CloudServices/Roadmaps/Sync/Client/Sequence

Summary

This wiki is meant to capture the expanded sequence of work for the 2011 Sync Client Roadmap. It will also serve as a way to see what is in progress or available.

Definitions

• Road map: A product theme or set of themes, broken down into units of work that are shippable. Product progress is tracked against the road map.
• Road map item: a single item that be delivered independently. It can have dependencies. The work is significant enough to warrant several days (3+ days) or weeks. Due to rapid release train model, may want to keep roadmap items to a max of a few weeks of work (< 6weeks).
• Feature: one or more road map items that have a user experience impact, most commonly they are user visible. For more information on what a feature is go here.
• Project: like a feature, but not user-facing. (Jen says, "perhaps call this type of work "Enhancement")
• Work item: a task within a road map item
• Feature page: is where a feature is defined, spec'ed, staffed, and tracked. Each feature or project should have a feature page associated with it.

Sequence

This table has all the current road map items for Sync. The status field should be filled "Untriaged" for new items, "Not started", "In Progress", "Blocked", and "Completed". The owner can be TBD if no has claimed it.

Roadmap Year	Type	Roadmap Item	Owner	Status
2011	Feature	Add-on EOL - Phase 1	Jennifer	Completed
2011	Feature	Death to Unknown Error	Marina	Completed
2011	Feature	Sync Setup Improvements	Ally, Philipp
2011	Project	Sync Mobile Client Port to Java	TBD
2011	Feature	Automatic sync error reporting	Chenxia	In Progress
2011	Feature	Push to device	Greg	In Progress
2011	Feature	Favicon Sync	rnewman	In Progress
2011	Feature	Add-on Sync	Greg	In Progress
2011	Project	TPS: Failure handling & recovery	Greg	Not Started
2011	Project	Provide an async engine API (repository, synchronizer)	Philipp and Richard	In Progress
2011	Project	Port the tabs engine to async APIs	TBD	Not Started
2011	Project	Port the clients engine to async APIs	TBD	Not Started
2011	Project	Port the prefs engine to async APIs	TBD	Not Started
2011	Project	Port the bookmarks engine to async APIs	TBD	Not Started
2011	Project	Port the passwords engine to async APIs	TBD	Not Started
2011	Project	Port the forms engine to async APIs	TBD	Not Started
2011	Project	Port the history engine to async APIs	TBD	Not Started
2011	Project	TPS: Rudimentary performance instrumentation	Greg	Not Started
TBD	Feature	Site-specific prefs Sync	TBD	Not Started
TBD	Feature	Search Engine Sync	TBD	Not Started
TBD	Feature	Client Certificate Sync	TBD	Not Started
2011	Feature	Local Storage Sync	TBD	Not Started
TBD	Project	TPS: Automatic Profiling of Sync	TBD	Not Started

Inbox

This is a place to put any Sync ideas. We'll review these periodically.

Type	Item	Requestor	Comments
Feature	Key Escrow	Various groups
Feature	Syncing Prefs across apps. bug 652631	Security: Sid
Feature	Assorted "guest profile"/"library mode" ideas	Everyone, everywhere, who hears "I work on Sync" :)
Feature	App Tabs Syncing bug 651817	Security: From Bugzilla
Project	Fennec going to Java, Sync implications	Mobile
Project	New Sync Protocol version	Everyone	Long backlog of changes requested for the HTTP protocol
Project	Client robustness and polish backlog	Client engineers, QA, SuMo	There's a lot to fix, and bugs to triage.
Feature	Innovations	Everyone	Innovate harder, faster, better