691477 - Develop the Mozilla Reps (ReMo) add-on

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Reps Graveyard :: Planning, task, P1)

Description

[Brian King [:kinger]]

We are building a restartless add-on for Firefox for Mozilla Reps.

There is no formal specification, just a list a features that came out of a reps council meeting.

More information:
http://brian.kingsonline.net/talk/2011/07/remo-add-on-planning/

The Add-on Builder does not allow collaboration yet, so my proposal is to use the downloadable SDK combined with a repos on github.

Comment 1

[Rubén Martín [:Nukeador] ❌ [away till Aug 31st]]

Should this bug be restricted to Mozilla Reps bugzilla group?

Comment 2

[Brian King [:kinger]]

Ravi / Paul, would you still like to contribute? If so, let me know your github username if you have one.

Comment 3

[Brian King [:kinger]]

(In reply to Rubén Martín [:Nukeador] from comment #1)
> Should this bug be restricted to Mozilla Reps bugzilla group?

Looks like it already is?

Comment 4

[Rubén Martín [:Nukeador] ❌ [away till Aug 31st]]

Yes, so the question should be: Any reason this bug have to be restricted to Mozilla Reps?

Comment 5

[Brian King [:kinger]]

Actually, no, it shouldn't be. Changing...

Comment 6

[Brian King [:kinger]]

Attachment: Proposed panel size

For content, a panel size of 500x420 seems reasonable. We'll try and fit the content snugly, but it may appear when there is dynamic content.

Comment 7

[Brian King [:kinger]]

Pierros, where can I find information on how to pull data from the wiki?

Comment 8

[Pierros Papadeas [:pierros]]

Hey Brian,

you need to use the API (api.php on the wiki) and specifically the http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SMWAskAPI

(which is the extension we installed in order to get semantic data from the wiki)

Let me know if you need any help on the queries.

Comment 9

[Brian King [:kinger]]

(In reply to Pierros Papadeas from comment #8) 
> Let me know if you need any help on the queries.

Yes, that would be great. For example, how would I get the list of SOPS and links from https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReMo/SOPs ?

Also I can't find examples of queries from JavaScript, but I presume a simple XMLHttpRequest will do?

Comment 10

[Pierros Papadeas [:pierros]]

https://wiki.mozilla.org/api.php?action=ask&q=[[Category:Remosop]]

This will give you a JSON object. Simple httprequest may work :)
Let me know :)

Comment 11

[Brian King [:kinger]]

Call or help:

Basically...

- it is going to be popup panel launched by the icon in the add-on bar - This panel will contain HTML content, some static and some dynamic

- In the panel, we need a way to switch between different content in the same panel. Like tabs. 

- Some of the tab content layouts will have lists (e.g. list of links) 

- Code has to be template friendly, i.e. need to be able to slot in dynamic content, e.g. list of items

Other than that, the goal is for it to look clean and simple. To have an idea of what the design (colours) might look like, see:

http://cards.mozillareps.org/

So what would be great if someone could design this and cut the html+css, then it will be straightforward to slot in the data.

Comment 12

[Pierros Papadeas [:pierros]]

Are we allowed to use jQueryMobile? http://jquerymobile.com/

It will be super nice and future-mobile friendly!

~p

Comment 13

[Brian King [:kinger]]

We're allowed, although it is not recommended. It might be a bit heavy handed, at least for version 1.

Here is a great prototyping tool I found:
http://fluidui.com/

Comment 14

[Majken Connor [:Kensie]]

Now that the planning component is open, removing the checked groups so that these bugs are open.

Comment 15

[Brian King [:kinger]]

I'm calling this one cooked.

https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/mozilla-reps-companion/

Source code:

https://github.com/brianking/ReMo-Helper

For any further bug reports, feature requests, or requests for different platforms, please file a new bug.

Comment 16

[Brian King [:kinger]]

Feedback:

https://remo.etherpad.mozilla.org/companion-addon-feedback