Labs/Ubiquity/Meetings/2009-08-05 Weekly Meeting

Agenda

• Ubiquity 0.5.2 (release this week!)
• Beyond 0.5.2
• Ideas from Labs onsite
• Herd
• Ubiquity Settings
• Miscellanous

Attendees

1. brandon
2. mitcho
3. jono
4. heather
5. atul
6. lech
7. satyr
8. marsf

Notes

• Ubiquity 0.5.2
  • Hoping to release this Thursday, can push to Friday if necessary
  • 0.5.2 will include:
    • Spanish localizations for commands.
      • Please blog/promote
    • suggestion memory
    • parser completion fixes
      • Playpen and Nountype Tuner are verified to be working
    • initial noun cache support is in
      • some parses are not completing properly — two tests recently went red. mitcho will investigate and hopefully fix before 0.5.2 (or else rollback + branch)
    • improved context menu support
      • test this
    • improved nountype scoring: see mitcho's recent blog posts, with a little more to come
      • new async geolocation nountype family — please experiment
    • chrome pages localizable!
      • Don't have localizations for this though, besides partial japanese
      • Babelzilla for getting the word out about this, outreach (AMO tool : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5810 )
    • Today's sprint! New notification bar for when you visit a site that has an active ubiquity command which you have not used

• Beyond 0.5.2
  • Check commands on subscription — warn in case it's a Parser 1 command before subscribing
  • New async geolocation nountypes need to be applied
  • plugin-provider-argument feature?
  • Complete noun caching
  • Fix/improve problem with keystrokes getting lost (http://ubiquity.mozilla.com/trac/ticket/741 see comment #9) and/or the enter execution being lost (http://ubiquity.mozilla.com/trac/ticket/838).
    • Could this be related to internal noun caching? Maybe.
  • When should we be cutting off 0.1.x line? 0.5.3? 0.6? Let's set the criteria.
    • Commands converted, x percent of top y used commands?
    • Open this up to the community and ask them what it would take for it to be "ready"
      • Add a survey monkey to the 0.1.x line to ask users why they haven't moved over
    • We can also update + uplift some of the popular ones which aren't getting updated
      • google site search
      • check facebook status?
      • facebook status

• Herd
  • Fern says we need server + UI. Jono will investigate helping out.
  • Jono proposes to call the technology/method the herd, but call the public search interface like "ubiquity command search"
  • Could we expand discoverability technique added in the sprint to also give a drop down suggestion when someone navigates to a page that Herd has a command for?

• Ideas from Labs onsite
  • command reminder (done! — see above)
  • persistent Ubiquity input interface
  • non-programmatic (macro-style?) way to create commands
  • command chaining, aliases
  • mouse-based and voice-input Ubiquity
  • JetPack API integration

• Ubiquity Settings
  • Moving settings into native preference pane, discussion still open
  • We might table this one for now and focus on higher priorities