Hello all! It's already been a month since last we spoke and much has happened! Let's get to it.
Note: It appears that monthly will be a better schedule for these than every 2 weeks, at least for me. I'll try to keep to that. Please call me out if I fail.
Theme for February: ZOMG BUSY!
February is always a busy month for we developers in the Engagement team, at least since Mozilla broke into the mobile world with Fennec and Firefox OS. This is because the first of March is Mobile World Congress (MWC) time, and it's always a scramble to get things done in time. I concentrate mostly on the server side of the Web, but my colleagues in Web Prod who deal in HTML, CSS, and JS were more than a little busy. They launched a new page for MWC, a new Firefox OS main page, a new consolidated nav for all of that, and updates to various other FxOS related pages to support announcements. It was a herculean effort, the results are amazing, and I'm more than a little proud to work with them all. Special thanks to our new staff-member teammate Schalk Neethling for going way above and beyond to get it all done.
Also, long time friend of mozilla.org Craig Cook knocked out a refresh of the Mozilla Leadership page. Nice work Craig!
Not only all of that, but February saw a major overhaul of how bedrock handles static assets (CSS, LESS, JS, Fonts, Images, etc.). It's all part of the plan. There's more to come.
We have finally moved into the modern world (speaking in Django terms) and are using the staticfiles system. We are now free to do things like handle user-uploaded media, use new and cool tools, and not feel bad about ourselves.
We've switched from jingo-minify to django-pipeline. Pipeline hooks into Django's static media system and is therefore easier to integrate with other parts of the Django ecosystem as well as more customizable. It is also a much more active project and supports a lot of fun new things (e.g. Babel-JS for sweet sweet ES6 goodness in our ES5 world).
Good Olde Apache™ used to be how we served our static assets, but we're now doing that from bedrock itself using Whitenoise. Since we have a CDN the traffic for these files on the server is quite low so getting cache headers, CORS, and gzipping right is the most important thing. Whitenoise handles all of this efficiently and automatically. I highly recommend it.
With these new toys came the ability to generate what are called "Immutable Files". This means that the system will now copy all static files to new filenames that include the md5 hash of the file contents. This means that the file name (e.g. site.4d72c30b1a11.js) will always necessarily refer to the same contents. The advantage of this is that we can set the cache headers to basically never expire. Any time the file content changes, the generated file name will be different and cached separately.
We're also generating gzipped versions of all files at deploy time. Whitenoise will see that these files exist (e.g. site.4d72c30b1a11.js.gz) and serve up the compressed version when the browser says it can handle it (and nearly all can these days). This is good because this is no longer happening at request time in Apache, thus reducing load, and we can use better and slower compression since it's happening outside of the request process.
Much more happened, but I'm loath to make this much longer. Skim the git log below for the full list.
Contributors
Even more new contributors! HOORAY!
blisman started contributing to bedrock this month and has already fixed 3 bugs!
The aforementioned Schalk Neethling is new to the team, but not Mozilla nor FLOSS contribution, nor even bedrock as he's maintained the Plugin Check page for quite some time. He did a wonderful job on the new Firefox OS page.
Kohei Yoshino continues dominating all the things and even got yet another Friend of The Tree (Friends of Mozilla) mention.
Stephanie Hobson (on loan from MDN) stepped up to help us with some changes in preparation for the new Firefox for iOS (coming soon to an iDevice near you).
Thank you all for your contributions to bedrock and the Open Web \o/
Git Log for February
8547262 (Pascal Chevrel) Bug 1128957 - Fix block parsing errors in jinja templates
bb8aa7a (Kohei Yoshino) Fix Bug 1129130 - Hyperlinking bios to Steering Committee page
f67af74 (Kohei Yoshino) Fix Bug 1129214 - Please add Rust and Cargo to our trademark list
80c4b28 (Kohei Yoshino) Fix Bug 1128885 - Plugincheck-site considers 31.4.0ESR out of date
7664dc5 (Alex Gibson) Update UITour documentation
d0c20a4 (Tim) updated sumo link to be locale-neutral
f588ff8 (Craig Cook) Fix bug 1124826 - Net Neutrality home promo
5475a14 (Paul McLanahan) Add new contributors to humans.txt
68a927c (Kohei Yoshino) Fix Bug 1124724 - Tiles product page update copy mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/tiles/
64c4f17 (Paul McLanahan) Fix bug 1130285: Treat hsb/dsb locales as de for number formatting.
ea43c4e (Kohei Yoshino) Fix Bug 1129911 - Text error in https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/policies/commit/
e5496d6 (Francesco Lodolo (:flod)) Bug 1115066 - Add 'si' to Thunderbird start page redirect
776cff3 (Alex Gibson) Add test suite for browser-tour.js
73295a6 (Tin Aung Lin) Updated with new Facebook Page Link
43909f2 (Kohei Yoshino) Fix Bug 1131142 - Update Firefox Refresh SUMO article link on /firefox/new/
9a4de71 (Alex Gibson) [fix bug 1131680] Stop redirecting Firefox Geolocation page to Mozilla Taiwan website
a502fe1 (Kohei Yoshino) Fix Bug 1130160 - Extra '#' in section headers for roll up pages
6aaee9f (Paul McLanahan) Fix bug 1131738: Mark advisory reporter as safe.
90aabcb (Paul McLanahan) Bug 906176: Move to using Django staticfiles for media.
66541a9 (Paul McLanahan) Bug 906176: Enable caching static storage and remove cachebusts.
63da90f (Paul McLanahan) Update references to "media()" in docs.
286c35c (Paul McLanahan) Bug 906176: Move to django-pipeline from jingo-minify.
6fdbc53 (Paul McLanahan) Add futures, a dependency of pipeline.
3a200c0 (Paul McLanahan) Add node dependencies less and yuglify.
a3b0895 (Paul McLanahan) Reorder deployment to keep the git repo clean.
56b89a1 (Paul McLanahan) Serve static files with Whitenoise.
c96ba80 (Paul McLanahan) No longer test Python 2.6 in Travis.
ae040d4 (Paul McLanahan) Fix unicode issue with image helpers.
f9849c7 (Kohei Yoshino) Fix Bug 1131111 - PN Changes (Snippets/SMS Campaign, default Search provider, and SSL Error reporting)
a61fd11 (Paul McLanahan) Disable locale sync from crons temporarily.
c5cbfd7 (Paul McLanahan) Enable locale update cron jobs; they are now fixed.
f8ced59 (Paul McLanahan) Fix missing image referenced in thunderbird base template.
1592de3 (Paul McLanahan) Fix bug 1132317: Fix gigabit pages errors.
b8e2afd (Paul McLanahan) Remove remaining date-based cache busting query params.
6eb5107 (Logan Rosen) fix Bug 1132323: change Tabzilla heading ID
cdadc8a (Logan Rosen) fix Bug 1108278: congstar link is incorrect
453ae78 (Paul McLanahan) Encourage use of humans.txt
d3c553d (Alex Gibson) [fix bug 1132289] Plugin check minify JS error
375b3b3 (schalkneethling) Syncing content with Google doc, part of the l10n hand-over
b4c217e (Jon Petto) Bug 1128726. Add 2 new firstrun tests, each with 2 variants.
8ccad60 (Alex Gibson) [fix bug 1132313] Venezuela community page references missing images
f74b2a7 (Paul McLanahan) Fix bug 1132454: Update platform_img helper for new static files.
fd4215b (Alex Gibson) [bug 1132454] Add missing high-res ios platform image to firefox/new
5184b79 (Alex Gibson) Update Mozilla.ImageHelper JS tests
03d7b14 (Kohei Yoshino) Fix Bug 1132835 - 404 linking to /contribute/local from /about/governance/organizations
ec262fe (Paul McLanahan) Fix bug 1132961: Add cache to twitter feeds.
a420c03 (Kohei Yoshino) Fix Bug 1132956 - Legal-docs pages for hu and hr throwing errors.
61dea65 (Kohei Yoshino) Fix pep8 errors: W503 line break before binary operator
ad3f3c8 (Francesco Lodolo (:flod)) Bug 1124894 - Add Swahili (sw) to PROD_LOCALES
6193a4f (Jon Petto) Bug 1130565. Add more localized videos to Hello page.
e41a55f (blisman) fix bug 1132942, removed url for missing html template (/bedrock/mozorg/about/governance/policies/commit/faq.html)
89ad7c1 (blisman) Bug 1134492 - move assets from assets.mozilla.org to assets.mozillalabs.com
43ac8cd (Alex Gibson) [fix bug 1053214] Missing Mozilla Estonia from Contact Pages
a3cb7e5 (Stephanie Hobson) Fix Bug 1134058: Show .form-details when form has focus
0307a5b (Paul McLanahan) Only build master in Travis.
4990787 (Cory Price) [fix bug 1130198] Update Hello FTU for GA36 * Send Custom Variable to GA containing the referral * Add referral to localStorage on copy/email link * Retreve referral from localStorage on tour connect and send to GA * Hide info panels when Contacts tab is clicked (it's okay that they don't see it if they switch back to Rooms) * Update docs * Add Test
4f7a542 (Paul McLanahan) Add author link tag to base templates for humans.txt
c452ac0 (Kohei Yoshino) Fix Bug 1134936 - Firefox download pages: filter localized builds as you type
d681e78 (Josh Mize) Add backend for fxos feed links: bug 1128587
4a81001 (Josh Mize) Restore dev update crons: fix bug 1133942
f0ab7b5 (Steven Garrity) Bug 1120689 MWC Preview page for 2015
e6d9ada (blisman) fix bug 1129961: reps ical feed update fail silently
54b27ed (Paul McLanahan) Remove accidentially committed print statement.
d406fb0 (Steven Garrity) Bug 1120689 Update MWC map reference
2592f4f (Alex Gibson) [fix bug 1135496] Missing Firefox OS wordmark on devices page
259f1d2 (Alex Gibson) [fix bug 1099471 1084200] Implement Firefox Hello tours GA 36
eb6471a (Jon Petto) Add firstrun and whatsnew pages. Bug 1099471.
e797b42 (Alex Gibson) Update Hello fx36 tour logic and add tests
93a6f2e (Alex Gibson) Add Fx36 Hello tour GA tracking events
2500616 (Jon Petto) Hello tour updates:
7b7329e (Steven Garrity) Bug 1120689 Last minute MWC preview text tweaks
8859e9c (Alex Gibson) Fx36 Hello tour template updates
5dde0d1 (Kohei Yoshino) Improve the Share widget, part of Bug 1131309
d6d4ab6 (Kohei Yoshino) Fix Bug 1131309 - Add share buttons to 'Check your plugins' page
0a3dea6d (Steven Garrity) Bug 1120689 Update map for MWC 2015 Removed the link to the PDF and used a single PNG for mobile/desktop
b0eced3 (Paul McLanahan) Bug 1116511: Add script to sync data from Tableau.
acca704 (Paul McLanahan) Bug 1116511: Add view for serving JSON contributor data.
b807b1a (Paul McLanahan) Bug 1116511: Add cron jobs for stage and prod tableau data.
e27fa38 (Kohei Yoshino) Fix Bug 1128579 - Finish moving certs/included and certs/pending web pages to wiki pages
34f032d (Paul McLanahan) Fix a potential error in the TwitterCacheManager.
5fa4fb3 (Steven Garrity) Bug 1120667 Remove "over" from MWC preview page
d627564 (Francesco Lodolo (:flod)) Bug 1111597 - Set up Santali (sat) for production
20afbf3 (Craig Cook) Update home page promos
f727d1a (Cory Price) [fix bug 1130194] Add FTU tracking to Hello product page
3ec1f54 (Kohei Yoshino) Fix Bug 1136224 - firefox hello privacy policy link to tokbox privacy policy broken
59b7b09 (Paul McLanahan) Fix bug 1136307: Catch all errors and report exceptions for MFSA import.
c4d1534 (schalkneethling) Fix Bug 1132298 Moves mustache script above the share script
41c8b12 (Craig Cook) Bug 1132231 - fix copy for Webmaker and Hello promos
0963b2a (Kohei Yoshino) Standardize the header share button
4fdd9f0 (Kohei Yoshino) Fix Bug 1131304 - Add share buttons to 'Download Firefox in your language' page
f53b05f (Kohei Yoshino) Fix Bug 1131299 - Add share buttons to Firefox Developer Edition page
2c8a27f (Steven Garrity) Bug 1120689 Update title on MWC preview for 2015
9ab3132 (Paul McLanahan) Fix bug 1136559: Add dev deploy cron scripts to repo.
4b36ba5 (Stephanie Hobson) Fix Bug 1126578: iOS CTA updates and newsletter
c8b7a5f (Stephanie Hobson) Bug 1126578: iOS CTA updates and newsletter
d53c578 (Kohei Yoshino) Fix Bug 1126837 - Make Fx38 Win64 build of Dev Edition Available on moz.org
acf34be (Kohei Yoshino) Fix Bug 1137213 - Sky theme is not applied to Firefox channel page if Developer Edition is selected first
934fe4c (Jon Petto) Bug 1135092. Fx family nav V1.
5e8d55d (Paul McLanahan) Get current hash from local file and run dev autodeploy every 20min.
6984385 (Paul McLanahan) No output for dev autoupdate unless deploying.
f6a6fad (Kohei Yoshino) Fix Bug 1137061 - Firefox Release Notes list shows unsorted sub-versions
f8a5358 (Kohei Yoshino) Fix Bug 1137604 - /security/advisories: abbreviation mismatch: MSFA vs. MFSA
d8572fe (Jon Petto) Bug 1135092. Add small IE fixes to fx family nav v1.
8847d9f (Jon Petto) Bug 1137260. Add GA to fx family nav.
4f16a2b (Josh Mize) Update firefox os feeds on dev deploy
05bc712 (Craig Cook) Fix bug 1134522 - New leadership page
b966d62 (Paul McLanahan) Remove locale update from deployment.
9ed05bc (Steven Garrity) Bug 1120686 Update Fx Partners page for MWC 2015
d0bf649 (Jon Petto) Bug 1137904. Add headlines to MWC page.
97685f5 (Steven Garrity) Bug 1137347 Add temporary links to static logos
b03989e (Steven Garrity) Add All press link
b0440e9 (schalkneethling) Fix Bug 1120700, implement new design for firefox/os
5ac9fe3 (Steven Garrity) Bug 1120686 Fix overlaping menus Mobile partners nav was overlapping family nav submneu due to excessive z-index
1de1bfc (Steven Garrity) Bug 1137347 Use https for static images
431aea6 (Paul McLanahan) Update static files, product-details, and external files in SRC dir.
ebfd67a (Craig Cook) Bug 1120700 - Misc tweaks and fixes for new FxOS page
b6225ee (Paul McLanahan) Update revision.txt before collectstatic.
e8c9f28 (Craig Cook) Bug 1124734 - remove Net Neutrality promo after Feb 26
c0066c1 (Craig Cook) Fix bug 1138169 - MWC partner logo updates
90bec7a (Francesco Lodolo (:flod)) Bug 1120700 - Fx OS consumer page: restore page title on old template
c0dfdee (Steven Garrity) Bug 1137347 Replace temporary MWC logos