+dev-b2g to a broader audience Great idea!
I’m adding Kevin Hu to facilitate this team work on the EPM side so that the "polish bugs” can have better visibility. -- James Ho Senior Director of Mobile Devices Mozilla Corporation On Dec 12, 2014, at 2:25 AM, Christopher Lord <cl...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > This is a long mail, so I'm going to stick headers to aid anyone that just > wants to skim it. > > > Pre-amble > > Something I think most would agree with, especially those who are > dog-fooding, is that FirefoxOS lacks 'polish'. It's pretty hard to define > exactly, but it's what makes a product feel satisfying to use. That ethereal > quality that makes something more than just the sum of its parts. > > I'd like to think that polish really comes down to attention to detail. All > the small things that you might take for granted, but when they aren't there, > you subconsciously (or consciously) miss them. With this in mind, I've > proposed that we form a team to tackle polish-related bugs. This is not to > encourage that features land unpolished, but to make sure that there are > people actively taking care of this so that issues don't fall through the > cracks and get de-prioritised as deadlines loom. > > > What is Polish Team? > > We have performance teams at Mozilla; in my eyes, this is a logical extension > of that. A multi-functional team with the remit of improving the feel of > polish of FirefoxOS. > > Polish Team is a secondary team for people who want to help make FirefoxOS a > more polished product. That is, a team you are in, in addition to your > regular team. There will be (at least) a monthly meeting to triage issues, > and weekly update meetings to keep track of work. If you have polish bugs > assigned to you, two days of your week should be dedicated to working for > polish team. Polish team has the backing of managers and UX, so polish bugs > will be on an even keel with other non-polish bugs. *This is not extra work*. > > 2.2 has had various features de-scoped, making this the perfect time to focus > on producing a really accomplished release. Polish team's primary objective > will be to markedly improve the feeling of polish in the upcoming 2.2 release. > > > Sounds great! How do I join? > > I'd tentatively suggest that we meet after next week's Vidyo stand-up to > perform our first polish triage and decide what our first actions will be. If > you could also reply to me and/or the list to express any interest, > suggestions or concerns you have, I'd love to hear from you. > > I'm all for people bringing their pet polish peeves (PPPs), but if you'd like > more focus, I would also suggest that we first look at the consistency and > performance of state transitions (app launching, navigating through panels in > apps, bringing up menus, etc.). > > > All the best, > > --Chris > > p.s. I'll be bringing this up again in the Gaia meeting on Tuesday, for > maximum exposure. > _______________________________________________ > dev-gaia mailing list > dev-g...@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-gaia _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
