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The Web Console feature in Firefox 4 was developed like any other Firefox feature and lives in mozilla-central. Post-Firefox 4 developer tools will generally start life as Jetpacks, so they will be easier for web developers to contribute to and use as samples and starting points for their own tools.
This page has been removed because it was out of date. Our process basically follows any other Firefox feature development idioms.
 
== Bug Tracking and Code Review ==
 
Regardless of where the code lives, we will use Bugzilla for tracking our bugs and features. Any projects of ours that have their source hosted on GitHub will not use the GitHub bug tracker.
 
Projects that are hosted on GitHub will use the GitHub code review ("pull request") functionality for reviews. To make it easy for people to follow along at home, links will be created from the relevant bugs in Bugzilla to the pull requests that take care of them. Atul has written a command line tool that can take care of this for you ('''link?''').
 
Developer tool reviews will be performed by ('''who?'''). We'd like to maximize the value of the review per time spent, so we want to avoid a lot of back and forth. Reviewers should give an r+ (with changes as noted in the comments) as long as the patch is not in need of significant rework.
 
Of course, if we find bugs creeping into the patches post-review, we'll re-evaluate this.
 
== Where to Find the Code ==
 
Authoritative repositories for the tools will live on GitHub in the Mozilla organization: http://github.com/mozilla
 
The Developer Tools SDK will live ('''where?''').
 
Current devtools repositories:
 
* Skywriter – Embeddable, customizable browser-based code editor
** [https://github.com/mozilla/skywriter Skywriter] – main repository which includes the others as submodules
** [https://github.com/mozilla/dryice dryice] – CommonJS module packaging tool
** [https://github.com/mozilla/ace ace] – code editor component and related plugins
 
== Parts that Ship with Firefox ==
 
'''TBD''': how are parts frozen and baked into the product? How does iteration on these happen after?

Latest revision as of 17:00, 19 May 2011

Developer Tools Development Process

This page has been removed because it was out of date. Our process basically follows any other Firefox feature development idioms.