Firefox/Go Faster/Meetings/20160322

March 22, 2016

Meeting details

• Tuesdays at 11:30 local in San Francisco, CA, USA (conversions).
• Vidyo: ProgramManagement
• IRC: #gofaster
• Etherpad for Minutes: https://pad.mocotoolsprod.net/gofaster_20160322

Agenda

Updates

Hello (Ian/Mark)

• [mark] hoping to push out something to 45
• trying to get clearance with release drivers
• maybe this week.
• [ian] talked a bit with Osmose about process about what a GoFaster release looks like
• some risk in the process

Build + tools (lonnen/rhelmer/bhearsum)

• [laura] firefox configuration management system = Balrog
• [bhearsum] working on a plan maybe next quarter.
• [bhearsum] discussions with Osmose

Test Pilot (wil)

• [clouserw] on track. functional test was a success. https://testpilot.firefox.com (@mozilla.com Accounts are functional)
• [clouserw] ~May-ish tentative launch. long pole is metrics pipeline.

Updates (tarek)

• [tarek] adding tests, then we'll be able to verify all data coming from kinto
• [tarek] AMO blocklist: working on client-side. server side is about ready
• exploration into GFX
• [tarek] plan is for a transition phase to have both systems working to build confidence in metrics.
• [ask:tarek] any guidance for gfx?
• [laura] will ask for volunteers.

Fennec (mfinkle/margaret)

• [margaret] patch to enable downloadble fonts, hoping to uplift to 47. static for 47, kinto for 48.
• [margaret] work with switchboard server for staged rollouts. start A/B testing this week/next week in Nightly.
• started a weekly meeting with Miles.
• [laura] asked rweiss about using switchboard as a possibility for A/B testing.

Roundtable and Q&A

• Please add items on the etherpad

Context

• 2016 H1 strategic initiatives:
• System add-ons
  • System addons infrastructure complete: Documented, simple, easy to ship/update, easy to localize. (Q2)
  • Staged rollout of a system addon: With a/b testing (Q2)
  • Measurement infrastructure in place: Telemetry for go-faster addons (Q2)
  • String delivery and updates are decoupled from trains (May tweak the wording here slightly, but essentially l10n work to support Go Faster) (Q2)
• Test Pilot
  • Test Pilot 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 (Q2)
  • Test Pilot metrics dashboard: Metrics dashboard to aid experiment authors in making decisions (Q2)

• Q1 goals:
  • Ship Hello as a system add-on and update it
  • OneCRL via Kinto into production
  • Fennec fonts installed on demand (DLC) via Kinto
  • Scope and prototypes for rollout and telemetry systems
  • Test Pilot locale expansion - Nick/Wil
  • Test Pilot launch - Nick/Wil