Firefox/Activity Stream

Overview

Activity Stream for Firefox is a collection of all the things you do in the browser that you care about displayed in a rich and meaningful way. We plan to show rich content with images from recent pages, screen shots, downloads, closing sessions, notifications, and improve your results in the awesome bar. Eventually we hope to be the central feed of the things you care about.

Key Documents

• What is Context Graph: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Context_Graph
• Code: https://github.com/mozilla/activity-stream
• Issues: https://github.com/mozilla/activity-stream/issues
• Product/UX Trello Board: https://trello.com/b/KX3hV8XS/activity-stream

Other Resources

• Desktop MVP: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lCdgLbF4z758SVD90BCFhZaaMT50Pz0tR5D0yCIVtro/edit
• Original Desktop UX: https://mozilla.invisionapp.com/share/GA5RW90CW Mocks v1
• Analytics blog: http://emtwo.github.io/

Install

Stable Release

Activity Stream is available as a Test Pilot experiment and can be downloaded by signing up for Test Pilot, our feature testing platform for Firefox. Android and iOS are in development, stay tuned.

Developer Release

The developer release is updated each time code is committed to master in GitHub. This is version is less stable than the version that's released to Test Pilot. Use with caution:

https://moz-activity-streams-dev.s3.amazonaws.com/dist/latest.html

Note: The data being collected by the add-on is documented in the repo.

Reporting Issues

If you find a bug or have a suggestion, please submit it on GitHub:

https://github.com/mozilla/activity-stream/issues/new

Planning

Goals

• Help users reconnect with their favorite things from around the web
• Finish tasks across devices
• Give users more control of their activities in Firefox
• Define Firefox as the helpful user agent that’s looking out for you

Product Plan

• Q3: Consistent cross platform experience
• Q3: Trending and recommended items (powered by Pocket)
• Q3: Easier access to the best pages from history
• Q3: Cross platform validation
• Q4: Begin landing code in Firefox across platforms

Success

• Effective cross discipline teams solving problems across platforms
• Validation of key assumptions through metrics and user interviews
• Activity Stream in the hands of all our users
• Users have easy access to their favorite things in Firefox and therefore spend more time using it

Engineering

Activity Stream [status: green]

Current Sprint Goals for "Dry Island Buffalo Jump" milestone

• Recommendation highlight MVP
• Share context menu
• Search/Filter timeline view
• Show synced data
• Engagement Model and Exec dashboard
• Local storage infrastructure
• url meta data service using fathom

Changelog: https://github.com/mozilla/activity-stream/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

Past Updates

Milestones

https://github.com/mozilla/activity-stream/milestones

Team - RACI

Product owner: Nick Chapman

Eng Leads: Tim S., Stefan A.

Technical Program Manager: Edwin W.

UX Leads: Aaron Benson, Amy Lee, Bryan Bell

Product Marketing:

QA: Peter DeHaan, Aaron T., Kevin B.

Exec Sponsor: Mark Mayo/Nick Ngyuen

Communications

IRC: #activity-stream Slack: firefox-team.slack.com - please email to be added to group

Email:

• activity-stream@mozilla.org *all*
• as-team@mozilla.com *paid-staff*
  • https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.com/forum/#!forum/activity-stream

VidyoRoom: ActivityStream