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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) | * Fix the user experience for non en-US locales. See [[L10n/HomePage/Status/2007-04-18#AMO_requirements_for_l10n]] | ||
* 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 | |||
* New Addon Metadata | |||
** 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 | |||
** Allow for tutorial or overview links to videos, etc... | |||
* Replace Vanilla forums | |||
* Theme browser (a la Apple Dashboard widget browser) [P2] | |||
* Conflict resolution & dependency presentation, e.g. yslow, locale packs | |||
* Highlighting signed addons | |||
= Discovery = | = 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 | * Recommendation Lists | ||
** Multi-recommended list (based on user types) | ** Multi-recommended list (based on user types) | ||
** Recommendation List Maker | ** Recommendation List Maker/List Hosting | ||
** Advanced recommendations (complementary, similar) | ** 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 | |||
* Badges | |||
** UI, security, subject matter reviewer, privacy - complies or send data, performance | |||
= Comprehensiveness = | = Comprehensiveness = | ||
* PFS | * 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?) | * 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 | ||
* | |||
** Allow | = 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 | |||
* 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 (?) | |||
* Identify binary components via script iterating over all addons | |||
* Allow Ext Devs to check if binary components exist in their addon | |||
* For logged in editors, provide links to review queue from add-on pages an search results | |||
= 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)? | |||
= Community Building = | |||
* Editor Leaderboard | |||
* Editor tools feature requests | |||
** Make it easier to search for an add-on in a queue, with the results providing links to the review page | |||
** If you are logged in as an editor, and go to a page for an add-on in the sandbox, then somewhere on the page there should be a 'Review' link | |||
* AMO Treasure Hunt | |||
* AddOns Planet for article publishing | |||
* Mozilla Point system/ TikiWiki/Clearspace | |||
** Update your addon | |||
** Write knowledge base articles | |||
** Submit bugs | |||
** Productive forum comments | |||
** Editor got points | |||
** Localization | |||
** Being an editor, reviewing | |||
* Give the Gift of Addons | |||
= 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 | |||