January 5, 2016

Meeting details

• New time for 2016: Tuesdays at 11:30 local in San Francisco, CA, USA (conversions)
• Vidyo: ProgramManagement
• IRC: #gofaster
• Etherpad for Minutes: https://pad.mocotoolsprod.net/gofaster_20160105

Attendees

Agenda

• 2016 H1 strategic initiatives are as follows:
• System add-ons
  • System addons infrastructure complete: Documented, simple, easy to ship/update, easy to localize. (Q2)
  • Staged rollout of a system addon: With a/b testing (Q2)
  • Measurement infrastructure in place: Telemetry for go-faster addons (Q2)
  • String delivery and updates are decoupled from trains (May tweak the wording here slightly, but essentially l10n work to support Go Faster) (Q2)
• Idea town
  • Idea town launch: Release opt-in platform that allows us to perform controlled tests of new high-visibility product concepts in the general release channel of Firefox (Q2)
  • Idea town locale expansion: Expand Idea town beyond en-US (Q1)
  • Idea town metrics dashboard: Metrics dashboard to aid experiment authors in making decisions (Q2)

• What are we doing in Q1 (and who owns/will work on each)? Candidate list:
  • Shipping:
    • Hello in 45, updates when?
    • OneCRL when?
    • Fennec DLC when?
  • Finalize infrastructure
  • Scope and prototypes for rollout and telemetry systems
  • Scope and prototype hotfix replacement mechanism
  • Work with l10n teams on scoping and beginning work
  • IdeaTown locale expansion
  • IdeaTown launch

• What (other) new system add-ons/data updates/DLC/etc are in the pipeline?
  • Pocket
  • AMO blocklist
  • [Would be good to have a system add-on that was not a third party wrapper.]

Updates

• Client integration (Mossop/rhelmer)
  • Should this still be an update item?
• Build + tools
  • This includes updates and will expand to include rollout and telemetry in H1
  • Need to staff this in Q1, working on it
• IdeaTown (nchapman)
• Updates (tarek)
• Fennec (rnewman)
• l10n (Pike)
  • [Pike: Could you please summarize the outcomes of the Orlando discussions for this group? - laura]
  • Writing things up on L10n:2016

Roundtable and Q&A