Firefox/Go Faster/Status/20150921
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
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.
Planned for Upcoming Week
- Project Infrastructure (Laura/Larissa)
- get PRD onto wiki
- specific comms channel for l10n issues
- Client integration (Mossop/rhelmer)
- 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
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