Firefox/Activity Stream
Overview
Activity Stream is a top line initiative but also a Firefox feature. As an umbrella term, anything that let's users interface with their activities in the browser, is Activity Stream the initiative. This includes: Sync and Synced Tabs, history menu, awesome bar, tiles. There's significant effort in improving these interfaces and deepening engagement with these tools for recovery and later, discovery.
As a Product Feature, Activity Stream is a collection of all the things you do in the browser that you care about display in a rich and meaningful way. This will most likely take the form of a timeline-like feed in the new tab page. We plan to display rich content with images from recent pages, screen shots, downloads, closing sessions, notifications, and improve your frecency results in the awesome bar. Eventually we hope to be the central feed of the things you care about.
Key Documents
Code: https://github.com/mozilla/activity-streams
Task tracking: https://github.com/mozilla/activity-streams/issues
Desktop MVP: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lCdgLbF4z758SVD90BCFhZaaMT50Pz0tR5D0yCIVtro/edit
Desktop UX: https://mozilla.invisionapp.com/share/GA5RW90CW Mocks v1
Mobile UX ideas: http://people.mozilla.org/~dhenein/labs/activity-stream/
Desktop
Recent
Activity Stream - [status: green]
- [landed] We hit our UI Demo milestone! Amazing work team.
- https://github.com/mozilla/activity-streams/milestones
- we had over 60+ commits by 7 contributors during this sprint.
- demos has working layout, loading local data, and using embedly proxy to fetch page metadata:
- [done] schedule testing with Softvision QA and test plan initiated
- [done] Desktop and Mobile teams collaborating and sharing data weekly.
- Next Milestone: Alpha
- stand up a embedly dev server for team testing
- UX Polish
- Metrics and reporting
- A/B Testing infrastructure
Milestones
https://github.com/mozilla/activity-streams/milestones
| Milestone | Description | End Date |
|---|---|---|
| UI Demo | Front end layout | Feb 12 |
| Alpha | Loading local data | Feb 26 |
| Beta | Internal testing | Mar 18 |
| Release 1.0 | Live on Test Pilot | Apr 1 |
Mobile
Recent
As part of the overall content model improvements, the first initiative focuses on "saving" and "revisiting": ([[1]])
- [in plan] Removing Reading List (RL) Panel: In order to consolidate and simplify our panel management, we will clear away the Reading List panel, and turn existing RL items into Bookmarks. A smart folder will reside in the Bookmarks Panel to identify saved Reader View items. All Reader View items will now be synced now.
- [in plan] Enable folder management; Add/Remove/Rename bookmarks folder
- [in plan] Add more content to save (offline), e.g. save as PDF, screenshot etc
Initiatives in Aha - Offline experience - Improved Content Management
Team Details
Team - RACI
Product owner: Nick Chapman
Eng Lead: Tim Spurway
Technical Program Manager: Edwin Wong
UX/UR Leads: Bryan Bell, Stephen Horlander, Darrin Henein
Product Marketing: Winston Bowden
QA: Peter DeHaan, John Dorlus, Softvision
Exec Sponsor: Mark Mayo
Communications
IRC: #activity-stream
Email: activity-stream@mozilla.com
VidyoRoom: ActivityStream