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: 366

Common AMO Bugzilla Queries

5.10.3 open bugs, fixed bugs
5.11 open bugs, fixed bugs Freeze 5/25 - Launch 6/1
Good First Bugs New to contributing? These are a good start.
Template for meeting notes

May 12, 2010

Development

5.10.1, .2 launched
Ideas for bugzilla component changes (I think if you want to add one, you have to take one away):
- Rename "Developer Pages" to "Developer Tools"
- Add "Add-ons"
  - Merge "Add-on Security"
  - Merge "Search Plugins"
  - Merge "Dictionaries"
- Combine "Administration" and "Policy"
- Get rid of "Facebook"
- Can we move "Plugins" out of AMO?
- On commit messages

QA

Product

Developer Relations

Marketing

Recent Past Meetings

May 5, 2010

Development

5.10 launch tomorrow (bug 563435)
PayPal continues to be painful to use
Public Calendar for AMO schedule (ICS in bottom left)
If you don't have 5.10.1 bugs, work on 5.11 bugs. If you don't have those, clouserw has bugs for you. :)

QA

Product

Electric Bandwagon designs (bug , mock-ups)

Developer Relations

Meeting with Jetpack team regarding add-on reviews. Validator bug. Until the bug is fixed, all Jetpack add-ons should be admin-reviewed.
Meeting with Julie. Discussed add-on marketing and "Add-on Recommendation Extension" idea. I'll spec it out later this week.
Add-on packaging idea was approved for Google Summer of Code. Will post detailed spec on blog soon.

Marketing

n/a

April 28, 2010

Development

We are not code frozen, but we'd like to be by Thursday
Potch started this week, woo
Currently a webdev onsite
rabbitmq is setup
Put a commit url in the comment when you close a bug: http://gist.github.com/382311

QA

Thanks for fixing preview!
Test paypal accounts

Product

Developer Relations

On the way to MV. I may be able to dial in from the airport, but don't count on me attending - Jorge.
Mostly done with 5.10 bugs. Awaiting feedback from Nick and Justin for bug 547306 (policy text update).
Admin reviews.
Trusted add-on review and cleanup.

Marketing

London Add-ons Event: June 30 evening/ name S*M*A*S*H
Consumer event SF: early June
Rock Your Firefox: FoxyTunes, BarTab, April Collection
Personas: YashRaj Films- following up
Partner add-ons: PRI, BlogHer

Other

April 21, 2010

Development

Making good progress on 5.10, 84 closed bugs. Reminder of our 4 goals:
- discovery pane operational
- jetpack support in validator (done)
- getting the homepage live
- getting add-on details page live
39 open dev bugs
we're a bit blocked on bug 560444 and apparently it's not an easy fix because RHEL sucks. I'll continue to get status updates. When this bug is fixed, the random 500 errors should be too.
- Python 2.6.5 is installed, we just need oremj to update the virtualenvs.
QA & co have been great about testing the new pages and filing bugs. Thanks.
- As a result, there are 11 nobody bugs. If you can, please fix them.
clouserw missing this meeting but in MV after noon

QA

Product

Electric Bandwagon spec

Developer Relations

Admin reviews. Nominations are down to less than 2 weeks, and most updates are still less than 5 days.
"Gmail" in German review. Found about 10 new add-ons that needed updates.
Working on 5.10 bugs.

Community

Marketing

Rock Your Firefox London Event: planning for June 30
Rock Your Firefox: 3 new posts this week
Recommended add-ons: new feature reco up/ new category by end of week
Personas: Yashraj engaged, WB still stewing about HP (ask Ryan for deets)

Other

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Development

Adding a cookie named 'darklaunch' will get you zamboni for every request. witness the flow chart
We kinda skipped adding priorities when assigning bugs in this milestone because they are all important! ;) Our goal is to get pages live, so all [need:livepages] needs to be done
next.amo is alive. Pretty pictures for management (and because I wanted to try out google drawing. Turns out you can't host the image automatically..lame)

QA

Product

Developer Relations

AMO Editor conference call last Saturday. Little attendance but still productive.
Found over 100 add-on updates with incorrect status due to reopened AMO bug. Editors already took care of them and we're back to having really good numbers.
Review updates will now be bi-weekly.

Community

Marketing

Rock Your Firefox London Event: planning for June 30
Rock Your Firefox: 3 new posts this week
Recommended add-ons: new feature reco up/ new category by end of week
Personas: Yashraj engaged, WB still stewing about HP (ask Ryan for deets)

Other

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

Development

Pushed 5.8.3 on Thursday, Sphinx timeouts ~~have subsided~~ seem reduced
We only have http_app_addons logs for 3/25 due to bug 556636
Any objections to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557732?
we found our blank page problems
goal for 5.10: get add-on detail pages and home page on zamboni

jbalogh

working on personas pages (category landing/listing mostly done)
landed extension category pages
fixing up buttons every now and then
New scheme for query awesomeness using queryset-transform: http://github.com/jbalogh/zamboni/commits/transform
- Roll up all the translation lookups into one big query
- Could do the same for versions, files, appversions to help the buttons
- Con: big queries don't cache well
  - Solution: try a cache.multi_get first, then do a query, then cache.multi_set what we found.

dd

Working on Search Frontend Pages

QA

Product Marketing

Incubation update
Discovery Pane
collections, recommended specs

Real Product Marketing

coming up with copy for Discovery Pane
recommended add-ons
planning a big add-ons meetup for June in Europe
rock your firefox: seeking guest bloggers
Firefox Cup (marketing campaign to highlight ways to personalize your World Cup experience using Firefox) - will include a microsite that's hosted on AMO- contact Laura Mesa for development specs

Developer Relations

Done with XUL School.
AMO Editor conference call this Saturday.
Thinking about reducing frequency of Add-ons Review Updates.

Community

Other Marketing

Other

clouserw and davedash have been practicing a duet for us and would like to perform it
319 tests

Mar. 31, 2010

Development

5.8 is out
5.9 is not
QA: 5.8.2?
If we're using omniture, can we get rid of the urchin scripts?
How would you like your search?

QA

Thoughts on doing dry-runs of our deployments? (At least in terms of package installation.)

Product

A/B testing
Discovery Pane work continues
Starting on Collections and Dev Tools specs

Developer Relations

Working on XUL School. About 90% done. Will be done ~~tomorrow~~ today and make announcement.
Posted Add-on Review Policy Update, covering FatPlug, Conduit and others.

Community

Marketing

working on getting new add-ons recommendations this week
3 new RYFX posts: Morning Coffee, March Collection, Screengrab
recruiting guest bloggers: reaching out to Mozilla community
AMO partners: working w/ Amazon Assist & Warner Bros. Harry Potter Personas

Other

Mar. 24, 2010

Development

5.8 is live
Q2 forecast
AMO URL map
How would you like your Search
File bugs if you think search is not giving you the right results.

QA

Product

Blogged about Incubation proposal
Q2 Release Planning

Developer Relations

Working on XUL School. About 60% done. Expecting to be done by the end of March.
The review queues are showing incredible progress. Most nominations reviewed within 2 weeks and updates down to 3-4 days.

Community

Marketing

Rock Your Firefox: Fire.fm, Billeo, Text Area Cache
Q2 Goals
Recommended add-ons
Partner chats: NBA, WB, Stumble

Other

Mar. 17, 2010

Development

5.8 is frozen; plan to go out next tuesday. 86 bugs closed!
Most important stuff to QA is: bug 549500, bug 550547, bug 546866, bug 543638, and anything with API in it
- Don't forget to test L10n
- Please read through the bugs today and if it's not clear how to test, ask
some /api/ links are going live. Details in bug 552612
5.9 isn't planned yet, but everyone had carryover bugs so just work on those
dd: development branch would be nice for landing 5.9 bugs during the freeze - and only put showstopper fixes in master? eh?

QA

Decision about Themes? See bug 550004 and 531691 for details

Product

Discovery Pane awaiting design work
Incubation blog post first draft done
Q2 Goals draft this week

Developer Relations

Working on XUL School.
5.8 bugs.

Marketing

Rock Your Firefox website launch to date: 5 featured add-ons, 1 intro post, and counting. Here are some stats on referrals from RYFX since we launched on 3/10:
- Yoono: 1072 / 74,058 downloads (1%)
- XSticky: 1172 / 2366 downloads (50%)
- CLIP (Craigslist Image Prefetcher): 571 / 1432 downloads(40%)
- Week of 3/15: RUWT?, St. Patrick's Day Personas, StumbleUpon
AMO Q2 marketing goals this week
New recommended add-ons this week

Other

Mar. 10, 2010

Today's meeting will start 15 minutes late.

Development

Bug update:
- chowse: rocking designs. Please give feedback in bug 532685 if you have some. Otherwise, let's make a decision.
- clouserw: L10n is done: whiny blog post. User profile stuff is time consuming because there isn't any code to steal yet. :)
- craigcook: Search Results and buttons code should be done by the time we're having this meeting. The rest of the bugs should be done by tonight (weds).
- davedash: Closed a bunch of bugs and dealing with new bugs in the API. Talk of using a library or Jinja to handle the XML. confusing stuff about λ
- wenzel: finished with add-on details page, save the buttons. Continuing work on the rest of the bugs
- jbalogh: Closed many bugs so far, working on buttons for his pages and wenzel as P1s.
- mccammos: done with thank you notes today.
We're incrementing the API version in the next release. This is last call to add/change fields.
If you have new sql to run, please add it to zamboni's migrations instead of remora's. This also means it runs automatically on preview.

QA

5.8 testing is in progress.

Product

RYF launch!
Discovery Pane
Incubation blog post
Jetpacks on AMO

Developer Relations

Catching up with reviews.
Working on XUL School.
5.8 bugs.
Get Canadian Visa!

Community

Marketing

rockyourfirefox.com is now live!
directing traffic to AMO & featured add-ons
Featuring
- 3/10: Yoono & XSticky
- 3/12: Craigslist Image Prefetcher

Other

One dandonkulous is equal to a triple-bango.

Mar. 3, 2010

Development

Craig's stuff is looking good
- Front end of account settings is done
- Design of buttons, category pages is done
clouserw is behind so has been neglecting harassing people. Do you miss me?
If you have some freetime, poke around the API and help QA (bug 549500)

QA

QA is having their work week.

With API/zamboni/redesign changes and new features going into 5.8,there might be scoping issues. Can we consider moving a new feature(Thank You note for contributors) or redesign changes( new buttons) to be moved to 5.9?

Any help with API testing will be highly appreciated.

Product

Incubation Proposal
Foundation contributions? Bug Mocks
Personas integration Mocks Hi-def

Developer Relations

Catching up with reviews.
Working on XUL School
MAOW in Lima went pretty well, need to rethink how to teach extension development in a short session.

Community

Nick going to Paris, London, Berlin on March 25-April 5. Let him know if there are add-on developers he should meet with.
- Also accepting requests for gifts!

Marketing

we ordered shirts, stickers, banner, bag, and patches
Austin add-ons meet-up ready set go for 3/12
copy & PR lock-down in progress
TO DO: featured/category recommended & intro to add-ons video

Other

Feb. 24, 2010

Development

5.7 went out last night, 5.8 codefreeze is 3/9
let clouserw know about concerns with the 5.8 schedule
Benchmarked the API (n=1000,c=150)
- zamboni is around 3-4x faster than remora right now
- zamboni slows down considerably (around 42%) with more complex add-ons (id: 5326 vs 1865)
Craig is up and running with templates
We've got 160 tests now
Notes (read your amo-developers email):
- use: from amo.urlresolvers import reverse
- use: from l10n import ugettext as _

QA

No update

Product

[bonus] whiteboard status means we get the bug for free as part of another bug

Developer Relations

Lots of blogging this week:
Got started with XUL School on MDC.
MAOW: Lima this weekend. Will be mostly away on Thursday and Friday.

Community

Marketing

Rock Your Firefox content, collateral, event all underway - 3/10 target for launch
Amazon Assist: would like to get this add-on ready for primetime promotion- ball is in their court

Other

Feb. 17, 2010

Development

30 bugs closed, lots of good stuff: l10n detection, editor tools fixes, [z] core stuff, and some front-end [z] stuff
missed our freeze date due to zamboni bugs. We're now aiming for Thurs, the 18th
- SAMO isn't going to be complete. /addon/, /search/, and /list/ are going to be done, the rest (/collections/, /stats/, and a couple other small ones) will be split into another bug.
- Stats front-end will be finished up in 5.8. CSV output will be completed in 5.7.
- We'll load test those ^^ pages on weds. and if all goes well we'll be prepared to flip the live site to using them - our first public pages!
Thanks to wenzel for sticking with remora and adding the "share via email" stuff. <3
The clearleft stuff is either done or really close to done. New designs look good, thanks fligtar.
Craig will be helping us with implementing the templates which will help us get back on schedule

QA

schedule conflict with EU ballot-Feb 23rd
QA automation efforts- https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkOIUMTNpBYKdFhpLV9oTk1JeW1TdzIyTmF3YU5pWXc&hl=en

Product

Clearleft update - final mocks update
Rock Your Firefox implementation underway
Discovery Pane work
Statistics dashboard - penultimate designs

Developer Relations

The Add-on Review Process and YOU.
Notify SeaMonkey add-on devs about SeaMonkey 2 compatibility. Blog post later today.
Discussing with editors about Private Browsing Mode and how to enforce it in add-ons.

Community

Summit Attendees

Marketing

Finalizing the RYF site
Selecting consumer-friendly add-ons for launch
Planning to launch and promote RYF heavily at SXSW
Jetpack Ambassadors: post-program support w/ conference placement
Personas: talking to World Cup Soccer folks today

Other

Feb. 10, 2010

NEW ROOM NUMBER: 366

Development

5.7 appears to be on track. Wil will (that's right) reconnect with people today.... and wil will reconnect to the conference call.
If you're working on [z] make sure you are doing `git submodule update --init`

QA

No update

Product

Developer Relations

MAOW in Lima, Perú scheduled for the 27th.
Investigate malware in add-ons.
- 2 infected add-ons identified.
- Turns out one of them (the most serious case due to exposure time) was just a false positive. Blog post.
- Planning possible improvements to the AMO system. No proposal yet.
Jetpack Ambassadors Program.
Performing scheduled trusted add-on review.

Community

Marketing

Other

Feb. 3, 2010

Development

We shouldn't rely on a contributions platform where email & meetings are the best API docs.
5.6 push issues
- bug 543920 - API search broken until 6am because it wasn't svn upped
- push bug was verified with API search broken
- sphinx issues
- bug 543920 - add-on icons not working/mixed up
dd's rants
- Have a runbook for what things need pushing
- Push earlier if we have minimal downtime
- Do sphinx upgrades during the day

QA

Some way to tag regression-prone fixes?
Testing Zamboni

Product

http://iampaddy.com/lifebelow600/
Clearleft update
Discovery Pane
Statistics dashboard update (wireframes [1], visual design [2] )
Rock Your Firefox first iteration [3]
Contributions up 40% in January!

Developer Relations

Review queues are stable at around 100 updates and 300 nominations. New editor applications almost every week.
Reviewed most Facebook Dislike add-ons looking for adware, spyware and code duplication. Only one add-on was disabled due to copied code. The rest were OK.
Coordinating MAOW in Lima, Perú.
Performing scheduled trusted add-on review.

Community

Marketing

Jetpack Ambassadors: business cards, presentation trainining, agnenda for next week
Rock Your Firefox: writing copy
AMO: reviewing categories, selecting category/feature recommended

Other

Jan. 27, 2010

Development

5.6 is code frozen. On track for launch on 2/2.
- 68 bugs closed by 13 people. Thanks everyone
- major front end changes in editor tools
clouserw is out on 2/2. Depending on how things work out, I'll be able to get everything ready on 2/1. Otherwise, jbalogh will run the build.py script. User:Clouserw/AMO:Remora_Prod
[z] is on preview, check it out!
If you're filing a zamboni bug, make sure [z] is in the whiteboard
If you have a bug that doesn't need QA, add [qa-] in the whiteboard
5.7 (freeze: feb 16):
- services.amo on [z], including JSON output (davedash)
- stats backend on [z] (mccammos)
- flesh out admin tools on [z] (jbalogh)
- browse/category pages on [z] (jbalogh)
- gift sharing on remora (mccammos)
- user profiles on [z] (wenzel/clouserw)
License: BSD?
- http://yehudakatz.com/2010/01/05/the-maximal-usage-doctrine-for-open-source/
- Discussion limit: 60 seconds

QA

We have around 10 bugs in our queue for 5.6.
Editor tools reskin-scope of testing

Product

Please review Phase I of ZPP
Intern!
New dashboard designs from CHowse

Developer Relations

Release of 3.6 is triggering lots of updates, but they're under control.
Blog post on incorrect state in add-on updates. About 10 fixes so far because of it.
Sent email to authors flagged for the Gmail in German issue. Will revisit in a couple of weeks.
5.6 fixes. First commit (yay!).

Community

Marketing

Firefox Gear shall henceforth be known as Rock Your Firefox

Other

Jan. 20, 2010

Development

5.5 is done
5.6 is underway. I'm going to bug people about it today
zamboni

QA

50+ bugs still open;5.6 includes fixes for buttons and sorting which are prone to regression.Consider moving the launch date to 2/9 to let QA do a thorough job of testing.

Presentation on the Hudson setup

Product

ZPP
Operation: Gravity
Clearleft Update
chowse update if available
Mobile Challenge

Developer Relations

Checking again for "Gmail" references in German.
Mario: getting started with Mobile Firefox Reporter.
Update queue: 5 add-ons waiting more than 3 weeks, 9 waiting between 1 and 3 weeks, 71 waiting less than one week.
Admin / binary reviews.
Jorge going to MV Feb 7th -> Feb 14th. Mario as well?

Community

Extend Firefox prizes wrapped up completely

Marketing

Firefox Gear name
Julie starts tomorrow
Featured personas rotation on AMO

Other

Jan. 13, 2010

Development

krupa keeps reopening our bugs
5.5 launched uneventfully. Thanks everyone
5.6 freeze is 1/26. I'll start bugging people next week
zamboni
- over 40 tests now
- dd has the user/group stuff done. land plz.
- clouserw has selenium integration 95% done. Waiting on user/group branch.
- jbalogh has moved us to trunk and setup multidb stuff

QA

Sign off from dev on our release test plan
Help charting out different testcases for beta channel
19 button bugs-can we target them in 5.6?

Product

ZPP update
Zamboni design update [c,cl,pm]
Google Docs shared folder
upload bug?

Developer Relations

Queue reviewing is back on track. Many new editor applications.
Updating AMO Editor wiki and other related wiki pages.
Working on admin reviews. Mass admin-review unflagging.

Community

Marketing

Firefox Gear naming survey results were mixed.
Current front runners:
- Add-on All-stars
- All-star Add-ons
- Add-ons Hall of Fame
- Add-on Jamboree

Other

Jan. 6, 2010

Welcome to 2010

Development

5.5 is code frozen. Launch on 5/12.
5.6 bugs TBD today, Radar for AMO+Q1 is almost done
What happened in 5.5?
- 60+ bugs closed; lots of fixes for long-open bugs. Bugs assigned to 13 people were fixed. You're all awesome.
- global and specific l10n dashboards
- Gearman setup and being used
- Hudson setup and being used
- Thumbs up for using highcharts on AMO. Expect to see this replacing timeplot in Q1.
- Editor tools redesigned
- All bugs triaged, bug count hovering around 500
- If you haven't installed zamboni yet, check out the docs. We can help if you need a hand getting started or with github workflow.
- Zamboni updates:
  - Deployment: Implemented, easy with virtualenv+pip
  - Testing: Implemented with great coverage
  - Translations: Implemented
  - L10n: Extraction scripts done. Syncing between PHP and Python not started.
  - URLs: recognizes locale and app
  - Scaffolding: Implemented on a half dozen models

QA

https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Execution/Web_Testing/AMO/Current_Release/5.5

Product

firefoxaddons.com secured!
2010 Releases page started

Developer Relations

Updating AMO Editor wiki and other related wiki pages.
Working on admin reviews.
Java Console updates approved by QA. Next step is to upload them to AMO.
Need to set new French dictionaries at https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/browse/type:3.

Community

Marketing

Some of the top Firefox Gear naming suggestions (add "Firefox" as appropriate)
- Add-ons Underground
- Add-on Showcase
- Add-on Spotlight
- Museum of Modern Add-ons
- Add-on Garden
- Add-ons Illustrated
- Add-on Vault
- Add-on Wednesdays
- The Add-on Minute
- Add-on FIRE SALE!@!

Other

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