AMO:AOM Meeting

Please visit the Add-ons wiki pages for up to date information.

Thursdays, 2:30pm Pacific, 4:30pm Eastern
1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) or 1-650-215-1282 or 1-650-903-0800
Conferencing Center: x92
Conference ID: 366

Projects

• Firefox/Features/Expose Add-on Performance
• Features/Add-ons/Add-ons Default to Compatible

Development updates

• Labs kit breaking updates

Ecosystem updates

QA updates

Please review and give feedback on current Updates testing strategy

Projects

• Extension Manager:Projects:Confirm on Upgrade
• Extension Manager:Projects:Third Party Add-on Warnings
• Firefox/Features/Expose_Add-on_Performance

Development updates

Ecosystem updates

• Default theme pings

QA updates

Projects

• Extension Manager:Projects:Confirm on Upgrade
• Extension Manager:Projects:Third Party Add-on Warnings
• Firefox/Features/Expose_Add-on_Performance

Development updates

Ecosystem updates

QA updates

• Working through remaining bug verifications as best as possible
• Once Vlad is back from vacation we will work on test plans for all the features

Projects

• Extension Manager:Projects:Confirm on Upgrade
• Extension Manager:Projects:Third Party Add-on Warnings
• Firefox/Features/Expose_Add-on_Performance
• Extension Manager:Projects:Improve Add-on Installation

Development updates

Ecosystem updates

QA updates

• Due to team reorganizations in QA Henrik will be replaced by Vlad Maniac (Softvision) for the QA lead position of the Add-ons Manager project
• Updated Extension Manager QA page with Semantic MediaWiki queries
• Right now working on bug verifications for Aurora and Nighly
• Planning extensive testing of 3rd party add-ons patch in the next days

Projects

• Extension Manager:Projects:Confirm on Upgrade
  • Final UX tweaks and review
• Extension Manager:Projects:Third Party Add-on Warnings
  • About to go into review
• Firefox/Features/Expose_Add-on_Performance
  • Issues with OS naming
• Extension Manager:Projects:Improve Add-on Installation
  • Plans still in progress

Development updates

• Chrome registry support for restartless add-ons landed, bounced, mak is looking to fix

Ecosystem updates

• Add-ons Default to Compatible

QA updates

Projects

• Extension Manager:Projects:Confirm on Upgrade
  • Under review
• Extension Manager:Projects:Third Party Add-on Warnings
  • Close to review, some UX issues that need to be solved
• Firefox/Features/Expose_Add-on_Performance
  • Discussions about what to show
• Extension Manager:Projects:Embedded Add-on Preferences
  • Landed, Add-on SDK support on the way, blog post needed
• Extension Manager:Projects:Improve Add-on Installation
  • Plans still in progress

Development updates

• Chrome registry support for restartless add-ons

Ecosystem updates

• Add-on compatibility going forward

QA updates

• Nothing major happened in the last 3 weeks due to vacation.
• Signed off from Firefox 5 and Firefox 6 beginning of June
• Expected sign off from Firefox 7 features planned by Monday
• Firefox 8
  • When do we start planning for features?
  • Moving over not landed features
  • Will keep up with creating test plans once features have been selected
  • Closer communication possible between meetings, updates via email?

Projects

• Extension Manager:Projects:Confirm on Upgrade
• Extension Manager:Projects:Third Party Add-on Warnings
  • Whitelisting and related discussions
• Firefox/Features/Expose_Add-on_Performance
  • Kick-off discussions
• Softblocking fixes
  • Landed (extensions only, not themes or plugins)
• Extension Manager:Projects:Improve Add-on Installation
  • Plans still in progress
• Extension Manager:Projects:Embedded Add-on Preferences
  • In review

Development updates

Ecosystem updates

QA updates

• Started creation of the overall and version specific test plans
• Creation of Mozmill tests for Discovery Pane has been started

Projects

• Softblocking fixes
  • In review
• Extension Manager:Projects:Confirm on Upgrade
  • Final bits of implementation and checking styling on all platforms
  • When should we show this UI?
• Extension Manager:Projects:Third Party Add-on Warnings
  • Need to work out what the restart prompt looks like
  • Needs styling nits and looking at on other platforms
• Extension Manager:Projects:Improve Add-on Installation
  • UX and security teams are working through plans
• Extension Manager:Projects:Embedded Add-on Preferences
  • Community contributor has stepped up and done the main parts of the implementation
  • Going through reviews now
  • Needs UX attention

Development updates

• Get Add-ons loading screen tweaks
• Intern on the way

Ecosystem updates

QA updates

Projects

• Softblocking fixes (Mossop)
• Confirm Installed Extensions on Upgrade bug 596343 (Mossop)

Development updates

• People are seeing the add-ons manager hang on Linux bug 637286 - fixed and awaiting branch approval

Ecosystem updates

QA updates

• Planning on creating the test plan for Firefox 5
• Mozmill test creation for this quarter (start with restart tests)

New development cycle

• mozilla-central -> mozilla-experimental -> mozilla-beta -> mozilla-release
• All new code lands on mozilla-central first
• Code spends 6 weeks on experimental/beta channels before hitting release
  • Small low risk fixes can be taken directly on these channels
  • Larger problems mean turning off the new code and waiting for the next cycle
• Users get silent updates and can change between channels

• Checkins for Firefox 5 must be high-value, low-risk, easily removable
  • Feature priorities for sure
  • Stability fixes
  • UI tweaks, if they are low risk
  • API fixes if they are high value for extension developers
• Using some whiteboard entries for tracking bugs:
  • [wanted fx5] for bugs we probably want to get fixed soon and would take for Firefox 5
  • [can land fx5] have patches that are ready to land and meet the criteria for Firefox 5
  • [can land fx6] have patches that are ready to land but don't meet the criteria for Firefox 5 and so will likely slip to 6

Projects

• Confirm Installed Extensions on Upgrade bug 596343 (Mossop)

Development updates

• People are seeing the add-ons manager hang on Linux bug 637286

Ecosystem updates

QA updates

• We have a couple of open in-testsuite requests or even bugs without any request for a manual or automated test. How do we want to handle those bugs?
• About 40% of manual tests have been added to Litmus. Working on the remaining ones in the next couple of days.

• 09/10/09 - 03/03/11 (Firefox 4)