Hey guys,
Since Ubiquity 0.2 has fairly broad, visionary goals that won't be fully
satisfied for some time, we're going to be pushing its changes to the
0.1 line at more regular intervals as we continue to develop it.
By "pushing its changes" we mean that we'll effectively be "disguising"
our work-in-progress 0.2 as a 0.1.x release. For instance, Ubiquity
0.1.5 is essentially the same thing as 0.2pre7; similarly, Ubiquity
0.1.6 will basically be the same thing as 0.2pre13, only with our more
experimental feed plugins (locked-down, web page, and python) disabled
by default and unadvertised in about:ubiquity.
There's a couple reasons for this:
* Ensuring that the general public is using the same (or very
similar) codebase to us testers and developers means that our code
gets to be used by "the real world" quicker, and means we'll know
about bugs closer to the time that they were introduced into the code.
* Releasing new public updates at a regular interval is an indirect
way of letting our users know that Ubiquity is still alive and
kicking, getting better all the time.
* We can get feedback from the broad public quicker, so that if
we're really going the wrong direction with something, we can know
about it before we've invested too much time and effort into it.
So we're aiming to release a new public update to Ubiquity at least once
every two weeks.
We've started a new branch for 0.1.6 here:
http://ubiquity.mozilla.com/hg/ubiquity-firefox-0.1.6/
This is essentially a snapshot of 0.2pre13, with various minor changes
to disable functionality that isn't yet ready for prime-time. The
work-in-progress release notes for 0.1.6 are here:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity/Ubiquity_0.1.6_Release_Notes
Thanks to Christian Sonne (FreakCERS) for his help with the release
notes so far.
And finally, the latest release candidate for 0.1.6 is here:
https://ubiquity.mozilla.com/xpi/ubiquity-latest-rc.xpi
If you download this, it'll get auto-updated as we come out with new
release candidates, up to the point that we release 0.1.6.
*Things you can do to help*
* *Release Notes Documentation.* The release notes can always use
more help; please feel free to edit that page and fix a TODO if
you enjoy technical writing, and ask any of us here on the forum
or IRC if you have any questions. Keep in mind that the wiki
tracks all changes, so even if you mess up, we can always revert
the changes. Experimentation is good!
* *Testing.* Please try out the release candidate and bang on it!
Try it out on every operating system that's convenient for you to
try it out on, and on every version of Firefox too (3.0, 3.1 beta,
or 3.2 alpha). Any reports to this forum about what OS's it works
on or doesn't will be very appreciated!
* *Ubiquity Tutorial Documentation/Testing.* Feel free to try out
the user tutorial
<https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity/Latest_Ubiquity_User_Tutorial>
or the author tutorial
<https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity/Ubiquity_0.1_Author_Tutorial>
and make sure everything still works. Regardless of the outcome,
post back here to let us know what you found!
Thanks for reading this. If you have any questions, please don't
hesitate to reply to this post or poke us on #ubiquity on
irc.mozilla.org. :)
- Atul
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