> We now have project page tracking the requirements for an MVP [1], and now 
> we're starting to move into development! 


The specification on the wiki seems very lightweight and not very detailed. Can 
this be detailed further to help understand and get an impression of the 
requirements and scope that need to be shaped and defined for preliminary 
support for an initial service? I’m a little worried that we keep rushing into 
development before specifications are even fully imagined.

Aaron Train
Sr. QA Engineer
Mozilla Corporation
https://quality.mozilla.org

On Nov 22, 2013, at 6:22 PM, Margaret Leibovic <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I wanted to send an update on our plans for third-party service integration 
> (a.k.a. "Lists", formerly referred to as "My List" or "Hub"). For those who 
> haven't heard about this feature, our objective is to make it easier for 
> third-party services to integrate with Firefox, mainly by adding new lists to 
> our recently redesigned about:home.
> 
> We now have project page tracking the requirements for an MVP [1], and now 
> we're starting to move into development! I filed a meta bug [2] to track this 
> work, and I wanted to bring attention to the ways that people can start 
> helping out.
> 
> I've started work on some patches to add basic support for letting add-ons 
> add new lists to about:home [3], and to create a new content provider where 
> this list data will live [4]. However, there is definitely other work that 
> can be done in parallel, such as figuring out how to let these third-party 
> services authenticate users [5], and how to let the user manage their lists, 
> including the current lists we ship in about:home [6]. Please refer to the 
> meta bug to see what other things there are that need to be done. And 
> definitely go ahead and file more bugs if you start exploring any of these 
> areas.
> 
> Best,
> Margaret
> 
> PS - I don't have a link to ibarlow's most recent designs, but perhaps he can 
> follow up here when he updates the wiki page with those :)
> 
> [1] 
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Projects/Third-party_service_integration_MVP
> [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=lists
> [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=862805
> [4] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=941318
> [5] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=942281
> [6] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=942231
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