Marketplace/Contributing

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

Firefox Marketplace is the only app store dedicated to providing content built with HTML5 standards and open source values. Help bring openness, freedom, and user choice to the world of app publishing.

Connect with us

Mailing List

Email marketplace-contributors mailing list with any questions about contribution.

Contact Us

• IRC: irc.mozilla.org, #marketplace channel
• Twitter: @FirefoxApps

Public Meetings

See a list of all public Marketplace meetings: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Marketplace#Meetings_Open_for_All

Add-ons & Marketplace Community Meeting

• Time: Every other Tuesday at 10am Pacific, starting February 17, 2015
  
• Purpose: The purpose of this meeting is for staff and volunteer contributors to coordinate community-building efforts for Add-ons and Marketplace.
• More info & archives: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Marketplace/Community/Meetings
• How to join:
  • Vidyo: AMMO room - https://v.mozilla.com/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=mk8UtsxkzzqV | To join from a telephone instead, dial: +1 (800) 707-2533, pin 369, conf 98862
    
  • IRC: irc.mozilla.org, #Addons channel

AMMO Team Open Chat Sessions

• Time: First Weds of every month starting Sept 3, 2014 at 10:30am Pacific
• Purpose: Chat with the AMMO Team about community issues, developer happiness, contribution opportunities, and anything else.
• How to join:
  • Vidyo: AMMO room - https://v.mozilla.com/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=mk8UtsxkzzqV | To join from a telephone instead, dial: +1 (800) 707-2533, pin 369, conf 98862
    
  • IRC: irc.mozilla.org, #Addons channel

Goodfirstbugs Triage

• Time: Every other Thurs starting Aug 20, 2015 at 11:00am Pacific
• Purpose: A bi-weekly triage session with Add-on and Marketplace developers to discuss the health of the code contributor community and keep up-to-date with bugs marked goodfirstbugs.
• More info and archives: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Marketplace/Contributing/Code/Goodfirstbugs_triage
• How to join:
  • Vidyo: AMMO room - https://v.mozilla.com/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=mk8UtsxkzzqV | To join from a telephone instead, dial: +1 (800) 707-2533, pin 369, conf 98862
    
  • IRC: irc.mozilla.org, #Addons channel

Contribute to Marketplace

There's lots of different ways to contribute to this project, and every skill level is welcome. Whether you're nominating apps for featuring, creating an open web app, or reviewing app submissions, your efforts matter!

For all levels of technical ability:

One & Done

Don't have much time but want to do something to help Marketplace? Pick a 15-minute task.

Test and rate apps

1. Go to https://marketplace.firefox.com on your mobile device and find an app with fewer than 10 reviews that interests you.
2. Install and sample the app. If it's broken or has mature or unsafe content, use the "Report Abuse" button to notify the app review team.
3. Rate and review the app by clicking the "Write a Review" button. See Tips

Nominate apps to be featured

Help curate the apps that are featured on Marketplace by nominating your favorite app or collection of apps. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Marketplace/Contributing/Apps/CommunityCuration

Localization

1. MDN has a "localization priorities" list that you can check to find a translation project you're interested in.
2. Help localize Firefox Marketplace itself (UI, Help pages, etc.) by working with the L10n team.

For more technical contributors:

Create an app

To get started, take a look at the App Center. It contains documentation, tools and information on how to join the open web apps community.

Contribute code to Marketplace

If you're a developer and want to make http://marketplace.firefox.com/ better, we'd love your help! To get started, please complete the on-boarding process: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Marketplace/Contributing/Code

Review app submissions

Want to be the first to see the best apps and be a key contributor to building a thriving marketplace for app developers on the Open Web? Join the app review team! https://wiki.mozilla.org/Marketplace/Reviewers/Apps

Help test Marketplace

If you are interested in testing Firefox Marketplace, you can join the quality team, or tackle a One & Done task. Learn more about QA contributions here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Marketplace/Contributing/QA

Help app developers

If you're familiar with app development and enjoy technical writing, you can:

• Help with documentation for app developers
• Translate developer documentation to a different language
• Answer developer questions in Stack Overflow:
  • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/firefox-os
  • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/web-applications

Feedback

Provide feedback around Open Web Apps with ideas and feature suggestions for how to make them and the web as a whole more powerful: http://mzl.la/openwebapps

Contributor Recognition

Bug Fixes

See the "goodfirstbugs" marked as FIXED in the past 5 weeks!

Top Reviewers of the Month

Volunteer reviewers contribute to the health and safety of Marketplace. Big thanks to last month's top reviewers:

	Reviewer	Review count
1	Jaipradeesh	105
2	Viswaprath Ks	102
3	Adrian Crespo	80
4	William Dorffer	54
5	Rigin Oommen	25

Report Your Contributions

We want to make sure you're recognized for your contributions!

1. Create a Mozillians profile if you haven't already.
2. Add your name and accomplishments on the Recognition wiki page (please be specific--these will be archived by month, so list your recent contributions).

We regularly choose an outstanding contributor (Friend of Marketplace) and send that person a token of appreciation. Any contribution is eligible--it doesn't have to be an opportunity listed on this page!

Friends of Marketplace

Big thanks to these outstanding volunteer contributors!

• Trishul Goel
• Atique Ahmed Ziad
• Ram Dayal Vaishnav
• Juan Pájaro Velásquez
• Giovanny Gongora
• Swarnava Sengupta
• Niccolò Cantù
• Rigin Oommen
• Daniele Scasciafratte