Input status: August 4th, 2014

, Will Kahn-Greene | share this (mastodon)
Note: This is an old post in a blog with a lot of posts over a long span of time. The world has changed, technologies have changed, and I've changed. It's likely this is out of date, the code doesn't work, the ideas haven't aged well, or the ideas were terrible to begin with. Let me know if you think this is something that needs updating.

Summary

This is the status report for development on Input. I publish a status report to the input-dev mailing list every couple of weeks or so covering what was accomplished and by whom and also what I'm focusing on over the next couple of weeks. I sometimes ruminate on some of my concerns. I think one time I told a joke.

Work summary

  • Continued work on the development environment with awesome help from L. Guruprasad

  • Implement the bits required to support Loop

  • Add smoketest coverage for Firefox OS feedback form

  • Fix some technical debt issues

Development

Landed and deployed:

  • 6097571 [[bug 1040919]] Change version to only have one dot

  • dcf8f91 [[bug 1040919]] Fix .0.0 versions to .0

  • 4012933 Remove CEF-related things

  • 4887c49 [[bug 1030905]] Add product/version tests

  • 1bdd3a8 [[bug 1042222]] update Vagrantfile to use 14.04 LTS (L. Guruprasad)

  • c1bdfbb Add L. Guruprasad to CONTRIBUTORS

  • 3e607a5 [[bug 1042560]] Remove unused packages in dev VM (L. Guruprasad)

  • c0759d1 Update django-mozilla-product-details

  • bcf8ec8 Update product details

  • 58579ab [[bug 987801]] peep-ify requirements

  • 248b0ab [[bug 987801]] Exit if requirements are mismatched

  • 5db57bc [[bug 987801]] Redo how we figure out whether to use vendor/

  • df8400d Fix sampledata generation to use bulk create

  • fa0caac [[bug 1041622]] Capture querystring slop

  • 98745b5 [[bug 1021155]] Add basic FirefoxOS smoketest

  • 6cf9e39 [[bug 1041664]] Capture slop in Input API

  • ff4b711 Show context in response view

  • 976ebbf [[bug 1045942]] Add category to response table

  • 34622ad Add docs for category and extra context for Input API

  • d1a8dd5 Add an additional note about keys

  • fec1319 [[bug 998726]] Quell Django warnings

  • 288afe4 Rename fjord/manage.py to fjord/manage_utils.py

  • d40e8a9 Update dennis to v0.4.3

Landed, but not deployed:

Current head: 28cd90f

Over the next two weeks

  1. Keep an eye out for any Loop or Heartbeat related work--that's top priority.

  2. Work on gradient support and product picker support

What I need help with

  1. (Google chrome, JavaScript, CSS, HTML) Investigate what's wrong with the date picker in Chrome and fix it [[bug 1012965]]

  2. Test out the Getting Started instructions. We've had a few people go through these already, but it's definitely worth having more eyes. http://fjord.readthedocs.org/en/latest/getting_started.html

If you're interested in helping, let me know! We hang out on #input on irc.mozilla.org and there's the input-dev mailing list.

That's it!

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