Firefox/Activity Stream Updates

2016-08-12

Current Sprint Goals for "Fraser River" milestone

• DONE - Metadata store and API
• DONE - Metadata parsing dev server and instructions to test
• DONE - Metrics and reporting for uninstall and recommendations
• In Review - Share Button with Social API
• In Review - Scoring/Ranking highlights

Next Milestone:

• Disable Recommendations UI
• Search/Filter timeline view
• Show synced data source
• Local page parsing experiement
• Share in context menu

2016-07-7

Activity Stream [status: green]

Current Sprint Goals for "Elk Island" milestone

• Recommendation highlight MVP
• Share context menu and toolbar button
• Search/Filter timeline view
• Show synced data source
• Engagement Model and Exec dashboard
• Local storage infrastructure
• url meta data service using fathom

2016-06-10

Activity Stream [status: green]

Completed 'Banff' sprint

• [done] feat(content): show inline video players for youtube and vimeo #755
• [done] Auto complete in search (regression from about:newtab) #765
• [done] Delete/Hide/Block Improvement #778
• [done] Improve first run experience #669
• [done] replace about:home #724
• (stretch goal) Filtering in Timeline #416

Changelog: https://github.com/mozilla/activity-stream/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

2016-05-15

Next Milestone - 'Algonquin' sprint - [Status GREEN]

• Renamed code repository and some addon meta data to be consistent 'activity-stream'
• Landed first run 'hang on tight' while data is first loaded
• Created and monitoring re:dash charts to monitor usagage

Next week

• More UI polish: fixing scrolling
• Delete/Block/Hide feature
• replace about:home with fallback
• In-line youtube embedding prototype

2016-04-28

Release Candidate 2 done tomorrow

• 41 issues closed with RC2 milestone to date
• Live for internal preview on Test Pilot (see below)
• Onboarding complete
  • #299
  • #200
• Improved query for items to display in highlights
  • #389
• Lots of polish and UI bugs fixed

Next week- Release Candidate 3 (1 wk sprint)

• support improved icons for top sites
• More UI polish
• Complete ship-readiness checklist

2016-04-18

On Track to ship with Test Pilot (May)

Done - Release Candidate 1.

• Fix high CPU bug
• Styling fixes to date/time and strings
• Implement changes to Delete items.
• More performance improvements

Next week- Release Candidate 1 - week two

• Improve first run flow
• More UI polish
• Bug fixes
• Complete ship-readiness checklist - server is ready

2016-04-08

On Track to ship with Test Pilot (May) Done - Release Candidate 1 - week one.

• Big performance improvements
• Initial refinement of 'delete' item
• re-dash metrics dashboards prototyped
• Privacy noticed signed off and handed off to Test Pilot team

Next week- Release Candidate 1 - week two

• work week in SF
• Improve first run UX
• Improve highlight items.
• Improve 'delete' UX
• Hand off onboarding materials to Test Pilot

2016-03-25

On Track to ship with Test Pilot (Apr/May)

Done - Beta 2 week one.

• Bookmarks pagination
• Telemetry enabled
• Add data to telemetry ping - bookmark/history size
• Performance: Query caching

Next - Finish Beta 2 sprint

• Improve telemetry data
• Performance: Embedly caching
• Improved icons
• First run
• Privacy Notice
• Embedly proxy server readiness

2016-03-19

Done

• Timeline pagination
• Showing recent activity rather than top activity on new tab
• Places query caching
• Fixed Awesome bar input on new tab
• Improved icons
• Legal: privacy review - GO
• Security consultation/review - GO (follow up tasks logged)

Next

• Legal: privacy notice WIP
• Embedly caching
• Reduce first render latency
• Improve first run experience
• Improve icons for popular sites

2016-03-11

• [done] Added ability to remove items from Top Sites, Spotlight, and Top Activity
• [done] Connections to the Embedly proxy now use https
• [done] Using new frecency based queries for Spotlight and Top Activity
• [done] Metrics pings are pinging
• [done] Metrics backend in staging
• [done] Deduped items across Top Sites, Spotlight, and Top Activity

• [next] Integration test with Test Pilot on March 15
• [next] Pagination
• [next] Performance enhancements
• [next] Better icons

2016-03-04

Mid-point in Beta milestone

• [done] addon download page live - with update mechanism
• [done] search - uses default search engine
• [done] UI tweaks
• [done] embed.ly proxy live
• [done] bookmarks filter for Timeline
• [done] 43% issues closed - for beta milestone

• [next] pagination
• [next] de-dupe results
• [next] delete item in-line
• [next] MVP backlog review and schedule

• [in plan]mobile adding meta data to activity e.g. screenshots
• [in plan]mobile content notifications - mobile notification upon content update via rss

2016-02-26

Completed Sprint: Alpha milestone

• [landed] search working
• [landed] Embed.ly page metadata service proxy up
• [landed] new layout - timeline scrolling
• [landed] 90% alpha issues resolved (9 day sprint)
• [landed] landed metrics collection (payload, dwell time, pings) and infrastructure
• [landed] UI improvements - bookmark icons, stars, layout
• [improved] process: fine tune iterations, triage, and milestone setting

Next Sprint: Beta milestone

• [next] metrics collection
• [next] more UI controls

2016-02-19

Activity Stream - [status: green]

• [landed] We hit our UI Demo milestone! Amazing work team.
  • https://github.com/mozilla/activity-streams/milestones
  • we had over 60+ commits by 7 contributors during this sprint.
  • demos has working layout, loading local data, and using embedly proxy to fetch page metadata:
• [done] schedule testing with Softvision QA and test plan initiated
• [done] Desktop and Mobile teams collaborating and sharing data weekly.

• Next Milestone: Alpha
  • stand up a embedly dev server for team testing
  • UX Polish
  • Metrics and reporting
  • A/B Testing infrastructure