Marketplace/Tarako

The Project

Providing relevant content and optimal marketplace performance for local users of a low memory mobile device.

Key Leads

• Content: Thomas Elin
  • Partner Engineering: Harald Kirschner
  • Apps Engineering: Rory Petty + Matt MacPherson
  • Developer Relations: Chris Mills + Mark Coggins
• Marketplace Engineering: Wil Clouser
  • Performance: Cvan
  • UX: Tony Santos
  • Product: David Bialer
• Legal / Compliance: Mika
• Payments: Steve Ruston
• OEM Partner site: Karen
• Firefox OS Tarako team
• Stakeholders
  • Rick Fant
  • Bertrand Neveux
  • Bill Maggs
  • Bill Walker

• Program Management: Caitlin Galimidi

Scope

Identification & management of content

1 App performance testing & benchmarking
1.1 Top 20 & Preloaded apps
1.2 Existing Apps Catalog
1.3 Tier 1 Partner Apps
2 Local content
3 App review process
4 E.Me
5 Developer Communication plan

Tarako Content / Apps Communications

• general communications and questions to mailing list: apps@mozilla.com
• daily updates to apps@mozilla.com w/ progress on Top 40 apps, cc: b2g release drivers
• email subject line starts with [Tarako Content]
• weekly Team Leads Meeting: Vidyo Marketplace to track progress on Content, Thursdays 6pm PST

Bugs

• File bugs on the top 40 or preloaded apps with the Tech Evangelism team

Marketplace (TMP: Tarako Marketplace)

6 Feature / Memory / Device detection (reliable)
7 Speed and Performance
7.1 Establish target benchmarks & KPIs for performance
8 TMP Technical design
9 UI updates to accommodate RTL & other local language requirements (pending target markets)

Tarako Marketplace Communications

• questions and concerns send to marketplace-apps-org@mozilla.com
  • subject starts with [Tarako Marketplace]
• IRC Channel #marketplace

Bugs

• you can open bugs for Tarako Marketplace here

Developer Communications

10 Low memory programming practices for app devs
10.1 Best low memory programming practices for tier 1 partners
10.2 Low memory programming practices for MDN / long tail
11 early access to low memory devices for developers
12 Revised developer app submission process

Legal / Compliance Requirements in target markets

12 content
13 payments
14 language
15 IARC content ratings

OEM Partner site

16 Firefox Inside scope statement for Marketplace
17 Preloaded apps

Payments

• TBD pending
  
  • known local network and identified pay provider
    
  • established Price Points - Optimizing for locally relevant pricing
    

Flashing Builds

• https://intranet.mozilla.org/B2G_Team/Tarako#Instructions

Tarako meetings

• Weekly cross functional engineering
  • Thursdays 6pm PST
  • Vidyo Marketplace

Status from teams

• Etherpad notes:
• WIP patches:
• QA: