September 29th, 2009

Status update, week 39, 2009

Weekly summary of Firefox and Plone work.

Firefox

Published an updated article on the decisions for Mac installer improvements, and we already have two volunteers looking at the implementation. Gotta love our community.
Published an article describing how we’ll do tab matching in the Location Bar for 3.7.
Gave feedback on the first and second iterations of the Mac theme improvements for Firefox 3.7, expect Stephen Horlander to have a blog post about it soon.
Updated the Projects list to be up to date with everything I’m currently working on.
Did some process planning to improve longer-term UX vision, details to follow.
Sketched out some ideas on the Prefs improvements.
Gathered ideas around session restore improvements.

(some carry-overs & and ongoing tasks from last week)

Finish the third draft of the Resource Package spec, hopefully with input from Vlad, jst, bz.
Get closure on next steps for Taskfox.
Work with Stephen Horlander on refining the new Mac theme for 3.7 & 4.0.
(Aspirational, 3.7) Start working on a first UI mock-up for how the prefs reorg could look like. Coordinate with the add-on manager redesign.
(Aspirational, 4.0) Work on the tab sidebar mock-ups.
(Research) Get data from the tab experiments from Test Pilot, analyze what they mean.

Fixed up the remaining issues with the new theme for Plone 4, and submitted it to the framework team for review.
Fixed most of the issues raised by Martin Aspeli.

Work with Eric Steele to improve the roadmap on plone.org.
Prepare keynote & layout talk for Plone Conference 2009.
Publish an article on how to improve the social aspects of the conference for people that are new to the community.
Get back into Deco development with Rob Gietema.