Labs/Ubiquity/Meetings/2009-08-05 Weekly Meeting
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Agenda
- Ubiquity 0.5.2 (release this week!)
- Beyond 0.5.2
- Ideas from Labs onsite
- Herd
- Ubiquity Settings
- Miscellanous
Attendees
- brandon
- mitcho
- jono
- heather
- atul
- lech
- satyr
- marsf
Notes
- Ubiquity 0.5.2
- Hoping to release this Thursday, can push to Friday if necessary
- 0.5.2 will include:
- Spanish localizations for commands.
- Please blog/promote
- suggestion memory
- parser completion fixes
- Playpen and Nountype Tuner are verified to be working
- initial noun cache support is in
- some parses are not completing properly — two tests recently went red. mitcho will investigate and hopefully fix before 0.5.2 (or else rollback + branch)
- improved context menu support
- test this
- improved nountype scoring: see mitcho's recent blog posts, with a little more to come
- new async geolocation nountype family — please experiment
- chrome pages localizable!
- Don't have localizations for this though, besides partial japanese
- Babelzilla for getting the word out about this, outreach (AMO tool : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5810 )
- Today's sprint! New notification bar for when you visit a site that has an active ubiquity command which you have not used
- Spanish localizations for commands.
- Beyond 0.5.2
- Check commands on subscription — warn in case it's a Parser 1 command before subscribing
- New async geolocation nountypes need to be applied
- plugin-provider-argument feature?
- Complete noun caching
- Fix/improve problem with keystrokes getting lost (http://ubiquity.mozilla.com/trac/ticket/741 see comment #9) and/or the enter execution being lost (http://ubiquity.mozilla.com/trac/ticket/838).
- Could this be related to internal noun caching? Maybe.
- When should we be cutting off 0.1.x line? 0.5.3? 0.6? Let's set the criteria.
- Commands converted, x percent of top y used commands?
- Open this up to the community and ask them what it would take for it to be "ready"
- Add a survey monkey to the 0.1.x line to ask users why they haven't moved over
- We can also update + uplift some of the popular ones which aren't getting updated
- google site search
- check facebook status?
- facebook status
- Herd
- Fern says we need server + UI. Jono will investigate helping out.
- Jono proposes to call the technology/method the herd, but call the public search interface like "ubiquity command search"
- Could we expand discoverability technique added in the sprint to also give a drop down suggestion when someone navigates to a page that Herd has a command for?
- Ideas from Labs onsite
- command reminder (done! — see above)
- persistent Ubiquity input interface
- non-programmatic (macro-style?) way to create commands
- command chaining, aliases
- mouse-based and voice-input Ubiquity
- JetPack API integration
- Ubiquity Settings
- Moving settings into native preference pane, discussion still open
- We might table this one for now and focus on higher priorities