Status for August 12, 2015

Overall Project Health - GREEN

• We are making progress against all the Q3 goals in a timely manner.

Timeline & Scope

• Q3 Goals:
  • Client support for system add-ons install and update (Tracking: 1183866)
  • Implement lightweight build, test, and release pipeline for go-faster (Tracking: 1184524)
  • Ship v1 of Firefox Experiments / Idea Town (Tracking: 1184527)
  • Security policy updates through new update service ("Balrog 2.0") (Tracking: 1184528)

• Q4 Goals:
  • Implement Hello UI as an add-on, and ship it via go-faster
  • Ship Universal Search as a Firefox Experiment

Exec Summary

• Q3/4 goals in place and currently on track.
• Team is now in active development on multiple aspects of the project.
• Project infrastructure (wiki, mailing list, tracking bugs) established
• Product Requirements Document in final review
• QA plan in review

Risks/Issues

• No current risks.

Accomplished for Week

• Project Infrastructure (Laura/Larissa)
  • Project requirements doc in final review.

• Fast Fennec
  • Requirements in development, staff resources being determined.
• Client integration (Mossop/rhelmer)
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Go_Faster/Client_Requirements
  • https://bugzil.la/1183866: [Go Faster] Q3 tracking - Client support for system add-ons install and update
  • test version of Hello as an addon in progress.

• Build pipeline (mrrrgn)
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Go_Faster/Release_Pipeline
  • https://bugzil.la/1184524: [Go Faster] Q3 Goal Tracking - Implement lightweight build, test, and release pipeline for go-faster

• IdeaTown (nchapman)
  • "Master Plan" https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bew13QgnGriiMEEZMnI7XP6P2ieq6KiE0t4tDzrqcxQ/
  • https://bugzil.la/1184527: [Go Faster] Q3 Goal Tracking - Ship v1 of Firefox Experiments / Idea Town
  • light weight front end is ready and will go live within the next two weeks to gauge user interest.

• Updates (tarek)
  • new weekly meeting kicked off
  • Server-side security updates making substantive progress
  • architecture doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SI15ORlfsVcADerO9kSW31S5IUCYAsYlXSFS2Lbvo_s/edit
  • https://bugzil.la/1184528: [Go Faster] Q3 Goal Tracking -Security policy updates through new update service ("Balrog 2.0")
• Fennec "OTA" updates
  • designing the client-server interaction (draft should be ready this week)

Planned for Upcoming Week

• Project Infrastructure (Laura/Larissa)
  • set up wiki-integrated bug queries
  • Product Requirements Document
• Client integration (Mossop/rhelmer)
  • development has begun, see: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Go_Faster/Client_Requirements
• Build pipeline (mrrrgn)
  • making progress now that the hello test add-on is a real plan
  • get relevant bugs attached to tracking bug 1184524
• IdeaTown (nchapman)
  • first iteration of the Idea Town splash page + social media to gauge interest
• Updates (tarek)
  • server-side and client-side security updates progress

Important Links/References

• Team Page
• Minutes for most recent weekly meeting