Marketplace

Mozilla is building a Marketplace to bring personalized discovery, worldwide distribution, and easy payments to the largest platform for app development: the Web. Our Marketplace will be imbued with Mozilla's principles of transparency, user control, and open innovation that locked-down platforms lack.

Communications

irc.mozilla.org backchannels

• • #marketplace
  • #payments
  • #openwebapps
  • #app-reviewers

Meetings Open for All

Meeting	When? (All times PST)	Where?	Point of Contact	Extra
Apps Quarterly Planning	Quarterly	Air Mozilla	apps@mozilla.org	Schedule varies
Product Planning	Monthly; Every 2nd Wednesday @ 0900	Marketplace Vidyo Room	David Bialer	Notes / Notes Archive
Product Delivery	Every Monday @ 1030	Apps Vidyo Room	Caitlin Galimidi
Payments Product Delivery	Every Tuesday @ 1030	FFOSPay Vidyo Room	Stephanie Turner
Content Program	Every Friday @ 0900	AppsContent Vidyo Room	Karen Ward	Notes / #appsContent
Engineering Delivery	Every other Friday @ 1000	Marketplace Vidyo Room and Air Mozilla	Wil Clouser	Notes / Notes Archive
uiwanted / productwanted triage	Every Thursday @ 1030	Marketplace Vidyo Room	Wil Clouser
App Review Program	Every Thursday @ 1000	AppReview Vidyo Room	Lisa Brewster	Notes / #app-reviewers
Community Meeting	Every other Monday @ 1400	AMMO Vidyo Room	Amy Tsay	Notes / #marketplace

Mailing Lists

• Marketplace Team All (internal) contributors to, and watchers & supporters of, Marketplace Services Program, including Payments
• Marketplace Drivers Internal list for leads on the Marketplace Services program (Add your email address in a Service-Now request)
• Apps Internal, all contributors to, and watchers & supports of, Apps Program (Add your email in a Service-now request)
• Dev Web Apps Internal mailing list for Web App Devs
• Open Web Apps Open, all Mozillian (external) Web App Devs
• App Review Open mailing list for questions regarding the content submission and review process
• Payments Team Internal, all Mozilla payments contributors
• dev-marketplace Open to anyone who wants to discuss Marketplace development

• Marketplace UX Internal, all Marketplace UX contributors

• Apps-Marketplace Leads A mailing list for Rick's Direct Reports
• Marketplace-Apps Org - Marketplace and Apps organization

• Back Seat Drivers The internal list for those not on other drivers lists
• Dev Planning Company-Wide, Open. Provides schedule of open and important meetings across dev and product teams

Contribute

• See all Marketplace contribution opportunities

Marketplace Roadmap

Check out our 2014 Goals and our current deliverables.

Marketplace Feature Requests

Make a Marketplace Feature or Work Request

Ecosystem Docs & PRDs

Please review our PRDs for upcoming Marketplace features. Have a feature you think should be on Marketplace?
Put in your request and our core team will review!

Admin Tools

Admin Tools focus on behind-the-scenes management of the Marketplace. These are divided into several areas: Reviewer Tools, Merchandising Tools, Operator Management Tools, Support Tools, and Configuration Management Tools.

• Streamlined Review Process Q1 2013 (spec)
• Firefox Marketplace Merchandising Q3 (PRD)

Android

These are a bit old now, but David know if you need access to them

• Android Pricing & Payments somewhat older as Jan 2013
• Android Install & Launch App Dec 2012
• Android API compatibility analysis

Consumer

The following PRDs and specifications contain detailed information on consumer facing features of the Marketplace. These are the things a consumer might experience when visiting the site.

• Feed v1.1 PRD April 14, 2014, Open for Comments
• Enhanced App Details PRD Oct. 31, 2013, Open for Comments
• App Categories PRD (spec)
• UI Enhancements Requests (RFC)
• UI Firefox OS Search Integration (PRD)

Content Discovery

• Nuclear Bandwagon: Collections and Channels v1.0(phase I and II complete)
• Marketplace Recommendation Engine PRD (request for comments, especially from recommendation engine knowledgeable people)

Desktop

• What does it look like to distribute apps via marketplace in the desktop browser?

Firefox Accounts

• Conversion to Firefox Accounts

Marketplace for Firefox OS

Marketplace Server

• FxOS Tarako - Marketplace on low-RAM devices
• Performance optimization

Content

• Apps regression tested with each FxOS version (internal only)
• Apps pre-approved for preload

Product Delivery

• Product Delivery Dependencies

Content Management

All of these Request your Comments (in the doc itself)

• Firefox Marketplace International Content Ratings PRD v1.0 (spec- revised in June 2013)
• Content Control PRD v1.0 (PRD posted July 14, 2013)- this covers allowing developers to be able to place geographic and mobile operator restrictions on App distribution.
• Feature Detection PRD (posted August 6 2013) - created by dbuc
• Collections Tool - coming
• Publishing Tool (was merchandising manager) coming

Developer Dashboard

Developer facing parts of the Marketplace are split into 2 areas: the Dev Hub, which focuses on information and resources that help developers create and submit apps for the Marketplace, and the "Dev Dashboard", the area focused on application management.

Please view Apps/Developers for information about the Firefox Marketplace Developer Hub.

Metrics and Business Intelligence

Metrics covers how well things perform - number of downloads, number of installs, apps submitted, apps reviewed, etc. Business Intelligence covers behavior within the Marketplace, goal measurement, UX research. This is measured through Google Analytics.

Marketplace Performance Metrics

This covers Marketplace and App Performance Metrics for Developers, Community members, Mozilla and Operators

• Marketplace Metrics PRD v2.0 (spec)

Marketplace Business Intelligence

tbd

Operator / OEM

Please see Marketplace - Adding Regions and Carriers for more details on Operator onboarding

• Operator Shelf (customization) (spec)
• Operator Dashboard part 1 Oct 24, 2014, Open for Comments
• Operator Dashboard FFOS PRD Oct. 31, 2013, Open for Comments

Payments & Pricing

• Payment APIs (payment status regionally and price tiers)
• Sample API implementation - Payments supported regionally

• Marketplace Payments & Refunds, Consumer Side v1.3 - 1.5 (spec, Open for Comments Sept 19, 2013)
• Silent SMS Authentication Requirements v1.0 (spec, Open for Comments May 28, 2013)
• Zippy, Reference Implementation (w/ style guides)
• Technical Specs

Other Resources

Marketplace Regional and Carrier Customizations

• everything a Carrier / Operator needs to know about customizing Marketplace content and payments for their FfxOS mobile costumers

Shared FxOS Dependencies

• Look up the dependencies shared between Marketplace product, Apps and Partners teams

Related Information

• Information on the Apps project and Developer Ecosystem

Archives

Archives

• 2013/2014 Roadmap as of September 25, 2013 (Old)
• 2013/2014 Marketplace Roadmap as of July 15 2013 (OLD, Deprecated)
• 2013 Marketplace Roadmap as of April 2013 (OLD, Deprecated)
• 2012 Roadmap
• 2012 Marketplace Requirements
  • Old International Plan
  • Marketplace Compatibility (supported browsers, devices, etc.)
  • Marketplace SLA Obsolete (Service-level Agreement with Operations)
• Marketplace for Developers (spec)
  • Developer Personas
• Marketplace for Consumers (spec)
  • Consumer Personas
• Marketplace for Contributors (spec)
  • Contributor Personas
• Marketplace Feature Pages (an experiment; most features are not yet listed here)
• Payments Guide - Obsolete documentation on payments

Contact Information

• #marketplace on irc.mozilla.org
• Weekly Status Meeting Notes and Dial-in info
• mozilla.dev.marketplace newsgroup
• Bugs should go to the Marketplace Bugzilla Area