DeveloperExperience

Mozilla aims to make the web work better for developers, enabling them to produce ever better applications and sites. The Developer Experience product team works to find the ways in which Mozilla can best help developers do more. Kevin Dangoor has produced a 5 minute video introducing the idea.

The Developer Experience product team is:

• Kevin Dangoor
• Daniel Buchner

In Progress

• Getting Started Resources
  • Mozilla App SDK
    • Product Owner: dbuchner
    • Engineering Owner: fwenzel
    • Status: Initial document and meeting to discuss
    • What's next: prototyping to figure out the best path to implement the widgets
  • Documentation
    • [ON TRACK] DevHub (needs a link)
      • Product Owner: dbuchner
      • Engineering Owner: fwenzel
      • Status: v1 launched on staging
      • What's next:
    • Design Guidelines
      • Product Owner: dbuchner
      • Engineering Owner: fwenzel
      • Status: initial version on staging
      • What's next:
    • Existing Websites/Apps to Firefox Apps Docs
      • Product Owner: dbuchner
      • What's next: determine if there's something underway, figure out what needs to happen
    • Improved Firefox for Devs resource on MDN
      • Product Owner: kdangoor
      • Status: there's a bug on file
      • What's next: more detail, and should there be a link to DevHub from MDN front page?
  • How to get a phone?
    • Product Owner: kdangoor (tracking down real owner)
    • What's next: talking to people to find plans
• Developer Tools
  • [AT RISK] Tools Window (Useful for remoting)
    • Product Owner: kdangoor
    • Engineering Owner: jwalker
  • [ON TRACK] Remote Web Console (needlink)
    • Product Owner: kdangoor
    • Engineering Owner: rcampbell
  • Short Term Add-on Builder Support
    • Product Owner: jgriffiths/dbuchner
    • Engineering Owner: fwenzel?
    • What's next: see bug 671835
  • [ON TRACK] JavaScript Source Maps
    • Product Owner: kdangoor
    • Engineering Owner: rcampbell
• Firefox OS Developer Support
  • Product Owner: kdangoor
  • What's next: rekindle the earlier thread, check on ownership

Coming Up

• Developer Tools
  • Network Monitor
    • Product Owner: kdangoor
    • Engineering Owner: jwalker

Plans

A developer experience roadmap is currently being revised.

• Developer Tools Roadmap

Kilimanjaro People

This is a collection of notes about people who are involved in developer-related aspects of the Kilimanjaro project.

• Documentation
  • The Developer Ecosystem team, led by Fred Wenzel, are working on creating tutorials/tracks to guide developers through App creation
  • Janet Swisher is working on content strategy for Apps developers
• Apps Marketplace partners
  • These are the service providers that developers use that will push Apps to the Marketplace on behalf of the developers
  • Ron Piovesan does a lot of the initial contact with these partners
  • Kev Needham's group helps support the partners if they are having trouble with the store or other issues
  • Fred Wenzel's group can help engineers with the APIs and system integration
• Libraries
  • James Burke has worked on Apps-related libraries
  • Kumar McMillan and Andy McKay have worked on payments
• Apps Marketplace development
  • Wil Clousner's team is developing the Marketplace
• Evangelism
  • Joe Stagner is leading on developer evangelism for Apps
  • Havi is doing the go-to-market plans

Developer Experience Go-To People

• Product Managers: Kevin Dangoor, Daniel Buchner
• Developer Tools Engineering: Dave Camp
• Apps Ecosystem Web Development: Fred Wenzel
• Developer PR: Paul Jarratt
• UX: Brian Dils
• Market Research: John Jensen