MOZILLA

DEVELOPER
NETWORK
ROADMAP 2010
Brownbag – Wednesday, June 30th 2010
By Jay Patel & Brian Louie
OVERVIEW

 CURRENT ROADMAP

 MDN WEBSITE REFRESH

 MORE COMMUNICATION

 DEVELOPER ENGAGEMENT

 DOCUMENTATION PLATFORM
CURRENT ROADMAP
2010 & BEYOND
 MDN TIMELINE
JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB

Static Pages Forums Dev Profiles

MDN Refresh Dynamic / Social Features

Campaign Pages

Kick-off Forums
Communication Identify Topics Doc Sprint 1 Doc Sprint 2

UserVoice

Pick Consultant Survey Design Industry-wide Survey Analysis / Results

Engagement Internal Survey Focus Groups

Web Developer Communities Ideastorm Project

Requirements SUMO Collab

WIKI / NAVIGATION SITE MGMT FEEDS / APIS

Documentation CONTENT MIGRATION

LOCALIZATION
MDN WEBSITE REFRESH
Q2 – Q3 2010
NEW MDN HOMEPAGE
DEVELOPER LANDING PAGES
DOCUMENTATION HUB
MORE COMMUNICATION
Q3 – Q4 2010
GET DEVELOPERS TALKING

MDN Forums
Open Mozilla MDN Mobile?
Web Platform Community
EXPERIMENT WITH FEEDBACK

Website Doc Sprint Developer

Feedback Planning Support?
JOIN CONVERSATIONS

Go where the Web

developers hang out.

Find ways to participate

there.

Turn insights into

innovation.
DEVELOPER ENGAGEMENT
Q3 – Q4 2010
DEVELOPER RESEARCH

Developer focus
groups

Industry-wide
developer survey
DOCUMENTATION SPRINTS

 1 or 2 in 2010
 3 to 5 days per sprint
 Core group face-to-face, plus online
contributors
 Topical focus per sprint, e.g., HTML5
 Dates and locations TBD
 Propose and vote on priorities via UserVoice
(http://bit.ly/mdndocsprint1ideas)
BETTER MARKETING
DOCUMENTATION PLATFORM
Q3 2010 – Q2 2011
GOALS

 Learn from past mistakes

 Perform better
 Fix l10n support
 Improve user experience (search, discovery, etc)
 Grow documentation community (2x)
 Engage with more developers (10,000+)
 Establish MDN as a premier destination for
Web developers
DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY

 Piggyback on SUMO progress

 Reach parity with MindTouch Deki for 1.0
 Migrate content over carefully and
coordinate l10n efforts in parallel
 Roll-out 1.x features on 6-8 week cycles
PRIORITIZING FEATURES

W
IK
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DS
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FE PIS
&A

METRICS
NAVIGATION
SITE MANAGEMENT
PRIORITIZING FEATURES
MDN 1.0 1.1 1.2+
• Editor specialization of specific
• WYSIWYG editor topic
• Page exporting for offline reads
• HTML embedding • Article ratings
WIKI • Templates
• “Save and keep editing” option
• Pinging of articles that haven’t
been reviewed

• Search rankings
NAVIGATION • Tag localization

• Tag creation and management • Bumping of articles in search

SITE MGMT if topical or important

• RSS feed of articles needing

FEEDS & APIS review

• Localization dashboard
METRICS • Metrics by language
PRIORITIZING FEATURES
MDN 1.0
• WYSIWYG editor
WIKI • HTML embedding
• Templates

NAVIGATION

SITE MGMT • Tag creation and management

FEEDS & APIS

• Localization dashboard
METRICS • Metrics by language
PRIORITIZING FEATURES
MDN 1.0 1.1 1.2+
• Editor specialization of specific
• WYSIWYG editor topic
• Page exporting for offline reads
• HTML embedding • Article ratings
WIKI • Templates
• “Save and keep editing” option
• Pinging of articles that haven’t
been reviewed

• Search rankings
NAVIGATION • Tag localization

• Tag creation and management • Bumping of articles in search

SITE MGMT if topical or important

• RSS feed of articles needing

FEEDS & APIS review

• Localization dashboard
METRICS • Metrics by language
PRIORITIZING FEATURES
1.1
• Article ratings
WIKI

• Search rankings
NAVIGATION • Tag localization

SITE MGMT • Bumping of articles in search if topical or important

FEEDS & APIS • RSS feed of articles needing review

METRICS
PRIORITIZING FEATURES
MDN 1.0 1.1 1.2+
• Editor specialization of specific
• WYSIWYG editor topic
• Page exporting for offline reads
• HTML embedding • Article ratings
WIKI • Templates
• “Save and keep editing” option
• Pinging of articles that haven’t
been reviewed

• Search rankings
NAVIGATION • Tag localization

• Tag creation and management • Bumping of articles in search

SITE MGMT if topical or important

• RSS feed of articles needing

FEEDS & APIS review

• Localization dashboard
METRICS • Metrics by language
PRIORITIZING FEATURES
1.2+
• Editor specialization of specific topic
• Page exporting for offline reads
WIKI • “Save and keep editing” option
• Pinging of articles that haven’t been reviewed

NAVIGATION

SITE MGMT

FEEDS & APIS

METRICS
 QUESTIONS?

http://wiki.mozilla.org/MDN

jay@mozilla.com