PlatformGoals2014

Products - Platform (WIP)

• Build out our ability to scale
  • Community care
    • Lower the barrier to entry (MozTrap, BugMaster, One and Done, etc …)
    • Give back to the community (Training and talks)
      • Build the skills required for our community volunteers to successfully engage with us. Make them better testers, developers, etc ...
  • Build & Release
    • “Measure twice, cut once”
    • Increase efficiency
      • Decrease end to end time for development cycle
      • Reduce the cost per unit in the cloud
  • Quality
    • More Test Automation (especially for B2G)
    • Judicious use of contract labor for testing and automated test development
    • Continue to engage and empower the community
    • Empower partners to do their own testing efficiently
  • Developer Productivity
    • Reduce paper cuts & Increase ability to deliver more
      • Enhance efficiency of tools used to develop (Bugzilla, Git, Hg, etc)
      • Make it easier for developers to run tests in their development environment
  • Engineering Program Management
• Deliver the functionality needed by the other product teams to deliver awesome products some of these are.
  • Support for FirefoxOS
    • 128 mb phone
    • Offline mode
    • Payments
    • Support for vertical text
  • Support for Firefox Desktop and Android
    • Emerging markets L10N, Performance, Memory footprint
    • Offline mode
    • Payments
    • Support for vertical text
  • Support Services
    • Service workers, if not them then what and ship it
    • Payments
• Platform core
  • Make the platform a product
    • “Romance web developers”
    • Do a better job of showing why the Mozilla platform is cool through demos, etc …
    • <x %> of demos being created online work well in gecko
      • What are demos and how do we identify them?
      • See http://www.chromeexperiments.com/, posts on hackernews, etc.
      • IE Test Drive demos: http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/
      • Can we be better on demos from other companies than their own browser? Is that useful? Is this too defensive?
      • Advocate the use of cool new/important features on Mozilla websites
    • HTTP2
    • CSS enhancements (Animations, )
    • Keep winning on Toms Harware's browser grand prix https://wiki.mozilla.org/Web_Browser_Grand_Prix
    • Sandboxing content processes https://wiki.mozilla.org/FoxInABox
      • Look into feasibility of an adaptive platform (configures based upon the characteristics of the device it is running on)
  • Networking - Improve power consumption and reduce latency
  • Security/Performance - PKI revocation support/performance
  • DOM - enable and empower Web Apps
  • Layout - Web Compatibility
  • Drive to an understanding of what we want the web platform to look like in 3-5 years.