Done:
Serious amounts of progress on the extension manager rewrite work this week
- Restartless extensions implemented
- Personas and basic plugin and search engine supported added
- Silent background updating implemented
- Updated the API docs to be accurate
- Filed bugs on all known remaining issues
- Worked out a rough schedule for trunk landing
- Submitted the main part of the backend and API to Rob Strong for code review
- Blogged about how this impacts extension developers
Next:
- Fix up the remaining issues, all currently known are small or straightforward
- Have an informal meeting with the security team to talk about potential issues
- Fix any issues that come up from the reviews
- Reviewing the UI side of the rewrite