Apps/DevEngage/Content/DevEcoEngage Meetings/2012-07-17

Agenda

• Quick updates & report on action items
• Developer Support plan for Apps - Janet
• Docs tutorials priorities - Janet
• Apps docs tutorials priorities in Q3 - Janet
• Update on Mortar (James Long)
• Update on Server-side tools plan (Tofumatt)

Attendees

• Mark Giffin, Janet, Jeff Griffiths, James 'Pedro' Long, TofuMatt, Havi

Administrivia

• Recurring meeting will be Tuesday, 11am.
• Raw notes: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/apps-dev-content-2012-07-17
• last week's raw notes: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/apps-dev-content-2012-07-10

Action Items

Action items - Proposals for the 2 weeks ahead in preparation from FISL and upcoming App Hack events. We need to prioritize the documentation tasks. Updates:

Janet & Mark

• Tutorial: Restructure the existing MDN Getting Started tutorial to be more modular, sequential and fast-start friendly: Prioritize MDN over Developer Hub
  • https://marketplace-dev.allizom.org/developers/tutorial/apps?lang=en-us vs

Janet & Daniel Buchner

• Developer Hub: Come up with a Developer Hub plan and timeline for Q3-Q4
  • what is top priority Apps content w/delivery dates (should map closely to tutorial priorities on MDN)

James Long, Fred & Mark Giffin

• Tutorial: Using Mortar to build Tweetness
  • https://github.com/jlongster/tweetness
  • Fred will discuss w/James to see if he can deliver 1st draft by 7/20
  • Mark to write and post to MDN by 7/25 in time for FISL hack day

Bryan, James Burke & Mark Giffin NOT AVAILABLE

• Tutorial: Walkthrough of NPR app demo Install module -- installs to Moz Marketplace, Android store & iOS
  • Install module screencast delivered
  • Next steps for NPR demo app (Can James work on screencasts while Bryan is out?)

Tofumatt/Fred

• Writing server-side components for my App?
  • Fred will discuss w/Tofumatt, establish timeline. (Possibility of having TofuMatt present this in Brazil in early Q4)
  • Define the tool chain
  • Documentation plan / craft tutorial

UPDATE: See below

• Question: Is there a simple client-side app we can document in a tutorial style? Fred and I were having trouble coming up with one.

• Fred has a game called Serpent that uses WebGameStub template, but it is keyboard-based, not mobile friendly. Is this worth documenting? UPDATE: Fred has now created & submitted a mobile version!

Minutes

• Updates on Action Items:
  • UPDATE: Apps Tutorial is ready for FISL: https://developer-new.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Apps/Tutorials/General
    • Mark is adding new stuff based on content from Jason Smith.
    • TofuMatt says we need update to manifest. Will share with Mark. Mark to include.

• • UPDATE: Everyone upvotes the NPR installer module. It encourages people to submit to Marketplace and iterate.

• • UPDATE: Developer hub plan is owned by Dev Ecosystem team. Janet & Mark will coordinate when Fred and Daniel are back in the office.

• • UPDATE: James will use a different Mortar app to demo Mortar, not Tweetness
    • (What's Mortar: a collection of templates - base UI, game, server-side, pre-built/list view) - and will post on github before FISL
    • AND James will send markdown version of this to Janet/Mark to include on MDN

• • UPDATE: Tofumatt on Server-side ecosystem tool plan -
    • web apps need server-side components - b/c you need some place to host them - for auth and storage.
    • basic stuff that doesn't require elaborate framework for JS-savvy devs
    • host on Heroku for free till you can make money. scales well, very good for testing

node is good for testing locally.

• • • Matt is building a little node.js server - and dealing w/node setup. Includes:
      • install app
      • webpage
      • serves up proper manifest
      • simple DB backend like redis
      • 2 command deploy to heroku (free for 1 server, 1 listener)
      • time estimate: 1-2 weeks to get it going.
      • maybe an example app for games.

• • Some notes on hosting options:
    • AWS - heroku is hosted on Amazon, good reliability and well-distributed, but way easier to deal with.
    • Github hosting is preferable if they are only client-side.
    • Volo will package, minify and push to github w/2 commands.
    • set your github branch to your page branch.