Author Archives: James Socol

About James Socol

James Socol leads the Community Platforms group, which encompasses the Support, MDN, and Community Tools teams. He lives in New York, talks about deployment a lot, and sometimes takes pictures.

SUMO is Deploying Continuously

Posted on March 29, 2012 by James Socol

As of a couple of weeks ago, the Support Engineering team is deploying changes to SUMO continuously. This is the result of over a year of work by developers, sysadmins, QA, and more, and I couldn’t be prouder of everyone … Continue reading →

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SUMO 2.4 – The end of the tunnel

Posted on December 27, 2010 by James Socol

Two weeks ago, we released SUMO 2.4, completing a year-long project to replace the SUMO platform! SUMO 2.4 moved the last bits of functionality into Kitsune, our Django-based platform. These include user features like login/logout, registration, and profiles. This represents … Continue reading →

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SUMO 2.1: New Discussion Forums

Posted on June 24, 2010 by James Socol

On Wednesday this week, we migrated the discussion forums on support.mozilla.com to our new platform. The forums we moved over are Contributors Off Topic Knowledge Base Articles We did not move the Firefox support forum: that is coming in our … Continue reading →

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The Evolution of SUMO

Posted on February 23, 2010 by James Socol

(Guest post by James Socol of the webdev team. Comments or questions? Head on over to James’ original blog post and comment there!) When I joined the SUMO team six months ago, the team was just starting a discussion of … Continue reading →

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