Firefox/Go Faster/Status/20151113

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DRAFT Status for November 16, 2015

Overall Project Health - GREEN

  • Q4 goals are defined and on track

Timeline & Scope

  • 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
  • DRAFT 2016 H1 Goals:
    • Go Faster: System addons infrastructure complete. Documented, simple, easy to ship/update, easy to localize. Teams outside go-faster building system add-ons
    • Go Faster: Staged rollout of a system addon, with a/b testing, able to ship to a specified % of users
    • Go Faster: Measurement infrastructure in place. Telemetry for go-faster addons. Capture usage (Q1) and errors (Q2)
    • Go Faster: String delivery and updates are decoupled from trains. Go faster updates can contain string changes.
    • Idea town 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
    • Idea town locale expansion: Expand Idea town beyond en-US
    • Idea town metrics dashboard: Metrics dashboard to aid experiment authors in making decisions

Exec Summary

  • Q4 goals in place and currently on track.

Risks/Issues

  • No current risks.

Accomplished since last status

  • Client Integration (Mossop/Rhelmer)
  • Build Pipeline (rhelmer/jp)


  • Fast Fennec (rnewman)
  • IdeaTown (nchapman)
  • Updates (tarek)

Planned for next Iteration

  • Build pipeline (JP and rhelmer)
  • IdeaTown (nchapman)
  • Updates (tarek)

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