WebExtensions/AdvisoryGroup

WebExtensions Advisory Group is a cross-disciplinary body responsible for guiding the development of WebExtensions as it branches out into new APIs beyond the basic level of Chrome parity.

Bugs should be labelled with "[design-decision-needed]" can be found .

Flow

• Mark a bug as [advisory-group], this should be reserved for bugs that can't be resolved by the community. For example, sometimes security questions need more input.

Bugs marked with these [design-decision...] are talked about in the bi-weekly community meeting:

• Mark a bug as [design-decision-needed], existing bugs
• If it sounds good it will get marked as [design-decision-approved], existing bugs
• Start sending in some patches for [design-decision-approved] bugs :)

Responsibilities

• Steering WebExtension API development
  • Recommendations of new APIs.
  • Guidance on API requests, if an API should be implemented.
  • Feedback to people requesting APIs and alternatives.
  • Evaluating experimental APIs and see if they should be included.

Members

• Kev Needham: Product
• Daniel Veditz: Security
• Adam Roach: Engineering
• Gijs Kruitbosch: Firefox front end
• Michael Kaply: Enterprise
• Dan Callahan: Developer relations

... and most of the normal WebExtension development team.

Meeting Notes

Next meeting: TBD

Running document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qCIUX0LavYixkzwan8IcSYeut4zQiCkJbrMVpSEm5Lk/edit#