Orion/Chrome Tools Integration

• Student: Zachariah Moreno

• Mentors: John Arthorne, Ken Walker, & John Barton

This project is part of Google Summer of Code 2012 & can be followed in greater detail on GitHub [1].
All future enhancements for this project can be found on it's Wiki [2].

Goal

My goal for this year’s GSoC is to write a Chrome extension that implements Orion as part of the current DevTools, with the extended goal of landing this functionality within Chrome. A Chrome implementation would give Orion a platform for exposing its functionality to developers everywhere. Allowing for designers and developers to view their changes in real-time, a cornerstone that I believe is missing from the current development process. Applications like Adobe Dreamweaver try to augment this issue by implementing a WebKit view into their native environment. But, I believe this to be the wrong way to go about solving this issue. We design and develop for the browser so we should complete that process by designing and developing in the browser.

Milestones

This section contains tasks which are under development now and in the nearest future.

Legend
Needs some research

Work in progress

Milestone completed

Status	Milestone	Description	Due Date	Bugs / Reviews
	M1	Community Bounding, technical discussion	May 21st
	M2	Chrome DevTools extension - empty	May 21st
	Students begin coding	official GSoC milestone, see [3]	May 21st
	M3	Embed Orion Client in extension	June 1st
	Midterm evaluations	official GSoC milestone, see [4]	July 13th
	M4	Use chrome.devtools API to pull in client side code	July 16th
	M5	Integrate Save functionality	August 1st
	Suggested pencils down date	official GSoC milestone, see [5]	August 13th
	Firm pencils down date	official GSoC milestone, see [6]	August 20th