AMO:Meeting Notes

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AMO Project Meeting Details

Wednesdays, 10:00am Pacific, 1:00pm Eastern
1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) or 1-650-215-1282 or 1-650-903-0800
Conferencing Center: x92
Conference ID: 366

Common AMO Bugzilla Queries

• 5.10 open bugs, fixed bugs Freeze 4/27 - Launch 5/4
• Good First Bugs New to contributing? These are a good start.
• Template for meeting notes

April 21, 2010

Product

• Electric Bandwagon spec

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Development

• Adding a cookie named 'darklaunch' will get you zamboni for every request. witness the flow chart
• We kinda skipped adding priorities when assigning bugs in this milestone because they are all important! ;) Our goal is to get pages live, so all [need:livepages] needs to be done
• next.amo is alive. Pretty pictures for management (and because I wanted to try out google drawing. Turns out you can't host the image automatically..lame)

Developer Relations

• AMO Editor conference call last Saturday. Little attendance but still productive.
• Found over 100 add-on updates with incorrect status due to reopened AMO bug. Editors already took care of them and we're back to having really good numbers.
• Review updates will now be bi-weekly.

Other

Recent Past Meetings

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

Development

• Pushed 5.8.3 on Thursday, Sphinx timeouts have subsided seem reduced
• We only have http_app_addons logs for 3/25 due to bug 556636
• Any objections to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557732?
• we found our blank page problems
• goal for 5.10: get add-on detail pages and home page on zamboni

jbalogh

• working on personas pages (category landing/listing mostly done)
• landed extension category pages
• fixing up buttons every now and then
• New scheme for query awesomeness using queryset-transform: http://github.com/jbalogh/zamboni/commits/transform
  • Roll up all the translation lookups into one big query
  • Could do the same for versions, files, appversions to help the buttons
  • Con: big queries don't cache well
    • Solution: try a cache.multi_get first, then do a query, then cache.multi_set what we found.

dd

• Working on Search Frontend Pages

QA

Product Marketing

• Incubation update
• Discovery Pane
• collections, recommended specs

Real Product Marketing

• coming up with copy for Discovery Pane
• recommended add-ons
• planning a big add-ons meetup for June in Europe
• rock your firefox: seeking guest bloggers
• Firefox Cup (marketing campaign to highlight ways to personalize your World Cup experience using Firefox) - will include a microsite that's hosted on AMO- contact Laura Mesa for development specs

Developer Relations

• Done with XUL School.
• AMO Editor conference call this Saturday.
• Thinking about reducing frequency of Add-ons Review Updates.

Community

Other Marketing

Other

• clouserw and davedash have been practicing a duet for us and would like to perform it
• 319 tests

Mar. 31, 2010

Development

• 5.8 is out
• 5.9 is not
• QA: 5.8.2?
• If we're using omniture, can we get rid of the urchin scripts?
• How would you like your search?

QA

• Thoughts on doing dry-runs of our deployments? (At least in terms of package installation.)

Product

• A/B testing
• Discovery Pane work continues
• Starting on Collections and Dev Tools specs

Developer Relations

• Working on XUL School. About 90% done. Will be done tomorrow today and make announcement.
• Posted Add-on Review Policy Update, covering FatPlug, Conduit and others.

Community

Marketing

• working on getting new add-ons recommendations this week
• 3 new RYFX posts: Morning Coffee, March Collection, Screengrab
• recruiting guest bloggers: reaching out to Mozilla community
• AMO partners: working w/ Amazon Assist & Warner Bros. Harry Potter Personas

Other

Mar. 24, 2010

Development

• 5.8 is live
• Q2 forecast
• AMO URL map
• How would you like your Search
• File bugs if you think search is not giving you the right results.

QA

Product

• Blogged about Incubation proposal
• Q2 Release Planning

Developer Relations

• Working on XUL School. About 60% done. Expecting to be done by the end of March.
• The review queues are showing incredible progress. Most nominations reviewed within 2 weeks and updates down to 3-4 days.

Community

Marketing

• Rock Your Firefox: Fire.fm, Billeo, Text Area Cache
• Q2 Goals
• Recommended add-ons
• Partner chats: NBA, WB, Stumble

Other

Mar. 17, 2010

Development

• 5.8 is frozen; plan to go out next tuesday. 86 bugs closed!
• Most important stuff to QA is: bug 549500, bug 550547, bug 546866, bug 543638, and anything with API in it
  • Don't forget to test L10n
  • Please read through the bugs today and if it's not clear how to test, ask
• some /api/ links are going live. Details in bug 552612
• 5.9 isn't planned yet, but everyone had carryover bugs so just work on those
• dd: development branch would be nice for landing 5.9 bugs during the freeze - and only put showstopper fixes in master? eh?

QA

• Decision about Themes? See bug 550004 and 531691 for details

Product

• Discovery Pane awaiting design work
• Incubation blog post first draft done
• Q2 Goals draft this week

Developer Relations

• Working on XUL School.
• 5.8 bugs.

Marketing

• Rock Your Firefox website launch to date: 5 featured add-ons, 1 intro post, and counting. Here are some stats on referrals from RYFX since we launched on 3/10:
  • Yoono: 1072 / 74,058 downloads (1%)
  • XSticky: 1172 / 2366 downloads (50%)
  • CLIP (Craigslist Image Prefetcher): 571 / 1432 downloads(40%)
    
  • Week of 3/15: RUWT?, St. Patrick's Day Personas, StumbleUpon
• AMO Q2 marketing goals this week
• New recommended add-ons this week

Other

Mar. 10, 2010

Today's meeting will start 15 minutes late.

Development

• Bug update:
  • chowse: rocking designs. Please give feedback in bug 532685 if you have some. Otherwise, let's make a decision.
  • clouserw: L10n is done: whiny blog post. User profile stuff is time consuming because there isn't any code to steal yet. :)
  • craigcook: Search Results and buttons code should be done by the time we're having this meeting. The rest of the bugs should be done by tonight (weds).
  • davedash: Closed a bunch of bugs and dealing with new bugs in the API. Talk of using a library or Jinja to handle the XML. confusing stuff about λ
  • wenzel: finished with add-on details page, save the buttons. Continuing work on the rest of the bugs
  • jbalogh: Closed many bugs so far, working on buttons for his pages and wenzel as P1s.
  • mccammos: done with thank you notes today.
• We're incrementing the API version in the next release. This is last call to add/change fields.
• If you have new sql to run, please add it to zamboni's migrations instead of remora's. This also means it runs automatically on preview.

QA

5.8 testing is in progress.

Product

• RYF launch!
• Discovery Pane
• Incubation blog post
• Jetpacks on AMO

Developer Relations

• Catching up with reviews.
• Working on XUL School.
• 5.8 bugs.
• Get Canadian Visa!

Community

Marketing

• rockyourfirefox.com is now live!
• directing traffic to AMO & featured add-ons
• Featuring
  • 3/10: Yoono & XSticky
  • 3/12: Craigslist Image Prefetcher

Other

• One dandonkulous is equal to a triple-bango.

Mar. 3, 2010

Development

• Craig's stuff is looking good
  • Front end of account settings is done
  • Design of buttons, category pages is done
• clouserw is behind so has been neglecting harassing people. Do you miss me?
• If you have some freetime, poke around the API and help QA (bug 549500)

QA

• QA is having their work week.

• With API/zamboni/redesign changes and new features going into 5.8,there might be scoping issues. Can we consider moving a new feature(Thank You note for contributors) or redesign changes( new buttons) to be moved to 5.9?

• Any help with API testing will be highly appreciated.

Product

• Incubation Proposal
• Foundation contributions? Bug Mocks
• Personas integration Mocks Hi-def

Developer Relations

• Catching up with reviews.
• Working on XUL School
• MAOW in Lima went pretty well, need to rethink how to teach extension development in a short session.

Community

• Nick going to Paris, London, Berlin on March 25-April 5. Let him know if there are add-on developers he should meet with.
  • Also accepting requests for gifts!

Marketing

• we ordered shirts, stickers, banner, bag, and patches
• Austin add-ons meet-up ready set go for 3/12
• copy & PR lock-down in progress
• TO DO: featured/category recommended & intro to add-ons video

Other

Feb. 24, 2010

Development

• 5.7 went out last night, 5.8 codefreeze is 3/9
• let clouserw know about concerns with the 5.8 schedule
• Benchmarked the API (n=1000,c=150)
  • zamboni is around 3-4x faster than remora right now
  • zamboni slows down considerably (around 42%) with more complex add-ons (id: 5326 vs 1865)
• Craig is up and running with templates
• We've got 160 tests now
• Notes (read your amo-developers email):
  • use: from amo.urlresolvers import reverse
  • use: from l10n import ugettext as _

QA

• No update

Product

• [bonus] whiteboard status means we get the bug for free as part of another bug

Developer Relations

• Lots of blogging this week:
  • Updating and porting your add-ons to SeaMonkey 2.
  • Private Browsing Support to be required for add-ons.
  • First Add-ons Review Update.
• Got started with XUL School on MDC.
• MAOW: Lima this weekend. Will be mostly away on Thursday and Friday.

Community

Marketing

• Rock Your Firefox content, collateral, event all underway - 3/10 target for launch
• Amazon Assist: would like to get this add-on ready for primetime promotion- ball is in their court

Other

Feb. 17, 2010

Development

• 30 bugs closed, lots of good stuff: l10n detection, editor tools fixes, [z] core stuff, and some front-end [z] stuff
• missed our freeze date due to zamboni bugs. We're now aiming for Thurs, the 18th
  • SAMO isn't going to be complete. /addon/, /search/, and /list/ are going to be done, the rest (/collections/, /stats/, and a couple other small ones) will be split into another bug.
  • Stats front-end will be finished up in 5.8. CSV output will be completed in 5.7.
  • We'll load test those ^^ pages on weds. and if all goes well we'll be prepared to flip the live site to using them - our first public pages!
• Thanks to wenzel for sticking with remora and adding the "share via email" stuff. <3
• The clearleft stuff is either done or really close to done. New designs look good, thanks fligtar.
• Craig will be helping us with implementing the templates which will help us get back on schedule

QA

• schedule conflict with EU ballot-Feb 23rd
• QA automation efforts- https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkOIUMTNpBYKdFhpLV9oTk1JeW1TdzIyTmF3YU5pWXc&hl=en

Product

• Clearleft update - final mocks update
• Rock Your Firefox implementation underway
• Discovery Pane work
• Statistics dashboard - penultimate designs

Developer Relations

• The Add-on Review Process and YOU.
• Notify SeaMonkey add-on devs about SeaMonkey 2 compatibility. Blog post later today.
• Discussing with editors about Private Browsing Mode and how to enforce it in add-ons.

Community

• Summit Attendees

Marketing

• Finalizing the RYF site
• Selecting consumer-friendly add-ons for launch
• Planning to launch and promote RYF heavily at SXSW
• Jetpack Ambassadors: post-program support w/ conference placement
• Personas: talking to World Cup Soccer folks today

Other

Feb. 10, 2010

NEW ROOM NUMBER: 366

Development

• 5.7 appears to be on track. Wil will (that's right) reconnect with people today.... and wil will reconnect to the conference call.
• If you're working on [z] make sure you are doing `git submodule update --init`

QA

No update

Product

• Discovery Pane (other mocks)
• Latest Rock Your Firefox mock
• Goals Review

Developer Relations

• MAOW in Lima, Perú scheduled for the 27th.
• Investigate malware in add-ons.
  • 2 infected add-ons identified.
  • Turns out one of them (the most serious case due to exposure time) was just a false positive. Blog post.
  • Planning possible improvements to the AMO system. No proposal yet.
• Jetpack Ambassadors Program.
• Performing scheduled trusted add-on review.

Community

Marketing

Other

Feb. 3, 2010

Development

• We shouldn't rely on a contributions platform where email & meetings are the best API docs.
• 5.6 push issues
  • bug 543920 - API search broken until 6am because it wasn't svn upped
  • push bug was verified with API search broken
  • sphinx issues
  • bug 543920 - add-on icons not working/mixed up
• dd's rants
  • Have a runbook for what things need pushing
  • Push earlier if we have minimal downtime
  • Do sphinx upgrades during the day

QA

• Some way to tag regression-prone fixes?
• Testing Zamboni

Product

• http://iampaddy.com/lifebelow600/
• Clearleft update
• Discovery Pane
• Statistics dashboard update (wireframes [1], visual design [2] )
• Rock Your Firefox first iteration [3]
• Contributions up 40% in January!

Developer Relations

• Review queues are stable at around 100 updates and 300 nominations. New editor applications almost every week.
• Reviewed most Facebook Dislike add-ons looking for adware, spyware and code duplication. Only one add-on was disabled due to copied code. The rest were OK.
• Coordinating MAOW in Lima, Perú.
• Performing scheduled trusted add-on review.

Community

Marketing

• Jetpack Ambassadors: business cards, presentation trainining, agnenda for next week
• Rock Your Firefox: writing copy
• AMO: reviewing categories, selecting category/feature recommended

Other

Jan. 27, 2010

Development

• 5.6 is code frozen. On track for launch on 2/2.
  • 68 bugs closed by 13 people. Thanks everyone
  • major front end changes in editor tools
• clouserw is out on 2/2. Depending on how things work out, I'll be able to get everything ready on 2/1. Otherwise, jbalogh will run the build.py script. User:Clouserw/AMO:Remora_Prod
• [z] is on preview, check it out!
• If you're filing a zamboni bug, make sure [z] is in the whiteboard
• If you have a bug that doesn't need QA, add [qa-] in the whiteboard
• 5.7 (freeze: feb 16):
  • services.amo on [z], including JSON output (davedash)
  • stats backend on [z] (mccammos)
  • flesh out admin tools on [z] (jbalogh)
  • browse/category pages on [z] (jbalogh)
  • gift sharing on remora (mccammos)
  • user profiles on [z] (wenzel/clouserw)
• License: BSD?
  • http://yehudakatz.com/2010/01/05/the-maximal-usage-doctrine-for-open-source/
  • Discussion limit: 60 seconds

QA

• We have around 10 bugs in our queue for 5.6.
• Editor tools reskin-scope of testing

Product

• Please review Phase I of ZPP
• Intern!
• New dashboard designs from CHowse

Developer Relations

• Release of 3.6 is triggering lots of updates, but they're under control.
• Blog post on incorrect state in add-on updates. About 10 fixes so far because of it.
• Sent email to authors flagged for the Gmail in German issue. Will revisit in a couple of weeks.
• 5.6 fixes. First commit (yay!).

Community

Marketing

• Firefox Gear shall henceforth be known as Rock Your Firefox

Other

Jan. 20, 2010

Development

• 5.5 is done
• 5.6 is underway. I'm going to bug people about it today
• zamboni

QA

• 50+ bugs still open;5.6 includes fixes for buttons and sorting which are prone to regression.Consider moving the launch date to 2/9 to let QA do a thorough job of testing.

• Presentation on the Hudson setup

Product

• ZPP
• Operation: Gravity
• Clearleft Update
• chowse update if available
• Mobile Challenge

Developer Relations

• Checking again for "Gmail" references in German.
• Mario: getting started with Mobile Firefox Reporter.
• Update queue: 5 add-ons waiting more than 3 weeks, 9 waiting between 1 and 3 weeks, 71 waiting less than one week.
• Admin / binary reviews.
• Jorge going to MV Feb 7th -> Feb 14th. Mario as well?

Community

• Extend Firefox prizes wrapped up completely

Marketing

• Firefox Gear name
• Julie starts tomorrow
• Featured personas rotation on AMO

Other

Jan. 13, 2010

Development

• krupa keeps reopening our bugs
• 5.5 launched uneventfully. Thanks everyone
• 5.6 freeze is 1/26. I'll start bugging people next week
• zamboni
  • over 40 tests now
  • dd has the user/group stuff done. land plz.
  • clouserw has selenium integration 95% done. Waiting on user/group branch.
  • jbalogh has moved us to trunk and setup multidb stuff

QA

• Sign off from dev on our release test plan
• Help charting out different testcases for beta channel
• 19 button bugs-can we target them in 5.6?

Product

• ZPP update
• Zamboni design update [c,cl,pm]
• Google Docs shared folder
• upload bug?

Developer Relations

• Queue reviewing is back on track. Many new editor applications.
• Updating AMO Editor wiki and other related wiki pages.
• Working on admin reviews. Mass admin-review unflagging.

Community

Marketing

• Firefox Gear naming survey results were mixed.
• Current front runners:
  • Add-on All-stars
  • All-star Add-ons
  • Add-ons Hall of Fame
  • Add-on Jamboree

Other

Jan. 6, 2010

Welcome to 2010

Development

• 5.5 is code frozen. Launch on 5/12.
• 5.6 bugs TBD today, Radar for AMO+Q1 is almost done
• What happened in 5.5?
  • 60+ bugs closed; lots of fixes for long-open bugs. Bugs assigned to 13 people were fixed. You're all awesome.
  • global and specific l10n dashboards
  • Gearman setup and being used
  • Hudson setup and being used
  • Thumbs up for using highcharts on AMO. Expect to see this replacing timeplot in Q1.
  • Editor tools redesigned
  • All bugs triaged, bug count hovering around 500
  • If you haven't installed zamboni yet, check out the docs. We can help if you need a hand getting started or with github workflow.
  • Zamboni updates:
    • Deployment: Implemented, easy with virtualenv+pip
    • Testing: Implemented with great coverage
    • Translations: Implemented
    • L10n: Extraction scripts done. Syncing between PHP and Python not started.
    • URLs: recognizes locale and app
    • Scaffolding: Implemented on a half dozen models

QA

https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Execution/Web_Testing/AMO/Current_Release/5.5

Product

• firefoxaddons.com secured!
• 2010 Releases page started

Developer Relations

• Updating AMO Editor wiki and other related wiki pages.
• Working on admin reviews.
• Java Console updates approved by QA. Next step is to upload them to AMO.
• Need to set new French dictionaries at https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/browse/type:3.

Community

Marketing

• Some of the top Firefox Gear naming suggestions (add "Firefox" as appropriate)
  • Add-ons Underground
  • Add-on Showcase
  • Add-on Spotlight
  • Museum of Modern Add-ons
  • Add-on Garden
  • Add-ons Illustrated
  • Add-on Vault
  • Add-on Wednesdays
  • The Add-on Minute
  • Add-on FIRE SALE!@!

Other

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