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Application developer site
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Overview
From the experiences of Apple and Android, we can assume that, if we are successful, there will be many more application developers than platform developers. Their needs will be different, as they are more interested in using APIs than designing them. The audience will consist of both beginners who need simple, clear, tutorials/walkthroughs, and experienced developers more interested in code samples and reference documentations.
Objectives
The goal of the developer.meego.com site is to present and market the Meego Application Developer offering. This needs to be of high quality on par with other application developer sites (Android, Palm, Drupal, KDE, Apple).
Status
The current status can be found here.
A bugzilla version is available here.
| ID | P | Severity | Status | Summary (50 tasks) ⇒ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17896 | High | normal | ASSIGNED | API References - Restructure API references page |
| 18762 | High | normal | ASSIGNED | Configuration - Improve and simplify input formats and wysiwyg |
| 19516 | High | normal | NEEDINFO | Guides - create tree navigation block |
| 20407 | High | normal | ASSIGNED | API References - add active-trail state CSS to api menu |
| 20412 | High | normal | ASSIGNED | General - upgrade to latest drupal version |
| 16305 | Low | major | ASSIGNED | Guides - Suggest new guide page or topic |
| 20508 | Low | major | ASSIGNED | Broken link on /guides/guidelines/meego-compliance-tools |
| 16435 | Low | normal | ASSIGNED | Content - packaging video |
| 16439 | Low | normal | ASSIGNED | OBS / packaging content for DMC |
| 19528 | Low | normal | ASSIGNED | SDK & Tools - allow for external app store SDK references |
| 19530 | Low | normal | ASSIGNED | SDK & Tools - define new content type fields |
| 19531 | Low | normal | ASSIGNED | SDK & Tools - views for tools lists (block and page) |
| 19532 | Low | normal | ASSIGNED | SDK & Tools - 2 categories for tools (commercial and open source) |
| 19534 | Low | normal | ASSIGNED | Community - design block for additional community forums promotions |
| 19535 | Low | normal | ASSIGNED | Community - commercial support |
| 19537 | Low | normal | ASSIGNED | Publish - app compliance checker |
| 19538 | Low | normal | ASSIGNED | Publish - - wireframe new section |
| 19539 | Low | normal | ASSIGNED | Publish - new content type for app store list |
| 19540 | Low | normal | ASSIGNED | Publish - app compliance checker; front end for app compliance checker |
| 19541 | Low | normal | ASSIGNED | Publish - app compliance checker; provide web service api for external submission of apps |
| 19542 | Low | normal | ASSIGNED | Publish - app compliance checker; provide logging of apps status for user |
| 19543 | Low | normal | ASSIGNED | Publish - app compliance checker; ensure privacy of app status |
| 20199 | Low | normal | ASSIGNED | Content - Details on setting up an internal OBS for meego |
| 20318 | Low | normal | ASSIGNED | Broken link on developer.meego.com/guides/deployment/packaging-guidelines |
| 20535 | Low | normal | ASSIGNED | Broken link on /guides/getting-started/application-development-lifecycle |
| 20536 | Low | normal | ASSIGNED | Broken links on /guides/samples/qt-quick-examples-forum-nokia |
| 20537 | Low | normal | ASSIGNED | Broken links on /guides/devices/installing-meego-nokia-n900-external-mmc-card |
| 20538 | Low | normal | ASSIGNED | Broken links on /guides/getting-started/developing-qt-simulator |
| 20766 | Low | normal | NEEDINFO | Add additional filters to Guides page |
| 6340 | Medium | enhancement | ASSIGNED | Developer.MeeGo.Com content process |
| 11439 | Medium | enhancement | REOPENED | Extra tools - copy deeper content from maemo.org |
| 13222 | Medium | enhancement | NEW | meego docs search term should lead to our devel guide/corner when published. |
| 14757 | Medium | enhancement | ASSIGNED | Content - Motivational material/incentives needed |
| 3680 | Medium | normal | REOPENED | Typos and image problem in UI Design Guidelines - Handset |
| 8703 | Medium | normal | ASSIGNED | "Getting started" link is broken |
| 11787 | Medium | normal | ASSIGNED | Content - Detailed architecture should be under guides and not references |
| 12681 | Medium | normal | ASSIGNED | Content - Define the DMC website roles |
| 17364 | Medium | normal | ASSIGNED | Guides - Restructure Guides area to provide both a tree view and list view |
| 17366 | Medium | normal | ASSIGNED | API References - evaluate entire API references workflow and generation |
| 19513 | Medium | normal | ASSIGNED | Guides - theme/style tabs like meego.com tabs |
| 19518 | Medium | normal | ASSIGNED | Guides- improve guide node pages |
| 19521 | Medium | normal | ASSIGNED | API References - refactor API menu navigation so reliance on menu items doesn't exist |
| 19522 | Medium | normal | ASSIGNED | API References - autocomplete search for functions |
| 19524 | Medium | normal | ASSIGNED | API References - look at other ways to pull in api docs |
| 19525 | Medium | normal | ASSIGNED | API References - provide place for commercial tool APIs |
| 19536 | Medium | normal | ASSIGNED | General Items |
| 20224 | Medium | normal | ASSIGNED | General - look at different solution to the use of nice-menus for sub-site navigation |
| 20227 | Medium | normal | ASSIGNED | General - enable breadcrumbs for site navigation |
| 20999 | Medium | normal | NEW | Guides - add "advanced toggle" to the filter block for all filters below the keyword filter |
| 12877 | Undecided | major | ASSIGNED | First Stop at Becoming a Hero: A guide for first *non* hello world app on MeeGo. |
Tasks
All bugzilla tasks/bugs for developer.meego.com.
Critical tasks
Create a Developer.MeeGo.Com pilot site for limited access and testing
Developer.MeeGo.Com content process
Content Description
The content description can be found from here.
The site should like to the related content listed here.
Content Process
There is a need for a content process for control the information on the site. This needs to allow all parties to contribute in a fair and equal manner, the primary criteria for content should be quality and relevance for application developers.
Content Draft
A wiki version of the information architecture with draft content is available here.
Future Content
The current site could be enhanced with the following content.
Development Process
The process used to develop the site can be found here
Schedule
The original schedule was to have an initial site ready for Nokia Developer Summit, and Intel Developer Forum in mid-September. This has been change to match the schedule of the underlying project, so the site should be available in October aligned with the MeeGo 1.1 release.
Site design
The draft information architecture can be found here here. It is open for comments and suggestions.
Some sample wireframe designs will be found here. These are open for comments/suggestions.
The full information architecture and complete wireframe set is available in .pdf here: File:DMC Design.pdf.
After discussion with the maintainers of www.meego.com and the TSG it was felt that developer.meego.com diverged too much from the www.meego.com look&feel. The designers of developer.meego.com have generated an example of this:
Project Team
MeeGo Project Manager
- Ronan Mac Laverty/macron,maclaver(IRC) - Nokia's Maemo (Application) Developer Advocate
Project Members
... People working on the project full-time funded by Nokia...
- Kari Honkanen / Activeark
- Teemu Lukkari / Activeark / Project Management
- Juri Saltbacka / Activeark / Information Architecture
- Graham Honeywill/harmaakinkku - Project Communications
Community Members
... People from the community involved in this project .....
- Dave Neary/dneary - maemo.org docmaster
- Dawn Foster/dawnfoster - Community Manager
- Michael Shaver/mshaver - Moblin.org webmaster & meego.com website developer
- Elliot Smith/townxelliot - Moblin.org & meego.com website techy
- bspencer - Bob Spencer
- clairealex - Claire Alexander