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General Requirements

(client is firefox etc)

• Maintain a database of extensions of different types (extensions, themes, plugins)
• Provide a way for the user to search for an extension
• Allow to directly install an extension (for browsers) or to download it (for non-browsers)
• Track download statistics

• Allow users to create a login
• logged-in users can make comments and rate extensions
• Developers can log in
• Developers can upload their extensions
• Admins can edit all extensions, comments and users

• Extensions can have different versions for different OS
• Knows the version of the client for which an extenion works
• Extensions have category information

• Clients can ask for updates of extensions

Technical Requirements

• Use a sql database to store extension information
• Use templates for html output
• Localizable
• Not tied to mozilla.org clients

• Code should use mozilla.org code style guidelines

Server Load

• Can handle the load

AUS connections/sec, GB/sec etc Page loads take < n seconds

Interfaces

Must support Firefox, Thunderbird, Nvu, PFS, AUS