Identity/Roadmap

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Last updated: 2013/11/22

This is an overview of the current Identity engineering roadmap. Information on this page is subject to frequent updates and changes.

FxA Cloud Services

The Firefox Account Cloud Services provides the core of Firefox Accounts. It is a HA deployment of an accounts database with a REST API. It handles all of the cryptographic needs of attached services such as sync, and single sign on as required by FxOS. Read More

Team

Q4 Milestone: production ready

Our goal for this quarter is to be ready to support live production traffic on the service. This is several months ahead of our first shipping clients which gives us time to include features and improvements as required to support other FxA efforts.

Target: December 2013

Sync.next

This is the project that will implement Firefox Accounts on Desktop and Android Firefox. The first firefox account backed feature will be an improved version of Sync. Rather than the complex setup and pairing UX of today, users will set up sync by creating or logging into their firefox account.

Team

  • Engineering: Chris Karlof (Lead), Brian Warner, Nick Alexander, Danny Coates, Zach Carter, Ryan Kelly, Andy Chilton, Katie Parlante (Metrics), James Bonacci(QA)
  • UX: Ryan Feeley, John Gruen
  • IRC: #fxa
  • Sync development mailing list

Milestone 1: FxA on Android

Review Release Target: December 2013 [in progress]

  • meta tracking bug
  • Landing Android build that the product managers can install and preview Sync.Next

Milestone 2: FxA on Android

Sync Candidate Target: March 2014

  • Dependent on landing M1 release
  • Define next set of feature requirements

Milestone 1: FxA on Desktop

Review Release Target: December 2013 [in progress]

  • meta tracking bug
  • Landing Desktop build that the product managers can install and preview Sync.Next

Milestone 2: FxA on Desktop

Sync Candidate Target: March 2014

  • Dependent on landing M1 release
  • Define next set of feature requirements

FxA on FxOS

This is the project of implementing Firefox Accounts on FirefoxOS. The first feature we will provide is SSO for Mozilla hosted services. Subsequent releases will optimize the UX of signing up for firefox accounts, and bring new services to the phone. You create an account once, and have access to a growing set of interesting services.

Team

  • Engineering: Sam Penrose (Lead), Jed Parsons, Shane Tomlinson, Zach Carter, Jared Hirsch, Katie Parlante (Metrics); External partners: Borja Salguero, Fernando Moreno, Francisco Jordano, Olav Nymoen, Sergi Mansilla, Edwin Wong (QA)
  • UX: John Gruen (Lead), Ryan Feeley
  • IRC: #native_identity, #fxa
  • Firefox Accounts development mailing list

Milestone: SSO + FTE Integration release

We will land a working build in mozilla-central and gaia main, with Sign Up in FTU and Settings, ready for integration work with Marketplace and Where's My Fox during the FirefoxOS 1.4 sprints. As of 18 November we have Sign Up working at alpha quality, and patch reviews are in progress.

Milestone: FxA on FxOS 1.4 code complete

The goal of this release is to make it so that on the device by signing into WheresMyFox or Marketplace, you're signed into both. This is really SSO on the device. Further, the same account you create on FirefoxOS will be what you use to sign into your Desktop or Android Firefox. (Note that for legal reasons, sign-in to WMF may require positive user approval.)

We May include Account creation as part of the First Run Experience, this will depend on a usability assessment.

FxOS 1.4 FC date: Mar 3, 2014 [in progress]

Detailed task breakdown

Milestone: FxA on FxOS 1.5 code complete

FxOS 1.5 FC date: TBD [planning]

  • Planning discussions have begun working closely with Adam Rogers

FxA on the Web

Firefox Accounts will work everywhere. It will be optimized for Firefox Browsers and Devices, but also should work for other browsers and platforms. This Project will provide a set of APIs for websites to implement that will allow them to support FxA everywhere.

There are two components to FxA support on the web. First is authentication to the service, second is the ability to access data stored inside a Firefox Account or attached service. We'll prioritize these in order.

Target: February 2014 [Details currently being fleshed out and confirmed]

Team

Milestone: UX proposal - Authentication

This will be a concrete set of screens which display how a user will log into a site that requires firefox accounts (i.e. Marketplace) on a browser without Firefox Accounts support built-in. This will include new account creation, and signing in using an exisiting account.

This UX proposal will focus only on authentication, but not access of any data stored in Firefox Accounts or attached services.

Target: December 2013

Milestone: Authentication first implementation

In order to support marketplace and all web properties that want to support sign in with firefox accounts, we need a first milestone completed that allows sign in via firefox accounts on the web.

The specific requirements are not clear, but we are date driven with sync.next and fxos timelines.

Target: February 2014

Persona

Read the full plan on our mailing list.

In short, the current focus is to refine the browserid protocol and complete the specification. This work is required to support Firefox Accounts efforts which depends on the BrowserID Protocol.

Team

  • Engineering: Dan Callahan (Lead), Francois Marier, Sean MacArthur, Karl Thiessen (QA)
  • IRC: #identity
  • Persona mailing list

Q4 Milestone: Complete Specification

This will include a simplified and revised specification, and all changes to the Persona service, our reference implementation of BrowserID.

Target: December 2013

Reference

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