{"id":1875,"date":"2009-05-29T16:41:22","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T00:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mozillalabs.com\/?p=1875"},"modified":"2009-05-29T16:41:22","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T00:41:22","slug":"ubiquity-05-call-for-participation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2009\/05\/ubiquity-05-call-for-participation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubiquity 0.5: Call for Participation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Labs is working on a new release of Ubiquity, tentatively scheduled for mid-June. It’s a fairly major update with a lot of changes and new features; major enough to deserve to be called Ubiquity 0.5<\/b>.<\/p>\n

The main goals for Ubiquity 0.5 are as follows:<\/p>\n

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  1. Make Ubiquity easier to learn<\/b> with better organized documentation and help content, and a new interactive tutorial that walks users from zero to basic competence in a few minutes.<\/li>\n
  2. Internationalize<\/b> Ubiquity with a new parser that can handle the grammars of many languages. We’re aiming to release Ubiquity 0.5 with at least three usable languages; more are in development. This is thanks to the hard work of our extremely dedicated Ubiquity internationalization community<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  3. Implement a more flexible way of handling input that will allow for more consistency, and no more hyphens, in command names<\/b>. (more about the proposed change here<\/a>.)<\/li>\n
  4. Begin doing usability research<\/b> on Ubiquity as part of the new Test Pilot program.<\/li>\n
  5. As always, fix bugs<\/b> and improve built-in commands<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In order to complete all of these goals, we’ll need the help of everyone in the Ubiquity community. And I don’t just mean developers — command authors and regular Ubiquity users are just as important! There is a lot you can do to help make this release a success, even if you are not a programmer and don’t know the first thing about Javascript.<\/p>\n

    If you’ve been thinking about getting involved in Ubiquity development, either by writing code or in one of the many other ways you can contribute, now would be a great time! Below are some ways that you can get started.<\/p>\n

    If you write code…<\/h3>\n