The humble opinions of Dave Townsend
Done:
New details pane is ready for review
New appearance pane is almost ready for review
Things are waiting to land but the tree is too broken to accept patches whenever I have time
Ne…
Done:
Down to 2 blocking nominations in Toolkit
Completed beta3 patches, just awaiting review for one of them
Got review queue down to 2 patches
Produced a troubling graph of add-ons manager blockers: https://wiki.mozill…
Done:
Got undo support for all add-ons working properly
Assigned all remaining add-ons blockers
Cleared out some reviews
Next:
Triaging blocker requests
Finalizing b3 bits
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Done:
Recovered from summit
Filtered out some important issues from Feedback
Fighting with my review queue
Next:
Trying to resolve some key bugs for b2
Empty out my review queue
Toolki…
Done:
Landed the new notifications for add-ons installs
Triaged blockers for beta2
Fixed a large stack of blockers including all the known DB schema changes
Worked on a nice demo for the new add-ons manager's capabi…
Done:
Shepherded the Firefox Feedback extension into the tree
Reviewed the bulk of the component registration changes
Got add-on install success and failure events wired up to the new doorhanger notifications
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Done:
Got a bunch of bug fixes either done or ready for review
Started reviews for the component registration changes
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Fixes fixes fixes
Triage for beta 2
Work out which of the bi…
Done:
Mostly done with API docs for the new add-ons manager: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Addons/Add-on_Manager
Updated triage to determine the beta1 blockers
reviews, reviews, reviews
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For some time now Firefox has supported a way of installing extensions that involves simply copying the extension’s XPI file into one of the extension install locations. The next time Firefox runs it would pop up the install dialog for the extension and allow the user to choose whether to install it or not.
I don’t know how many people use this feature and while the code to do it (at least for the profile folder) isn’t terribly complex, it is additional code that may not be necessary. Right now the new add-ons manager doesn’t support it and I’ve heard only a couple of people comment on its absence but nightly testers are by no means representational so I’m asking a little more widely whether people have a real need for keeping this working in Firefox 4?
To be clear we aren’t talking about the method of installing where you extract your extension into a directory in the install locations, nor are we talking about the method where you create a text file in the install location containing the path to your extension.
Done:
Triaged all the bug reports from the new add-ons manager to determine the list of blockers
Reviewing update tests
Next:
Complete the review of the update tests stuff
Fix a lot of…
