Features/Firefox/PlugincheckLinkInAOM
Status
| Link plugin checker from AOM | |
| Stage | Shipped |
| Status | Complete |
| Release target | Firefox 6 |
| Health | OK |
| Status note | ` |
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Team
| Product manager | Kev Needham |
| Directly Responsible Individual | Dave Townsend |
| Lead engineer | Hernan Colmeiro |
| Security lead | ` |
| Privacy lead | ` |
| Localization lead | ` |
| Accessibility lead | David Bolter |
| QA lead | Henrik Skupin |
| UX lead | Jennifer Boriss |
| Product marketing lead | ` |
| Operations lead | ` |
| Additional members | ` |
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Open issues/risks
- limited number of localized plugincheck pages may make it difficult for users to understand feature
- increased traffic to plugincheck may affect performance; needs assessment
- string changes require l10n work
Stage 1: Definition
1. Feature overview
Add a link and descriptive text for the plugincheck service to the "Plugins" section of the Addons Manager. Until there is plugincheck functionality in Firefox proper, this will provide users with a simple method to determine if their plugins are up-to-date.
2. Users & use cases
- similar to checking for extension updates, users should be able to check their plugins. currently AOM only provides installed version information, and it'd be great to provide users with a resource to check if their plugins are up-to-date.
Goals
- Provide a one-click link to the web service which allows a user to check if their installed plugins are up-to-date
- Redirect users to the plugin check if they select "check for updates" from the settings drop-down while on the Plugins page of the Addon Manager
3. Dependencies
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4. Requirements
UI design from UX- Localize strings for use with descriptive text
- Add link to AMO dialog on the plugins page
- (Optionally) link to plugincheck from "check for updates" menu item when plugins page is selected
Non-goals
- Integration of plugincheck into AOM
- Linking to third-party plugin sites from AOM
Stage 2: Design
5. Functional specification
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6. User experience design
Stage 3: Planning
7. Implementation plan
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8. Reviews
Security review
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Privacy review
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Localization review
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Accessibility
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Quality Assurance review
- Target URL validates to our plugin checker web page
- Link is only visible in the plugins list view
Link is only visible if plugins are enabled- Link can be localized and also works in RTL builds
Operations review
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Stage 4: Development
9. Implementation
Next Steps & Open Issues
- define descriptive text for link
mockups of UI for plugin check- impact assessment of non-localized version(s) of plugincheck
- ask l10n teams for feedback and/or translations of strings
- assign development, add link to product
- QA & l10n signoff
Related Bugs & Dependencies
Bug for this feature is bug 656269
- Plugincheck overview/documentation
- Mozilla's plugincheck webapp
- Localize the plugincheck webapp bug 661134
- Integrate Plugin Check with installed plugins in the add-ons manager bug 613305
Stage 5: Release
10. Landing criteria
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- increased traffic to plugincheck may affect performance; needs assessment
- string changes require l10n work
|Feature overview=Add a link and descriptive text for the plugincheck service to the "Plugins" section of the Addons Manager. Until there is plugincheck functionality in Firefox proper, this will provide users with a simple method to determine if their plugins are up-to-date. |Feature users and use cases=* similar to checking for extension updates, users should be able to check their plugins. currently AOM only provides installed version information, and it'd be great to provide users with a resource to check if their plugins are up-to-date.
Goals
- Provide a one-click link to the web service which allows a user to check if their installed plugins are up-to-date
- Redirect users to the plugin check if they select "check for updates" from the settings drop-down while on the Plugins page of the Addon Manager
|Feature dependencies=`
|Feature requirements=* UI design from UX
- Localize strings for use with descriptive text
- Add link to AMO dialog on the plugins page
- (Optionally) link to plugincheck from "check for updates" menu item when plugins page is selected
|Feature non-goals=* Integration of plugincheck into AOM
- Linking to third-party plugin sites from AOM
|Feature functional spec=`
|Feature ux design=* 
|Feature implementation plan=`
|Feature security review=`
|Feature privacy review=`
|Feature localization review=`
|Feature accessibility review=`
|Feature qa review=*Target URL validates to our plugin checker web page
- Link is only visible in the plugins list view
Link is only visible if plugins are enabled- Link can be localized and also works in RTL builds
|Feature operations review=` |Feature implementation notes===== Next Steps & Open Issues ====
- define descriptive text for link
mockups of UI for plugin check- impact assessment of non-localized version(s) of plugincheck
- ask l10n teams for feedback and/or translations of strings
- assign development, add link to product
- QA & l10n signoff
Related Bugs & Dependencies
Bug for this feature is bug 656269
- Plugincheck overview/documentation
- Mozilla's plugincheck webapp
- Localize the plugincheck webapp bug 661134
- Integrate Plugin Check with installed plugins in the add-ons manager bug 613305
|Feature landing criteria=` }}
Feature details
| Priority | P1 |
| Rank | 999 |
| Theme / Goal | ` |
| Roadmap | Plugin Interactions |
| Secondary roadmap | ` |
| Feature list | Desktop |
| Project | ` |
| Engineering team | Desktop front-end |
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Team status notes
| status | notes | |
| Products | ` | ` |
| Engineering | ` | ` |
| Security | pass | ` |
| Privacy | ` | ` |
| Localization | ` | ` |
| Accessibility | ` | ` |
| Quality assurance | Done | ` |
| User experience | ` | ` |
| Product marketing | ` | ` |
| Operations | ` | ` |
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