Developer Experience

Mozilla has a variety of projects underway and ongoing to help web developers. This page is all about bringing these efforts together and finding and filling gaps in the web developer experience. Kevin Dangoor has produced a 5 minute video introducing the idea.

The Developer Experience product team is:

Kevin Dangoor
Daniel Buchner

Plans

A developer experience roadmap is currently being revised.

Developer Tools Roadmap

Work Underway

Many developer tools are under development. See also the DevTools homepage for information about development and getting involved.
Apps/Ecosystem – work that has started to produce a simple developer step-by-step flow for building an App

Stage: Definition, Design, Planning, Development

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Kilimanjaro Status

This is an extraction of the developer experience part of the Kilimanjaro project page. We will augment the information below with status.

Developers will have comprehensive resources to enable "idea to basic app in 5 mins"

Docs
- What are Apps?
- How do we build them?
- Manifests
- Marketplace
Tools
- [ON TRACK] Debugger bug 676586
- [ON TRACK] Responsive design view bug 749628
Partners
- Upload API to marketplace bug 753469
- Monetization
- Analytics
- Hosting
Libraries
- new boilerplate bug 754077
- Offline
- Payment
- Responsive Design
Code Samples
- Tutorials bug 753870
Support
- Partner Engineering
- Tier 2, 3
- SUMO
Evangelism
- Gecko compatibility

Kilimanjaro People

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