Firefox Input

Firefox Input is a Django-based web application to gather user feedback from the Mozilla Firefox beta testing program.

For project goals, specifications, etc., check out the Input Wiki Page.

Getting Started

Python

You need Python 2.6. Also, you probably want to run this application in a virtualenv environment.

Run

easy_install pip

followed by

pip install -r requirements/prod.txt -r requirements/compiled.txt

to install the required Python libraries.

Highcharts

Due to licensing issues, we can't rightfully bundle highcharts.js. So you can go get it using ./manage.py cron get_highcharts.

Sphinx

For searching, we use Sphinx. Set up an instance of it, and adjust the SPHINX_* settings in settings.py to match your setup.

Django

Put your database settings in settings_local.py:

    from settings import *

    # ...

    DATABASES = {
        'default': {
            'ENGINE': 'mysql',
            'NAME': 'firefox_input',
            'USER': 'root',
            'PASSWORD': '',
            'HOST': 'localhost',
            'PORT': '',
            'OPTIONS': {'init_command': 'SET storage_engine=InnoDB',
                        'charset' : 'utf8',
                        'use_unicode' : True,
                       },
        },
        'website_issues': {
            'ENGINE': 'mysql',
            # ...
        }
    }

To initialize the database, run:

./manage.py syncdb

To update your schemas from an earlier version:

schematic migrations

To initialize the search index, run:

./manage.py update_index

The Internet has plenty of of documentation on setting up a Django application with any web server. If you need a wsgi entry point, you can find one in wsgi/reporter.wsgi.

Sites data

The "website_issues" database has to be a separate SQL-database from "default", as it uses its own schematic migration version. It is used to load aggregate website issues (generated by clustering) from a cron task. To initialize it, run:

./manage.py syncdb --database=website_issues

To generate site data yourself without getting it pushed from metrics, run

./manage.py generate_sites

And for schema updates:

schematic migrations/sites

Cron jobs

There are two jobs you may want to run periodically:

./manage.py update_product_details  # Mozilla Product Details update
./manage.py update_index -r         # update and rotate search index

The frequency is up to you, but you probably want to run the search index updates relatively frequently, while the product details can wait a little longer.

Note that updating the product details files like this will lead to "local changes" in your checkout. If you plan on pulling code updates from git periodically, you should leave lib/product_details_json untouched, but create a new directory somewhere else and change the setting PROD_DETAILS_DIR accordingly.

Mobile vs. Desktop site

We are using the Django Sites Framework to distinguish between the mobile site and the desktop site. The default is site ID 1 == desktop. If you create another site using the admin interface, requests for that site's domain will show the mobile site (set settings.MOBILE_SITE_ID accordingly, though the default of 2 is probably correct).

For development, you can create an alias of localhost (m.localhost, for example) in /etc/hosts, and use that as the domain for the second site. Make sure to include the port (m.localhost:8000).

License

This software is licensed under the Mozilla Tri-License:

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  Frederic Wenzel <[email protected]>

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