Building First Firebug Swarm for Firebug 1.6

[johnjbarton]

My first shot at a Swarm page is up:
http://getfirebug.com/releases/swarms

Feedback welcome.

If you want me to include another extension please let me know.

jjb

[Steven Roussey]

Is including shareware-type extensions consistent with swarm goals? If
so, I'd like to put Illumination in there.

Sent from my iPhone

[John J. Barton]

On 11/17/2010 5:17 PM, Steven Roussey wrote:
> Is including shareware-type extensions consistent with swarm goals? If
> so, I'd like to put Illumination in there.

I want users to find and install extensions with greater ease and
certainty by the combination of packaging and collaboration. My only
concern then is that we don't end up with users being surprised by too
many up-conversion requests.

Eventually I guess we need to have some kind of confirmation dialog, eg
Your new Swarm will have
[+] 10 free extensions with BSD licenses.
[+] 2 shareware extensions,
[+] 1 trial version of a subscription extension

But let's cross that bridge if we find the river.

If you send me an entry similar to the ones in the current file, I'll
add it.

jjb

[Christoph Dorn]

I'll submit FirePHP and FirePHP Companion [1] once I have added some
automated tests if that works for everyone.

Christoph

[1] - http://www.christophdorn.com/Tools/

[Steven Roussey]

I have a hook to a file for automated tests in Illumnination
currently, but they link to a test file that is hosted and currently
empty until I return in a week or so.

Sent from my iPad

On Nov 17, 2010, at 9:30 PM, "John J. Barton"

[johnjbarton]

While adding extension tests is vital to the overall Swarm story,
please consider adding extensions without waiting until you create
tests.

In the current state, we have Firebug tested by itself and manual
extension testing by extension devs.

Swarm testing adds Firebug testing with extensions, and it could -- we
hope -- expose more users to extensions. These pluses don't rely on
tests specific to extensions.

I don't see a big down side to adding extensions even before we get
tests specific for them.

jjb

[Steven Roussey]

So how do we add extensions to the swarm?

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[John J. Barton]

On 11/20/2010 6:56 PM, Steven Roussey wrote:
> So how do we add extensions to the swarm?

1. If you are a committer you can edit
http://code.google.com/p/fbug/source/browse/extensions/swarm/branches/swarm1.7/swarms/Firefox-3.6/index.html

2) Open a issue on the issues list,
http://code.google.com/p/fbug/issues/entry?template=Swarm

3) Post to this newsgroup the same info as in the issue list template or
entries in the Swarm page.

jjb

[Christoph Dorn]

Please add FirePHP:

<!-- next ext -->
<div class="extension developerSwarm">
<input type="checkbox" class="installThisOne" name="extension" value="tbd" />
<a class="extensionURL"
href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/file/102244/firephp-0.5.0-fx.xpi"
id="FirePHPExte...@firephp.org"
>FirePHP</a>
<span class="extensionStatus"></span>
<div class="extensionInfo">
<p>Log to your Firebug Console from PHP (FirePHP< 1.0)

<a class="extensionMoreInfo" target="_blank" href="http://www.firephp.org/">more info</a>
</p>
</div>
</div>

I have another extension to add but need a way to specify a version-less URL that will redirect to the latest version. Is that possible?
Also, the URL will redirect to an extension bundle with two extensions in it. Will that work?

Thanks!
Christoph