Changes between Version 103 and Version 104 of GSoCIdeas2010

Timestamp:

2010-04-04T04:43:48Z (15 years ago)

Author:

zooko

Comment:

add Firefox Plugin

GSoCIdeas2010

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 ||''Project''||''Difficulty''||''Contact''||
+||[#FirefoxPlugin Firefox Plugin]||Medium||[mailto:warner-tahoe@lothar.com Brian Warner] or any mentor||
 ||[#Medium-SizedDistributedMutableFilesMDMF Medium-Sized Distributed Mutable Files]||Medium||[mailto:david-sarah@jacaranda.org David-Sarah Hopwood] or any mentor||
 ||[#RedundantArrayofIndependentClouds Redundant Array of Independent Clouds]||Medium||[mailto:zooko@zooko.com Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn] or any mentor||
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+== Firefox Plugin ==
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+Implement a plugin for Firefox using the new [https://jetpack.mozillalabs.com/ Jetpack SDK]. 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 [http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2010-March/004139.html this tahoe-dev mailing list discussion]).
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+It will also provide a fast, pretty, and highly usable browser for exploring and manipulating a Tahoe-LAFS filesystem.
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+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.
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+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) ==