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= November 28th =
Raw notes that kind of follow the list:
* not making new table for features
* plan on adding preview and stats panel
* adding updateinfourl to update service
* basil and laura will figure out stats on the api
* file bug for migration to google analytics and do it sooner than later
* find something to do with house icon
* need to include support forum URLs
* use full-text, see how that goes
* add suggestions and spellcheck, include
* add localized search engines
* figure out how to support more than what we have (like mycroft)
* sandbox -- need to have users agree to usage 
* locale packs -- need to re-read thread and revisit adding support for these
* pfs for q1 2k8
* add-on bundles need to happen
* Moz ID would be a great addition
* iframe or syndicated buttons for other users
* use design patterns to recreate a benign conduit
* how do we approach handling fx 2 -> fx 3 for themes -- set a date for end of life for fx 2 themes 
** make sure that versioncheck doesn't screw people with old themes
* improve sandbox separation

The list:
* Current projects status
* End User Improvements
** Visible download counts?
** Easier to Find/Search
*** Thunderbird
*** Sponsored links in Google (did you mean), search suggestions, spell check
*** Weave SPI for addons (accessing)

** Local and remote support forum URLs, House Icon
** Allowing HTML on site

** Better locale experience for existing locales (short-term fix)
** AddOn Project Home Page URL
** Allow Mozilla ID to be used on AMO
** What to do with search engines?
*** Make search engines as first class citizens
*** 

** What to do with plugins / Plugin Finder Services (PFS)?
** Add-on Packs
** Locale-specific Reco Lists
*** Neighbors that have similar addons


* Developer Tools/Improvements
** Stats Control Panel
** Localization / Upload API
** Addon Upload API (e.g. for MozDev)
** Enable optional Google Analytics for addons authors
** Firefox 3 compatibility/outreach
** Revitalizing Community
** Developer leaderboard/Amazon-like ranking

* Stats
** Migrate to Google Analytics
** Mozilla AMO dashboard

* AddOns Population
** Support for non-AMO hosted/stub entries
** Support for Bugzilla addons/themes/etc.

* Add-on Lifecycle/Processes
** New role for sandbox
** Revised approval process - for companies, for mozdev, etc...
** Cleanup of evil addons
* April Fool's

= November 21st =
'''Redesign 3.2'''
* Schedule & Resources
** Brought in Craig to help with redesign [http://www.focalcurve.com/ see his site]
** Currently working on main, display and search results pages locally
** Will have workable HTML mocks by next friday on remora-reskin staging box
** Overall schedule with Craig is to deliver the new templates by Dec. 15th, [http://wiki.mozilla.org/Update:RequirementsV32#Weekly_Milestones_for_Q4 more on the schedule here]
** morgamic will be helping with SVN, Remora implementation of completed mocks
* Deprioritized a few features to P2 on [[Update:RequirementsV32|V3.2 Reqs]] in light of resource/time constraints
* New image viewer is awesome, needs input from Madhava (clouserw)
* AI: [Madhava] Get some see thru buttons for image viewer
* Set of fully up-to-date mockups going here (images there, page to come): [http://people.mozilla.com/~madhava/files/amo/2007-11-21/]

'''API 3.3'''
* Deprioritized a few features to P2 on [[Update:RequirementsV33|V3.3 Reqs]] in light of interim design

* AddOns Manager: Laura meeting with dtownsend Monday to go through needed tweaks, work on these in progress.

* Ratings and login (again)

'''Plugin Update?'''

''' Developer Statistics Dashboard '''
* Still parsing tons of old logs
* Sorting out issues from launch of new download script last week happening at same time as a database slave not updating
* Will hopefully have time to finish the up the remaining UI and graphs next week and setup a public preview for testing.

= November 14th =
3.2
* Reskin update and scheduling (morgamic)
** Need search box background layer without form fields in it
** Are we ditching current Rustico global header or keeping it?  Any news on that?
** Completely filled round boxes or 1-corner approach okay?
* [Morgamic] Publish the detailed milestone schedule for V3.2

3.3
* Ratings in API, anonymous ratings (laura)
* l10n locale redirect issue (laura)
* [[Firefox:Add-ons_Manager_UI_interim|Addons Manager Interim Design]]
* [Basil] Review/reprioritize [[Update:RequirementsV33|V3.3 Reqs]] in light of interim design

Other
* Failed update last night, but alas it will happen Thursday
* [https://intranet.mozilla.org/Webdev:PHP5_Migration PHP5 migration] (morgamic)
* Up your plug (morgamic)
* ask.com issue - {{bug|403742}}

= November 7th =
* [http://blog.mozilla.com/basil/2007/11/06/amo-preview-of-coming-attractions/ AMO v3.2 Blog post]
* [https://remora-reskin.stage.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ AMO v3.2 Staging Environment]
* Drafted [[Update:RequirementsStats-PhaseI|Add-Ons Dashboard requirements]] & IT {{bug|402300}}
* main nav "mozilla tag" finalized: [http://people.mozilla.com/~madhava/files/amo/main_nav/final_mozilla_tag.png see it!]
* Latest Stats page screenshots: [http://people.mozilla.com/~jscott/devcp/stats6a.png 6a] and [http://people.mozilla.com/~jscott/devcp/stats6b.png 6b]
* Will do the PHP5 migration sooner so that search optimization can take advantage + performance increases overall
* [Basil] Review AMO privacy policy and for Firefox users, can their platform be sent to third-party developer
* [Basil] Privacy policy regarding sharing of update pings for developers and end users.

= October 31st =
* fb.AMO is a non-ssl functional copy of AMO - is that what we want? (clouserw)
* I've started a [http://wiki.mozilla.org/Update:RemoraV32:Test_Plan test plan] (bare-bones, but will flesh out ASAP; once this is solid and I've got actual pages to test, I'll go to town) (stephend)
* Latest (final!) images in from Henry - details page and image viewer revisions (madhava)
* [Madhava] Finalize the AMO header
* [Basil] Subcategories for Search in a bug

= October 24th =
* AMO v32 (redesign)
** Latest designs from Henry Brown, http://people.mozilla.com/~basil/amo/
** Has anyone looked at the first Slices yet?
** Review schedule (need revision)
    * Designs Completed (10/26)
    * Finish Global Layout and CSS (11/2)
    * Home Page (10/7)
    * Search page (11/12)
    * Browse Page (11/14)
    * Add-On Display page (11/16)
    * Other Sub-pages (11/16)
    * Testing (11/22)
    * Rollout (12/8)
** Open topics: search engine terms

* AMO v33 (API)
* Migrating to Google Analytics
* Extend Firefox contest
** Banner ads?
** Ext Dev communication?
* AMO Senior Editors
* Updated Trusted List
* Per morgamic, PHP 4-> 5 migration to take place post-update - stephend

= October 17th =
* Current designs from Henry Brown, http://people.mozilla.com/~basil/amo/
* Proposed project schedule:
** Designs Completed (10/23)
** Finish Global Layout and CSS (10/26)
** Home Page (10/31)
** Search page (11/5)
** Browse Page (11/7)
** Add-On Display page (11/9)
** Other Sub-pages (11/9)
** Testing (11/15)
** Rollout (12/1)
* Modifying trusted list this afternoon
* Update project (on track)
* API Status?

= October 10th =
* Update on dependent extension discussion?
* Plan is to rollout PHP5 during December
* We'll rollout new categories now so that we can ease migration
* Plugin Detection project, Morgamic will finish it this week and we'll try to roll it out on Tuesday next week

= October 3rd =

* [[User:Bhashem/AddOns-AMO-Principles|AMO Directions]] & [[Update:Roadmap|roadmap]]

* Update Page project
** [Basil] Basil to follow up with JT for static vs. dynamic stuff

* Reco List Criteria
** Drafted Criteria for [[User:Bhashem/RecoListsAndFeaturedListCriteria|recommendation lists and individual addons]]

* AMO v3.2 (Redesign)
** Draft [[Update:RequirementsV32|AMO v3.2 requirements document]]
** Current mocks available here: [[Update:Remora_UI_Review/Mockups/Home_Page/2007-09-12_revisions/]]
** Home page design mockups developed.
** [Madhava] Is Henry delivering CSS?
** [Morgamic] Start schedule spreadsheet, enumerate dependencies and what you need
** [Basil] How to deal with recategorization? (3 cats per app) Global replace, let authors select new categories
** If an addon hasn't been updated for a long time, we should disable it [if older than 6 months] + other critera (are people still downloading it, rating and reviews are not being added]
** [Basil] Experimental vs. Questionable/Disabled (on the shelf)

* AMO v3.3 (API) [[Firefox:Add-ons_Manager_UI|Fx3 AddOns Manager Refresh]]
** Draft [[Update:RequirementsV33|AMO v3.3 requirements document]]
** [Basil 10/3] Close open topics raised at last review meeting

* PHP5
** Support for PHP4 is going away and we wish to take advantage of new capabilities and performance available in PHP5. Migrate & Deliver AMO on PHP5 clusters
** [Stephen Donner] Develop a QA Plan - I thought this was being handled by WebDev - stephend
** [Morgamic] Get all tests to pass on staging
** [Morgamic] Code review: what would break within PHP4 and PHP5 versions?

* [[PFS|PFS housekeeping]]
** AI: [Morgamic] Start to send out SSL upgrade message
** AI: [Polvi] Why OK to have Silverlight/policy & PFS2 preview
** [[PluginUpdating|Plugin detection]]
*** Mac minor issue, how to handle non-Firefox users

* Rock Your Firefox/FAMO
** 0.5 launched last night (actually, this morning)
** I'll be blogging soon about it and/or stuff
** Kinda entering maintenance mode for a bit

* Stats Improvements
** AI: [Basil] Summarize [[Update:RequirementsStats|stats & dashboard requirements]]
** AI: [Basil] Review the CBeard Update Ping list look watch for anomalies

* Administrivia