Why not get Ubiquity on addons.mozilla.com in the first place? On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Abimanyu Raja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Yep, the social aspects like on addons.mozilla.com should also be part of > The Herd, imo. > > I agree with Gary. That's why I wanted to include improving performance as > a major goal. Specifically, the tickets he mentioned, adding back old > features and replacing the annotation service. Regarding planning for 0.2, I > think it's just about setting the long term goals. In the end, they have to > be broken to smaller milestones as Aza said. So, I think that performance > issues, a goal for 0.2, should probably be the focus for 0.1.4 (assuming > 0.1.3 is focused on skinning). Or we should swap the focuses. 0.1.3 should > be for performance issues. I would really like the context menu and > noun-first suggestions back. And of course, we should really try not to > break people's current behavior (esp. noun-first suggestions). > > I feel like we need to delegate work (at least for a few key issues) to > make faster progress. > > - Abi > > 2008/11/4 Gary Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi guys, >> >> Whilst some of the goals for 0.2 sound fun, in my opinion there are some >> fundamentals that perhaps should be addressed beforehand. For example, >> reintroducing functionality that was lost with 0.1.2 (e.g. tickets #358, >> #359 & #394 are some I raised about this :-), stabilising the codebase, and >> addressing performance. Something else that really needs addressing is the >> trust-network and the way commands are subscribed to. I've read a few blog >> posts, and received a couple of emails, saying that the major factor that is >> stopping people from adopting Ubiquity is the security risk of subscribing >> to new commands. >> >> Perhaps these are planned for a prior release, but considering 0.1.2 was >> about 6 weeks late, and 0.1.3 still has 28 active tickets, planning 0.2 for >> the end of 2008 seems a little over-ambitious. I don't want to rain on the >> parade - I love hacking away at new stuff with the best of them - but >> without some core stability I think the user base will lose interest and >> we'll be left with an interesting toy for a handful of people, but no >> wide-spread adoption. >> >> Of course this is only my take on things, and perhaps not seeing the >> bigger picture :-) I hope these comments are taken in a positive way. >> >> Cheers >> >> Gary >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Fernando Takai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: >> >>> Yes, but herd needs to be improved. For example, we need to add social >>> features like rating, commenting -- and we need to have a place to host >>> commands, like gist, but ours. >>> >>> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Dean Landolt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: >>> >>>> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Fernando Takai < >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Ubiquity planet is like an addon.firefox.com for commands (if im not >>>>> mistaken). >>>> >>>> >>>> Wouldn't that be the Herd? >>>> >>>> Typically planets are just aggregators for specific communities of >>>> interest [1] -- so of people that often blog about Ubiquity, it's just one >>>> central place that pulls in those posts. Unless you mean something else, >>>> Aza? >>>> >>>> [1] >>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_(software)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_%28software%29> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Fernando "Takai" >>> http://flickr.com/photos/supeertakai >>> http://fernandotakai.wordpress.com >>> http://fernandotakai.jaiku.com >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > > -- Mayuresh --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ubiquity-firefox" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ubiquity-firefox?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
