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These are the projects and operational goals for the Dev Ecosystem team.
Q1 2013
Current projects
- Developer Hub
- Tighter integration with MDN
- Quick Start Section
- Tools and templates (mortar)
- integrate sutthisan into mortar
- develop at least two ways for to simplify building offline apps for developers
- x-tags:
- Release set of at least 5 x-tags according to specs provided by Firefox OS UX
- Reference apps
- 2D game reference app
- create a "kitchen sink" app, running automated tests for relevant WebAPIs
- integrate payments into at least one reference app
Upcoming projects
Previous Quarters/Projects
Q4 2012
- Marketplace Developer Hub
- Mortar Templates
- Marketplace Submission API
- x-tags
Q3 2012
- Apps Developers: Landing page and development tutorial for prospective apps developers ("Marketplace Developer Hub")
- Mortar: JS Framework / responsive design template / web components for apps developers
- napkin: A rapid web prototyping tool
- New Tab content server (newnewtab): New Tab page experiment serving personalized and recommended Apps content
- Proof-of-concept for in-app advertising system
- Submission API for apps marketplace
- UX Design Guidelines for Apps Developers
- x-tag: Web components for modern browsers
- easy-to-use Firefox OS emulation ("Firefox OS Simulator")
Q2 2012
- Apptastic: Development experiments on various app development platforms
- persona.org: Portal for people to manage their online life (apps, contacts, identity)
Tentative projects/ideas
Reach out to the Dev Ecosystem team in person or on IRC to discuss these!
- Web API platform interface for PhoneGap / Apache Cordova
- Contribute apps to Gaia / fix up existing apps to make them really good[tm] examples of open web apps
- Web builder: Tool chain to guide developers through the apps building and publishing process