Marketplace/Releases

Marketplace releases happen weekly and, in most cases, features don’t need to be held for specific dates. We’ve established several checkpoints listed below when we want to have a certain set of features finished and available for wider testing and announcements.

Agendas / Action Items from Weekly Team meetings

Current Milestone

August 28, 2012 bug 766199

Features and tasks:

• Brazil content ratings
• Regional Stores (feature page)
• Telefonica-specific Marketplace URL
• App ratings and reviews
• Flash and plugin filtering
• Admin Lookup Tools (spec)
• Optimized B2G designs
• Packaged Apps (start)
• Optimized designs for Android

Upcoming Milestones

Sept 28

B2G Code complete for Basecamp

• Payments, Identity, 3rd Party Apps (Updates)

October 8, 2012

Developer-facing release v2

Features and tasks:

• Telefonica/BlueVia payments integration for B2G (Sept 28)
  • Manage BlueVia settings
  • BV payments integration ready for end-end testing
• Identity integration for B2G/Telefonica
• Name update (marketplace.mozilla.org to marketplace.firefox.com)
  • Redirect in place
  • No other requirements at this time
• Multi-datacenter support and SLA work (Marketplace code)
  • Vamo Split
  • Redis
• Polish for B2G designs
  • tracking bug 756282

November 9, 2012

Consumer Beta Release: Android

Features and tasks:

• Optimized designs for Desktop?
• Consumer-facing Android push
  • Login removed from Marketplace on Android devices

January 15, 2013

Features and tasks:

• Stats dashboard and reports for app developers
• Sharing apps
• Reports for BizDev
• Reports for Marketing
• Realtime monitoring tools for Marketplace

February - March, 2012

Features and tasks:

• Personalized Recommendations
• Send App to phone
• Developer submission/management APIs
• Temporary price changes
• Special offers page
• Global content ratings
• App privacy questions
• Admin stats overview (business/analysis)
• Themes migration from GetPersonas

Future

Feature queue:

• Improved discovery mechanism
• App collections
• Social integration
• Download vouchers
• Gifting apps between users
• Advanced featuring tool and CMS
• Affiliates project
• Add-ons migration to Marketplace

Previous Milestones

Recent Marketplace Releases

Developer Registration - Feb. 23, 2012

The Developer Registration milestone allows developers to submit their apps and edit their details to reserve their place in the Marketplace and give feedback on payments, submission, management, and other components. The consumer side will be blocked out and unavailable.

Features / tasks:

• Policies & developer documentation written
• Price tier matrix and currencies established
• Developer Program enrollment flow
• App submission refinements
• Payment setup refinements
• App management refinements
• In-app purchases (app integration)
• Extended developer permission roles

Mozillian Preview - May 8, 2012

The Mozillian Preview will give consumers a first look at our responsive design, visual style, and core pages including app purchasing. It should work across devices but may not be perfect in every browser. Pages may only have basic features.

Features/tasks:

• Core pages implemented with responsive design and new style: homepage, details, search, browse/category
• Purchasing apps with and without PayPal billing agreement in place
• Refund flow (consumer request & developer approval)
• Video support
• Account History page
• In-app purchases consumer UI and flow
• Cross-browser support for mobile, tablets, and desktop
• Developer Hub landing pages
• App review tools
• Statistics & reports (downloads and financial)

June 21, 2012 bug 752013

For this milestone, we'll finish all core features needed for Boot2Gecko, including functional consumer pages in the B2G form factor.

Features and tasks:

• [P1] Mobile-optimized consumer pages for B2G devices (320x480)
• [P1] App ratings & reviews
• [P1] Localizable country stores, including local features and listings (feature page)
• [P1] Administration tools (spec)
• [P1] Statistics & reports (carry-over)
• [P1] Plan for integration with Telefónica direct billing
• [P1] Initial Marketplace policy document
• [P1] Plan for Brazil game ratings

July 26, 2012 bug 766201

This milestone polishes the Marketplace for B2G and adds remaining core features for the Marketplace launch on mobile.

Features and tasks:

• [P1] Localization into es-BR and pt-BR
• [P1] Polish B2G UI, navigation, and interactions
• [P1] Mobile-optimized consumer pages for Firefox Android
• [P1] Telefónica direct billing integration
• [P1] Multiple data center support
• [P1] Purchase PIN (feature page)
• [P2] US & generic content ratings
• [P2] Privacy questions