Features/Desktop/BYOB-for-Firefox9

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Open issues/risks

BYOB currently requires some extra work with reviewing, signing etc Partner Builds and the main goal of BYOB - creating some way to have customizations for enterprises is now kind of superseded by the ESR.

So i think of the ways a) letting BYOB what it is today and letting users play with it. But removing the bookmark / bookmark toolbar feature to reduce reviewing efforts and using the new signing server so that the work required to keep byob up is reduced.

b) using a internal instance of byob to create custom partner repacks like we did for holiday edition of firefox with being able to change the distribution.ini - uploading of extensions etc - instead of doing a lot of stuff via vim edits of distribution.ini on the partnerdist server

Stage 1: Definition

1. Feature overview

Byob (http://byob.mozilla.com) is the Mozilla Build your own Browser Project - for more see http://blog.mozilla.com/tomcat/2010/04/30/byob/ - this feature request is for making BYOB ready for Firefox 9 and also to fix some of the outstanding bugs for making byob better

2. Users & use cases

Enterprises, Organisations etc and in the later also the Partner Group with Creating Partner Builds

3. Dependencies

This Feature depend on the following bugs:

• bug 696705 modifying distribution.ini results sometimes in extra quotations in prefs
• bug 666909 update video for Firefox
• bug 668180 update partner-repacks
• bug 671511 update search engines on byob
• bug 668181 update addon installer
• bug 593230 update byob homepage
• bug 592707 need BYOB FAQ

4. Requirements

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Non-goals

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Stage 2: Design

5. Functional specification

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6. User experience design

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Stage 3: Planning

7. Implementation plan

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8. Reviews

Security review

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Privacy review

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Localization review

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Accessibility

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Quality Assurance review

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Operations review

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Stage 4: Development

9. Implementation

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Stage 5: Release

10. Landing criteria

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Feature details

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