mozilla-extensions / remote-settings-devtools

about:remotesettings

Remote Settings Devtools

This addon provides some tools to assist developers with remote settings.

Features

• Trigger synchronization manually
• Inspect local data
• Clear local data
• Switch from/to STAGE and PROD

Planned Features

• Load from preview collections

Install

• Pick the .xpi file from the releases page.
• When asked for comnfirmation, select "Continue to installation".

Note: it is highly recommended to use a temporary or development user profile

Development

This addon relies on the Experiments API in order to expose Remote Settings internals to the Web Extension.

Unsigned addons with experiments can only be loaded in Firefox Nightly and Developer Edition, with specific preferences set.

1. Download Nightly
2. Install dependencies with npm install
3. We'll use the web-ext runner, with a persistent profile:

npx web-ext run --verbose --firefox-binary /path/to/nightly/firefox -s extension --firefox-profile rs-devtools --profile-create-if-missing

4. (first run only) Adjust preferences in about:config:

• xpinstall.signatures.required: false
• extensions.experiments.enabled: true

5. Reload the addon to take these prefs changes into account, in about:debugging
6. Enjoy!

Release

Prerequisites (get access to Ship-It)

1. Create a ticket to be added to the VPN group (can clone and edit this Bugzilla ticket)
2. Ask in the #addons-pipeline channel to be added to the XPI_PRIVILEGED_BUILD_GROUP to get access to create an XPI release for remote-settings-devtools on Ship-It

Create a new tag/release

1. Bump version in package.json, update.json (has three version instances that need to be updated), and extension/manifest.json
2. Tag commit git tag -a X.Y.Z and push it git push origin X.Y.Z
3. Create release with changelog on GitHub's releases page
4. Check that FirefoxCI action has run for tagged commit

Create release on Ship-It

1. Ensure you're connected to the VPN
2. Go to Ship-It
3. Login with SSO at the top right
4. Click NEW XPI RELEASE at the top and select the following options:
   • Available XPIs → remote-settings-devtools
   • Available revisions → revision with the commit hash associated with the tag that's being released
5. Ensure the version that was tagged is the one shown
6. Select CREATE RELEASE → SUBMIT
7. Scroll to the bottom of the pending releases page
8. Click Build on the new release labeled remote-settings-devtools-X.Y.Z-build1
9. Submit a sign off request

Download signed binary from Taskcluster

1. Go to XPI Releases
2. Click on Promote task on the XPI release you want to download the signed binary from, which will take you to Taskcluster
3. Click on the release-signing-remote-settings-devtools task
4. Click the Artifacts dropdown on the right side of the page
5. Download the artifact named public/build/remote-settings-devtools.xpi to your machine
6. Append -X.Y.Z to the end of the filename
7. Attach remote-settings-devtools-X.Y.Z.xpi signed binary file to the corresponding GitHub release

Additional information may be found here.