Labs/Jetpack

Jetpack Mission

Provide an extension development environment for the Mozilla platform that empower anyone to create powerful extensions with a set of extensible, robust APIs using the language of the web - HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Jetpack Long-Term Vision & Dependencies - Draft

	Firefox 3.6.1 - 3.7	Firefox 4.0
Extension Manager	No-Restart API	Jetpack Installation API
Firefox Platform	Chrome Object Wrappers	Jetpack runtime integrated to Firefox
Security	Basic security model in place
Dev Tools	Command-line SDK & Web-based tool - FlightDeck	Enhancements to existing tools
Packages	Generative development enabled via FlightDeck
Distribution	Jetpacks are bundled as XPIs w/ embedded Jetpack runtime in each	Jetpacks are distributed in a native package format

Jetpack Development

• Development Process
• Release Process
• Release Schedule
• Jetpack Bugzilla Resources
• Jetpack Security Requirements
• Jetpack Binary Components
• Jetpack Localization
• Jetpack Extension Proposals (JEPs) is the place to propose and catalog higher-level API enhancements to Jetpack.

• Labs/Jetpack/Multi-Process

Jetpack Reboot

• Main Reboot Page
• Jetpack Reboot Roadmap

Building a Jetpack

• Documentation
• Jetpack Gallery
• Jetpack Talks and Tutorials

Historical Notes on Jetpack Platform Development

• Memory Profiling Notes from July 2009

• Jetpack: Summer 2009 State of Security, Part 1

• Initial investigation into the capabilities used by top add-ons today, and in particular, which de facto API calls they rely upon.
  • Labs/Extensions2/Notes
  • Labs/Extensions2/Target_Add-ons

Getting Involved

• Jetpack Ambassador Program
• Discuss, debate and add to the design in the Jetpack discussion group
• Attend our Weekly Meeting
• Grab the source code and fix a bug or add a feature
• Checkout the "reboot", which is the "next iteration of Jetpack" documentation: [1]
• Join us in #jetpack on irc.mozilla.org
• Report a bug