Websites/Snippets

Last updated: 2013/11/13

Elevator Pitch

The about:home snippet service is a simple, highly-cached content management service. It is intended to assemble and deliver content snippets to the about:home page in Firefox.

The content delivered is determined by details about the installation of Firefox requesting content - including mainly details about the browser's build, locale, platform, and distribution channel, but not the person using the browser.

See Also

• about:home 101

Project Management

Overview

• Code name: Snippets
• Service docs: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/Firefox_Start/Snippet_Service
• Prod URL: https://snippets.mozilla.com
• Stage URL: https://snippets.allizom.org
• Dev URL: https://snippets-dev.allizom.org
• Code Repo: https://github.com/mozilla/home-snippets-switcher
• Code: Python / Django
• Product Owner: Engagement; Winston Bowden
• Dev Team: Web Production
• IRC Channel: #snippets on irc.mozilla.com

Team

The primary and secondary contacts for each role of this project:

• Product owner - Jean Collings <jcollings>
• TPM - Justin Crawford <hoosteeno>
• Developers - Michael Kelly <mkelly>, Giorgos Logiotatidis <giorgos>
• L10N - Pascal Chevrel <pascal>
• IT - Daniel Maher <phrawzty>
• QA - Raymond Etornam Agbeame <retornam>, Stephen Donner <stephend>

Links

• Kanban Board
• Roadmap / Wishlist

Documentation

• QA Proccess for Snippets and Service
• About:Home and Snippet Service
• Client Match Rules

Meetings

• 2013-05-09 Weekly
• 2013-05-02 weekly
• Archived

Sub Projects

• Geolocated Snippets (bug 836099) (Q1 2013)
• Snippet Service Rewrite (bug 866963) (Q2 2013)
• Archived

Related Projects

• Dynamic Snippets (Fennec)