Blair’s Brain And Other Unfocused Things

Status: Jetpack and Content Scripts in Firefox

As Mike Beltzner recently explained, the Firefox team is working on better communicating what we’re working on. We’ve been focusing on more of a Sprint-based model of development, and I’m quite enjoying it. Of course, it’s not a huge change for me, due to the way my previous project was organized. I should note that some of these “sprints” will take significantly longer than a week or two – so I like to think of them as “projects”.

Since its been quite awhile since my last status update (a month!), I’ll cover what I’ve been working on since then. If I take more than a week or two to post again, feel free to yell at me on IRC

Taskfox

Status

• Implemented detection of certain page URLs, and display them as tasks
• No other exciting developments, working on getting the code review-ready
• Canceled the weekly meeting

Loose ends

• Who’s the lucky person that gets to review this? It’s rather big…

Next steps

• Finish getting review-ready
• Start getting reviews and iterate

Jetpack uplift exploration

Status

• Goal: Explore possibilities and requirements for uplift of Jetpack
• Timezones + scheduling meetings = suck
• Phone meeting between us (Johnath, Mossop, and I) and Atul (The Jetpack Guy)
• Plenty of notes up on the wiki
• Spawned off Content Scripts sprint as a first step in achieving end goal (provide open-web tech to extend the browser)

Loose ends

• Wanting bug numbers for stuff that Jetpack needs fixed in Firefox/Platform

Next steps

• Finish Content Scripts sprint
• More meetings with the Jetpack team

Content Scripts

Status

• Goal: Provide native support for Content Scripts
• General requirements gathered
• Basic functionality completed

Loose ends

• Install/management is dependent on the Extension Manager UI and API

Next steps

• Implement custom protocol as a binary component
• Implement persistence of installed scripts
• Spec requirements for what API to provide to scripts
• Potentially implement GreaseMonkey compatibility APIs

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