Excellent thread! Yes to more Dev Tools!!! Feel free to add a dev tooling
section to the e-mail templates we use for "Intent to Implement" and
"Intent to Ship" linked here:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Intent_to_implement

We've started implementing the Web Animations API [1] with very early
collaboration with the Dev Tools team and have seen very promising results.
Is that a model we can continue to follow or modify to suit?

--Jet

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=998245


On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 1:07 PM, J. Ryan Stinnett <jry...@gmail.com> wrote:

> DevTools would like to get involved earlier in the implementation
> process for new platform features.
>
> In particular, we'd like to head towards a world where:
>
> 1. Platform features are architected in such a way from the start that
> adding debugging / instrumentation is (relatively) easy
> 2. DevTools for a feature are discussed early on in a bug that
> interested parties can follow while the platform feature is being
> implemented
>
> By working with the platform team as features are developed (instead
> of afterwards), we can discuss any debugging and instrumentation APIs
> our tools may need, give feedback as we start to build tools, etc.
> We're hoping this will help us to release tools closer to the time
> frame that the platform features are available.  Tools for new
> features should increase adoption of those features, as they make it
> easier for web developers to explore and understand them.
>
> The DevTools team has recently discussed[1] this, and we thought
> becoming more integrated in the platform "Intent to Implement" process
> would be a good thing to do.  Specifically, we'd like to have a
> "DevTools" line in the "intent to implement" template[2] which would
> link to a bug on building tools for the feature for further
> discussion.
>
> Thoughts? (Replies to dev-platform.)
>
> [1]:
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.developer-tools/fZOxb3t0Npk/discussion
> [2]:
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/ExposureGuidelines#Intent_to_Implement
>
> - Ryan
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