DevTools/DevProcess

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Developer Tools Development Process

Firefox Developer Tools are built as a combination of code that is built into the browser and restartless add-ons.

Add-On 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. Ideally, this links will appear in attachments that have review requests attached to them. Atul has written a command line tool that can take care of this for you.

Developer tool reviews will be performed by the devtools core team (see below). 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.

Changes to the DevTools SDK public-facing APIs need super review from Rob Campbell, to help ensure consistency and even-paced API growth.

DevTools Core Team

Feature-related questions should be directed to the dev-apps-firefox mailing list/newsgroup.

Reviews are performed by:

  • Rob Campbell (rcampbell@mozilla.com)
  • Joe Walker (jwalker@mozilla.com)
  • Mihai Sucan (msucan@mozilla.com)
  • Dave Camp (dcamp@mozilla.com)
  • David Dahl (ddahl@mozilla.com)

Where to Find the Code

Authoritative repositories for the tools will live on GitHub in the Mozilla organization: http://github.com/mozilla

Current authoritative devtools repositories:

  • DevTools SDK – SDK with features specific for tools developers
  • GCLI – graphical command line interface
  • Pilot – plugin and utility infrastructure
  • dryice – CommonJS module packaging tool
  • Ace – embeddable code editor (formerly Bespin/Skywriter project)

Parts that Ship with Firefox

TBD The post-Firefox 4 development process for developer tools with parts in mozilla-central is being worked out.

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