Update:FutureFeatures

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

Ease-of-Use & Navigation

• Fix the user experience for non en-US locales
• 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]

Discovery

• Search Engine fixes
  • 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/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

• 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?)
• Support Bugzilla addons/themes/etc...
• Make search engines first class citizens/allow developers to upload them, allow locale specific and categories
• Fix the Dictionaries/Language Packs with English/English thing

Metrics & Stats

• 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

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
• AMO iFrame (or paypal-like) distribution for pushing AMO far and wide
• Use design patterns to create a benign conduit (?)

Infrastructure

• Mozilla Lab's Weave integration for allowing addon list to be hosted and accessible from a Mozilla web service
• Allow a Mozilla ID to be used on AMO [P2]
• Can we offer performance tools for addons (Talos, other)?

Policies

• Write editor role description, how to do a review, etc...

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

Requirements for Moz2

• No restart
• Extension dependency (at install time)
• Conflict resolution
• GUIDs that you have installed
• Check if GUID is installed (from a website) with a whitelist
• This site wants to get a list of your addons
• Ability separate release level and sandbox (separate update vector for extensions) [no update available for sandbox'ed items]. Similar to nightly testing channel (custom AUS channel for sandbox or other)
• Security sandbox for capabilities (when you add - java security model)
• Subscribe to different AMO channels (like clearance levels) - perhaps that's too much