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Search and Add-ons

problem statement or why we do this project for someone brand new.

Project Introduction

  • Team Mailing list: if applicable
  • Team IRC Channel: where does this team "hang-out"
  • Summary of our plans for this year
    • links back to main Firefox page - need to create a section on main page for team summaries.
    • Quick high-level plans for the year for Desktop management and contributors.
  • Dependencies: feature, partner, resource, etc. that impact this projects ability to succeed - put links to other project pages.

Links to Current info

The Links wiki page is the central location for current focus, Roadmap, Metrics, UX, Marketing, tech-architecture, and more.

Roles and Responsibilities

The Contacts Page has the Roles and Responsibilities for Firefox teams, partner teams, and external partners.

Meetings & Communications

Meeting Day of week Pacific Time Eastern Time Central European Time Vidyo Room Notes
Pull Meetings bi-weekly at the start of the iteration on ___ 0:00AM - 0:30AM 0:00AM - 0:30PM 0:00PM - 0:30PM team vidyo room etherpad
Stand-up Team decides 0:00AM - 0:30AM 0:00AM - 0:30PM 0:00PM - 0:30PM Team vidyo room etherpad
Triage Team decides 0:00AM - 0:30AM 0:00AM - 0:30PM 0:00PM - 0:30PM Team vidyo room [Link to queries goes here]
Retrospective Team decides 0:00AM - 0:00AM 0:00AM - 0:00PM 0:00PM - 0:00PM team vidyo room etherpad
  • Links to mailing list or all communication channels

Development

Schedule

Release timing

Sprints

Themes

As we plan what's coming next, these are areas being discussed. This is not a commitment to the next projects - just our scratch area, but it is in order of relative priority. (after the work we've pulled for the sprints).

  • finishing Theme 1 (large change)
  • Theme 2: any time constraints/dependencies
  • Theme 3: quick why

Things we want to do - but parking lot until higher priorities are done:

  • Process Improvement: Theme
  • Other platform Investigation
  • Tech-debt: any time constraints/dependencies
  • Theme 4
  • Quality: description of areas
  • Theme 5

Risks

  • Risk 1 : ex: Roadmap goals for the release in November are too high for ____(dev, UX, PM?) resources by x amount (bugs? points? UX resources). likely will not make any features beyond x, y, z.
  • Risk 2 : ex: Dependency on a service that is not established/planned for from another team. Need help prioritizing if we should delay the feature in this project or raise the priority in the other team based on their existing backlog

Status Reports

example from Jenn's

Current (queries)

Past

  • Pipeline of work that has been completed and moving through Aurora and Beta to release.
  • Ideally these aren't just queries, but human readable so folks know what is coming in x release.

Product Backlog

Key Bugzilla Queries

  • put key queries here so folks can find simply

All work related to the ongoing development and maintenance of the Firefox Desktop Product are collected and prioritized in the Product Backlog. The goals of the Product Backlog are to:

  • Enable work to be prioritized so that the team is always working on the most important features.
  • Support continual planning as the product emerges so the plan matches reality.
  • Improve forecasts so that the stakeholders make the best decisions about the direction of the product.

Bugzilla Agile fields

Several Fields have been added this year into bugzilla for Agile tracking that you may want to leverage:

  • Iteration: right now this has the 3 previous and future 2 week sprints for Firefox release schedule - shows iteration (40.1) and uplift date.
  • Points: Fibonacci series 1,2,3,5,8,13]
  • Rank: see Rank use description under Triage Guidelines
    • Rank will not show under your Product::Component unless you request it by filing a bug with "bugzilla.mozilla.org :: Administration". You need to give a list of acceptable editors (usually the folks that can triage).

Product Backlog

  • There needs to be a way to mark the bugs you have triaged versus not. Firefox uses the flag for "firefox-backlog".
  • If you are not strictly desktop, there's also an option to add you team to the blocking-flag "backlog".
    • ex: the webRTC team uses webRTC+ for bugs they are accepting and "parking lot" for ones they are not. The queries are based on product/component - so multiple teams can use "parkinglot" and just request a new tag <team name>+ tag by filing a bug under "bugzilla.mozilla.org :: Administration"
  • ex: Bugzilla Ranked "Firefox-backlog+" list
    • Add the "Rank" Column to your results and sort on Rank to view order of work.
      • The option to "Change columns" is at bottom of search results
    • Search is based on "Flags" - "contains the string" - firefox-backlog+
  • Un-triaged bugs
    • Search is based on not having the Firefox-backlog+ or Firefox-backlog-

Triage Guidelines

The Product Backlog is continually maintained by the Hello Management team to ensure new priorities are available for each Sprint Planning meeting.

  • Priorities follow this Standard:
    • Priority 1 - Blocker, must-fix before shipping.
    • Priority 2 - Major impact, considering severity × probability. Not a blocker for shipping.
    • Priority 3 - Average Bug. definitely a problem, but doesn't stop someone from using the product.
    • Priority 4 - Minor or polish bugs that are real issues (especially in aggregate) and annoying.
    • Priority 5 - Low-impact. something we'd fix, but mostly only bothers the discerning user. Little impact on usability.
  • RANK: As priority buckets start to have a large amount of bugs in them, the Rank field can be used to call attention to higher or lower rank and provide a way to sort easily in bugzilla. To have some rhyme/reason to the order - Rank should relate to Priority. The "Ranking" number does not need to be unique. Unless there is a reason to for a bug to be considered before (or after) others in the Priority bucket - default to mid-range value.
    • P1 Rank options=1-19, default 15
    • P2 Rank options=20-29, default 25
    • P3 Rank options=30-39, default 35
    • P4 Rank options=40-49, default 45
    • P5 Rank options=50-59, default 55
    • any that we don't think we can get to in the next 6 months should go in "backlog-" area

  • The Firefox-backlog flag is used to track bugs that are approved for the Backlog "+"
  • QE-Verify is a flag that developers should be setting on bugs they are working on. This is used for QE to filter which bugs they check
    • "+" means that QE should look at the bug and it can be verified with human eyes
    • "-" means QE should not look at
      • Typically goes with in-testsuite set to "+", to show testing via another method.
  • "Points" should be set when known (if nothing set - assumed a "1" or very small). Most relevant if taking a bigger bug so we know when bugs are large bits of work.
  • "Iteration" should be updated when a bug is being worked on during a particular Sprint.

Filing a bug

    • Open a bug under Product:"Loop" || Component: "General" or "Client"
    • Hello team reviews for inclusion into a release backlog every 2 weeks, and will mark "firefox-blocking" accordingly
  • If there is a bug that should be considered for taking ASAP - you can mark "firefox-backlog"+
    • Before it can be given a Rank it should:
      • be in an actionable state
      • for defects, the problem is ready for Engineering or UX: diagnosis, measurement, design, or fixing
      • for feature requests or enhancements, it means that there's a clear problem statement or suggestion
      • has a difficulty/user-impact ratio low enough that we can reasonably expect to spend time fixing the bug within the next 6 months

Project Health

IOS,Desktop Yellow Risk.png

  • (get central location for graphics from Erin)

Include clear, executive level summary that will be included at the [mana page overall view level:

  • for company goal x, we are in _____ state because ______. Please consider ______(propose fix or adjustment of goal).
  • for release goal for ______ , we are in _____ state because ______. Please consider ______(propose fix or adjustment of goal).
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