Marketplace/Releases

The Marketplace has been placed into maintenance mode. It is no longer under active development. You can read complete details here.

Below are completion dates for Marketplace features.

References

• All weekly updates
• Quarterly Objectives

October 18, 2012

3000-Consumer Beta Release for Android
the "walled garden" comes tumbling down (login removed)

Features and tasks:

• [spec] | [bug 756282] Polish FxOS designs (320x240)
• [spec] | [bug packaged-apps] 3rd party packaged apps
• [spec] | [bug] Optimized designs for Desktop
• [spec] | [bug] Consumer-facing Android push
  • [spec] | [bug] Front end support for android devices (wider than 240px)
  • [spec] | [bug] Login removed from Marketplace on Android devices
  • [spec] | [bug] Metrics / Reports for Internal Marketing v.1
  • [spec] | [bug] Ability to contact apps developers for internal purposes

October 26th, 2012 (Milestone: Feature Freeze on FFOS Device Oct 26th)

Paymentsfor FFOS Brazil are feature complete: patches checked in against blockers & ready for testing
Ship of FFOS Marketplace for Dogfooding devices complete

• spec | 794530 Payments
  • Refunds - P1
• spec | 794552 Identity

Nov 15, 2012

Ship to Beta Developer and Internal Admin Metrics and Support features

• Ship OS Simulator tool - P1
• Ship to Beta feedback and support tools from end-user to developer - P1
• Content review process: operation of multi-language, multi-platform review process (validation) - P1
• Marketplace rebrand (Mozilla Marketplace to Firefox Marketplace) - P1
• Ship to Beta Developer dashboard - download metrics, usage metrics, payment history - P2
• Ship to Beta system and internal business metrics (user, clic) - P2

Dec 15, 2012

Android enhancements, Marketplace Localization and Desktop Apps launch

• Server-side payments complete for FFOS
  • Ship to Beta Developer single-registration for Bango - P1
  • disabling payments server-side for device lost / stolen
• Ship to Beta Payments for Android (P1)
• Ship to Beta Android in multiple languages (P1)
• Begin operation of editorial, promotion, curation and outbound marketing plan for Marketplace (P1)
• Marketplace L10N on all features(P2)
• Desktop Apps Discovery and Install (P2)
• Desktop Send-To-Phone (P3)

January 15, 2013

Features and tasks:

• [spec] | [bug] Sharing apps
• [spec] | [bug] Reports for BizDev
• [spec] | [bug] Realtime monitoring tools for Marketplace

February - March, 2013

Features and tasks:

• [spec] | [bug] Personalized Recommendations
• [spec] | [bug] Developer submission/management APIs
• [spec] | [bug] Temporary price changes
• [spec] | [bug] Special offers page
• [spec] | [bug] Global content ratings
• [spec] | [bug] App privacy questions
• [spec] | [bug] Admin stats overview (business/analysis)
• [spec] | [bug] 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