AMO is the first Mozilla Webdev site to use continuous integration, and it’s been a long time coming. With the way it’s currently configured we’ve got code coverage trending, unit test trending, code quality trending, as well as detailed reports for all the above for every single check in.

If anything fails or oversteps a threshold our IRC bot complains and we can get it fixed up quickly. It’s a boon to productivity to know that all the code being checked in is being tested automatically, plus it gives everyone a stable state to compare to.

Thanks to everyone that helped get Hudson going, from the people that write it, to the IT team that keeps it alive, to the webdev team that helped work out the kinks.

During the week of April 29, 2009 and May 5, 2009 there were around 150000 queries. Of the top 20 queries on addons.mozilla.org (a quick estimate says that is around 12% of the total queries on the site) only 7 actually have search terms. The rest are just choosing different options for the search like category or number of results on a page. If we filter the top queries for ones that include search terms we get a graph that looks like this:

All the searches on that page are for the en-US locale unless otherwise noted. It looks like the majority of searches are for specific add-ons but there are also some popular generic terms like download, gmail, and video. I think it’s interesting that German was the only other locale to make the list (and fairly high up on the list). Maybe the next stats post will be about overall locale use.