User:Ben

Links

• http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/ -- my blog
• http://www.bengoodger.com/software/mb/ -- my resources folder

Projects

These are projects I am managing for Firefox2 (listed with significant subcomponents):

• Places (page, search, subscriptions, browser UI, tags) — bugs
• In-Page RSS (sniffing, content conversion, UI) — bug
• Browser Window Update (ui organization) — bug
• Search (back end, apis, ui, discovery) — bug
• Inline Spell Check (dictionary distribution) — bug

Groups where discussion about these projects takes place:

• mozilla.dev.apps.firefox (subscribe to the mailing list before posting otherwise your message may be held for moderation indefinitely)

Contributors on the critical path for the features I am managing:

• Brett Wilson (FT) (places, spell check)
• Annie Sullivan (FT) (places)
• Joe Hughes (FT) (places, browser UI)
• Pam Greene (FT) (places, ???)
• Brian Ryner (MT) (places)
• Gavin Sharp (PT) (search: bug 317107, new search service)
• Robert Sayre (PT) (rss: bug 325080, feed parsing service)
• Christian Biesinger (PT) (rss: bug 324985, first chance at content sniffing)

FT = Full Time, MT = Majority Time or 50%, PT = Part Time.

These are projects I am contributing to:

• Visual Identity Refresh

These are projects I am monitoring:

• Tabbed Browsing Enhancements
• Session Restore

Milestone Objectives

Firefox2 Alpha1 Objectives

• places dogfood enabled
• core component requirements for feed handling checked in (biesi, sayrer)
• search service back end (gavin)

Firefox2 Alpha2 Objectives

• places front end content-complete
• browser front end content-complete
• search service front end content-complete
• rss front end content-complete
• spell checking enabled for us-english

Management

Pointy haired stuff

Daily To-Do List

• triage Bugs for each feature: places, feeds, search
• checkpoint for blockers
• engineering work!

Weekly To-Do List

• checkpoint global milestone progress
• summarize status