Status for August 13, 2015

Overall Project Health - YELLOW

While development milestones for signing validation are being met, risks around the number of addons that are not yet signed and the ability of our current review team to meet the needs of the review queues are high. E10S development is ready for dev edition, but there are many add-ons not yet e10s compatible.

Overall add ons strategy documentation in progress
Add-On Signing: is now live in 41 beta, removal of the about:config override preference slated for 42 (excluding ESR and Dev Edition)
e10s: e10s will ship in 42 Aurora. Add-on compatibility testing efforts continue to be maintained at http://arewee10syet.com/ Earliest e10s will ship in release is 43.
WebExtensions: Extension API landed on Nightly. https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions has details.
AMO further roadmap development is on hold pending resourcing.
Add-Ons for FxOS are progressing, Status can be found at https://mana.mozilla.org/wiki/display/PM/FxOS+2.5+Addons+Project

Initiative	Risks/Issues	Owner	Mitigation/Approach
Addon Signing	Unlisted addons considered critical are being reviewed as soon as they are submitted (unlisted queue is under control) but many unlisted addon developers have not (or are presumed to have not) yet submitted for review.	Lisa Brewster/Addons Review Team	reaching out to unlisted addon devs to ensure they submit for review, focusing resources on unlisted addon reviews, longer term we are changing how we review
AMO	Review Queue - we have insufficient resources for the listed review queue which is very long and growing. We recently hired one new FTE, but also have had to move one reviewer over to working on the validator improvements. We do have budget for a part time contract reviewer, and a candidate has been selected. Review queue challenges illustrated here: http://diox.github.io/amo-review-times/	Lisa/Addon Review team	Additional contract reviewers being hired now for short term mitigation, longer term how we review is being changed, SLA being established, etc.
AMO	Validator - the validator has several issues slowing down the queue - it is not providing very useful results to developers, and it is rejecting 4/5 addons.	Validator team, Kev, Larissa	We have plans in development, 2 Engineers assigned to improvements, and the first phase of these is nearly complete.

Add-on signing shipping in 41 beta
WebExtensions shipped in nightly
Slow Add-On Watcher is in early development
Phase one Validator improvements are all done or nearly done to be live in the coming week (see: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=runnamed&namedcmd=validator-p1&list_id=12471788)
Benchmarks for validator improvements are in progress.
Add-on reviewer new contract hire selected, final contract in progress, more contract resources pending.

process for streamlined review signing of internal mozilla addons (experiments, system addons, lightning, etc) to be published on/around August 14
test validation of known malevolent add-ons
further establishment of full add-ons "program"
progress on getting more reviewers onto the queue, both volunteer and staff (at least one more contractor, so two new contractors coming on in the near future)