Firefox/Planning/2011-10-19

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Planning Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am PDT, 18:00 UTC
• Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
• Toronto Offices: Fin du Monde Conference Room
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
• (the developer meeting takes place on Tuesdays)

Video/Teleconference Details - NEW

• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 95312 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 95312 (US)
• Vidyo Room: Warp Core
• Vidyo Guest URL

REMEMBER

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Actions from Last Week

• Jen to come back with postmortem summary for sync issues in FF7

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Firefox Sync

Sync issues - The 503 storm of 2011

• Fuel for the fire:
  • Instant Sync:
    • Created unexpected 30-50% spike in traffic
  • Broken Server-Sent backoff
  • Poor server capacity/health for existing users

• Firefighting:
  • Infrastructure changes
    • DB updates
    • Load balancer updates
    • Webserver tuning

• • Migration
    • Added capacity
    • Pruned stale data
    • Migrate users from overloaded servers

• Fireproofing:
  • Better modeling for current and expected traffic on Sync features
  • Ops review and sign off on feature pages
  • Required system-review for all client behavior changes
  • Require reliability metrics and dashboard of these on all channels
  • Instill a review of changes and metrics 1 week before merging on all channels
  • Fix backoff code in Fx8
  • Re-triage of maintenance bugs for any lurking issues
  • Blog posts coming from both Ops and Engineering

• Firefox 10+:
  • Improving Sync Set Up - In development. Getting close.
  • Push to Device - In development. You can play with an add-on here.
  • Addon Sync - In development.
  • Scoping work for Fennec Java porting for Sync

Add-on SDK

Release (1.1 -> Firefox 7)

Stabilization (1.2 -> Firefox 7, 8)

Development (1.3 -> Firefox 8, 9)