Places:Fx3FeaturePlan

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Status

Feature tracking bug

• bug 355737 - meta bug: re-implement all the existing bookmarks UI on top of the Places backend
• bug 370099 - places-based bookmarks blockers

Overview

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Motivation

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Use Cases

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Requirements

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PLCS-001a	Provide platform support to enable syncing of Places datamodel objects to a remote server	P1	FR	This is just an event model and not the network infrastructure/sync layer, just the platform hooks.
PLCS-001b	Build a sync client on this new infrastructure	P2	FR
PLCS-001c	Provide platform support to support generic annotations	P1	FR	New area for extension authors to explore. We aren't going to be able to implement everything for Places ourselves.
PLCS-001d	Ensure that Places includes a usable and robust API for extensibility	P1	NFR
PLCS-002a	Unified user interface that improves the usability and discoverability of features	P1	NFR	details
PLCS-002b	Parity with Firefox 2 Bookmarks/History UI	P1	FR
PLCS-002c	Provide some UI that allows users to mark a URI as "interesting"	P2	FR
PLCS-002d	Provide some UI that allows users to annotate a URI with tags	P2	FR
PLCS-002e	Provide some UI that allows users to annotate a URI with free-form notes	P3	FR
PLCS-003a	Protection and safeguarding against data loss	P1	FR
PLCS-003b	Bookmark data is never lost between browsing sessions	P1	NFR
PLCS-003c	Provide backup and restore functionality for bookmarks	P1	FR
PLCS-003d	Make it easy for users to export their bookmarks for use in another application	P2	FR
PLCS-004a	Index web page content into a DB that can be queried	P2	FR	See Bug 342913
PLCS-004b	Allows users to search on all available URI metadata	P2	FR
PLCS-004c	Support SQL queries of the bookmarks database in the Error Console	P3	FR
PLCS-005a	Improve performance (as measured by memory use, transactional speed and Ts) of bookmark and history storage and retrieval operations	P1	NFR

Schedule

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Target Milestone	Feature	Notes
?	Platform support for annotations
A4	Places Bookmarks on by default	Needs to be on by 3/31 - 4/6 in order to get a reasonable number of weeks of nightly testing before A4 code freeze.
?	Platform support for sync
?	Platform API for extensibility
?	Unified Places Organizer
?	UI Parity with Fx2
?	Protection and safeguarding against data loss
?	Bookmark date is never lost
?	Backup and restore for all Places data
?	Improve performance

Design & Implementation

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• Architecture
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Repository

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Extensibility

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Performance

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Security

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Privacy

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Global Audience

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