Atul - for me, that wiki page sums up the proposals very well! Sufficiently detailed to understand what motivates each goal, a good range of targets, without sounding like a wishy-washy 'mission statement'. If I think of more, I will certainly throw them on there for discussion.
Regards, Gary On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 1:36 AM, Atul Varma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey guys, > > It's clear that there's a lot of really awesome directions Ubiquity can go, > but it looks like we need to focus in on what particular directions we want > to take it over the next two months. As Aza has proposed, we can innovate > the user interface and mechanisms for allowing the community to contribute > to UI innovation; we could also work on the herd, like fern suggested; and > Gary makes a very good argument for stabilizing our current feature set. > > I've created a work-in-progress 0.2 roadmap on the wiki here: > > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity/0.2_Roadmap_Proposals > > I've tried adding what people have mentioned here so far. If you guys > don't mind, could you please take a look at it and add anything that you > feel is necessary? Once we've got all our ideas down, we can start figuring > out how to pare things down based on Ubiquity's vision. Please also feel > free to justify your rationale for features that you're particularly > interested in. > > - Atul > > > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Abimanyu Raja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> The reason it's called The Herd: http://www.toolness.com/wp/?p=144 >> >> 2008/11/6 indolering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> >>> Can we call it something with better connotations than "The Herd?" >>> >>> I mean, the democrats lost, badly, for the past 8 years because they >>> failed to correctly frame (http://tiny.cc/frame448) their viewpoints >>> and evoke the right emotions, until Barak got them all excited with >>> his rhetoric. >>> >>> It's hard to get excited about being a cow : ( >>> >>> >>> Oh, and now we should get back on topic : ) >>> -Zak >>> >>> On Nov 4, 6:39 am, "Abimanyu Raja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> > Haha..yes. We should do that. >>> > >>> > 2008/11/4 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> > >>> > > 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> >>> <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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
