CloudServices/Notifications
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Project
- Engineers
- Alex Amariutei
- Shane da Silva
- Toby Elliot
- Philipp von Weitershausen
- Meeting Notes
Goals
- Push notifications from the cloud to the browser and other 3rd party clients (e.g. phones)
- receive notification of new email, eBay auction ending, new FB message, etc. without the need to have the tab open
- possibly client-to-client in the future, e.g. open this tab on my mobile phone, pull-sync, etc.
- Messages are encrypted so that the service provider (Mozilla) does not get to read them (like Sync)
- People should be able to run their own service (like Sync)
- Must be super easy for web apps to implement (adoption!)
Milestones
First prototype and research phase (End of Jan 2011)
- First prototype
- Server: simple Python app
- Client: use HTTP long polling
- No encryption
- Research messaging protocols (XMPP and AMQP)
- Decide on protocol + technology
- protocol: AMQP
- RabbitMQ broker + REST agents in Python
Second prototype using AMQP (End of Feb 2011)
- Develop system specification
- Notifications client API (AMQP + REST)
- Web app facing REST API
- Second prototype
- Client: (partially) implement AMQP client protocol for Firefox
- Server: Set up RabbitMQ broker, implement client + web app facing agents
- Assume users have Sync accounts
- Encryption: TBD
Proof of concept (End of Apr 2011)
- Incorporate input from
- Brian Smith (crypto)
- UX team
- Ragavan (PM)
- Provide experimental add-on
- Basis for integration into Firefox