AMO:Meeting Notes
AMO Project Meeting Details
Wednesdays, 10:00am Pacific, 1:00pm Eastern 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) or 1-650-215-1282 or 1-650-903-0800 Conferencing Center: x92 Conference ID: 300
Common AMO Bugzilla Queries
- 5.3 open bugs Freeze 11/26 - Launch 12/8
- Good First Bugs AMO-FirstBugs New to contributing? These are a good start.
November 18th
- Largest open bug count drop in AMO history!
Development
- Onsite was good times. We made a lot of big decisions, 2010 will be exciting.
- We triaged/closed several hundred bugs, thanks to everyone who helped. If you want to continue I've made a query AMONeedsTriage. A bug is considered triaged if it has a severity, priority, and milestone.
- 5.3 went out, thanks everyone
- 5.4 scheduled to freeze on the 26th, we're looking good so far
QA
Product
Developer Relations
- The queues are looking real good, under 50% of how they were 2 months ago. Blog post on this.
- Massive bug triage. There are several old bugs assigned to Rey that still need to be reassigned and hopefully resolved.
- Last cases of Gmail in German bug need to be resolved, and a new audit needs to be done for all add-ons with trusted status. Hooray for lists.
Community
Marketing
Other
November 4th
Development
- Missed code freeze on 11/3, Rescheduled for 11/5.
- Launch scheduled for 11/12
- Bug tracking with no grand conclusions (clouserw)
QA
Product
- Download sources update
- Policy updates
- Mobile challenge update
- Release Channels Spec
Developer Relations
- 3.6 Beta 1 is out. Add-on developers were notified via e-mail, blog post and forums.
- Appcoast editors are working on the queues and gaining momentum. The update queue is looking much better.
- "Gmail in German" add-on list reduced to 46 add-ons + ~10 Personas. Looking into possible solutions, including disabling them.
Community
Marketing
Other
- Should we switch our 2009 pre-mortem and our 2010 planning meeting so we can take advantage of what we learned in 2009 to plan 2010? (clouserw)
- If a new contributor is looking for something to do, share the "good first bug" list: http://bit.ly/t58if . Feel free to tag similar bugs, but when you do add a comment that says why.
October 28
Development
- 5.3 status
QA
Product
- ACR launched last week
- Download sources cool but blocked on metrics
Developer Relations
- Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 will be released today! Maybe! Posted on forum, and will send e-mail and post on blog on release day.
- Reliable add-ons feature is now detailed into a spec. Google Doc.
- New hired editors from Appcoast.
Community
- MV meetup recap
Marketing
Other
- AMO on-site tentative schedule up
- AMO v4
October 21
Development
- 5.3 status
- Bug priorities
- Please fill out AMO v4 Framework Comparison prior to next week's meeting if you are interested in the discussion
- domain for static content. static.mozilla.net?
QA
Product
- 5.2 launched! Personas blog today; stats blog later in the week
- ACR launch today maybe
- Stub entries bugs missing copy/layout will be updated today
- Plugins page revamp
- domain for redirect service
Developer Relations
- Will send the email on 3.6 compatibility today or tomorrow.
- The Review Redesign Proposal will be formalized into a spec for implementation.
- Add-on and review spam.
Community
- MV Meetup rescheduled for Tuesday - RSVP!
- Conduit re-introduced
Marketing
Other
- AMO v4 discussion will take place in next week's meeting
- 5.2 launch had empty/somewhat broken pages dues to memcache & zeus. Can we avoid that in the future?
October 14
Development
- 5.2 status
Product
- Add-on Compatibility Reporter
Developer Relations
- There's a new category of misbehaving add-ons that will require a validation in the code checking tool to prevent more popping up.
- Developer communication for 3.6 launch.
- Begin discussion on implementing Review Process Redesign.
Community
- MV Meetup canceled due to weather; will reschedule soon
Marketing
- Collections tracking
- Firefox Gear
Other
October 7
Development
- 5.2 status
Product
- Working on 5.3 specs
- AMO licensing
- Lots of random errors on AMO lately?
Developer Relations
- Jorge is flying back from MozCamp Chile today, can't attend the meeting.
- The Hispanic community is very interested in organizing more developer-centric meet-ups. There's already a plan for a MAOW (or similar) in Perú on November 14th, and something probably bigger on Q1 2010.
- Jorge will blog about many add-on related ideas that came up during the talks.
- There's a big need for admins to work on the super-reviews. Jorge will be doing this late this week and early next week. Could use some help, though.
- The old daily reporting system has been disabled and the weekly reports are still being generated and sent manually. Jorge will implement the script for the new reports next week.
Community
- Bay Area Add-ons Meetup Group -- first meetup at Mozilla on Tuesday, 7pm. RSVP!
- October Recommended rotation in progress
Marketing
- Updated collections tracking data
- Firefox Gear update
- Mocks final - prototype: http://people.mozilla.org/~chowse/drop/firefox_gear/v2/
- Moving to development
- Continuing to develop content
Other
- AMO on-site week of November 9. Book travel and add yourself to the wiki (even if you're local). Also, add your ideas to the schedule
September 30
- 5.1 moxie
- 5.2 moxie
- L10n comments
- If you could change something, what would you change? AMO:v4/Planning
- Follow-up on collections metrics
- http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Arf3nByedulrdGhGcHNyTHJTN0ZsMFd5M0U5S0NRZ1E&hl=en
- Suggestion - switch in "Games" or "Back-to-school" or "Online shopping"
- Add-ons site
- Continued work and content creation
- Mock ups nearing completion - next step is to move onto development
September 23
- 5.1 Status moxie
- webdev
- cesar working on a couple fizzypop bugs
- status on contractor reskin?
- content
- case studies only remaining content
- beta launch
- webdev
- Contributions update
- Phase II
- Add-on Collector update
- We're keeping really detailed stats with the news feed which we delete after 3 months. Perhaps we should store certain news indefinitely, like add-ons getting disabled or authors being added?
- Q4 releases
- AMO content finalization for 3.6 launch
- Sports collection metrics
- Blog naming finalization
September 16
- 5.1 status moxie
- webdev
- jbalogh working on builder
- rdoherty patch for developer homepage r+'d
- clouserw forums patch awaiting review by jbalogh
- mccammos working on newsfeed backend
- content
- Case Studies and Getting Started left to write
- Asked for editor review of policies
- Asking for community review of docs today
- logo positioning
- Site is looking great!
- webdev
- Community Update
- Review Process Redesign spec
- There are a ton of "add my plugin to AMO" bugs. What do you want to do with them?
- Add-ons blog naming
September 9
- 5.1 status moxie
- Discuss moving launches to Tuesdays for better PR and fallout handling
- Quick Paypal update
- GetSatisfaction update
- Community Update
- Welcome Jeff Zeller, Marketing Intern
- Collections created:
September 2
- 5.0.9 yay!
- 5.1 yay!
- Firefox string freeze is 9/14; ours is 9/17. :(
- Giant CSVs
- Community Update
- AMO work week
- Q4 release planning
5.2 Oct. 15 | 5.3 Nov. 5 | 5.4 Nov. 26 |
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August 26
- 5.0.9 Update
- Paypal IPN?
- 5.1 Triage this Thursday
- Developer tools, need to come to a decision regarding launch date
- Paypal dashboards
- Share count widget
- Top tag page
- Bug 511321 - can we get it done soon?
- QA's never been able to test related add-ons
- Wil and I talked, and we're happy with RJ's unverified bugs - stephend
- developer.AMO
- Filing bugs today
- Some bugs are higher priority to implement than others so we can start inserting content
- Community Update
- Add-on Meetups
- NYC Meetup was great
- Miami set for Sept 15
- Chicago set for Sept 29
- Burndown
- 2 New Editors - Joe Emith & Alexandre Vautier
- Geo-specific collections to be rotated in
- Add-on Meetups
August 19
- 5.0.9 update
- Personas uplift potential for 3.6
- Contributions update
August 12
- 5.0.9 update
- I think bug 501988 might be landing this time around so if you're not paying attention to that, heads up
- Add-on Usage Stats blogged
- Disclosure of Add-on Practices Spec
- Compatibility Reporter Spec
- Community Update
- About-Addons newsletter
- August, 2009 recommended list
- AMO burndown on Aug 29 & 30
- Getting feedback from editors on improving the review queue management & review process
- NYC Add-on meetup next week - Aug 18th
- Next 2 add-on meetup cities are Miami & Chicago
- Geo-specific AMO front page collections management (BR,FR,UK,DE,JP,CN)
- Extend Firefox on-going coordination & promotion
August 5
- 5.0.8 update moxie
- 5.0.9 triage today
- Developer.AMO spec, mockups
- Community Update
July 29
- 5.0.8 update moxie
- code freeze is today!
- we need to switch back to tues/thurs for launches. To be nice to QA let's target next Thurs.
- Localization Spec
- Bandwagon Phase II spec
- developer.AMO mocks -> has no add-ons, has add-ons
- Community Update
July 22
- 5.0.8 update moxie
- clouserw will be at blackhat from 28th-2nd. From this far away it still seems like we can hit freeze but that may affect some of the timing. --clouserw
- paypal tracking should be done offline via logs --clouserw
- Bandwagon Phase II
- Community Update:
- 93% compatibility
- Jetpack contest launching next Monday
- about:add-ons newsletter
- Geo-specific AMO collections
July 15
- AMO 5.0.7 launch! bug 504267 moxie
- AMO 5.0.8 moxie
- Community Update
July 8
- AMO 5.0.7 update moxie
- Q3 projects
- Bandwagon II - 5.0.9
- developer.AMO - 5.0.10
- Sandbox - 5.0.11
- Community update
July 1
- AMO 5.0.7 code freeze?
- are we OK?
- Proposal for removing the sandbox
- Community update
Earlier Meeting Notes
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