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
- Latest MozillaBuild with NSIS 2.46 unicode
- l10n strings/support
4. Requirements
- Small footprint
- Fully localized
- Digitally signed
- Command line options for silent operation
- Use https for all network requests
- Auto-detect 32/64-bit Windows OS and download appropriate components
- 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
UI Mockup for initial stub installer is in bug 651965 as a 1.3MB attachment
6. User experience design
- Work like any other installer
- Provide estimated download times
- 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=* Latest MozillaBuild with NSIS 2.46 unicode
- l10n strings/support
|Feature requirements=* Small footprint
- Fully localized
- Digitally signed
- Command line options for silent operation
- Use https for all network requests
- Auto-detect 32/64-bit Windows OS and download appropriate components
- 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
|Feature functional spec=UI Mockup for initial stub installer is in bug 651965 as a 1.3MB attachment |Feature ux design=* Work like any other installer
- Provide estimated download times
- 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
| status | notes | |
| Products | ` | ` |
| Engineering | ` | ` |
| Security | ` | ` |
| Privacy | ` | ` |
| Localization | ` | ` |
| Accessibility | ` | ` |
| Quality assurance | ` | ` |
| User experience | ` | ` |
| Product marketing | ` | ` |
| Operations | ` | ` |
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- bug 322206 Firefox net / stub installer (Original bug from Firefox 2.0)
- bug 675970 [Tracking Bug] Stub Installer Project
- bug 651965 Installer user interface rewrite