Development Update: update.mozilla.org

Over the past month, the UMO developers have been working on doing a security audit of the codebase that supports addons.mozilla.org and pfs.mozilla.org. That audit is complete as well as some patches to ease the development of the application by single developers and solve some performance issues. These are in the process of being reviewed.

The security audit revealed several problems with the existing codebase. Most of these can be remedied but there is a lot of work to be done. The final word on the security audit is that v2.0 of UMO will most likely need to be re-written from the ground up.

We have brought up a new development environment with development, staging and sandbox space for developers. This is going to allow us to do much faster development and give the release engineering folks a solid foundation for testing of new features, etc.

Now that we have identified things we need to get cleaned up, we’re looking for volunteers to help make it happen. If you, or someone you know, is interested in working on the UMO project and doing some PHP development we can definitely use the help. In addition, we are going to be looking for people in the near future to act as moderators, QA and reviewers of user extensions that land on UMO. Application development is not required there but would be helpful. If you are interested in being a developer or moderator please contact me or join the development team in #umo on irc.mozilla.org.