Revision as of 16:26, 14 March 2013

Elevator Pitch

Firefox OS will land on devices in specific countries at different times. This project will allow us to use the snippets area of about:home to notify users only in those countries about the availability of Firefox OS devices.

Overview

Code name: geolocated-snippets
Prod URL:
Stage URL:
Dev URL:
Code Repo:
L10N Repo:
Code: https://github.com/mozilla/geodude
Product Owner: Engagement; Winston Bowden
Dev Team: Web Production
IRC Channel: #snippets on irc.mozilla.com

Responsibility Assignments

Responsible: Justin Crawford
Accountable: Winston Bowden
Consulted: Privacy, Brand, IT, Security, Mike Kelly
Informed: Chris More, Chris Beard, Dave Slater, Mary Colvig, Pete Scanlon

Documentation

Testing on Staging

The new client-side code is now online. This means there is a working end-to-end system ready for review. In order to exercise it, you need to take the following steps (in Firefox):

Navigate to about:config
Search for browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl
Change the url to https://snippets.stage.mozilla.com....(the rest of the url that was already there)
After saving the value, restart the browser.
Navigate to about:home.
Open the Web Developer > Web Console (ctrl+shift+k).
At the prompt (">") enter localStorage['snippets-last-update'] = 0
At the prompt (">") enter localStorage.geoLastUpdated = 0
Refresh about:home. You should see a request to snippets.stage.mozilla.com and another request to geo.mozilla.com.
At the prompt (">") enter localStorage.geoCountry. You should see a country code derived from your IP address ("US" for United States).

You have now requested the new snippets code from the staging snippets server; and the new snippets code has made a request to the new geo server and stored the result in your browser. If you were in a country that had country specific snippets, you would see them. (There are none yet.)

To restore your browser, navigate to about:home again and modify the snippets server URL (steps 1-3 above). Its default value is:

https://snippets.mozilla.com/%STARTPAGE_VERSION%/%NAME%/%VERSION%/%APPBUILDID%/%BUILD_TARGET%/%LOCALE%/%CHANNEL%/%OS_VERSION%/%DISTRIBUTION%/%DISTRIBUTION_VERSION%/

Meetings

Considerations

Project Management

Tracking Bugs:

bug 836099 Geolocated Snippets
bug 836532 Automatically generated private tracking bug for process gates

Timeline:

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 = Elevator Pitch =
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 * Consulted: Privacy, Brand, IT, Security, Mike Kelly
 * Informed: Chris More, Chris Beard, Dave Slater, Mary Colvig, Pete Scanlon
+= Documentation =
+== Testing on Staging ==
+The new client-side code is now online. This means there is a working end-to-end system ready for review. In order to exercise it, you need to take the following steps (in Firefox):
+# Navigate to about:config
+# Search for browser.aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl
+# Change the url to https://snippets.stage.mozilla.com....(the rest of the url that was already there)
+# After saving the value, restart the browser.
+# Navigate to about:home.
+# Open the Web Developer > Web Console (ctrl+shift+k).
+# At the prompt (">") enter localStorage['snippets-last-update'] = 0
+# At the prompt (">") enter localStorage.geoLastUpdated = 0
+# Refresh about:home. You should see a request to snippets.stage.mozilla.com and another request to geo.mozilla.com.
+# At the prompt (">") enter localStorage.geoCountry. You should see a country code derived from your IP address ("US" for United States).
+You have now requested the new snippets code from the staging snippets server; and the new snippets code has made a request to the new geo server and stored the result in your browser. If you were in a country that had country specific snippets, you would see them. (There are none yet.)
+To restore your browser, navigate to about:home again and modify the snippets server URL (steps 1-3 above). Its default value is:
+https://snippets.mozilla.com/%STARTPAGE_VERSION%/%NAME%/%VERSION%/%APPBUILDID%/%BUILD_TARGET%/%LOCALE%/%CHANNEL%/%OS_VERSION%/%DISTRIBUTION%/%DISTRIBUTION_VERSION%/
 = Meetings =

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