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Second biggest news is the new interactive tutorial. User testing showed we had a desperate need for a better first-run experience, so we created a walkthrough that takes new users by the hand and teaches them the basic concepts along with a handful of the most useful commands. | Second biggest news is the new interactive tutorial. User testing showed we had a desperate need for a better first-run experience, so we created a walkthrough that takes new users by the hand and teaches them the basic concepts along with a handful of the most useful commands. | ||
Release date: June 22 (or 23rd if we're following the tuesday-publicity theory), timed to coincide with release of Firefox 3.5. | Release date: June 22 (or 23rd if we're following the tuesday-publicity theory), timed to coincide with release of Firefox 3.5. (Update: We released 0.5pre, a still-buggy preview edition, on June 22. We will release 0.5 for real, with no new features but lots of bug fixes, on June 30.) | ||
Must support both Firefox 3.0 and 3.5. | Must support both Firefox 3.0 and 3.5. | ||
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* Human interface guidelines for command developers, to encourage consistency of interface between commands. | * Human interface guidelines for command developers, to encourage consistency of interface between commands. | ||
* Outreach to localization community, to solicit the help of localizers to get Ubiquity working in more languages. | * Outreach to localization community, to solicit the help of localizers to get Ubiquity working in more languages. | ||
== Server-Side Improvements == | |||
There are three server side components to Ubiquity: | |||
# The command search engine ("The Herd") | |||
# The bug-reporting system | |||
# The developer support infrastructure, e.g. Hg and Trac, that run on ubiquity.mozilla.com. | |||
All three of these have been experiencing major availability and/or performance problems. The lack of usable uptime is really starting to hold us back. As soon as 0.5 is released, we need to focus on making all three of these server-side components stable and reliable enough to support our plans for growth of the user and developer communities. | |||
== Ubiquity 0.5.1 == | == Ubiquity 0.5.1 == | ||
Beginning of Q3, 2009 | |||
A few features that didn't make it into 0.5, along with fixes for whatever the biggest bugs are that we discover after 0.5. Notable features (which are almost done, but didn't get in to 0.5 before feature freeze) are: | A few features that didn't make it into 0.5, along with fixes for whatever the biggest bugs are that we discover after 0.5. Notable features (which are almost done, but didn't get in to 0.5 before feature freeze) are: | ||