Labs/Ubiquity/Meetings/2009-07-08 Weekly Meeting

Location

• IRC channel: #ubiquity
• Dial in:
  • +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 202 (US Toll Free/Skype)
  • +1 650 903 0800 x92 Conf# 202 (US/International)
  • +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 202 (Canada)

Agenda

We released 0.5 today! Rejoice!

1. the 0.5 release
2. what happens next
   1. the biggest bugs we want to squash first
   2. command developer outreach and community building
   3. Subscribable translations
   4. Accessibility

Attendees

1. mitcho
2. atul
3. blair
4. heather
5. fern
6. cers
7. aza
8. satyr

Notes

0.5 released today!

• 0.5 release
  • watch Aza's video explaining the split 0.5 + 0.1.9 release
  • now we wait to see when to push 0.5 to everyone. A few weeks later? A month? Two months?

What's next

• 0.5.1 - a release for immediate small bugs
  • NO NEW FEATURES
  • Please use the 0.5.1 milestone on trac. Atul has moved all remaining 0.5 tickets to it.
  • In particular, we should focus on some very noticible end-user experience bugs:
    • the flashing bug
    • the execute bug
• community outreach
  • command developer database: Heather's making an outreach database of command author contacts
    • making personal contact to encourage parser 2 usage
  • to follow 0.5 response and kvetching, check IRC, ubiquity-firefox, get satisfaction
  • should we collect code snippets that are commonly asked for on ubiquity-firefox?
    • yes we should
    • zandr can set up a django app (Aza likes it)
    • or we can use the wiki
• web design: work with Sean Martell on ubiquity.mozilla.com look and feel
  • Aza will get ball rolling
  • maybe highlight popular/good commands
• the herd
  • it's working!? - not sure how long it'll be up, though
  • atul will get fern access into the server for development
  • fern is adding new features to it, like commenting
  • should we consider a more traditional database?
    • atul likes couchdb... maybe also mongodb
    • couchdb could possibly be scaled horizontally
• the future of localization
  • nountypes
    • mitcho: perhaps we can put all the localizable strings in a JSON-able format? then we could use JSON/JS or po. Brandon agrees.
  • community commands
    • mitcho will blog about what we want (parameters) later this week
  • (Someone anoynymously added after the meeting that we should consider make _() work outside of execute/preview. cf.: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~brn.santanna/langbot/main/annotate/head%3A/langbotView/WebContent/scripts/ubiquity/gc.js)
• accessibility
  • screen reader compatibility, for example... something to think about
  • Aza prefers to concentrate on making the UI better first
  • mitcho had a meeting with a MultiModal Interface guy at W3C
    • they seem very excited by Ubiquity
    • speech recognition via EMMA could be a fun/interesting UI experiment for 0.8
  • Aza mentioned that audio features are going into JetPack in the near future as well