Features/Firefox/Network Installer

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Status

Network Installer
Stage	Draft
Status	In progress
Release target	Firefox 9
Health	OK
Status note	`

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Team

Product manager	Kev Needham
Directly Responsible Individual	Kev Needham
Lead engineer	Rob Strong
Security lead	TBD
Privacy lead	TBD
Localization lead	TBD
Accessibility lead	TBD
QA lead	TBD
UX lead	TBD
Product marketing lead	Laura Mesa
Operations lead	`
Additional members	IT Required for Infra Impact

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Open issues/risks

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Stage 1: Definition

1. Feature overview

The Mozilla Network Installer will be a lightweight, fully localized Windows and OSX installer allows a user to select Mozilla applications and/or related components which are then downloaded in the background and installed.

2. Users & use cases

• Installation of default versions of Mozilla products (Firefox, Thunderbird)
• Installation of default versions of Mozilla products plus authorized addon(s) (combinations of extensions, search plugins, themes, and/or personas)
• Installation of default versions of Mozilla products bundled with authorized, secondary installer(s) (e.g. Network installer functions as a meta installer)
• Installation of authorized, customized versions of Mozilla products (e.g. product plus contents of distribution directory, with option for secondary installer(s))

3. Dependencies

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4. Requirements

1. Small footprint
2. Fully localized
3. Digitally signed
4. Command line options for silent operation
5. Can be used with a pre-stuffed cache as a full installer

Non-goals

• Replacement of existing installers
• Linux support
• Peer-to-peer download supports

Stage 2: Design

5. Functional specification

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6. User experience design

1. Work like any other installer
2. Provide estimated download times
3. Allow for pause/resume, including resumption when process terminated

Stage 3: Planning

7. Implementation plan

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8. Reviews

Security review

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Privacy review

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Localization review

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Accessibility

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Quality Assurance review

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Operations review

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Stage 4: Development

9. Implementation

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Stage 5: Release

10. Landing criteria

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• Installation of default versions of Mozilla products plus authorized addon(s) (combinations of extensions, search plugins, themes, and/or personas)
• Installation of default versions of Mozilla products bundled with authorized, secondary installer(s) (e.g. Network installer functions as a meta installer)
• Installation of authorized, customized versions of Mozilla products (e.g. product plus contents of distribution directory, with option for secondary installer(s))

|Feature dependencies=` |Feature requirements=# Small footprint

1. Fully localized
2. Digitally signed
3. Command line options for silent operation
4. Can be used with a pre-stuffed cache as a full installer

|Feature non-goals=* Replacement of existing installers

• Linux support
• Peer-to-peer download supports

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1. Provide estimated download times
2. Allow for pause/resume, including resumption when process terminated

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Feature details

Priority	P3
Rank	999
Theme / Goal	`
Roadmap	User Engagement
Secondary roadmap	`
Feature list	Desktop
Project	`
Engineering team	Desktop front-end

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Team status notes

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