Revision as of 23:45, 5 October 2007

The goal of AMO Version 3.2 is to radically simplify the add-ons experience for end users thru better navigation, recategorization and site design.

Navigation / Page Design

AMO site redesign mockups are available

ID	Priority	Requirement	Bug/Design links
DES-1	P1	Implement Add-Ons details page	bug 396736
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DES-2	P1	Implement categories page	bug 396737
DES-3	P1	Implement front page	bug 396738
DES-4	P1	Implement search results page (SRP)	bug 396739

Category Revision

The goal of the category revision is to help eliminate the confusion associated with the various "Add-On" types. These types may remain but will not be a primary distinguisher of an add-on. The type may continue to be indicated (e.g. on SRPs) but the functionality offering should be the bigger emphasis.

ID

Priority

Requirement

Assignee

Bug/Design links

CAT-1

P1

Implement new categories list

bug 396741

New Categories are:

Alerts & Updates	Search Tools
Bookmarks	Social & Communication
Download Management	Tabs
Feeds, News & Blogging	Themes & Appearance
Language Support	Toolbars
Privacy & Security	Web Development
Photos, Music & Videos	Other

I'm hoping that we can leave our "Other" but include it for now for migration purposes. It's the default category for add-ons whose categories have been eliminated.

CAT-2

P1

Reclassify all existing add-ons into new categories

bug 396742

Here is the mapping from before to after for the types:

Old Type	New Category
Extensions	Eliminated as a type per see - categories from Browse all extensions has been elevated to the top level.
Themes	Themes & Appearance
Search Engines	Search Tools
Plugins	Eliminated (see Note below)
Dictionaries	Language Support

Here is the mapping from before to after for the extension categories:

Old Category	New Category
RSS, News and Blogging	Feeds, News & Blogging
Web and Developer Tools	Web Development
Downloading and File Management	Download Management
Privacy and Security	Privacy & Security
Search Tools	Search Tools
Interface Customizations	Subcategory within "Themes & Appearance"
Bookmarks	Bookmarks
Site-specific	Eliminated
Language Support and Translation	Language Support
Photos and Media	Photos, Music & Videos
Social and Sharing	Social & Communication
Web Data, Alerts, and Widgets	Alerts & Updates for most. Web Data and Widgets need to be remapped manually
Miscellaneous	Eliminated (unless we have to have Other)

We've opted to remove Plugins from the current AMO site for several reasons
- They get very little traffic
- They are confusing since they are not really hosted on AMO itself
- The don't fit the existing categorization
- We'd like to introduce the new multi-tier PFS system and integrate into AMO in a nicer way
- Desire to keep the categories list simple
The default new location for add-ons not specifically remaped will be "Other". This will be the holding bin. Then, there will be some "manual reclassification" that will need to happen to move the various items there into new categories.

Search Changes

ID	Priority	Requirement
SRCH-1	P1	Visually indicate experimental add-ons in Search Results
SRCH-2	P1	Include title, category and description as valid search terms. SRP can include individual addons (all types) as well as category names or content from the addon description (not just the addon summary).
SRCH-3	P1	Manually review top 50 searches and see if expected results are shown, otherwise, tweak to include more targeted results.

Image viewer

Replace the existing thumbnail viewer with a lightbox style viewer. Implement Image Viewer (IMG-1) bug 396743

Experimental Login Flow Page

If an add-on is experimental, we want people to know about it but also to be wary of doing such installations. A new flow of installing a sandbox'ed extension will be defined.

Application segregation

ID	Priority	Requirement
APP-1	P1	~~Create staging and production instances of AMO v3.1 for Thunderbird, SeaMonkey and Sunbird~~
Doesn't appear to be required since the AMO app already has clear code and database separation Eng has suggested that the application segregation be achieved without creation of separate instances.
APP-2	P1	Remove the existing "Application Selector" from the current AMO site and demote it to a small link at the bottom of the page. Include application names as a special search result.
APP-3	P1	Preserve (as much as possible) the old URL scheme for accessing addons content since people link directly to AMO detail pages

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-* There will be some "manual work" that will need to happen to classify items in the "Miscellaneous" and "Site-Specific" categories.
+* The default new location for add-ons not specifically remaped will be "Other". This will be the holding bin. Then, there will be some "manual reclassification" that will need to happen to move the various items there into new categories.
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