Websites/Snippets

Elevator Pitch

The about:home snippet service is a simple, highly-cached content management service. It is intended to assemble and deliver content snippets to the about:home page in Firefox.

The content delivered is determined by details about the installation of Firefox requesting content - including mainly details about the browser's build, locale, platform, and distribution channel, but not the person using the browser.

See Also

about:home 101 Dynamic Snippets

Goals and Measurements

Overview

• Code name: snippets
• Service docs: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/Firefox_Start/Snippet_Service
• Prod URL: https://snippets.mozilla.com
• Stage URL: https://snippets.allizom.org
• Dev URL: https://snippets-dev.allizom.org
• Code Repo: https://github.com/mozilla/home-snippets-switcher
• L10N Repo: n/a
• Code: Python / Django
• Product Owner: Engagement; Winston Bowden
• Dev Team: Web Production
• IRC Channel: #snippets on irc.mozilla.com
• Team Email:

Team

The primary and secondary contacts for each role of this project:

• Product owner - Winston Bowden
• TPM - Justin Crawford
• Developers - Mike Kelly, Giorgos Logiotatidis
• L10N -
• Designer -
• IT -
• QA - Stephen Donner, Raymond Etornam Agbeame
• UX -
• Security -
• Legal -

Documentation

• Deploy Procedure

Meetings

• Archived

Project Management

Tracking Bugs:

• bug 866963 Refactor Snippets Service (Q2 2013)
• bug 836099 Geolocated Snippets (Q1 2013)
• bug 659773 Snippets Service Maintenance Improvements
• bug 653784 Add HTML5 Awesomeness to Snippets
• bug 667086 Snippets Surveys

Sub Projects:

• Geolocated Snippets
• HTML5 Awesomeness
• Feature Enhancements
• Snippet Service Improvement
• Snippet Surveys
• Snippet Impressions
• Snippet Service Rewrite