mdn roadmap 2010

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

jay@mozilla.com