March 1, 2016

Meeting details

Tuesdays at 11:30 local in San Francisco, CA, USA (conversions), every two weeks.
Vidyo: ProgramManagement
IRC: #gofaster
Etherpad for Minutes: https://pad.mocotoolsprod.net/gofaster_20160216

Hello (Ian/Mark)
- What happened last week, and what's the plan for 1.1?
- Successful update test on Friday
- Metrics docs in progress. All metrics required by Product are already recorded, need a dashboard to surface.
Build + tools (lonnen/rhelmer/bhearsum)
Test Pilot (wil)
Updates (tarek)
Fennec (rnewman/mfinkle)
l10n (Pike)
Pocket (scaraveo)
[Add yours]

What do we mean by "disable an add-on update"?
- Stop offering it on the wire (like for Firefox updates). Was concern over downgrade attacks.
- If we want to downgrade everyone, what should the process be?
Release management processes
- Laura and Sylvestre to work up some guidelines. Likely to be incremental (not daily to begin with, e.g.)
Metrics processes
- Meet with Rebecca Weiss, fill out a template plan
- Get required probes in place before shipping
- Initial dashboards will be bespoke/prototypical

2016 H1 strategic initiatives:
System add-ons
- System addons infrastructure complete: Documented, simple, easy to ship/update, easy to localize. (Q2)
- Staged rollout of a system addon: With a/b testing (Q2)
- Measurement infrastructure in place: Telemetry for go-faster addons (Q2)
- String delivery and updates are decoupled from trains (May tweak the wording here slightly, but essentially l10n work to support Go Faster) (Q2)
Test Pilot
- Test Pilot launch: Release opt-in platform that allows us to perform controlled tests of new high-visibility product concepts in the general release channel of Firefox (Q2)
- Test Pilot metrics dashboard: Metrics dashboard to aid experiment authors in making decisions (Q2)