Firefox/AddOns/Status/20150929
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Status for December 24th, 2015
Overall Project Health - YELLOW
- 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 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.
- 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: 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:
- Average waiting time: 35 days
- 50% of all waiting add-ons reviewed in less than 12 days
- Listed-pending:
- Average waiting time: 9 days
- 50% of all waiting add-ons reviewed in less than 1 day
- Listed-preliminary:
- Average waiting time: 26 days
- 50% of all waiting add-ons reviewed in less than 2 days
- Listed-nominated:
Exec Summary
- Overall add-ons strategy development in progress - team met in Toronto to discuss.
- Development team now in place led by Andy McKay, Dev Relations and Community team also now reports to Nick Nguyen
- One of two budgeted add-on review contractors was onboarded this week, second hire in progress.
- FirefoxOS Add-ons
- Add-on Signing: is now live in 41 beta, but progress to release is now extended to 43.
- e10s: e10s will ship in 42 Aurora. Add-on compatibility testing efforts continue to be maintained at [1] Earliest e10s will ship in release is 43.
- WebExtensions: Extension API landed on Nightly. the WebExtensions Wiki has details. Development is now being supported by Andy McKay's team
- AMO further roadmap development is now moving forward actively.
- Full details on each work iteration (three iterations per Firefox release) can be found on our new canonical Add-ons wiki
- Add-ons for FxOS are progressing, status can be found at the FxOS add-ons Mana page (LDAP login required)
Risks/Issues
| Initiative | Risks/Issues | Owner | Mitigation/Approach |
|---|---|---|---|
| Addon Signing | Unlisted add-ons considered critical are being reviewed as soon as they are submitted (unlisted queue is under control) but many unlisted add-on developers have not (or are presumed to have not) yet submitted for review. We are at over 50% of "need to have" add-ons signed as per https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xLnFtXLcIfIXFZodj1sFYzyDdFJ1vR3CKYNb_n-g30c/edit#gid=1874511985 but less than 25% of "nice to have". | Lisa Brewster/Add-ons Review Team | Reaching out to unlisted add-on devs to ensure they submit for review, focusing resources on unlisted add-on reviews, longer term we are changing how we review. |
| AMO Review Queue | We have insufficient resources for the listed review queue which is very long and growing. We recently hired one new FTE, but also moved one reviewer over to engineering development. We do have budget for two contract reviewers, but hiring has been a challenge. Review queue challenges illustrated here: http://diox.github.io/amo-review-times/ and https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E41MCpqf71Ayx1Im4dCspu7bxNzaMpOSYiVDQXL8dK4 | Lisa/Add-on Review team | Additional contract reviewers being hired now for short term mitigation, one starts Friday at 30 hrs but second hire has not yet been made. Also longer term changes to how we review are planned, SLA being established, etc. |
| AMO Validator | the validator has several issues slowing down the queue - it is not providing very useful results to developers, and it is rejecting 4/5 add-ons. | Validator team, Andy, Kev, Larissa | We have plans in development, 2 Engineers assigned to improvements, and the first phase of these is nearly complete. |
Accomplished for last three Weeks
- team reorganization mostly complete - engineering team, now led by Andy McKay, and Dev/Community team, led by Lisa Brwester, now moved to firefox org and dedicating full resources to add-ons.
- leadership team met in Toronto last week and worked on planning the future of Add-ons. the new wiki will be the place to find plans as they evolve. Iteration 44.3 is already detailed and listed out.
- process for streamlined review signing of internal mozilla addons (experiments, system addons, lightning, etc) tlive
- Future of Developing Add-Ons Blog Live! https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/08/21/the-future-of-developing-firefox-add-ons/
- Add-on signing shipped in 41 beta, driving considerable growth in unlisted addons submitted for review (See attached chart)and will not ride trains to release until 43 based on feedback, need for additional development and time needed for developers to get add-ons signed.
- Social media feedback moderate, neither positive nor negative (see attached graph)
- WebExtensions shipped in nightly
- Slow Add-On Watcher is in early development
- Phase one validator improvements are all done or nearly done to be live in the coming week (see: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=runnamed&namedcmd=validator-p1&list_id=12471788)
- Benchmarks for validator improvements are in progress
- Add-on reviewer new contract hire selected, contract in progress.
- Many unlisted addons reviewed - Andreas averaging *30 or more per day*! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E41MCpqf71Ayx1Im4dCspu7bxNzaMpOSYiVDQXL8dK4
Planned for Upcoming Iteration
- dev team working on Iteration 4.1 - 3 iterations per firefox release
- Program management continues to develop the wiki and reporting and associated documents including an up to date schedule showing the relationships of different add-ons work streams
- Developer and Community team working on onboarding new reviewer hire, and getting add-on developers to submit for signing.