Firefox/Go Faster/Status/20150928

Status for September 28, 2015

Overall Project Health - GREEN

• We are nearly finished with all Q3 goals and are on track for 100% completion of Q3 goals on time.

Timeline & Scope

• Q3 Goals:
  • Client support for system add-ons install and update (Tracking: 1183866) - done!
  • Implement lightweight build, test, and release pipeline for go-faster (Tracking: 1184524) - on track!
  • Ship v1 of Firefox Experiments / Idea Town (Tracking: 1184527) - on track!
  • 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
  • Convert another feature to system add-on status
  • Build out automation to begin shipping go-faster code update

Exec Summary

• Q3/4 goals in place and currently on track.

Risks/Issues

• No current risks.

Accomplished since last status

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

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

• 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
  • MVP about to go live!

• 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 for v2
  • "done" for Q3!

Planned for next Iteration

• Client integration (Mossop/rhelmer)
  • updating system addons code now live in Nightly! see: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Go_Faster/Client_Requirements

• Build pipeline (JP and rhelmer)
  • build pipeline is now fully operational using existing infrastructure, testing Hello
  • relevant bugs attached to tracking bug 1184524

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

• Updates (tarek)
  • relevant bugs attached to tracking bug 1184528

Important Links/References

• Team Page
• Minutes for most recent weekly meeting