Apps/Ecosystem: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 22:26, 4 September 2015

This is a project overview for the Apps Engineering team.

Select Projects

Firefox {,OS} <-> Web development frameworks
- EmberCLI plugin for Firefox OS (project codename "recroom")
- node-firefox

Cross-Platform tools
- PhoneGap / Apache Cordova integration -- cross-platform apps development framework

Showcase Apps
- high fidelity -- a podcast client for Firefox OS

Libraries
- localForage -- a convenience library for async data storage across platforms, with localStorage fallback

Quarterly Goals

(Overarching Marketplace/Content Ecosystem group goals are maintained by Bertrand Neveux et al. The following goals align with those global initiatives, but are much more detailed and specific to the Apps Engineering group.)

2015: Quarter 1 | Quarter 2 | Quarter 3
2014: Quarter 1 | Quarter 2 | Quarter 3 | Quarter 4
2013: Quarter 1 | Quarter 2 | Quarter 3 | Quarter 4

Previous Quarters/Projects

Check out the Wiki history

Tentative projects/ideas

Reach out to the Apps Engineering team in person or on IRC (#apps) to discuss!

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 This is a project overview for the [[Apps/Engineering|Apps Engineering team]].
-== Current Projects ==
+== Select Projects ==
-* Web Components and Templates (Arron, Potch)
+* Firefox {,OS} <-> Web development frameworks
-** X-tags -- web component polyfill and component framework
+** EmberCLI plugin for Firefox OS (project codename "recroom")
-** Brick -- UI components for apps
+** [https://github.com/mozilla/node-firefox node-firefox]
-** mortar -- templates for building apps
-* Platform intergration (Piotr, James)
+* Cross-Platform tools
 ** [[CordovaFirefoxOS|PhoneGap / Apache Cordova integration]] -- cross-platform apps development framework
-** Kitchen Sink app -- test tool for cross-platform API support
-** Speakeasy -- given a "native" app package, determine if it is a wrapped HTML5 app or a "native" app.
-* Showcase Apps (Sole, Jen, tofumatt, et al)
+* Showcase Apps
-** RTCamera -- a WebRTC / WebGL camera app that generates animated gifs
+** high fidelity -- a podcast client for Firefox OS
-** around -- a cross-platform Foursquare client
-** Podcasts -- a podcast client for Firefox OS
-** Webfighter -- a canvas-based game (and in-app payments demo)
-** [https://ecosystem.etherpad.mozilla.org/20 chatspaces] -- a mobile chat app with WebRTC, push notifications, and accounts integration
-* Cross-functional projects
+* Libraries
-** [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/document/d/1jB263y_LFb40ZDTbj2UlTsNXrNzeMhXIImYUw-aQlnY/edit Offline Task Force] -- an initiative to improve the state of offline capability in apps
+** [https://github.com/mozilla/localforage localForage] -- a convenience library for async data storage across platforms, with localStorage fallback
-** localForage -- a convenience library for async data storage across platforms, with localStorage fallback
-** Search Experiments (Jen, w/Labs)
-** Nunjucks (jlongster) -- JS template engine
-== Goals ==
+== Quarterly Goals ==
-* [https://ecosystem.etherpad.mozilla.org/goals-q4-2013 2013 Q4 Goals]
+(Overarching Marketplace/Content Ecosystem group goals are maintained by Bertrand Neveux et al. The following goals align with those global initiatives, but are much more detailed and specific to the Apps Engineering group.)
-* [https://ecosystem.etherpad.mozilla.org/goals-q3-2013 2013 Q3 Goals]
+* 2015: [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/document/d/1Oim9lmTdrFXj_Yepj94Tkt8A03-SCv_ejDTmc3YV1sc/edit Quarter 1] | [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/document/d/1O_Kba4fhYiQ0wR7AUX5UOSVcTtNkEcfdpaAWPq2Nois/edit Quarter 2] | [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bf-zwldoQ5mRkVioKJpwHOHAFOtzdv0EfQ8fZ3_UbH8/edit Quarter 3]
-* [https://ecosystem.etherpad.mozilla.org/goals-q2-2013 2013 Q2 Goals]
+* 2014: [https://ecosystem.etherpad.mozilla.org/goals-q1-2014 Quarter 1] | [https://ecosystem.etherpad.mozilla.org/goals-q2-2014 Quarter 2] | [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/document/d/12qyKZkDG2vkt2REpHo2a_W3sI46XWpk0k-3kKgS7I-A/edit Quarter 3] | [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/document/d/1f7h6b8PH9aXNUh_GE37EMtlu2JCr0Y4GDgg8P6u0w-k/edit Quarter 4]
-* [https://ecosystem.etherpad.mozilla.org/goals-q1-2013 2013 Q1 Goals]
+* 2013: [https://ecosystem.etherpad.mozilla.org/goals-q1-2013 Quarter 1] | [https://ecosystem.etherpad.mozilla.org/goals-q2-2013 Quarter 2] | [https://ecosystem.etherpad.mozilla.org/goals-q3-2013 Quarter 3] | [https://ecosystem.etherpad.mozilla.org/goals-q4-2013 Quarter 4]
 == Previous Quarters/Projects ==
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 == Tentative projects/ideas ==
-Reach out to [[Apps/Engineering|the Apps Engineering team]] in person or on IRC to discuss!
+Reach out to [[Apps/Engineering|the Apps Engineering team]] in person or [[IRC|on IRC]] ([irc://irc.mozilla.org/apps #apps]) to discuss!