mdn roadmap 2010
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MOZILLA DEVELOPER NETWORK ROADMAP 2010Brownbag – Wednesday, June 30th 2010
By Jay Patel & Brian Louie
CURRENT ROADMAP
MDN WEBSITE REFRESH
MORE COMMUNICATION
DEVELOPER ENGAGEMENT
DOCUMENTATION PLATFORM
OVERVIEW
CURRENT ROADMAP2010 & BEYOND
MDN TIMELINEJUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB
MDN Refresh
Communication
Engagement
Documentation
Static Pages
Forums
Dynamic / Social Features
Identify Topics Doc Sprint 1 Doc Sprint 2
Pick Consultant
Internal Survey
Survey Design Industry-wide Survey
Focus Groups
Dev Profiles
Campaign Pages
Analysis / Results
Web Developer Communities
UserVoice
Kick-off Forums
Ideastorm Project
Requirements
SUMO Collab
WIKI / NAVIGATION
CONTENT MIGRATION
LOCALIZATION
SITE MGMT FEEDS / APIS
MDN WEBSITE REFRESHQ2 – Q3 2010
NEW MDN HOMEPAGE
DEVELOPER LANDING PAGES
DOCUMENTATION HUB
MORE COMMUNICATIONQ3 – Q4 2010
GET DEVELOPERS TALKING
MDN Forums
Open Web
Mozilla Platfor
m
MDN Communi
ty
Mobile?
EXPERIMENT WITH FEEDBACK
Website Feedback
Doc Sprint Planning
Developer Support?
JOIN CONVERSATIONS
Go where the Web developers hang out.
Find ways to participate there.
Turn insights into innovation.
DEVELOPER ENGAGEMENTQ3 – 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 PLATFORMQ3 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
WIKI
NAVIGATION
SITE MANAGEMENT
FEEDS
& APIS
METRICS
PRIORITIZING FEATURES
WIKI
NAVIGATION
SITE MGMT
FEEDS & APIS
METRICS
MDN 1.0 1.1 1.2+• WYSIWYG editor• HTML embedding• Templates
• Tag creation and management
• Localization dashboard• Metrics by language
• Article ratings
• Search rankings• Tag localization
• Bumping of articles in search if topical or important
• RSS feed of articles needing review
• Editor specialization of specific topic• Page exporting for offline reads• “Save and keep editing” option• Pinging of articles that haven’t been reviewed
PRIORITIZING FEATURES
• WYSIWYG editor• HTML embedding• Templates
• Tag creation and management
• Localization dashboard• Metrics by language
MDN 1.0
WIKI
NAVIGATION
SITE MGMT
FEEDS & APIS
METRICS
PRIORITIZING FEATURES
• WYSIWYG editor• HTML embedding• Templates
• Tag creation and management
• Localization dashboard• Metrics by language
• Article ratings
• Search rankings• Tag localization
• Bumping of articles in search if topical or important
• RSS feed of articles needing review
• Editor specialization of specific topic• Page exporting for offline reads• “Save and keep editing” option• Pinging of articles that haven’t been reviewed
MDN 1.0 1.1 1.2+
WIKI
NAVIGATION
SITE MGMT
FEEDS & APIS
METRICS
PRIORITIZING FEATURES
• Article ratings
• Search rankings• Tag localization
• Bumping of articles in search if topical or important
• RSS feed of articles needing review
1.1
WIKI
NAVIGATION
SITE MGMT
FEEDS & APIS
METRICS
PRIORITIZING FEATURES
• WYSIWYG editor• HTML embedding• Templates
• Tag creation and management
• Localization dashboard• Metrics by language
• Article ratings
• Search rankings• Tag localization
• Bumping of articles in search if topical or important
• RSS feed of articles needing review
• Editor specialization of specific topic• Page exporting for offline reads• “Save and keep editing” option• Pinging of articles that haven’t been reviewed
MDN 1.0 1.1 1.2+
WIKI
NAVIGATION
SITE MGMT
FEEDS & APIS
METRICS
PRIORITIZING FEATURES
• Editor specialization of specific topic• Page exporting for offline reads• “Save and keep editing” option• Pinging of articles that haven’t been reviewed
1.2+
WIKI
NAVIGATION
SITE MGMT
FEEDS & APIS
METRICS
QUESTIONS?
http://wiki.mozilla.org/MDN