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<big><big><big>'''Firefox Activity Stream - Desktop Status Report - | <big><big><big>'''Firefox Activity Stream - Desktop Status Report - Oct-18-2017'''</big></big></big> | ||
== Project Health & Exec Summary == | == Project Health & Exec Summary == | ||
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|align="left"| Development in progress. Scope mainly focused on continued performance improvements <br> | |align="left"| Development in progress. [https://github.com/mozilla/activity-stream/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Afx58 Scope] mainly focused on continued performance improvements <br> | ||
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| align="left"| SecReview - follow up with OPSec team to ensure SecReviews for Snippets and Pocket servers are done. Longer term goal is to rewrite Snippets client and server to exchange JSON instead of scripts. | | align="left"| SecReview - follow up with OPSec team to ensure SecReviews for Snippets and Pocket servers are done. Longer term goal is to rewrite Snippets client and server to exchange JSON instead of scripts. | ||
| align="left"| Turn off snippets on either client or server side and/or use existing about:home implementation. Pref off pocket or change its endpoints. | | align="left"| Turn off snippets on either client or server side and/or use existing about:home implementation. Pref off pocket or change its endpoints. | ||
| align="left"| | | align="left"| [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1409058 Bug 1409058] has received go ahead to uplift to FX57. This would allow us to turn off snippets on the client side in case of incident, which is our mitigation strategy. | ||
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| align="left"| Onboarding Tour negatively affects Firefox engagement and retention | | align="left"| Onboarding Tour negatively affects Firefox engagement and retention | ||
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| align="left"| Put onboarding behind pref, switch onboarding telemetry to ping-centre, help Onboarding team run a/b tests, support in UX redesign for Onboarding Tour | | align="left"| Put onboarding behind pref, switch onboarding telemetry to ping-centre, help Onboarding team run a/b tests, support in UX redesign for Onboarding Tour | ||
| align="left"| Don't ship Onboarding Tour | | align="left"| Don't ship Onboarding Tour | ||
| align="left"| | | align="left"| Onboarding has a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1389424 patch] for ping-centre telemetry and is requesting uplift. AS team is assisting with reviews as needed. | ||
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| align="left"|Firefox and AS engagement and retention are negatively affected because new Snippets form factor is viewed by users as too | | align="left"|Firefox and AS engagement and retention are negatively affected because new Snippets form factor is viewed by users as too aggressive or distracting | ||
| 3 - medium | | 3 - medium | ||
| 2 - low | | 2 - low | ||
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| align="left"| Work with the Snippets team to gradually roll out new Snippets form factor as expderiments in 57 Beta and Release to better understand how the new form factor affects engagement and retention. Implement UX review process for Snippets template changes. Test different form factor variants. | | align="left"| Work with the Snippets team to gradually roll out new Snippets form factor as expderiments in 57 Beta and Release to better understand how the new form factor affects engagement and retention. Implement UX review process for Snippets template changes. Test different form factor variants. | ||
| align="left"| Do not land Snippets in AS, land Snippets only on about:home | | align="left"| Do not land Snippets in AS, land Snippets only on about:home | ||
| align="left"| | | align="left"| All mitigations have been considered. Risk here is currently considered low. | ||
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| align="left"| AS engagement metrics suffer because we do not have good Tippytop metadata | | align="left"| AS engagement metrics suffer because we do not have good Tippytop metadata | ||
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| align="left"| Land patch that uses high quality icons for default top sites, where available. | | align="left"| Land patch that uses high quality icons for default top sites, where available. | ||
| align="left"| Use screenshots | | align="left"| Use screenshots | ||
| align="left"| | | align="left"| Icons for major sites landed in FX57. Continuing on with Alexa top 500 in FX58. | ||
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== Sprint/Release Performance== | == Sprint/Release Performance== | ||
'''Release''': | '''Release''': FX58 | ||
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'''Sprint''': | '''Sprint''': Karate Kid - Ending Oct 29th | ||
* In Development | * In Development this sprint: [https://github.com/mozilla/activity-stream/milestone/46 here] | ||
* Team has completed approximately 60% of the MVP backlog for FX58 (only 2 sprints this release). | |||
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<p> </p> | <p> </p> | ||