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Done:

• 90% of the UI changes from the mockups are in the review stage
• The new appearance pane is almost ready for review

Done:

• Compatibility checking on upgrade is in review
• New list view is nearly complete, waiting on details from UX
• New appearance view is nearly complete, waiting on details from UX
• New overall styling for all platforms is nearly complete, waiting on details from UX
• Made themes auto-enable on install from webpages

Done:

• New details pane is ready for review
• New appearance pane is almost ready for review
• Things are waiting to land but the tree is too broken to accept patches whenever I have time

Done:

• Down to 2 blocking nominations in Toolkit
• Completed beta3 patches, just awaiting review for one of them
• Got review queue down to 2 patches
• Produced a troubling graph of add-ons manager blockers: https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/d/d8/AOMBlockerChart.png
• Added support for installing up to 30 personas at a time
• Work on the new details pane layout
• Have patches in hand for 4 more blockers and patches in progress for about 10 others

Done:

• Got undo support for all add-ons working properly
• Assigned all remaining add-ons blockers
• Cleared out some reviews

Done:

• Recovered from summit
• Filtered out some important issues from Feedback
• Fighting with my review queue

Done:

• Landed the new notifications for add-ons installs
• Triaged blockers for beta2
• Fixed a large stack of blockers including all the known DB schema changes
• Worked on a nice demo for the new add-ons manager's capabilities
• Finished reviewing the component registration bits

Done:

• Shepherded the Firefox Feedback extension into the tree
• Reviewed the bulk of the component registration changes
• Got add-on install success and failure events wired up to the new doorhanger notifications

Done:

• Got a bunch of bug fixes either done or ready for review
• Started reviews for the component registration changes

Done:

• Mostly done with API docs for the new add-ons manager: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Addons/Add-on_Manager
• Updated triage to determine the beta1 blockers
• reviews, reviews, reviews

Done:

• Triaged all the bug reports from the new add-ons manager to determine the list of blockers
• Reviewing update tests

Done:

• Relanded the new extension manager
• Working through more bugs and issues
• Started implementing transactions and locking for the main database

Done:

• Backed out the new extension manager
• Fixed some of the bugs found during the extension manager testday
• Found the cause of the Ts regression
• Prepared everything to be landed again

Done:

• Landed the new extension manager

Done:

• Worked on more review comments for the add-ons manager rewrite
• Investigated a new issue that QA came across in the rewrite
• Met with UX to talk about the Home Tab plans (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/Home_Tab)
• Started playing around with building Firefox for the Palm Pre (http://grab.by/3GEP)

Done:

• All major issues taken care of
• Ported all the currently applicable tests from the old xpcshell suite to the new API
• Finalized spec for restartless extensions

Done:

• Met with dveditz from the security team and talked over potential issues with the current plans.
• Addressed review comments
• Started on reviews for the UI
• Fixed many remaining issues
• Re-prioritized a couple of items

Done:

Serious amounts of progress on the extension manager rewrite work this week

• Restartless extensions implemented
• Personas and basic plugin and search engine supported added
• Silent background updating implemented
• Updated the API docs to be accurate
• Filed bugs on all known remaining issues
• Worked out a rough schedule for trunk landing
• Submitted the main part of the backend and API to Rob Strong for code review
• Blogged about how this impacts extension developers

Done:

• Wired up installs and blocked installs from webpages
• Converted the xpinstall test suite to work with the new APIs
• Started preparing the project branch for performance testing

Done:

• Firefox team shenanigans
• True async reads for the add-ons manager
• Compatibility overrides and compatibility updates
• Figured out how to integrate webpage triggered installs

Done:

• Catching up on a backlog of reviews
• Planned out how to integrate the existing InstallTrigger code with the new EM backend
• Handle migrating extension states from older/newer versions of Firefox

Done:

• Worked through install and upgrade scenarios with Boriss
• Implemented downloading and updating add-ons through the API
• Implemented updating add-on compatibility on app upgrade

Done:

Lost most of the week to sickness but trawled through some reviews that were blocking people's work.

Done:

• Intermittent test failure tracking
• Post mortems
• Wrote a patch to fix showing incompatible add-ons to users who have upgraded
• Started setting up a project branch for the add-ons manager work

Done:

• Identified and mostly fixed a regression in 3.6 involving executable files in XPI packages.
• Worked with AMO to try to improve the capabilities of release notes for add-ons.
• Figured out how to make the backend parts of lightweight themes and xpi themes operate independently.

Done:

• Started removing extension dependency support from the new EM backend.
• Changed some of the API notifications to better represent add-ons that don't require restarts.
• Fixed a bug involving opening new windows after canceled shutdowns.

Done:

• Fixed a minor bug with the new extensions.checkCompatibility.X.Y pref naming
• Synced up with Unfocused and Boriss on the new add-ons manager UI
• Submitted a list of things we need added to AMO's API
• Posted to the community about the plan to drop extension dependencies