Firefox/Go Faster

Overview

We believe that building out tools and processes for shipping Go Faster add-ons will enable Mozilla's engineers to get features and fixes to a larger audience sooner. We will know this is true when we see widespread adoption of system add-ons as a mechanism for moving faster and updating faster than the standard trains.

Team

Name	Role
Laura Thomson	Product Owner
Cory Price	Program Management

KPI's

• Number of projects using the tools.
• All new features or improvements to existing features validated by go faster by the end 2016.

Meetings

• Meeting Notes
• Bi-Weekly Team Meeting
  • Tuesdays at 11:30 AM PST (conversions)
  • "GoFaster" Vidyo Room (extension 8557)

Communications

• Mailing List (open to all, primarily used for sharing status)
• IRC: #gofaster

Current Status

2016-04-12

• [next week] Hello retrospective next week to discuss the first rollout of system add-on.
• [next week] SHIELD/Kinto/Switchboard teams are meeting this week.
• [next week] QA and Release Engineering are working through release mechanics, scheduling and testing discussions.
• [todo] Define program-level KPI's.
• [todo] Build a timeline.

(past updates)

Projects

These are the top-level projects defined for this program.

I: Ship features as system add-ons

Developing the mechanisms and processes required to ship system add-ons.

Team

Name	Role
needs:owner	Owner
Mark Banner	Hello/docs
Ian Bicking	Hello/docs
Rob Helmer	Client
Dave Townsend	Client
Ben Hearsum	Tools
Ritu Kothari	Tools
Chris Lonnen	Tools
Axel Hecht	l10n

16Q2 Goals

• Clearly defined process for rollout out a system add-on.
• Process defined for handling multiple system add-ons.
• Metrics infrastructure.

Resources

• Release & Relnotes plan
• Releasing mechanics

II: Switchboard

A service we use to segment users for A/B testing (and staged rollouts) on mobile.

Team

Name	Role
Margaret Leibovic	Owner
Sebastian Kaspari	Engineering

16Q2 Goals

• Mobile A/B Testing
• Downloadable content with Kinto

Resources

• https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Android/Switchboard
• https://mozilla.aha.io/products/FENN/feature_cards
• https://github.com/mozilla-services/switchboard-server
• https://github.com/mozilla-services/switchboard-experiments

III: Kinto

A JSON storage service with synchronisation and sharing abilitie - allows the smart client to retrieve signed data from a dumb server.

Team

Name	Role
Tarek Ziade	Owner
Mark Goodwin	OneCRL client, PKI work for the signing
Sebastian	Fennec Client
Jorge	our customer for the AMO blocklist

16Q2 Goals

• OneCRL
• AMO Blocklist and ADI
• Fennec downloadable content

Resources

• Tracking document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MHQNqJ--GAmNxXl2PODJ-YGU459l6vvDRmf9oEIRTms/edit
• Tool: http://kinto.readthedocs.org

IV: Recipe Server (SHIELD + Variants)

A system that provides a fast and powerful way for Firefox to fix configuration problems, interact with users, and recommend features.

Team

Name	Role
Gregg Lind	Owner
Matt Grimes	Product Manager
Mike Kelly	Engineering Manager

16Q2 Goals

• A/B testing with Shield Studies
• Feature recommendation
• Self-repair
• Generalizable feedback

Resources

• https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Recipe_Server

V: Test Pilot

A system that provides a fast and powerful way for Firefox to fix configuration problems, interact with users, and recommend features.

Team

Name	Role
Javaun Moradi	Owner
Cory Price	Program Management
Wil Clouser	Engineering Manager
John Gruen	UX Lead

16Q2 Goals

• Launch Test Pilot with 3 experiments enabled.

Resources

• https://wiki.mozilla.org/Test_Pilot

Shipping Pipeline

The `how` for Go Faster are the top-level projects outlined above. The other important things to track are the individual features and fixes that are going to be launching through Go Faster.

e10s

Team: Chris Peterson, Felipe

SHIELD

Team: Matt Grimes, Gregg Lind, Mike Kelly

WebExtensions

Team: Andy McKay

Hot Fixes

Team: Andy McKay

Hello

Team: Ian Bicking, Mark Banner

Shipped with 45 via system add-on.

Pocket

Team: Shane Caraveo

Scheduled to ride the 46 release train.