Firefox/Activity Stream

Overview

Activity Stream is a top line initiative but also a Firefox feature. As an umbrella term, anything that let's users interface with their activities in the browser, is Activity Stream the initiative. This includes: Sync and Synced Tabs, history menu, awesome bar, tiles. There's significant effort in improving these interfaces and deepening engagement with these tools for recovery and later, discovery.

As a Product Feature, Activity Stream is a collection of all the things you do in the browser that you care about display in a rich and meaningful way. This will most likely take the form of a timeline-like feed in the new tab page. We plan to display rich content with images from recent pages, screen shots, downloads, closing sessions, notifications, and improve your frecency results in the awesome bar. Eventually we hope to be the central feed of the things you care about.

Key Documents

Code: https://github.com/mozilla/activity-streams

Task tracking: https://github.com/mozilla/activity-streams/issues

Desktop MVP: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lCdgLbF4z758SVD90BCFhZaaMT50Pz0tR5D0yCIVtro/edit

Desktop UX: https://mozilla.invisionapp.com/share/GA5RW90CW Mocks v1

Mobile UX ideas: http://people.mozilla.org/~dhenein/labs/activity-stream/

Desktop

Recent

Activity Stream - [status: green]

• [landed] We hit our UI Demo milestone! Amazing work team.
  • https://github.com/mozilla/activity-streams/milestones
  • we had over 60+ commits by 7 contributors during this sprint.
  • demos has working layout, loading local data, and using embedly proxy to fetch page metadata:
• [done] schedule testing with Softvision QA and test plan initiated
• [done] Desktop and Mobile teams collaborating and sharing data weekly.

• Next Milestone: Alpha
  • stand up a embedly dev server for team testing
  • UX Polish
  • Metrics and reporting
  • A/B Testing infrastructure

Past Updates

Milestones

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

Milestone	Description	End Date
UI Demo	Front end layout	Feb 12
Alpha	Loading local data	Feb 26
Beta	Internal testing	Mar 18
Release 1.0	Live on Test Pilot	Apr 1

Mobile

Recent

As part of the overall content model improvements, the first initiative focuses on "saving" and "revisiting": ([[1]])

• [in plan] Removing Reading List (RL) Panel: In order to consolidate and simplify our panel management, we will clear away the Reading List panel, and turn existing RL items into Bookmarks. A smart folder will reside in the Bookmarks Panel to identify saved Reader View items. All Reader View items will now be synced now.
• [in plan] Enable folder management; Add/Remove/Rename bookmarks folder
• [in plan] Add more content to save (offline), e.g. save as PDF, screenshot etc

Initiatives in Aha - Offline experience - Improved Content Management

Team Details

Team - RACI

Product owner: Nick Chapman

Eng Lead: Tim Spurway

Technical Program Manager: Edwin Wong

UX/UR Leads: Bryan Bell, shorelander, dhenein

Product Marketing: TBD

QA: Peter DeHaan, John D., Softvision

Exec Sponsor: Mark Mayo

Communications

IRC: #activity-stream

Email: activity-stream@mozilla.com

• https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.com/forum/#!forum/activity-stream

VidyoRoom: ActivityStream