Firefox/Activity Stream Updates

2016-03-25

On Track to ship with Test Pilot (Apr/May)

Done - Beta 2 week one.

• Bookmarks pagination
• Telemetry enabled
• Add data to telemetry ping - bookmark/history size
• Performance: Query caching

Next - Finish Beta 2 sprint

• Improve telemetry data
• Performance: Embedly caching
• Improved icons
• First run
• Privacy Notice
• Embedly proxy server readiness

2016-03-19

Done

• Timeline pagination
• Showing recent activity rather than top activity on new tab
• Places query caching
• Fixed Awesome bar input on new tab
• Improved icons
• Legal: privacy review - GO
• Security consultation/review - GO (follow up tasks logged)

Next

• Legal: privacy notice WIP
• Embedly caching
• Reduce first render latency
• Improve first run experience
• Improve icons for popular sites

2016-03-11

• [done] Added ability to remove items from Top Sites, Spotlight, and Top Activity
• [done] Connections to the Embedly proxy now use https
• [done] Using new frecency based queries for Spotlight and Top Activity
• [done] Metrics pings are pinging
• [done] Metrics backend in staging
• [done] Deduped items across Top Sites, Spotlight, and Top Activity

• [next] Integration test with Test Pilot on March 15
• [next] Pagination
• [next] Performance enhancements
• [next] Better icons

2016-03-04

Mid-point in Beta milestone

• [done] addon download page live - with update mechanism
• [done] search - uses default search engine
• [done] UI tweaks
• [done] embed.ly proxy live
• [done] bookmarks filter for Timeline
• [done] 43% issues closed - for beta milestone

• [next] pagination
• [next] de-dupe results
• [next] delete item in-line
• [next] MVP backlog review and schedule

• [in plan]mobile adding meta data to activity e.g. screenshots
• [in plan]mobile content notifications - mobile notification upon content update via rss

2016-02-26

Completed Sprint: Alpha milestone

• [landed] search working
• [landed] Embed.ly page metadata service proxy up
• [landed] new layout - timeline scrolling
• [landed] 90% alpha issues resolved (9 day sprint)
• [landed] landed metrics collection (payload, dwell time, pings) and infrastructure
• [landed] UI improvements - bookmark icons, stars, layout
• [improved] process: fine tune iterations, triage, and milestone setting

Next Sprint: Beta milestone

• [next] metrics collection
• [next] more UI controls

2016-02-19

Activity Stream - [status: green]

• [landed] We hit our UI Demo milestone! Amazing work team.
  • https://github.com/mozilla/activity-streams/milestones
  • we had over 60+ commits by 7 contributors during this sprint.
  • demos has working layout, loading local data, and using embedly proxy to fetch page metadata:
• [done] schedule testing with Softvision QA and test plan initiated
• [done] Desktop and Mobile teams collaborating and sharing data weekly.

• Next Milestone: Alpha
  • stand up a embedly dev server for team testing
  • UX Polish
  • Metrics and reporting
  • A/B Testing infrastructure