AMO/FlightDeck

Add-ons Builder: The Mission

The Add-ons Builder enables rapid, collaborative, community-driven development of add-ons built with the Add-on SDK and third-party libraries that extend the Add-on SDK core with additional APIs and functionality.

Application Instances

Production

• most stable
• always the latest tagged version

Staging

• used primarily in release testing after code freezes
• updated every 15 minutes from staging branch

Trunk

• continuously updated by developers, contains a variety of features from upcoming releases
• updated every 15 minutes from master branch

Production Team

• Product Manager: Daniel Buchner (dbuc) - daniel@mozilla.com
• Lead Server-side Developer: Piotr Zalewa (zalun) - pzalewa@mozilla.com
• Lead Client-side Developer: Sean McArthur (seanmonstar) - smcarthur@mozilla.com
• Developer Manager: Wil Clouser (clouserw)

Addon Builder Helper

This add-on is needed for FlightDeck to fly. It is developed by Atul Varma. https://secure.toolness.com/xpi/addons-builder-helper.html (no longer valid)

Contributions

• Find or create bug in bugzilla (IT bugs here - only use this if you have a good reason. 99% of the time this should go through clouserw)
• How to Contribute succesfully
• Official Github Repo

Revision Control System

• Git hosted on Github
• Code Workflow inspired by this model
• One main repository github.com/mozilla/FlightDeck

Release Planning and Implementation

Roadmap

The linked document below is used for planning and development of specs for upcoming releases of the Add-ons Builder. Once a release spec is finalized on the roadmap, it will transferred to wiki format for quick reference during development cycles. (see the Releases section below)

• Product Roadmap DRAFT Q3 2011 - Q4 2012

• Product Roadmap FINAL Q3 2011 - Q4 2012

Feature Pages

• Add-on Repackaging Service

Releases

• 1.0a6 - AMO Integration Phase 1
• 1.0a7 - Stabilization
• 1.0a8 - File Tree
• 1.0a9 - Keyboard Shortcuts, Tutorial, & Tree Additions
• 0.9.2 - Search & Phase 2 of AMO Integration
• 0.9.3 - Editor UI++

Meeting Notes

• August 10, 2011
• July 28, 2011
• June 15, 2011
• June 1, 2011
• May 18, 2011
• April 27, 2011
• April 20, 2011
• April 13, 2011
• March 30, 2011
• March 23, 2011
• March 16, 2011
• March 9, 2011
• March 2, 2011
• February 23, 2011
• February 16, 2011
• February 2, 2011
• January 26, 2011
• January 19, 2011
• January 12, 2011
• January 5, 2011
• December 29, 2010
• December 8, 2010
• December 1, 2010
• November 24, 2010
• November 17, 2010

Documentation

http://flightdeck.readthedocs.org/