Update:FutureFeatures
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This document is a list of upcoming features for addons.mozilla.org (AMO). In the list below:
- P1 means that we really need to have this for the next AMO release
- P2 means that it would be nice to have
- P3 means whenever we get to it
Contents
- Fix the user experience for non en-US locales. See L10n/HomePage/Status/2007-04-18#AMO_requirements_for_l10n
- Smooth the multi-addon download/install experience (perhaps a shopping cart?)
- Smart download buttons/areas
- Non-Firefox users
- Bundling of Fx + extension(s)
- Version compatible offerings
- New Addon Metadata
- Allow off-AMO hosted support forums (One link per add-on) [P2]
- Fix the project home page button/URL [P2]
- Enable RSS for Discussion feeds
- Allow for tutorial or overview links to videos, etc...
- Replace Vanilla forums
- Theme browser (a la Apple Dashboard widget browser) [P2]
- Conflict resolution & dependency presentation, e.g. yslow, locale packs
- Highlighting signed addons
Discovery
- Search Engine fixes
- Replace with full text search engine
- Allow special results (e.g. Thunderbird add-on found, or selected terms such as category names)
- Allow for "did you mean?"/search suggest/spell check results
- Find-as-you-type searching
- Recommendation Lists
- Multi-recommended list (based on user types)
- Recommendation List Maker/List Hosting
- Advanced recommendations (complementary, similar)
- Pre-generate Search Results Pages (SRPs)
- SEO these search results pages
- Identify what users have already installed
- Based on collab filtering (or other technique) recommend based on what others have installed
- Badges
- UI, security, subject matter reviewer, privacy - complies or send data, performance
Comprehensiveness
- Allow stub entries to be created for non-AMO hosted addons
- Build crawler to discover non-AMO hosted stuff
- Expand PFS
- Support Locale Add-on Packs
- Clean up Languages/Dictionary area (arrange by language/region?)
- Support Bugzilla addons/themes/etc...
- Make search engines first class citizens/allow developers to upload them, allow locale specific and categories
- Fix the Dictionaries/Language Packs with English/English thing
Metrics & Stats
- Offer Addons section on the Mozilla Dashboard
- Migrate from Urchin to Google Analytics
- See trends over a week's span, include per day
- Provide support for Google Analytics as a tracking option
Developer Tools/Improvements
- New role for sandbox [P1]
- Revised approval process - for companies, for mozdev, etc... [P1]
- Stats Control Panel
- Localization Data / Upload API
- Addon Upload API (e.g. for MozDev)
- Enable optional Google Analytics for addons authors
- Revitalizing Community
- Developer leaderboard/Amazon-like ranking
- Allow HTML in the addon descriptions
- AMO iFrame (or paypal-like) distribution for pushing AMO far and wide
- Use design patterns to create a benign conduit (?)
- Identify binary components via script iterating over all addons
- Allow Ext Devs to check if binary components exist in their addon
- For logged in editors, provide links to review queue from add-on pages an search results
Infrastructure
- Mozilla Lab's Weave integration for allowing addon list to be hosted and accessible from a Mozilla web service
- Allow a Mozilla ID to be used on AMO [P2]
- Can we offer performance tools for addons (Talos, other)?
Community Building
- Editor Leaderboard
- Editor tools feature requests
- Make it easier to search for an add-on in a queue, with the results providing links to the review page
- If you are logged in as an editor, and go to a page for an add-on in the sandbox, then somewhere on the page there should be a 'Review' link
- AMO Treasure Hunt
- AddOns Planet for article publishing
- Mozilla Point system/ TikiWiki/Clearspace
- Update your addon
- Write knowledge base articles
- Submit bugs
- Productive forum comments
- Editor got points
- Localization
- Being an editor, reviewing
- Give the Gift of Addons
User Profiles
- Pages such as https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/177629 are indexed by Google, perhaps they should only be accessible to logged in AMO users.
Fun
- April Fools Prank