Closed Bug 935175 Opened 11 years ago Closed 9 years ago

Surfacing buchets

Categories

(Marketplace Graveyard :: General, enhancement, P5)

enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: chuck, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Whiteboard: [marketplace-transition])

Now that buchets are implemented and in production, we should discuss the best ways to start surfacing some of that information. One idea: In order to surface relevant results in Marketplace, we do a lot of filtering based on specific properties of the user: device capabilities, region, carrier, language, etc. This makes it hard for us to gauge which apps will be shown to which users in which circumstances. A nicely-curated collection of photography apps would be worthless if no phones in that region have cameras, for example. A proposed solution: an API that exposes common configurations of device, carrier, and region. This wouldn't be an exhaustive list (the maintenance burden for that would not scale as Firefox OS does), and would instead be couched as an approximation that could inform our tools. Some examples of how it could be used: - In devhub, to help app developers understand the world of devices that their app is capable of being used in. - In reviewer tools, to help reviewers understand the same thing about apps they are reviewing. - In the curation tool, to help curators understand how collections will look like in the real world. An example of how this might be implemented: - In zamboni: http://chuck.pastebin.mozilla.org/3431384 - As an API response: http://chuck.pastebin.mozilla.org/3431392 - Implemented as described in the curation tool: http://chuck.mn/image/2q0b1f1w2j3I
Priority: -- → P5
Blocks: 1057603
Blocks: 1035380
Blocks: 983880
No longer blocks: 1057603
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Whiteboard: [marketplace-transition]
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