October 6, 2015

Meeting details

(note that Larissa will add tracking bugs this week)

Ship Hello as a system add-on.
- yes! in progress!
Convert another feature to system add-on (likely Pocket).
- Laura to confirm with Mark Mayo
Launch IdeaTown and the first Experiment on it.
- Nick: doing that internally in Q4. ("big launch" at Orlando)
Design and build out automation to begin shipping go-faster code updates.
- scary, but we have a plan
Ship security updates separately from trains.

Client integration (Mossop/rhelmer)
- Blogged: http://www.oxymoronical.com/blog/2015/10/Delivering-Firefox-features-faster
- One or two patches still in progress
- Security review happened
- Next up is figuring out installing without restarts

Build pipeline (JP/rhelmer)
- what does the build part of a system addon look like
- SF time week after next
IdeaTown (nchapman)

Updates (tarek)
- client not landed yet - some pending reviews related to performances
- we should have some news by the end of the week on this
- working on the next topics in the meantime : signing/verification

Fennec (rnewman)
- getting close to downloadable content being ready, we need to make some changes to the hyphenation code in gecko
- engineer is also working on literally 6 other things at the same time

Mossop's blog post: http://www.oxymoronical.com/blog/2015/10/Delivering-Firefox-features-faster
Some MVP decisions for v1:
- Updates not to be restartless. (We'll do user research - Laura discussing with Madhava and Bill Selman - to figure out where to go from here.)
- Updates should not change strings, for v1.
- We'll reuse existing build, l10n, and test infrastructure as much as possible.
Action: Laura to update the PRD to reflect current thinking