Labs/Ubiquity/November 12 Meeting Notes
Attendees
- Fernando Takai (fern on irc)
- Gray Norton
- Blair McBride (Unfocused on irc)
- Zach (zak on irc)
- Jono DiCarlo (jono on irc)
- Atul Varma (atul on irc)
Meeting Notes
The format of the meeting was as follows: we went through all the sections of the 0.2 Roadmap Proposals document, with a different person (usually Jono or Atul) explaining what each section meant and answering any questions people had about the goals of the section. At the end of each section's discussion, we attempted to arrive at a consensus about the prioritization of individual items in each section, if we felt that it was important to do so. Once we went through all the sections, we prioritized them and selected two major areas that we felt were appropriate to work on for Ubiquity 0.2 given its current state and vision.
The meeting lasted approximately 80 minutes.
Ultimately it was decided that we focus on the following goals for the 0.2 release of Ubiquity, which should be completed by the end of 2008:
- User Interface Innovation.
- We should refactor the internals of Ubiquity to allow for an external interface to easily "plug in" to Ubiquity's functionality; the context menu and the command-line interface should become UI plug-ins. Aside from making the code easier to understand, this will make it possible for other community members to create new interfaces to Ubiquity functionality through either updatable Firefox Extensions or streamable Command Feeds (more research needs to be done to figure out which of these will be most practical).
- We should focus on enhancing the usefulness of the context menu in particular, to make it detect noun types more easily and provide better suggestions. Detection of noun types should preferably involve collaboration with Thunderbird's Andrew Sutherland, since he's in charge of adding "data detector" style support to Thunderbird and has already made some progress along this front.