MDN/Archives/Projects/Development/CompatibilityTables

Web compatibility tables (WCT) are one of the key feature of MDN. It allows users to know more about the reliability of any web standard features and to ease the use of web technologies. Currently, the data are gather and maintain "by hand". Thanks to our awesome community we have some good data. However, this is hardly sustainable as the number of technologies is growing as well a the complexity of the implementation. We start to face some difficulties to stay up to date and to provide and improved content around those data.

Goals

Long terms goals and how we see the project is elaborated in the Vision Document

2016 Planing

Actionable breakdown is available in the project milestones page.

End of year goals:

• At the end of the year, browsercompat.org must
  • be a standalone data service with its own set of contributors
  • have an agile, continuous delivery process
  • provide compatibility data both in read and write mode
  • have MDN to be its first client
• At the end of the year, MDN must:
  • Display better and more reliable browser compatibility data
  • Display browser compatibility data in different and more contextual ways
  • Display more compatibility data about new browsers/environments
  • Provide a smooth contribution pathway to browsercompat.org

Current stats

• Milestones draft
• Infrastructure (target)
• Project dashboard

Deprecated (To be archived):

• Temporary short term plan
• Next release spec: BC Skateboard

Meeting minutes

Public project meeting occurs every two weeks on Tuesday at 18:00 UTC in the MDN Vidyo room.

• 02/16/2016
• 02/02/2016
• 01/19/2016
• 01/03/2016

Bugzilla raw backlog

List of all open bugs for the project. The objective is to reach 0 major and normal bugs for milestones other than TARDIS

Main tracking bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=compat-data

No results.

0 Total; 0 Open (0%); 0 Resolved (0%); 0 Verified (0%);

Get Involved

Any one who wish to get involved with this project is welcome. This page will provide information about the project and its progress. Everything is discuss directly on the dev-mdn mailing list. Schedule and progress are summarized on the the mdn mailing list.

Who's in charge?

Responsibilities for the project are define through the following RASCI matrix:

• MDN — RACI — Compat Data (PDF)

The main contact points are the following:

• Project Management: Jeremie Patonnier (Europe CET)
• Dev lead: John Whitlock (US CST)
• UX/Front-end lead: Stephanie Hobson (Canada PST)
• Data and MDN content management: Jean-Yves Perrier (Europe GMT)

Join the discussion and meet the team

A public project meeting occurs every two weeks on Tuesday at 18:00 UTC in the MDN Vidyo room. Everybody is welcome to attend.

Beside the project meeting, everything is discussed on mailing lists:

• dev-mdc: Functional discussion (Features prioritization, data, content, UX)
• dev-mdn: Technical discussion (Architecture, QA, Dev work)
• mdn: Project management discussion (Prioritization, status, decision)

On a daily basis, the team is available for discussion during their respective working hours on IRC:

• on the #mdn channel (functional).
• on the #mdndev channel (technical).

How to help?

Depending on your skills, this project offer many contribution opportunities:

Development

The data repository is a full Django application, so if you know Python, Django and obviously HTML/CSS/JS you're welcome to help

• Source code on GitHub
• Browser Compat API documentation

UX & Design

Displaying and contributing data in a way that make them understandable and usable by anyone is quite challenging. If your skilled in design and UX your help is more than welcome.

Data Management

Our data are currently hosted on MDN itself and we need some help to clean them, normalized them, and do the transition to our new data repository. If you want us to move faster, this is where your help is needed and it doesn't required any particular skills :)

• Learn about importer errors
• l10n strategy & tools

Tracking tools

• Bugzilla
• Project dashboard
• Project Trello board (outdated & unmaintained)

Archive

The project is now two years long then we have some outdated document that we keep for information purpose but be aware that they are no longer canonical for the project.

• Useful ressources
• Project Status for 2014/2015