Planning for the future

For some time now I’ve been throwing around ideas for new features that we may want for the add-ons manager. After lots of thought and trying to take on board comments from anyone that would pipe up I decided it was high time to put together an actual plan for what features I have decided should be pursued and what order to start tackling them.

The roadmap itself should be pretty self explanatory, just remember that nothing is ever set in stone. I’ll try to keep it updated as things change, features seem less important or new items are added. But for now this is how I see the add-ons manager evolving over the course of about the next year or so, which may be the next two versions after Firefox 3.1.

Obviously the ordering of the goals may not be quite to everyone’s taste, but I’ve tried to strike a balance between getting new features done and getting groundwork laid to make things better in the future. I’m happy to take any comments people might have into consideration for altering the plan, but chances are I won’t be making any big changes unless you have some pretty damning evidence that a change is necessary 🙂

3 thoughts on “Planning for the future”

  1. Excellent roadmap. I’ve often thought that the add-ons manager would be best in its own tab (about:addons), rather than a dialog box. With a tab, there would be much more space for all the different options. You could apply the same look and feel as AMO, and even integrate the two together seamlessly.

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