2015q3.md

Speaking and Podcasting:

Presentations:

• JSConf Midwest: (talk) Developing for Firefox OS
• OTSConf: (talk) Developing for Firefox OS
• OTSConf: (workshop) Hands-on Firefox OS
• DevJam: (debate participant) Functional Future: Rust vs Elixir

Podcast:

• Recorded a rough draft of a first episode, final version postponed

Articles and Community Involvement:

Editorial

• Edited and suggested Hacks as a venue for Blake Winton's post, "Let's Write a Web Extension"
• Edited :pbrosset's upcoming Smashing Magazine article on the history and highlights of the Firefox DevTools. * Exposed a bug (https://bugzil.la/1174437) with an example in the article, which was subsequently fixed.

Authorship

• Wrote a (not-yet-published) article on Hacks regarding porting to WebExtensions
• Conducted a survey and wrote up an analysis of Reddit's Firefox community to inform what APIs and developers we prioritize in the WebExtension transition: * Survey: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/3l74qf/so_webextensions_are_happening_what_addons_are_on/ * Analysis: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/3m0lis/data_from_the_what_webextensions_are_musthaves/

Community Involvement

Significant participation in /r/firefox, mostly calming concerns around WebExtensions and add-on signing, with a handful of troubleshooting on the side.

• Recognition on Reddit:

  • "Wow, Callahad to the freakin' rescue!"

  • "I have to admit that I'm pleasantly surprised by how quickly the addon was produced and how well it works. Good job and thanks."

  • "You're doing God's work there. Keep it up!"

  • 4 of my approximately 100 Mozilla-related comments were "gilded" by other Reddit users as a way of thanking me or highlighting the comment's value. This cost the users a total of ~$15 USD.

• Recognition by peers within Mozilla:

  • Lisa Brewster from Addons

    Your ears should have been burning earlier, we found some of your comments on reddit. I believe you were referred to as a "saint." The tone is already changing, it seems.

  • Chuck Harmston from Web Engineering

    You're doing good work on /r/firefox. (*＾-‘) 乃 Add-ons changes are a really big deal for users and add-on devs. And we haven't handled it especially well to date. I especially appreciate that you're not just responding to complaints, but are actively soliciting feedback. So important for managing a mob like that.

Miscellaneous

• Interviewed a bunch of folks, resulting in the hiring of two new teammates.
• Published comprehensive "DevRel Resources" page at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Devrel/Resources to help onboarding new hires
• Investigated Lanyrd's capabilities as a single source of truth for our conference activity
• Became an AMO editor

Development

• Updated an old Jetpack add-on of mine: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/quick-accept-language-switc/
• Build a demo of the Push API: https://github.com/callahad/push-api-demo/
• Wrote several WebExtension testcases: https://github.com/callahad/webextension-tests
• Ported the Reddit Enhancement Suite to a WebExtension: https://github.com/callahad/RES-WebExtension

I also filed or participated in 62 Bugzilla bugs

Highlights:

• Landed my first ever patches to mozilla-central, adding support for FxOS WebExtensions in WebIDE: * https://bugzil.la/1191734 * https://bugzil.la/1199566
• Caught a Firefox search regression: * https://bugzil.la/1209606
• Determined the implementation strategy necessary for supporting the DevEdition theme on Beta and Release in response to user demand, resulting in an add-on with over 3,700 users: * https://bugzil.la/1181721 * https://bugzil.la/1193544
• Found an error in our implementation of the Push spec: * https://bugzil.la/1206302
• Addressed one sec-moderate bug in Persona: * https://bugzil.la/1208480
• Filed more than a dozen WebExtension bugs, including determining exactly what we need to fix to support the popular Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES) cross-browser add-on as a WebExtension. * RES Metabug: https://bugzil.la/1208765 * Testcases I've developed: https://github.com/callahad/webextension-tests/ * Got needinfo'd by Platform twice to investigate Chrome's implementation: https://bugzil.la/1208756

Full List:

DevTools / DevEdition:

• https://bugzil.la/1000540
• https://bugzil.la/1176050
• https://bugzil.la/1181721
• https://bugzil.la/1189438
• https://bugzil.la/1191007
• https://bugzil.la/1193544
• https://bugzil.la/1196734
• https://bugzil.la/1198725
• https://bugzil.la/1199566

Events:

• https://bugzil.la/1171152
• https://bugzil.la/1181090
• https://bugzil.la/1188649
• https://bugzil.la/1191845
• https://bugzil.la/1209138

Firefox:

• https://bugzil.la/1209606

Firefox for iOS:

• https://bugzil.la/1172928

Firefox OS:

• https://bugzil.la/803906
• https://bugzil.la/1106663
• https://bugzil.la/1170895
• https://bugzil.la/1171185
• https://bugzil.la/1174441
• https://bugzil.la/1175151
• https://bugzil.la/1176889
• https://bugzil.la/1176892
• https://bugzil.la/1176893
• https://bugzil.la/1176895
• https://bugzil.la/1176902
• https://bugzil.la/1176910
• https://bugzil.la/1176911
• https://bugzil.la/1176913
• https://bugzil.la/1176915
• https://bugzil.la/1182358
• https://bugzil.la/1196165
• https://bugzil.la/1196166
• https://bugzil.la/1196186
• https://bugzil.la/1196194
• https://bugzil.la/1196200
• https://bugzil.la/1196201
• https://bugzil.la/1196214
• https://bugzil.la/1196756
• https://bugzil.la/1197135
• https://bugzil.la/1198477
• https://bugzil.la/1199810

Misc:

• https://bugzil.la/1198717
• https://bugzil.la/1204186

Persona:

• https://bugzil.la/1208480

Push:

• https://bugzil.la/1206302

WebExtensions:

• https://bugzil.la/1161828
• https://bugzil.la/1197417
• https://bugzil.la/1197420
• https://bugzil.la/1197422
• https://bugzil.la/1199053
• https://bugzil.la/1205003
• https://bugzil.la/1208334
• https://bugzil.la/1208563
• https://bugzil.la/1208756
• https://bugzil.la/1208761
• https://bugzil.la/1208763
• https://bugzil.la/1208765
• https://bugzil.la/1208775
• https://bugzil.la/1209184
• https://bugzil.la/1209192