Open Source

oneanddone.mozilla.org is an application that is a vital ingredient to Mozilla QA’s community strategy. At it’s start, the project was originally initiated and designed by the community to address the problem of discovering meaningful ways to contribute to Mozilla QA. In its simplest form, oneanddone.mozilla.org allows community members to browse project tasks and upon finding one that resonates with them, begin working on it. The development of the project as well as continued shaping of its features are handled both by the community as well as by the QA team itself. Project ideation and community engagement is handled by Rebecca Billings, Karl Thiessen, and Bob Silverberg. Code management is accomplished on get github.com/mozilla/oneanddone. The deployment pipeline (stage, production, etc) and hosting are handled by heroku.com. Feature triage and ideation, in bugzilla. ...

This past year on the Mozilla Web Team, 2011, was an incredibly fortuitous and ambitious adventure that finished off with excellent fireworks. I’m currently an engineering lead on 4 projects but two of them accomplished something special in the final days of the year. Not too long ago Mozilla launched BrowserID; a secure, single sign on service that doesn’t have the privacy concerns associated with similar services (Google, Facebook, etc). A year-end goal was to integrate BrowserID into two of our web properties without floundering on quality. ...