Websites/Snippets

Elevator Pitch

The about:home snippet service is a simple, highly-cached content management service. It is intended to assemble and deliver content snippets to the about:home page in Firefox.

The content delivered is determined by details about the installation of Firefox requesting content - including mainly details about the browser's build, locale, platform, and distribution channel, but not the person using the browser.

• Feature Enhancements

Tools

• URI kitchen

Goals and Measurements

Overview

• Code name: snippets
• Service docs: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/Firefox_Start/Snippet_Service
• Prod URL: https://snippets.mozilla.com
• Stage URL: https://snippets.stage.mozilla.com
• Code Repo: https://github.com/lmorchard/home-snippets-switcher
• L10N Repo: n/a
• Code: Python / Django
• Product Owner: Engagement; Laura Forrest
• Dev Team: Web Production
• IRC Channel: #snippets on irc.mozilla.com
• Team Email:

Team

The primary and secondary contacts for each role of this project:

• Product owner - Laura Forrest
• TPM - Chris More
• Web Program Manager - Mike Alexis
• Developers - Les Orchard
• L10N -
• Designer - Chrissie Brodigan
• IT -
• QA -
• UX -
• Security -
• Legal -

Meetings

• 2011-05-09 (The future of snippets)
• 2011-05-23 (weekly check-in)
• 2011-05-25 (hack session planning)
• 2011-06-02 (HTML5 Hackathon)
• 2011-06-08 (Service Improvement Requirements)
• 2011-06-09 (Improvement Implementation Plan)

Considerations

• L10N with all snippets regardless if they are HTML5 or plain-text.
• What about loading external resources?
• How to handle submission of data from surveys.

Project Management

Tracking Bugs:

• bug 659773 Snippets Service Maintenance Improvements
• bug 653784 Add HTML5 Awesomeness to Snippets
• bug 123456 Snippets Service Surveys

Sub Projects:

• HTML5 Awesomeness
• Snippet Service Improvement