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** State your 0.1 release target on your project's wiki page (explain what you will have completed by the time you reach 0.1 release). Discuss this with your professor.
 
** State your 0.1 release target on your project's wiki page (explain what you will have completed by the time you reach 0.1 release). Discuss this with your professor.
 
** Review, and where appropriate, comment on blog postings by other students.
 
** Review, and where appropriate, comment on blog postings by other students.
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== Week 5 (Oct 1) – Bugs, Bugzilla, and Debugging ==
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* What is a bug?
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** Open vs. Closed Bug Tracking - [http://www.arcanology.com/2007/09/19/ie-and-the-demise-of-borgzilla/ discussion of Mozilla vs Microsoft/IE]
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** BMO - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org
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** Searching for Bugs
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** How to File a Bug
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** Following bugs through bugzilla
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* Debugging Tools and Techniques
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** C++ with VS.NET and gdb
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** JS with Venkman
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** DOMi
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** Error Console
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** Lab - [[Dive into Mozilla Debugging Mozilla Lab|Debugging Mozilla]]
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* '''Readings/Resources'''
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** [[The Life-cycle of a Bug]] (on-line lecture) by Mozilla's Mike Connor
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* '''TODO'''
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** Create a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org bugzilla] account
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** Find 5+ bugs related to your project, and add them to your project wiki page
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** CC yourself on two bugs that relate to your project
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** Watch a user in bugzilla for the week and blog about the experience (Ted, Andrew, someone else related to your project)
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** Come-up with some ways for others to contribute to your project and add them to your project wiki page.  Remember, you're asking for help, so be clear about what you need done, and make it easy so that people will pick you vs. another project.

Revision as of 22:31, 30 September 2007

Introduction

The fall is broken into two parts. First, open source and Mozilla specific skills and ideas are taught. Students learn how to deal with the tools, techniques, and practices of the Mozilla project and its community. Second, students are taught about Mozilla’s extensibility model, and how to write Firefox Addons and Extensions.

Part I – Essential Mozilla Development Skills and Concepts

Week 1 (Sept 3) Course introduction

Week 2 (Sept 10) - Collaborative and Community Development Practices

Week 3 (Sept 17) - Managing and Building large source trees

  • Revision Control Systems (RCS)
    • Introduction to RCS
    • cvs, svn, hg
    • Common concepts and tasks
      • Repository
      • Local Working Copy
      • RCS Changes (changesets) vs. Backups
      • Typical read-only activities: Checkout, Update, Log, Status
  • Using Make to build software
    • Intro to Make
    • Mozilla has over 50,000 Makefiles
  • Building Mozilla from Source
  • TODO
    • Watch online lectures about the Mozilla build system.
    • Practice creating a simple makefile
    • Do a Debug Mozilla build on your home machine and blog about the experience
    • Finalize your project choice, form a group (if you are working in a group), and create a proper project page for your project in the Project List. See the full project instructions.
  • NOTE
    • Thursday's class will be special, as we will have a guest speaker flying here to talk to you about the build. Please have your build done before Thursday so you can ask questions and understand what he's talking about.

Week 4 (Sept 24) - Navigating the Mozilla source tree

  • TODO
    • Lab - Learning to use LXR/MXR effectively: Source Code Reading Lab - Blog about your experience.
    • Lab - cvs diff and patch: Incremental Build Lab
    • Practice doing incremental builds and applying patches
    • Identify the main file(s) that your project will be changing and blog about your experience finding them and your observations about those files.
    • State your 0.1 release target on your project's wiki page (explain what you will have completed by the time you reach 0.1 release). Discuss this with your professor.
    • Review, and where appropriate, comment on blog postings by other students.

Week 5 (Oct 1) – Bugs, Bugzilla, and Debugging

  • TODO
    • Create a bugzilla account
    • Find 5+ bugs related to your project, and add them to your project wiki page
    • CC yourself on two bugs that relate to your project
    • Watch a user in bugzilla for the week and blog about the experience (Ted, Andrew, someone else related to your project)
    • Come-up with some ways for others to contribute to your project and add them to your project wiki page. Remember, you're asking for help, so be clear about what you need done, and make it easy so that people will pick you vs. another project.
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