Apps

The Open Web apps project aims to bring the best aspects of installed applications to the Web. This page contains links to documents, repos, and blog posts that are part of the project.

Overview Documentation

• Product Overview - a high-level description of the product and design pieces
• WebRT - a discussion of what a Web Runtime must do
• Marketplace - Mozilla's Marketplace for app discovery, distribution, and monetization
• MDN docs - MDN page with Apps Documentation
• Apps QA - QA activities to test the Web Apps platform
• Security Reviews - Security reviews for the Apps project
• Marketplace Developer App Submission - Developer submission page for submitting apps to the marketplace
• UserStories - a living list of user stories, prioritized for upcoming releases
• Apps Ecosystem - Current projects and development efforts for the Apps Developer Ecosystem
• Apps UX - Recommendations for the User Experience (UX)

Communications

Apps Content Weekly Meeting

• Internal Employees
• What: Mozilla internal cross functional communication and coordination of topics relating to content within Marketplace, pre-installed for devices and supporting major events. Often relates to negotiations with content partners and discussion on dates of launch.
• When & Where:
  • Friday 9am PST
  • Vidyo AppsContent
• Contact: kward(@)mozilla.com : to be
• Email Karen to be added to the recipient list for weekly status and notes

Dev Eco & Engagement Weekly Meeting

• Public
• What: Dev Hub, MDN & Engagement teams align on this week's and other upcoming work
• When: Tuesdays 11:00 AM - 12:00 pacific
• Where: "Mozilla Apps" Vidyo room
• Audio Only
  • +1-650-903-0800 or +1-650-215-1282 x92 conf# 98652 (US/INTL)
  • +1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) conf# 98652 (US toll free)
• Comms: irc.mozilla.org #devecosystem for backchannel
• Notes & Action Items
• Contact: aspivack(@)mozilla.com

FxOS Sponsors Rollup & Weekly Escalations Review

• Internal, open to all employees
• What: Team of program managers, product leads and sponsors across the FxOS Ecosystem gather to resolve escalated issues and risks which have impact to cross functional teams or partners. Regularly review incoming partner, carrier and OEM opportunities, assign priority and assess readiness of Mozilla organizations to commit.
• When: Wednesdays 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Pacific
• Where: Vidyo Warp Core
• Agenda (Presenters):
  • Go-To-Market alignment (All, Mark Crandon)
  • Engineering / QA (Michael Treese)
  • Marketplace & Payments (Caitlin Galimidi)
  • OEM / ODMs (Steven Yang, Wayne Chang, Kevin Hu, Joe Cheng)
  • Content (Karen Ward)
  • GTM (Vik Iya)
• Attendees: Champions / Sponsors
  • Rick Fant (Marketplace, Apps/Content)
  • Mark Crandon (Business Development)
• Contact: caitlin(@)mozilla.com, kward(@)mozilla.com, mtreese(@)mozilla.com

Show and Tells

• Public
• What: Weekly demos of various Apps projects
• When: Fridays 12:30 - 1:00 PM pacific
• How to join: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Apps/ShowAndTells
• Meeting Notes

IRC Chat and Mailing Lists

• Apps: #openwebapps
• Payments: #payments

Mailing Lists:

• dev-webapps(at)lists.mozilla.org - Web Apps Development Mailing List
• mozilla-apps(at)googlegroups.com - Mailing list for general interest, questions, reporting bugs, etc
• payment-team(at)mozilla.org - mailing list for teams supporting the delivery of payments on FFOS Mobile
• apps(at)mozilla.com - internal, mozillian only. File an IT bug in Bugzilla to get added to this non- mailman/listserv address

Important References

What is the Mozilla Apps program?

• Apps program overview
• Apps Software Architecture overview and goals

Product & Program Management

• Product Roadmap 2013 tbd
• Tracking 2013 Initiatives
• Project Plans and Kickoffs

QA References

• WebRT Bugs - All WebRT web apps bugs in bugzilla
• Web Apps Integration Into Desktop Test Plan
• Web Apps Desktop Test Cases - Test cases document used for the web apps integration into desktop feature

Other References

• Apps site - an overview of the technology ideas
• Sample App Directory - Sample apps you can install
• Apps in the Cloud - The specification for the next version of sync for apps

"Authenticated Application" Idea Explorations

• Providing a one-click launch experience would be really nice, but we want to do it in a distributed and privacy-protecting way - one approach would be to use the Verified Email Protocol developed in the Identity project.

"Service Integration" Idea Explorations

• Using Web Applications for Service Discovery - blog post by mhanson on how apps can power service integration
• openwebapps-aboutme repo - an app that just provides a "personal profile" service
• openwebapps-flickr-connector repo - an app that connects to Flickr for photo save and retrieval
• openwebapps-photosite-connector repo - a more generic app that connects to multiple photosites for save and retrieve

Help Wanted

Positions we need to fill for Apps (hiring manager):

• HTML5 Apps Partner Engineer (Kev Needham)
• Android Developer, Apps (?)
• Apps Partner Marketing Manager (?)
• User Experience Designer, Apps (Bryan Clark)
• Automation Developer, HTML5 Apps (Bob Moss)

Parking Lot - Things to Do

• write design guidelines for making a killer app
• create sdk app
• write app review guidelines
• reframe what an app is so devs are confident in their submissions
• design a "get it on the Mozilla Marketplace" button
• design visual element on icon to show that these apps run everywhere

Outdated References

• Market Place Project Plan - Scope of current and upcoming releases of Marketplace
• WebRT Testing Setup and Runs - Outdated documentation for setting up and running test cases in the WebRT infrastructure
• OWA Extension Test Plan - QA documentation for testing the web apps extension for testing, using the product, etc. A good amount of the testing on the OWA extension will likely apply to the desktop-version of the feature on firefox.
• OWA Extension Test Cases - Test cases used in the past for testing the OWA extension. Some of these will likely be used in testing the desktop feature
• Q/A Extension and Apps - Questions and Answers on the Extension and Apps
• App Sync - Specification for understanding sync in the cloud for Apps
• Open Web Apps GitHub Repository - contains documentation, including architecture notes and "install" API. Also a Firefox addon that implements the API and a pure-HMTL/JS site that implements the API.
• Soup Releases - Major tagged releases of Soup
• Dashboard Spec - Dashboard specification for web apps
• Web Activities - Web Activities documentation for Apps
• OWA Extension and Soup Builds - Builds of the OWA extension and Soup
• OWA Extension Bugs - Bug query for the Apps extension bugs. Some of these bugs will likely be migrated to the Web Apps Integration into Desktop feature.
• March 1st OWA Extension Test Run - The results of the latest test run against the extension
• Extension and Apps Questions - Common questions and answers on the extension and apps