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2013 Q3 Accomplishments
The end of September was the same as every quarter lately – a whirlwind of summaries and demonstrations. I gave several presentations on what the Marketplace, SUMO, and Input teams did but I didn’t...
View ArticleMarketplace in Q4, 2013
Another set of slides summarizing Marketplace accomplishments in Q4 of 2013 (html). Behold the animated gifs! Also, hat-tip to Will Kahn-Greene’s summary of Input in 2013.
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Some new Marketplace dashboards
Cross posting from a mailing list: I'm pleased to present a couple of dashboards I made over the break for the Marketplace. Behold: 1) How many bugs were closed this week?...
View ArticleSplitting AMO and the Marketplace
Years ago someone asked me what the fastest way to stand up an App Marketplace was. After considering that we already had several Add-on Types in AMO I replied that it would be to create another Add-on...
View ArticleImproving our process; Part 1: Identifying Priorities
One of our stress points is juggling too many projects. It’s easy to hear ideas pitched from excited people and agree that we should do them, but it’s hard to balance that with all the other...
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Ten years of addons.mozilla.org
Ten years ago, Ben Smedberg and Wolf landed the first version of the code that would make up AMO. At the end of 2004 it was still called update.mozilla.org, written in PHP, and was just over 200k,...
View ArticleImproving our process; part 2: Public Priorities
Part 1: Identifying Priorities As promised, there is now a public view of upcoming work on the Firefox Marketplace. This dashboard shows a rough representation of our thought process when we evaluated...
View ArticleMarketplace Update for Q2
Every quarter the apps team gets together to meet people and talk about all the pieces of the projects. This quarter we’re doing a little different format which I think will turn out to be a lot more...
View ArticleRetiring AMO’s Landfill
A few years ago we deployed a landfill for AMO – a place where people could play around with the site without affecting our production install and developers could easily get some data to import into...
View ArticleThe Great Add-on Bug Triage
The AMO team is meeting this week to discuss road maps and strategies and among the topics is our backlog of open bugs. Since mid-2011 there has averaged around 1200 bugs open at any one time....
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