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Jetpack Developer Engagement Plan

About the Jetpack Project

Project Summary

The Jetpack project's aim is to make it easy to develop Firefox add-ons using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. It has two products:

• the Add-on Builder, which is an online IDE for add-on development
• the Add-on SDK, which is a downloadable SDK for developing add-ons locally

Resources

• Home page: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Jetpack
• Roadmap: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Jetpack/Roadmap
• Communication channels:
  • #jetpack on irc.mozilla.org
  • mozilla-labs-jetpack mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla-labs-jetpack/
  • Add-ons Blog: http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/

2012 Roadmap Themes

• deep integrators: in 2011 the SDK targeted developers new to add-on development who might be put off by the complexity of XUL development. In 2012, Jetpack will target "deep integrators": people wishing to implement more complex, powerful add-ons
• mobile: in 2012 the SDK aims to be the primary development environment for Firefox Mobile

People

Developer Engagement

• Evangelist: Jeff Griffiths
• Technical Writer: Will Bamberg

Jetpack Project Leads

• Product Manager: Dave Mason
• Technical Lead: Irakli Gozalishvili

Target Audience

• Casual developers
• Web developers
• Experienced and professional add-on developers
• Firefox developers prototyping new features as add-ons
• Globally distributed, strong established European presence

Deliverables

Developer Outreach

• Conferences/unconferences: Jetpack talks will happen at the following (un)conferences:
• Hack Days: plan to have N hack days in 2012 including EU, NA, LA and Asia

Project Communications

• Regular blog posts on Add-ons blog to communicate project status updates and highlight major features
• Write release notes for SDK releases
• Publishing online versions of the docs for each SDK release

Documentation

• writing and maintaining documentation for the SDK tools and APIs including:
  • tutorials
  • concept guides
  • reference
• extending and maintaining the SDK's documentation system
• support for online and offline versions of the SDK docs
• migrate documentation to MDN
• add support for localization of the SDK docs

Code examples

• create/curate/maintain sample code for major SDK APIs

Developer Support

Monitoring forums, answering questions, and feeding back bug reports/enhancement requests:

• project mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla-labs-jetpack/
• AMO forum: https://forums.mozilla.org/addons/viewforum.php?f=27
• Stack Overflow jetpack tag