Mozilla.com/Bedrock

Bedrock

Bedrock is a new version of mozilla.com written on top of Playdoh, Mozilla's Django skeleton project.

The goal is to transition to Django (and more importantly, Python) for the following reasons, even though this is an incomplete list:

• Why bedrock: http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/why-bedrock

It is early in development, but the goal is to have a lot of the important pages of mozilla.com ported over by the end of 2011. See Mozilla.com/Bedrock#Roadmap_.26_Features for more details.

• Source: http://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/
• Docs (scarce right now): http://bedrock.readthedocs.org/

Roadmap & Features

We have pushed out a few pages live on Bedrock already, and plan to push a big chunk of our pages on 3/29.

Here's the checklist for the 3/29 push: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/one-mozilla-milestones

To view all the current bedrock bugs, use the following search:

Really long bugzilla search query

QA Checklist

For our 3/29 push, here are things that QA needs to verify:

• Download buttons should provide the latest version of Firefox (11) for the current locale (en-US only pages right now) for the user's platform (please test Mac, Windows, and Linux)
• With Javascript disabled, download buttons should be rendered as a list of links to download for each platform
• Make sure videos play on /firefox/customize and /firefox/central, especially in IE (all versions) on Windows
• Test Newsletter signups. Should error when submitting with blank data, and confirm on good submission.
  • Footer of every page
  • /apps
  • /contribute (two here, one in the white box, and one under the "newsletter" tab, I'll get more details about how these forms should work once they are finalize)
• /firefox redirect, users with the latest version of Firefox should redirect to /firefox/fx and everyone else to /firefox/new
• test contribute form on /contribute
  • On the dev site, should email everything to the same email entered on the form
  • When we go live, need to ask someone to confirm that they get the email
• Check with Winston Bowden to make sure the correct newsletters are actually being populated for the footer form and /contribute form (when the user opts in to the newsletter)

Notes

I will try to document the mozilla.org product pages as I port them, especially noting edge cases.

Download Button

• For IE, the button spawns a new 1x1 window which links to the download and the page redirects to the thank you page. This is done to avoid a security notification when the thank you page inits the download.
  • The thank you page specifically checks for IE and doesn't init the download for it
• The thank you page is specifically for js-enabled people. When js is disabled, the download button simply lists links to all OS's that Firefox can be downloaded for and the links directly download Firefox.

Braindumps

• 11/14/11 status and onboarding discussion with Silver Orange
• [9/16/11] L10n meeting with l10n-drivers: http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/l10n-blocks
• [9/8/11] l10n blocks: http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/Ndr8sUwGsL
• [5/27/11] Hacking todo list: http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/bedrock-hacking