Happy new year everyone! During the holidays I had been thinking about my goals for 2014, and I thought it’d be a good exercise to remember what I’ve done in the past year, the projects I worked on, etc. It’s nice to look back and see what was accomplished last year and think about how to improve it. So here’s my personal list; it doesn’t include everything but it includes the things I found most important:
Related to performance/removing main-thread-IO:
Rewrote the storage for the AddonRepository module in the work with Irving to make the Addons Manager async.
Did the Downloads API file/folder/mimetype launcher code and storage migrator for the new JS downloads API project.
After Drew made the contentprefs API async I help update a number of the API consumers to async.
Related to hotfixes:
Created a hotfix to decrease the update check interval which brought more users to up-to-date Firefox versions, who were lagging behind by never seeing the update message.
Worked on a hotfix to deactivate pdf.js if necessary, when we were releasing it to all users for the first time. Fortunately we didn’t have to use it.
Assisted in the work of another hotfix that was being prepared to change the update fingerprints but also luckily wasn’t needed.
Wrote down some documentation about all of the hotfix process to streamline the creation of future ones.
Related to electrolysis:
Worked on the tab crashed page
Made
Added support for form autocomplete
Worked on improving the event handling for events that are handled by both processes
Other things:
For mochitests: worked on fixing some of the optional parameters like –repeat which weren’t working for all kinds of mochitests, and added the –run-until-failure option.
Added the –debug-on-failure option which works together with the –jsdebugger option.
Helped organize the projects of Desktop Firefox for the Google Summer of Code and guide many students through the proposal phase while they drafted their proposals.
Mentored one student for GSOC who created an add-on to visualize memory usage information from about:memory.
Events attended:
FISL – The yearly 7k-people free software forum in Brazil
The MozSummit Assembly meeting to help plan the summit, and the summit of course
