From 5ac4ee669c3fc4584341016b5da2c667c9b2a0f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: zooko <> Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 04:43:48 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] add Firefox Plugin [Imported from Trac: page GSoCIdeas2010, version 104] --- GSoCIdeas2010.md | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/GSoCIdeas2010.md b/GSoCIdeas2010.md index 4af220f..27300b3 100644 --- a/GSoCIdeas2010.md +++ b/GSoCIdeas2010.md @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ Deadlines and directions for students' applications to the Google Summer-of-Code | | | | |---|---|---| |*Project*|*Difficulty*|*Contact*| +|[#FirefoxPlugin Firefox Plugin]|Medium|[Brian Warner]mailto:warner-tahoe@lothar.com or any mentor| |[#Medium-SizedDistributedMutableFilesMDMF Medium-Sized Distributed Mutable Files]|Medium|[David-Sarah Hopwood]mailto:david-sarah@jacaranda.org or any mentor| |[#RedundantArrayofIndependentClouds Redundant Array of Independent Clouds]|Medium|[Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn]mailto:zooko@zooko.com or any mentor| |[#ShareMigration Share Migration]|Medium|[Brian Warner]mailto:warner-tahoe@lothar.com or any mentor| @@ -27,6 +28,16 @@ Deadlines and directions for students' applications to the Google Summer-of-Code ---- +## Firefox Plugin + +Implement a plugin for Firefox using the new [Jetpack SDK](https://jetpack.mozillalabs.com/). This plugin will extend Firefox so that it knows about Tahoe-LAFS caps. It will provide user-friendly and safe gestures to share caps, for example, it will require a different gesture to share a write-cap than to share a read-cap, to prevent people from accidentally sharing a write-cap to a file or directory when they meant to share a read-cap, thus solving one of the major outstanding problems in Tahoe-LAFS user interface (see [this tahoe-dev mailing list discussion](http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2010-March/004139.html)). + +It will also provide a fast, pretty, and highly usable browser for exploring and manipulating a Tahoe-LAFS filesystem. + +It will also provide a re-usable Jetpack component which makes it easy for other plugin developers to add Tahoe-LAFS features to their Firefox plugin. + +It may also provide more features for Firefox users or developers, which features may be discovered during the course of the summer. + ## Medium-Sized Distributed Mutable Files (MDMF) Mutable files in Tahoe-LAFS have some significant limitations and