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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
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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August 9th, 2009 - 12:00
Please try to get l10n reviews as early as feasible? There’s a good deal of architecture, but I also expect a flock of style-guide-style comments on how to do comments, etc.
August 9th, 2009 - 14:58
Axel: For Taskfox? That’s one of the things I need to work on. Working with l10n is a top priority. I should note that I’m not specifically aiming to land this for 3.6 (although that would be a nice outcome!).