Browser Compat Project Meeting: 02/16/2016

Attendees: Jeremie Patonnier, Stephanie Hobson, John Whitlock, Florian Scholz, Jean-Yves Perrier, Matthew Brandt, Eric Shepherd, Stephen Donner.

Discussion topics

Agenda

• Project Status
  • Bicycle is the next target and is 12% done.
  • We now have a running project management process, however we still have 2 pending issues.
    • The completion rate is still unknown which prevents us from providing any timeline so far. Bicycle will be a test run to see how to handle that.
    • The opening bugs trend is higher than the closing bugs trend. It's not unexpected at this stage of the project, but it could indicate two things:
      • We want to do too many things. If so, we need to revisit our requirements.
      • We underestimated the costs of the project. If so we need to revisit the project benefits to confirm its validity.
    • Because of that low velocity in closing bugs, a formal warning must be raised, as it is a requirement to go faster if we want to deliver the project this year.
• Bicycle milestone freeze
  • Currently that milestone has: http://mzl.la/1QBNoJc
    • 3 major bugs (to be freezed)
    • 19 normal bugs (with 6 of them not blocking a major bug)
    • 0 minor bugs
  • This is a "small" milestone but we keep it that way in order to measure our delivery velocity.
• Authentication
  • Open discussion on dev-mdn: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.mdn/pIC-8Uct1yk/XANbg88SGAAJ
  • No extra information so far.

Extra items

Questions and discussion topics raised in the remaining time of the meeting

• How to reach the QA team in a more formal way to help with the project?
  • Matthew take an action to getting back to the project team to provide more information and explain the whole process.

Decision made

• Bicycle is freezed: No new major bug is allowed in the milestone and it's strongly recommended to add normal bugs only if they block major bugs.

Actions taken

• Jeremie: Will send a formal warning about the current velocity of the project.
• Jeremie: Will make sure everybody has commented in the discussion about authentication (specifically Lonnen) and will relaunch the discussion between Marsh and April if necessary.
• Matthew: Will provide information on how the QA team can help with the project and what kind of formalism is expected.
• Jean-Yves: Will update Browser Compat table docs on MDN with link and information about doing it so that the importer still can import them.