Mossop Status Update: 2012-01-27
Posted: January 27th, 2012
Done:
- Sent out schedule for the Add-ons SDK work week
- Worked on job descriptions for new hires
- Assigning owners to goals
Tags: firefox, planning, status
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Mossop Status Update: 2012-01-13
Posted: January 13th, 2012
Done:
- Finalized the Add-ons SDK goals for Q1
- Add-ons SDK work week planning
- Finalized the new Toolkit module peer structure
- Working on testing the new hotfix feature
- Building test hotfix add-ons to ship out to beta users
Next:
- Post to the newsgroup about the Toolkit module peer changes
- Find owners for all the Add-ons SDK goals
- Write up the draft schedule for the Add-ons SDK work week
Tags: firefox, planning, status
Categories: mozilla
Mossop Status Update: 2011-10-29
Posted: October 29th, 2011
Done:
- Implemented a number of performance fixes for mobile (bug 696141 and dependents)
- Reviewed more of the default to compatible work
- Basic implementation for add-on hotfix (bug 694068)
- Landed the final third-party add-on patches on aurora and beta
- Product planning meeting for Firefoxes 8, 9 and 10
Next:
- Finish the add-on hotfix work
- Various HR stuff
- Start planning Jetpack work week
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Mossop Status Update: 2011-10-14
Posted: October 14th, 2011
Done:
- 7.0.1 Post Mortem
- Hotfix planning work
- Understanding the new mobile architecture
- Problems with third party add-ons in Firefox 8
- Default to compatible planning
- Final draft of Q4 goals
Next:
- Update module description for the Jetpack module
- Fix third-party add-on detection problems
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Mossop Status Update: 2011-10-07
Posted: October 7th, 2011
Done:
- Worked with the team to fix the version number problems with the last repacks
- Security reviews for embedded add-on preferences and showing performance information to users
- Working on Q4 goals for the team
Next:
- Finalize Q4 goals
- Update module description for the Jetpack module
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Mossop Status Update: 2011-09-02
Posted: September 2nd, 2011
Done:
- Worked with the Jetpack drivers to come up with a new way to prioritise bugs
- Talked over issues with add-on compatibility and version upgrades
- Helped prepare a test plan for SDK repacks
- Killed most of my review queue
Next:
- Try to clear anything that is blocked on me before my vacation
Tags: firefox, planning, status
Categories: mozilla
Mossop Status Update: 2011-08-26
Posted: August 26th, 2011
Done:
- Regular bug triage (epic bug triage deferred)
- Tinkering with the Bugzilla APIs
- Cleared out my inbox and review queues
Next:
- Formalise priorities for the Jetpack team
Next week I'll probably be in and out randomly as relatives and friends are going to be in town
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Mossop Status Update: 2011-08-15
Posted: August 15th, 2011
Done:
- Landed UI to allow users to check they have the add-ons they want on next upgrade (bug 596343)
- Landed UI to allow users to confirm that they want third-party add-ons before they are enabled (bug 476430)
- E10S planning
Next:
- Fix test failures on aurora
- Mobile planning
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Mossop Status Update: 2011-04-29
Posted: April 29th, 2011
Done:
- Tidying up the loose ends of things still in progress
- Cleaned out my review queue
- Work on simulating nsIFile enough to emulate filesystem failures while installing add-ons (bug 653835)
- Trying to test some weird edgecases for softblocking (bug 648599)
- Fixing some issues with page history when custom add-on types are removed (bug 595848)
- Trying to figure out how to manage my time better (again)
Next:
- Land softblocking fix for extensions (bug 648599)
- Land custom add-on type support (bug 595848)
- Begin on patch for custom add-on categories (bug 647265)
- Look into embedded add-on preferences (https://wiki.mozilla.org/ExtensionManager:Projects:EmbeddedAdd-on_Preferences)
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Mossop Status Update: 2011-04-08
Posted: April 8th, 2011
Done:
- Partied in Vegas
- Evaluated an issue with softblocking and have it mostly tested and fixed (bug 648599)
- Meetings meetings meetings
Next:
- Land the softblocking fixes before the branch
- Work out what we still need to decide for the third party add-on blocking
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