Hello everybody! There's been a lot of great work done on Ubiquity in the past two months, but in order to benefit our users we need to roll it up into a release! I hereby propose that we aim to release Ubiquity 0.1.9 three weeks from now, early June. These are the high-level views of the main features that I think 0.1.9 should try to deliver:
1. Internationalization. Mitcho and co have been doing great work rewriting the parser for localizability. Let's try to release 0.1.9 with at least three usable languages and the user interface to switch language. It's OK if the languages are still experimental and missing some commands and/or nountypes; we should focus on providing some value to non-English speakers and beginning to attract volunteer localizers. 2. Data collection. I want to add a checkbox that users can check to give permission for their copy of Ubiquity to send an anonymized version of their usage data to Mozilla so that we can use it to improve the user interface. Specific data that I would like to collect include the usage rates of various commands (so that we can decide where to focus our effort on improving commands) and also data about common errors that users make, such as input that results in no suggestions, so that we can figure out how to improve the user interface and how to make better suggestions. 3. The new improved introductory documentation and interactive tutorial, to make it easier for new users to learn Ubiquity. This is mostly done already, but it needs some more polish. 4. Overlord verbs (see my blog post http://jonoscript.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/overlord-verbs-a-proposal/ for a description of what this feature means.) This will include some renaming of existing commands for consistency with the new standard. Additionally, of course, we will include fixes for the most important outstanding bugs and usability problems. The tracking bug for the 0.1.9 release is here: http://ubiquity.mozilla.com/trac/ticket/680 That contains links to some of the other key bugs. There is also a 0.1.9 milestone in trac, where you can see all of the bugs marked as part of the 0.1.9 release. I am still working on triaging older bugs, so I may still move some other bugs into this milestone. You can see it here: http://ubiquity.mozilla.com/trac/query?groupdesc=1&group=priority&milestone=Ubiquity+0.1.9&order=priority&col=id&col=summary&col=owner&col=type&col=status&col=priority&col=component Please let me know: 1. What other bugs should be in this release? 2. What do you think of the proposed feature additions? 3. What do you think of the proposed schedule? 4. Any other questions? Thank you very much for your feedback! --Jono --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
