Hi everybody, With the Ubiquity 0.5 release date rapidly approaching (it's set for Monday, june 22) I think it's time to freeze addition of new features in order to focus on bug fixing, localization, and documentation.
I've created a new milestone on Trac, Ubiquity 0.5.1. This will be a minor update released on Monday june 29, one week after Ubiquity 0.5. The minor update can include all the features we really wanted to get into 0.5, along with fixes for the biggest bugs that we discover only after the release of 0.5. (If experience has taught me anything, it's that there are always lots of bugs that you don't discover until after the release, when you suddenly have lots more users trying out the software.) So, if there are features you wish to have added, please assign those bugs to the 0.5.1 or 0.6 milestones, not the 0.5 milestone. Now, about testing and fixing bugs. One of the best things you can do to help with the release is to get the latest Ubiquity checkout from source code (instructions here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity/Ubiquity_0.1_Development_Tutorial#Getting_the_Source) and use it as much as possible, reporting any bugs that you find. In particular, look at the bugs marked "try-to-reproduce" and see if you can figure out the conditions under which they happen. This is a major help to the project, and no coding is required! Ubiquity is supposed to run on both Firefox 3.5 and Firefox 3.0. Unfortunately there seem to be two fairly major bugs that are preventing it from working on Firefox 3.0. Those bugs are described at: http://ubiquity.mozilla.com/trac/ticket/717 and http://ubiquity.mozilla.com/trac/ticket/759 These are the two most important bugs for us to fix, because many of our users are on Firefox 3.0, and without fixes for these bugs they won't be able to use Ubiquity at all. So, if you can, please try out the latest Ubiquity source code version on Firefox 3.0 and see if you can figure out any clues about what's going wrong there. We still need work done on documentation. It would be great if anybody could take a moment to add a couple of examples or other explanation to their favorite commands on this page: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity/Command_Documentation_Workspace Finally, we are now at the point where we can start to localize the strings to different languages. I will send a follow-up email with information about how you can help with that, for those people who are interested in getting involved with localizing Ubiquity to their favorite language. Thanks for your help and support during this crunch-time, everybody! --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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
