Mozilla is refreshing their MDN website and improving documentation efforts in 2010-2011. Key initiatives include a new homepage and developer landing pages, more communication channels for developers, increased developer engagement through surveys and documentation sprints, and replacing the current documentation platform. The new platform will prioritize features like a WYSIWYG editor, embedding HTML, and localization support in 1.0, with additional advanced features rolled out in subsequent 1.1 and 1.2 releases. The goals are to learn from past mistakes, improve the user experience, grow and engage the documentation community, and establish MDN as a premier destination for web developers.

1. Mozilla Developer Network RoadMAP2010 Brownbag – Wednesday, June 30th 2010 By Jay Patel & Brian Louie

2. CURRENT ROADMAP MDN WEBSITE REFRESH MORE COMMUNICATION DEVELOPER ENGAGEMENT DOCUMENTATION PLATFORM OVERVIEW

3. CURRENT ROADMAP2010 & Beyond

4. MDN TIMELINE Static Pages Forums Dev Profiles Dynamic / Social Features Campaign Pages Kick-off Forums Identify Topics Doc Sprint 1 Doc Sprint 2 UserVoice Pick Consultant Survey Design Industry-wide Survey Analysis / Results Internal Survey Focus Groups Web Developer Communities Ideastorm Project Requirements SUMO Collab WIKI / NAVIGATION SITE MGMT FEEDS / APIS CONTENT MIGRATION LOCALIZATION

5. MDN WEBSITE REFRESHQ2 – Q3 2010

6. NEW MDN HOMEPAGE

7. DEVELOPER LANDING PAGES

8. DOCUMENTATION HUB

9. MORE COMMUNICATIONq3 – Q4 2010

10. GET DEVELOPERS TALKING

11. EXPERIMENT WITH FEEDBACK Website Feedback Doc Sprint Planning Developer Support?

12. JOIN CONVERSATIONS Go where the Web developers hang out. Find ways to participate there. Turn insights into innovation.

13. DEVELOPER ENGAGEMENTq3 – Q4 2010

14. DEVELOPER RESEARCH Developer focus groups Industry-wide developer survey

15. 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)

16. BETTER MARKETING

17. DOCUMENTATION PLATFORMq3 2010 – Q2 2011

18. 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

19. DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY Piggyback on SUMO progress Reach parity with MindTouchDeki for 1.0 Migrate content over carefully and coordinate l10n efforts in parallel Roll-out 1.x features on 6-8 week cycles

20. PRIORITIZING FEATURES WIKI FEEDS & APIS METRICS NAVIGATION SITE MANAGEMENT

22. “Save and keep editing” option

24. HTML embedding

28. Metrics by languageMETRICS

30. HTML embedding

32. Metrics by languageMETRICS

34. “Save and keep editing” option

36. HTML embedding

40. Metrics by languageMETRICS

44. “Save and keep editing” option

46. HTML embedding

50. Metrics by languageMETRICS

52. Page exporting for offline reads

53. “Save and keep editing” option

54. Pinging of articles that haven’t been reviewedWIKI NAVIGATION SITE MGMT FEEDS & APIS METRICS

55. QUESTIONS?http://wiki.mozilla.org/MDNjay@mozilla.com