Iteration Plan for February 2019

[patniko]

February 2019 Plan

Kicking off the month of February is work to reduce confusion around billing within App Center's portal. We'll surface more usage information and ease some friction experienced managing your connected subscriptions. Supporting the HockeyApp community while they make the switch to App Center continues to be a strong focus of ours with more key features planned to ship this month.

We're kicking off an initiative to improve your experience working with backend technologies by overhauling our Push service and introducing multiple new services throughout the year. We'll begin sharing designs and mockups for some of the services this iteration to garner early feedback and help you drive the direction of the services towards the future.

Below is a summary of the top level plan items covering the February, 2019 time period.

Services

Billing

• Expose billing endpoints in public API [Expose billing endpoints in public API #5]
• Make it easier to remove/change Azure subscriptions from your account [Make it easier to change/remove Azure Subscriptions #6]
• Make it easier to discover organization billing options [Make it easier to discover Organization billing setup #7]
• Display Billing History for services [Display billing history for services #8]

Distribution

• Release to individual testers and multiple distribution groups [Release to individual testers and multiple distribution groups #10]

Diagnostics

• Search for crashes by an user identifier [Search for diagnostics issues by a user id #4]
• Integration with Playfab Game Manager console [Integrate diagnostics issues with Playfab Game Manager portal #2]
• Filter crash and error groups by build number [Filter crash and error groups by build number #55]

Identity

• Create initial designs for the new identity solution [Create initial designs for new identity service #11]

Push

• Indicate when audiences exceed the existing 1,000 devices limit [Add messaging to clarify current 1,000 device audience limit  #3]
• Remove billing plan options, App Center Push becomes a free service [Remove push billing plan options to clarify positioning #9]

Storage

• Create initial designs for the new data solution [Lock in Initial MVP Requirements for the Data Sync Service #14]

Test

• Support for Appium 1.11

Security

• Deprecation of TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 connectivity in favor or TLS 1.2 [Remove support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 #36]

Proposals

• Improving App Center access controls [Proposal to improve App Center access controls #13]

[patniko]

Key developments

• We improved the way you can manage your Azure subscription in App Center and exposed billing api's
• Missing HockeyApp features were added to diagnostics and distribution services
• The HockeyApp to App Center transition experience is currently under development with details to be shared in the near future
• Development started on the Identity and Data Sync SDK, API and web portal services
• Public plans were shared for new services and improving security options

Completed

• Expose billing endpoints in public API [Expose billing endpoints in public API #5]
• Make it easier to remove/change Azure subscriptions from your account [Make it easier to change/remove Azure Subscriptions #6]
• Search for crashes by an user identifier [Search for diagnostics issues by a user id #4]
• Create initial designs for the new identity solution [Create initial designs for new identity service #11]
• Indicate when audiences exceed the existing 1,000 devices limit [Add messaging to clarify current 1,000 device audience limit  #3]
• Create initial designs for the new data solution [Lock in Initial MVP Requirements for the Data Sync Service #14]
• Support for Appium 1.11
• Deprecation of TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 connectivity in favor or TLS 1.2 [Remove support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 #36]
• Improving App Center access controls [Proposal to improve App Center access controls #13]

Reprioritized

5 of the 15 items on February's plan are currently in progress and will be carried over to the March iteration plan for completion.

• Make it easier to discover organization billing options [Make it easier to discover Organization billing setup #7]

• Release to individual testers and multiple distribution groups [Release to individual testers and multiple distribution groups #10]

• Integration with Playfab Game Manager console [Integrate diagnostics issues with Playfab Game Manager portal #2]

• Filter crash and error groups by build number [Filter crash and error groups by build number #55]

• Remove billing plan options, App Center Push becomes a free service [Remove push billing plan options to clarify positioning #9]

Deferred

We'll be deferring 1 item until a later time. Given our current workload we don't plan to address this item next month.

• Display Billing History for services [Display billing history for services #8]