Purpose of this meeting: Big picture progress and plans of the apps program components and identification of issues that need alignment.

For dial-in info, see this page.

Agenda

1. Status Updates (led by Justin)
2. Update on payments (Rick)
3. August 28 milestone
4. ...
5. Action items from last week

Status Updates

Product Development (Engineering, QA, Security, UX)

Payments

News on payment plans, implementation, and legal/financial across B2G, Android, and Desktop

• Disabling PayPal on desktop/Android and only launching with free apps on those platforms
• Integration of BlueVia and navigator.pay continues for Firefox OS
  • These plans changed last night at 9:40pm. People are still evaluating the changes necessary. (Email has been fwd'd to apps@)

Identity

Updates on the identity integration with Marketplace and apps

• Waiting for OAuth plan
  • OAuth appears to be cancelled. New plans were distributed at 9:40pm last night. People are still digesting.

Marketplace

Core Marketplace product and feature updates, release readiness

• Packaged apps has stalled waiting on decisions to be made
• Payments/Identity are in question as of last night
• New designs will land on -dev on Thursday

Firefox OS

B2G product updates concerning apps, release schedule updates

WebRT (Desktop & Android)

WebRT updates and readiness for upcoming milestones

• Desktop WebRT is not on the development radar right now
• Android WebRT will work (using the same mobile view as b2g) but will only offer free apps and no in-app payments

Apps in the Cloud

Latest on app sync

• AITC privacy policy and terms of service to be delivered by end of August
• Nick D. is standing up AITC client for B2G as an intern project
• Harald is working toward AITC on Android later this year.

User & Developer Engagement

Business Development

Progress towards regional app goals and feedback from partners

Marketing

Go to market planning and merchandising updates

Developer Experience

Plans and progress in developer ecosystem, tutorials, and app lifecycle tools

• https://wiki.mozilla.org/Apps/Developers#Implementation_bugs for updates

tl;dr:

• Devhub is a single landing for apps developers, this is our focus
• Not creating another CMS, using syndicated MDN content on devhub
• MDN, Ecosystem, Marketplace teams will be updating/adding/removing docs to reflect changes in:
  • payments
  • manifest
  • submission process
  • packaging
• Fred's team and Wil's team are talking about overlap in submission process and are getting in sync on end-to-end
• Also working on a partners landing with marketplace design (competitor example)

App Review & Content

Current status of apps in the Marketplace and policy updates

• Lisa started this week as App Review Manager
• We'll work on assessing state of non-desktop apps

Services

Support

Support plan updates

Infrastructure

SLA reports and progress towards operational readiness

Action Items