[Soc-coordination] GSOC project proposal: Package-aware Plugin Finder Service for Iceweasel

Ana Guerrero ana at debian.org
Sat Mar 26 13:22:54 UTC 2011


On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 09:52:18AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> Mentor: Mike Hommey
> Summary: Allow Iceweasel to find plugins through the packaging system
> Required skills:
>     - Javascript
>     - C/C++
> Description:
>     When going to a web page embedding an object of an unsupported mime
>     type, Iceweasel displays a wizard that uses a remote server to query
>     what plugins can be used depending on OS, architecture and mime
>     type. This project aims at adding one data source to the equation,
>     using data from the packaging system.
>     If time permits, the system could be extended to other types of
>     addons.

Sounds good, could you add it to the wiki?

thanks!
Ana



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