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-This document is a list of features for addons.mozilla.org (AMO):
+This document is a list of upcoming features for addons.mozilla.org (AMO). In the list below P1 means that we really need to have this for the next AMO release. P2 means that it would be nice to have. P3 means whenever we get to it.
-= Navigation =
+= Ease-of-Use & Navigation =
-* Theme browser (a la Apple Dashboard widget browser)
+* Smooth the multi-addon download/install experience (perhaps a shopping cart?)
+* Smart download buttons/areas
+** Non-Firefox users
+** Bundling of Fx + extension(s)
+** Version compatible offerings
+* Replace Vanilla forums
+** Allow off-AMO hosted support forums (One link per add-on) [P2]
+** Fix the project home page button/URL [P2]
+** Enable RSS for Discussion feeds
+* Theme browser (a la Apple Dashboard widget browser) [P2]
+* Allow a Mozilla ID to be used on AMO [P2]
 = Discovery =
-* Pre-generate Search Results Pages (SRPs)
+* Search Engine fixes
-** SEO these search results pages
+** Replace with full text search engine
+** Allow special results (e.g. Thunderbird add-on found, or selected terms such as category names)
+** Allow for "did you mean?"/search suggest/spell check results
+** Find-as-you-type searching
 * Recommendation Lists
 ** Multi-recommended list (based on user types)
-** Recommendation List Maker
+** Recommendation List Maker/List Hosting
 ** Advanced recommendations (complementary, similar)
+* Pre-generate Search Results Pages (SRPs)
+** SEO these search results pages
+* Identify what users have already installed
+** Based on collab filtering (or other technique) recommend based on what others have installed
 = Comprehensiveness =
-* PFS integration
+* Allow stub entries to be created for non-AMO hosted addons
+* Build crawler to discover non-AMO hosted stuff
+* Expand PFS
+* Support Locale Add-on Packs
 * Clean up Languages/Dictionary area (arrange by language/region?)
-* Linking to non-AMO hosted
+* Support Bugzilla addons/themes/etc...
+* Make search engines first class citizens/allow developers to upload them, allow locale specific and categories
-= Ease-of-Use =
+* Fix the Dictionaries/Language Packs with English/English thing
-* Smooth the multi-addon download/install experience (perhaps a shopping cart?)
-* Smart download buttons/areas
-** Non-Firefox users
-** Bundling of Fx + extension(s)
-** Version compatible offerings
-* Replace Vanilla forums
-** Allow off-AMO hosted forums (per addon)
-** Enable RSS for Discussion feeds
-= Type-specific =
-* Fix the Dictionaries/Language Packs with English/English thing - it's unclear
 = Metrics & Stats =
-* Offer a Moz Addons dashboard
+* Offer Addons section on the Mozilla Dashboard
+* Migrate from Urchin to Google Analytics
 * See trends over a week's span, include per day
 * Provide support for Google Analytics as a tracking option
-= Admin UI =
+= Developer Tools/Improvements =
+* New role for sandbox [P1]
+* Revised approval process - for companies, for mozdev, etc... [P1]
+* Stats Control Panel
+* Localization Data / Upload API
+* Addon Upload API (e.g. for MozDev)
+* Enable optional Google Analytics for addons authors
+* Firefox 3 compatibility/outreach [Polvi is managing]
+* Revitalizing Community
+* Developer leaderboard/Amazon-like ranking
+* Allow HTML in the addon descriptions
 = Infrastructure =
+* Mozilla Lab's Weave integration for allowing addon list to be hosted and accessible from a Mozilla web service
 = User Profiles =
 * Pages such as https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/177629 are indexed by Google, perhaps they should only be accessible to logged in AMO users.
+= Fun =
+* April Fools Prank