@Dimitrios Symeonidis: Thanks for taking the time to post again, I
appreciate and accept your apology.

@John Vivirito:
@Alexander Sack:
I've been thinking about this project, and before proceeding, I'd like to talk 
with you guys about how backports work for Firefox extensions that have been 
packaged for Ubuntu.

The thing is, Zotero is still in active development and gets updated
fairly frequently. Not as frequently as some extensions (NoScript, for
example), but still.  The updates fix bugs, add new features, and are
definitely worth using.

So, I'd like to find out more about whether the Ubuntu package can get
updated as Zotero is updated, which I suppose would involve backports.

If the package cannot be updated, I can see that things could get complicated 
for supporting users. It would be a shame if the first support step for anyone 
using an Ubuntu package of Zotero is "uninstall the Ubuntu version and update 
from the Zotero site." In fact, Zotero already recommends using their site 
rather than addons.mozilla.org, precisely because there can be a delay before 
new releases are available there. See the last paragraph here:
http://www.zotero.org/documentation/installation

Maybe it would be better to wait until Zotero development stabilizes. I don't 
know how long that might take - right now, there's a 1.5 version in public 
beta-testing, which adds some great features like remote sync of the Zotero 
database. Here's the development roadmap, it looks like a lot of releases are 
planned through the coming autumn:
http://www.zotero.org/documentation/development_roadmap

I'll try to bring this up for discussion on IRC in the near future,
unless there are other suggestions.

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