Update:Requirements

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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)
  • Count number of downloads


  • 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

Mozilla Policies & Legal Requirements

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