Blair’s Brain And Other Unfocused Things

Status update: Extension Manager UI

Extension Manager UI Redesign

Status

• Fixed a bunch of bugs QA found, and the important remaining P1 bugs blocking landing - including:
  • Supporting external/instant installs (ie, those without an AddonInstall object)
  • Showing the correct status when enabling/disabling lightweight themes
  • Updating addon state changes and showing a restart notification in detail view
• Pretty much everything has been reviewed now - only small changes came out of reviews (feels great when something comes together neatly like that!)
• Was *almost* ready to land on Friday - so close! Fingers crossed for Monday/Tuesday. Things that got in the way:
  • Sickness (not me this time) and holiday
  • A couple of small outstanding reviews
  • Worries about breaking mobile, which was about to branch
• Boriss showed off a more awesome manual update process (has a really nice feel to its flow, yet it still allows for more flexibility)
• The Discovery pane has been unofficially renamed the Disco pane

Loose ends

• None

Next steps

• Land it already, gah!
• Fix the things we broke by landing it
• Further stabilization and polish
• Manual update process

Target for next week

• Landing and damage control
• High priority bugs - I'll be re-triaging this week
• Start on new manual update process

Reflections

• Continually having to push back landing dates is frustrating
• We still need to get more familiar with working on project branches
• The scent of a new project really gets my mind racing

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