Last year we set up landfill.amo to give contributors an easy base to set up the addons.mozilla.org site. Easy is relative here, of course, but it was a big leap over what we had at the time. Kumar leapfrogged that milestone by adding Vagrant configuration scripts to our repository. Now you can have a running [...]
Tagged add-ons, AMO, Mozilla, testing, webI started using Irssi almost 10 years ago when I first started trolling wandering around the world of IRC. My main use is to run it in a screen and stay connected all the time. To chat I’ll just ssh into the server and reconnect to the screen. Generally I leave my terminal open, stretched [...]
Tagged MozillaThis is just a short note to recognize the long coming milestone of PHP being effectively off[1] on addons.mozilla.org. We started the migration in 2010 and just finished it up a couple weeks ago. After the major pages were completed it was hard to budget time for all the minor details we had implemented since [...]
Tagged add-ons, AMO, CakePHP, Django, L10n, Mozilla, PHP, PythonA lot of my time is spent trying to arrange projects and schedules so we can get code shipped in a reasonable time. AMO has the blessing/curse of being broad enough that there is work to do in nearly every area on the site. Once the highest priority areas have people working on them there [...]
Tagged AMO, hindsight, leadershipI read a book called Hint Fiction last year where the idea was to write a compelling story in 25 words or less. My favorite that I can remember was by J. Matthew Zoss: I’m sorry, but there’s not enough air in here for everyone. I’ll tell them you were a hero. I had an [...]
Discussing the security measures of a public facing and popular website is usually taboo. Often owners are unsure they are following best practices, prefer not to draw attention to their site, or hope that they can maintain security through the obscurity of their code. At Mozilla we are fortunate to offer nearly all of the [...]
I was playing around with gource this weekend while watching the TSL 3 Finals and pointed it at addons.mozilla.org’s source repository. I sped it up to display 1 day of commits per second and piped it all to ffmpeg to make a video. It turned out pretty well so here is addons.mozilla.org development so far [...]
Tagged AMO, code, Mozilla, webgetpersonas.com was started as a labs project in 2008. The plan was to get a website up and running to show off what lightweight themes were and see if they got any traction. If the site became popular, we’d merge it in to AMO in six or ten months and everyone would go back to [...]
Tagged add-ons, AMO, Mozilla, personasAnyone who has tried to set up AMO knows it’s no walk in the park even with the respectable amount of documentation. There are two big stumbling blocks: the database is large and complex, and a portion of the site functionality is still in PHP. Django’s syncdb can make a database, but the relationships in [...]
Tagged add-ons, AMO, L10n, Mozilla, open web, PHP, Python, webIt may be fatuous to write this post before we’ve actually finished the transition from PHP to Python, but I started writing a different post and this is what came out. Sometimes that happens. In January of 2010 we started migrating addons.mozilla.org from CakePHP to Django. It was a controversial decision. Developers were ambivalent to [...]
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