a screencast about triage
• [mike] Re-land report site issue in nightly in nightly 57
• [mike] Land a webhook for automatically labeling with type-stylo if users have enabled it in their pref.
• [mike] Finish the specification about window.event
• [mike] Establish with Taipei engineering management on how to make issues more visible when they matter for webcompat.
• [mike] Whip everyone about the training options.
• [adam] Do a screencast about webcompat environment setup for testing triage
• [adam] Clarify and establish a clear responsibility for partner relations stuff
• [adam] Explore trending content by getting data from Pocket, and see if we can collect code patterns
• [karl, mike, eric] Tackle the milestones issue https://github.com/webcompat/webcompat.com/issues/886
• [karl] Deliver a working prototype for atom feeds https://github.com/webcompat/webcompat.com/issues/132
• [karl] Finalize shoki (script to generate minutes of meetings) https://github.com/karlcow/shoki/
• [karl] Finalize a janitor script for cleaning up incorrect status labels on webcompat.com https://github.com/webcompat/webcompat.com/issues/1251
• [karl] -webkit-appearance use cases for the CSS Working Group. https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1250

Q2 2017

• Ship WebCompat Reporter add-on in Desktop (Dev Edition)
• webcompat.com Automated Tooling (bots: screenshots, alexa rank, etc.)
• webcompat.com Atom feed for domains
• webcompat.com Duplicate issues UI
• Contributor rewards/recognition
• Top site interactive crawlers (blocked on headless Gecko work)

Q1 2017

• Ship WebCompat Reporter add-on in Desktop (Nightly, carry-over from Q4)
• Web Regression Test Suite (prototyping)
• Go Faster v2 APIs (DOM, CSS, JS)
• Go Faster automated sitepatch testing
• Desktop WebCompat Reporter improvements (perf, UI) in Desktop
• webcompat.com UX + onboarding improvements (Outreachy project w/ Adam)
• Compat Stats Dashboards and Metrics
• Mobile Top Sites Compatibility Survey (in prioritized locales, pending budget approval)
• Continued Compat spec work
  • -webkit-appearance
  • meta viewport
  • etc.
• Community engagement/building (speaking, articles, contributor onboarding, Outreachy)
• Telemetry

2016

Q4 2016

• Ship WebCompat Reporter add-on in Desktop (Nightly)
• Ship v1 webcompat go faster addon (enabled)
• Burn down "needsdiagnosis" backlog on webcompat.com (> 3 months old)
• webcompat.com performance audit
• Ship webcompat.com issues.db branch
• Continued community engagement (speaking, articles, contributor onboarding, outreachy)
  • Article about webcompat in Japan (karl)
  • Tech in Asia Jakarta 2016 (karl)

DONE Q4 2016

• Finalize work with Yahoo! JP to get sites fixed for Fennec