Managing the Forrestbar (Re: [jira] Updated: (FOR-180) Update forrestbar to be installablein Mozilla Firefox 0.9)
Addi wrote: David Crossley wrote: Addi wrote: ... I am also looking at getting ForrestBar on the official Mozilla extensions site so that updates will be automatic for users. Is there any problem with this that I'm not aware of? I don't know anything about it so cannot say. Is there a URL that explains what is involved? Well, I haven't found tons of detailed info. Here is the link from Mozilla Update - https://addons.mozilla.org/developers/ The basic idea is that you can get an account and upload and maintain an extension at the Mozilla Update site. Can you release under the Apache license on the Mozilla update site? Ross
Re: Managing the Forrestbar (Re: [jira] Updated: (FOR-180) Update forrestbar to be installablein Mozilla Firefox 0.9)
Ross Gardler wrote: Addi wrote: David Crossley wrote: Addi wrote: ... I am also looking at getting ForrestBar on the official Mozilla extensions site so that updates will be automatic for users. Is there any problem with this that I'm not aware of? I don't know anything about it so cannot say. Is there a URL that explains what is involved? Well, I haven't found tons of detailed info. Here is the link from Mozilla Update - https://addons.mozilla.org/developers/ The basic idea is that you can get an account and upload and maintain an extension at the Mozilla Update site. Can you release under the Apache license on the Mozilla update site? Ross As far as I can tell you can release under any license you want. When I was looking at various extensions to help me figure out what I needed to do, I saw a range of licenses in the code. I will double check with the site though. - Addi
Re: [jira] Updated: (FOR-180) Update forrestbar to be installablein Mozilla Firefox 0.9
David Crossley wrote: Addi wrote: Also, in this patch I versioned the ForrestBar extension to version 0.7. I was thinking that we could match the ForrestBar version to the current version of Forrest. I have two reasons for this thinking: 1) I have a link in the toolbar that links to Current Docs so the ForrestBar version number will tell you which version of the Docs it is pointing to and this would lead to 2) every release of Forrest we should revisit ForrestBar to update the Docs link but also to verify continuing compatibility with browsers so we don't let it fall behind again. Does this seem reasonable? Yes. We need to add a note to etc/RELEASE_PROCESS.txt The version number needs to be incremented as part of the lead-up to release. I don't know how to ensure that we update it for each release. Perhaps add an ongoing Jira issue for it. I can do these later this weekend if noone else has by then. I am also looking at getting ForrestBar on the official Mozilla extensions site so that updates will be automatic for users. Is there any problem with this that I'm not aware of? I don't know anything about it so cannot say. Is there a URL that explains what is involved? Well, I haven't found tons of detailed info. Here is the link from Mozilla Update - https://addons.mozilla.org/developers/ The basic idea is that you can get an account and upload and maintain an extension at the Mozilla Update site. Firefox will look for updates to extensions there, so if we make changes to our extension and then upload it, users just need to let Firefox update it for them. One thing I am not sure of, is that your account login is your email address (and this is where the account confirmation email is sent) so I would need to know what email we would use if we do it. I'll see if I can get more substantive info on how it all really works. I am also continuing to play with it to try and get it to work in Netscape 8. I tried to put stuff that I thought would be most useful to us but if something needs to be added, it is really simple to do by looking at the chrome/content/forrestbarOverlay.xul file (or just ask on the list and I'll add it). Thanks for giving it some attention. Our Zone could be added to the Forrest section. forrest.zones.apache.org The Forrest/JIRA link would be better to go via our http://forrest.apache.org/issues.html We will gradually enhance this page to lead them into JIRA and provide ready-to-go searches etc. The References section is a good idea for some high-level references. The Cocoon links will change soon as they re-arrange their documentation. At some stage the Projects/Browse All CVS will be removed. All projects will be migrated to SVN by 2006-01-01 The Projects section could also link to http://www.apache.org/foundation/projects.html Will tweak your suggestions this weekend. The projects all listed out is pretty much the same as it was in the original, just with some corrected links. If we just have a link to the apache projects page rather than actually listing them in the bar (which I'm fine with) I guess it would make sense to get rid of Projects from the bar and just move that to be a link under Apache. - Addi More below ... Addison Berry (JIRA) wrote: [ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-180?page=all ] Addison Berry updated FOR-180: -- Attachment: forrestbar.diff forrestbar.xpi forrestbar.xml.diff This new extension will work with Mozilla 1.x and Firefox 0.9 - 1.5 versions. The .xpi file attached is the one built running the forrestbar target. I'm not sure how we get the .xpi file that is on the web site - if it is built or just put on the server in it's final form - so I included it here. It is manually generated after any occasional change. It gets added to our site-author tree. Everything that is generated from there gets onto the server, e.g. mirrors.cgi and .htaccess site-author/content/xdocs/tools/forrestbar.xpi I just updated the website for forrestbar.html and forrestbar.xpi -David
[jira] Updated: (FOR-180) Update forrestbar to be installablein Mozilla Firefox 0.9
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-180?page=all ] Addison Berry updated FOR-180: -- Attachment: forrestbar.diff forrestbar.xpi forrestbar.xml.diff This new extension will work with Mozilla 1.x and Firefox 0.9 - 1.5 versions. The .xpi file attached is the one built running the forrestbar target. I'm not sure how we get the .xpi file that is on the web site - if it is built or just put on the server in it's final form - so I included it here. Update forrestbar to be installablein Mozilla Firefox 0.9 - Key: FOR-180 URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-180 Project: Forrest Type: Bug Components: Forrestbar Environment: Mozilla Firefox 0.9 Reporter: Nicola Ken Barozzi Assignee: Nicola Ken Barozzi Priority: Minor Attachments: forrestbar.diff, forrestbar.xml.diff, forrestbar.xpi Firefox 0.9 will get a new extension install system, with which we must be compatible to be usable there. Being listed in the standard toolbars could be cool too. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
Re: [jira] Updated: (FOR-180) Update forrestbar to be installablein Mozilla Firefox 0.9
Also, in this patch I versioned the ForrestBar extension to version 0.7. I was thinking that we could match the ForrestBar version to the current version of Forrest. I have two reasons for this thinking: 1) I have a link in the toolbar that links to Current Docs so the ForrestBar version number will tell you which version of the Docs it is pointing to and this would lead to 2) every release of Forrest we should revisit ForrestBar to update the Docs link but also to verify continuing compatibility with browsers so we don't let it fall behind again. Does this seem reasonable? I am also looking at getting ForrestBar on the official Mozilla extensions site so that updates will be automatic for users. Is there any problem with this that I'm not aware of? I am also continuing to play with it to try and get it to work in Netscape 8. I tried to put stuff that I thought would be most useful to us but if something needs to be added, it is really simple to do by looking at the chrome/content/forrestbarOverlay.xul file (or just ask on the list and I'll add it). - Addi Addison Berry (JIRA) wrote: [ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-180?page=all ] Addison Berry updated FOR-180: -- Attachment: forrestbar.diff forrestbar.xpi forrestbar.xml.diff This new extension will work with Mozilla 1.x and Firefox 0.9 - 1.5 versions. The .xpi file attached is the one built running the forrestbar target. I'm not sure how we get the .xpi file that is on the web site - if it is built or just put on the server in it's final form - so I included it here.
[jira] Updated: (FOR-180) Update forrestbar to be installablein Mozilla Firefox 0.9
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-180?page=all ] Juan Jose Pablos updated FOR-180: - Component: Forrestbar Update forrestbar to be installablein Mozilla Firefox 0.9 - Key: FOR-180 URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-180 Project: Forrest Type: Bug Components: Forrestbar Environment: Mozilla Firefox 0.9 Reporter: Nicola Ken Barozzi Assignee: Nicola Ken Barozzi Priority: Minor Firefox 0.9 will get a new extension install system, with which we must be compatible to be usable there. Being listed in the standard toolbars could be cool too. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
