The Jetpack project's aim is to make it easy to develop Firefox add-ons using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. It has two products:
- the Add-on Builder, which is an online IDE for add-on development
- the Add-on SDK, which is a downloadable SDK for developing add-ons locally
- Home page: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Jetpack
- Roadmap: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Jetpack/Roadmap
- Communication channels:
- #jetpack on irc.mozilla.org
- mozilla-labs-jetpack mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla-labs-jetpack/
- Add-ons Blog: http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/
- deep integrators: in 2011 the SDK targeted developers new to add-on development who might be put off by the complexity of XUL development. In 2012, Jetpack will target "deep integrators": people wishing to implement more complex, powerful add-ons
- mobile: in 2012 the SDK aims to be the primary development environment for Firefox Mobile
- Evangelist: Jeff Griffiths
- Technical Writer: Will Bamberg
- Product Manager: Dave Mason
- Technical Lead: Irakli Gozalishvili
- Casual developers
- Web developers
- Experienced and professional add-on developers
- Firefox developers prototyping new features as add-ons
- Globally distributed, strong established European presence
- Conferences/unconferences: Jetpack talks will happen at the following (un)conferences:
- Hack Days: plan to have N hack days in 2012 including EU, NA, LA and Asia
- Regular blog posts on Add-ons blog to communicate project status updates and highlight major features
- Write release notes for SDK releases
- Publishing online versions of the docs for each SDK release
- writing and maintaining documentation for the SDK tools and APIs including:
- tutorials
- concept guides
- reference
- extending and maintaining the SDK's documentation system
- support for online and offline versions of the SDK docs
- migrate documentation to MDN
- add support for localization of the SDK docs
- create/curate/maintain sample code for major SDK APIs
Monitoring forums, answering questions, and feeding back bug reports/enhancement requests:
- project mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla-labs-jetpack/
- AMO forum: https://forums.mozilla.org/addons/viewforum.php?f=27
- Stack Overflow
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