Status for September 21, 2015

Overall Project Health - GREEN

• We are making progress against all the Q3 goals in a timely manner. We had some minor scope and team adjustments in the release pipeline goal but are still tracking green against Q3 plans.

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) - done!

• 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 still fully resourced with JP taking over for Morgan on Release Pipeline so she can focus on other projects.

Risks/Issues

• No current risks.

Accomplished since last status

• Project Infrastructure (Laura/Larissa)
  • Developing appropriate communications vehicle for l10n specific go-faster discussion.

• Client Integration (Mossop/Rhelmer)
  • Support for updating system add-ons is in review

• Fast Fennec (rnewman)
  • free font development in progress

• Build pipeline (JP)
  • Have a good idea of what we'll be putting into the script, working with rhelmer. Likely to have something up by end Sept.

• 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

• Updates (tarek)
  • 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")
  • no signing for v1 - but signing probably coming around Q1
  • pretty much "done" for Q3!

Planned for Upcoming Week

• Project Infrastructure (Laura/Larissa)
  • get PRD onto wiki
  • specific comms channel for l10n issues

• Client integration (Mossop/rhelmer)
  • development continues, see: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Go_Faster/Client_Requirements

• Build pipeline (JP)
  • making progress now that the hello test add-on is a real plan
  • relevant bugs attached to tracking bug 1184524

• IdeaTown (nchapman)
  • planning how to decide what gets into the ideatown pipeline

• Updates (tarek)
  • relevant bugs attached to tracking bug 1184528
  • Intent to build out Balrog 2.0 for go-faster updates

Important Links/References

• Team Page
• Minutes for most recent weekly meeting