OSD700 1.0 Release post

Relevant bugs: Bug 726904 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=726904], Bug 517363 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=517363] This, the last post I'll be making for my OSD700 class is going to discuss the work I've been doing on the above mentioned bugs. I've…

OSD700 - A Retrospect

As this semester comes to a close, I'd like to take some time to look back on my experiences in open source development. To begin, I'd like to go back to OSD600 [https://cs.senecac.on.ca/course/osd600], the the prerequisite to taking this OSD700 [https://cs.senecac.on.…

OSD700 Release 0.9

Since my last release my work has been focused on Bug 726904 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=726904], Bug 517363 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=517363] and Bug 736400. [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=736400] Bug 736400 - media.[ogg,webm,…

Automating UI Testing for Butter.js

For the past 3 weeks I have been working on designing an automated user interface testing system for Butter.js [http://github.com/mozilla/butter]. In this post, adapted from a recent email I sent, I will describe all the components of the system and how one can go forwards…

It Pays to Try

On Sunday afternoon and into the evening, I learned a very important lesson. I recently uploaded a patch that was supposed to fix the media type user preferences. These prefs allow users to toggle on and off different media types such as OGG, Wave Webm and Raw. I narrowed the…

OSD700 Release 0.8

This post is going to detail work I've done over the past two weeks. Here's a list of all the Firefox bugs I've been active on: * Bug 495040 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=495040] - Implement playbackRate and related bits * Bug 665598 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_…