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== Overall Project Health - YELLOW ==  
== Overall Project Health - YELLOW ==  


* While we have a dedicated developer team, developer relations and community team hitting the ground running (YAY!) - we are still hiring and on-boarding new folks to focus full-time on these projects.
* While we have a dedicated developer, developer relations and community team hit (YAY!) - we are still hiring and on-boarding new folks to focus full-time on these projects. In the New Year we expect new team additions and will do a bigger introduction then!


* Signing went out Dec 15th (with option to turn off with configuration setting).  No unfixable bugs (patched) - but definitely more excitement than ideal.  We are looking into how it could have been smoother and adjusting accordingly.  Also evaluating user sentiment data from several sources: ex: twitter, SUMO, social media.  Currently targeting to make mandatory (no pref to turn off) in Firefox 47.
* Signing went out the week of Dec 15th (with pref to turn off).  No unfixable bugs (patched already) - but definitely more excitement than the ideal.  We are looking into how it could have been smoother and adjusting accordingly.  Also evaluating user sentiment data from several sources: ex: twitter, SUMO, social media.  Currently targeting Signing with no pref to turn off in Firefox 47.
**[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1209341 Bug 1209341 ] - Allow loading unsigned restartless add-ons at runtime was fixed and landed in Firefox 45 to help Developers test their add-ons.


* Review-Queues:  We are working on a dashboard for better visibility into what's happening, so we know when we are making improvements. The goal is a Dashboard with more info than just "average review time".  For example - it's interesting when we looked at a snapshot of how long it takes to review 50% of the Nominated, Pending, and Preliminary add-ons.
* Review-Queues: In the New Year we are looking at the "quick wins" to improve the queues - along with the on-going dedicated focus in this area. We are working on a dashboard for better visibility into what's happening, so we see when adjustments are having a positive or negative impact. We need more detailed info than just "average review time", for example - it's interesting when we looked at a snapshot (Time range: 2015-11-18 to 2015-11-25) of how long it takes to review 50% of the Listed: Nominated, Pending, and Preliminary add-ons:
 
**Listed-nominated:
The review team has been doing fantastic work keeping the unlisted queue moving, in the New Year we are going to look at the "quick hits" to improve along with this being a primary dedicated focus area.
***Average waiting time: 35 days
Time range: 2015-11-18 to 2015-11-25
***50% of all waiting add-ons reviewed in less than 12 days
 
**Listed-pending:
Listed:
***Average waiting time: 9 days
 
***50% of all waiting add-ons reviewed in less than 1 day
nominated:
**Listed-preliminary:
Average waiting time: 35 days
***Average waiting time: 26 days
50% of all waiting add-ons reviewed in less than 12 days
***50% of all waiting add-ons reviewed in less than 2 days
75% of all waiting add-ons reviewed in less than 66 days
90% of all waiting add-ons reviewed in less than 107 days
 
pending:
Average waiting time: 9 days
50% of all waiting add-ons reviewed in less than 1 day
75% of all waiting add-ons reviewed in less than 2 days
90% of all waiting add-ons reviewed in less than 31 days
 
preliminary:
Average waiting time: 26 days
50% of all waiting add-ons reviewed in less than 2 days
75% of all waiting add-ons reviewed in less than 38 days
90% of all waiting add-ons reviewed in less than 80 days
 
 
* We're also looking at how we can deliver a developer mode without compromising the goals of signing, as well as whether we can improve the user experience when addons are disabled to help users who lose functionality with unsigned addons. The earliest we will add this is Firefox 44.


== Exec Summary ==
== Exec Summary ==
Confirmed users
1,094

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