February 16, 2016

Meeting details

• New time for 2016: Tuesdays at 11:30 local in San Francisco, CA, USA (conversions), every two weeks.
• Vidyo: ProgramManagement
• IRC: #gofaster
• Etherpad for Minutes: https://pad.mocotoolsprod.net/gofaster_20160216

Attendees

Agenda

Updates

• Hello (Ian/Mark)
• Build + tools (lonnen/rhelmer/bhearsum)
• Test Pilot (formerly IdeaTown) (wil)
• Updates (tarek)
• Fennec (rnewman/mfinkle)
• l10n (Pike)
• Anyone else

Roundtable and Q&A

• Release management and system add-ons - Ian?

• Please add items on the etherpad

Context

• 2016 H1 strategic initiatives:
• 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)
• Test Pilot
  • Test Pilot 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)
  • Test Pilot metrics dashboard: Metrics dashboard to aid experiment authors in making decisions (Q2)

• Q1 goals:
  • Ship Hello as a system add-on and update it
  • OneCRL via Kinto into production
  • Fennec fonts installed on demand (DLC) via Kinto
  • Scope and prototypes for rollout and telemetry systems
  • Test Pilot locale expansion - Nick/Wil
  • Test Pilot launch - Nick/Wil