Firefox/Activity Stream/Status/15-Oct-2017: Difference between revisions

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Firefox Activity Stream - Desktop Status Report - MMM-DD-YYYY

On track, issues well managed Some risks, unknowns without clear mitigations Blocked on deliverables, needs decision, escalation required

Target	Health	Updates
FF56 (Release)		Activity Stream in 56 Release channel is preff'd off by default. Conducting studies via Shield pref-flipping to gather data from defined percentages of the Beta population.
FF57 (Beta)		Activity Stream in 57 Beta is preff'd on by default, but pref is flipped off for a defined control population for specific Shield studies. <br<> No issues currently identified as blocking 57. Decision/Recommendation is to move Activity Stream to release on both about:newtab and about:home
FF58 (Nightly)		Development in progress. Scope mainly focused on continued performance improvements

Description of Issue/Roadblock	Severity	Area(s) Affected	Owner	Status	Due Date	Update/Notes

Description of Risk	Severity	Likelihood	Impact (SxL)
Activity Stream on about:home has inadequate performance, negatively affecting user engagement and retention	4 - high	3 - medium	12
Snippets or Pocket production servers are compromised	5 - very high	2 - low	10
Onboarding Tour negatively affects Firefox engagement and retention	3 - medium	3 - medium	9
Firefox and AS engagement and retention are negatively affected because new Snippets form factor is viewed by users as too aggresive or distracting	3 - medium	2 - low	6
Firefox and AS engagement and retention are negatively affected because users are confused about the difference between about:home and about:newtab	2 - low	2 - low	4
AS engagement metrics suffer because we do not have good Tippytop metadata	3 - medium	1 - very low	3

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In Development.
Team has [https:// completed ##%] of the Project MVP Backlog.
QA has [https:// verified ##%] of all Project MVP Backlog work requiring testing.
High priority reserve work [https:// currently in development].
All reserve work [https:// completed to date].

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