Firefox/Activity Stream/OKRs/Desktop OKRs/2017Q3 Archive
Activity Stream - Firefox Desktop - OKR Progress Report
Q3-2017
Last Updated: Sep 29th, 2017
Next Update: NA - Final Report for Q3
Q3 Final Score: 74%
OKR Progress
| Objective | Key Result | Confidence | State | Notes | |||
| Aug 4 | Sep 1 | Sep 22 | Final Score Sep 29 | ||||
| 1. RELEASE ACTIVITY STREAM - Release AS in Desktop Firefox 57 as the default UX for both about:home and about:newtab. | |||||||
| 1.1 Implement Collect, Store and Query Operations for Rich Site Summary Metadata | 70% | 70% | 100% | 100% | Done | "At Risk" because of unknown performance, quality and memory consumption risks possible in our (so far largely untested) approach to metadata collection, storage and retrieval 9/29- Happened for highlights and topsites. | |
| 1.2 Implement Tippytop Sites Databases | 70% | 80% | 80% | 50% | Attempted/Some Progress | "At Risk" because of restrictions around what site metadata (and the manual customizations) that are allowed on that data. There is user engagement risk associated with lower quality icons of major sites, especially for Default Top Sites 9/22 - One part was what goes into Firefox -100% there. The other part is S3 bucket with crawler. Didn't get to that yet. | |
| 1.3 Implement Top Site Customization UI | 90% | 100% | 100% | 80% | Done | This includes Pin/Dismiss, Show More/Less, Add/Edit Top Site, Drag'n'Drop 8-25- Note that we have separated Drag and Drop Top Site functionality and have changed that functionality to a P2 | |
| 1.4 Implement at least 10 performance probes/pings and develop methodology to measure and optimize AS performance | 70% | 80% | 80% | 70% | Satisfactory Progress | 9/29- Got the underlying framework to send performance pings and the most critical pings first. | |
| 1.5 Implement Highlights Section in Activity Stream | 70% | 70% | 100% | 100% | Done | This feature is dependent on #58 Metadata processing, and has some image caching subtleties that may cause perf regressions. Because of this, this feature would be a candidate to defer to a later release. 9-11 This has been completed. | |
| 1.6 Implement Activity Stream on about:home | 50% | 60% | 100% | 100% | Done | Activity Stream will be the user experience of both about:newtab and about:home. The challenge here will be to ensure that critical performance tests do not regress (Talos and Browser Start (Hero Element) Comparative Benchmark) Considered 'At Risk' because of possible regressions associated with Comparative Benchmarking and the role about:home plays. Performance of about:home is critical. | |
| 1.7 Integrate Snippets into Activity Stream | 70% | 80% | 100% | 100% | Done | 9-11 This has been completed. | |
| 2. ACTIVATE EXPERIMENT SERVICE - operationalize/productize Experimenter, ping-centre, and redash client |
2.1 Launch Prod Version of Experimenter with Shield integration | 50% | 80% | 80% | 60% | Satisfactory Progress | Project can be found HERE. Well underway and on track. 9/22 - Not a prod version. Shield is pretty close |
| 2.2 Launch three AS pref studies in multiple Fx release channels | 90% | 90% | 90% | 100% | Done | Planned pref studies in Q3:**pref on 10% in Beta 56 en-US / USA Geo **pref on 50% of Beta 56 en-US / USA + Canada Geo **pref on 10% in Beta 56 de-DE / Germany Geo 9/29 - Launched the studies as committed, but ran into the shield bug killing the experiments. Didn't get solid results. | |
| 2.3 Land ping-centre in m-c | 90% | 100% | 100% | 100% | Done | Landed. Details can be found HERE | |
| 2.4 Launch Experimentation Services for at least one non-AS Mozilla product group | 70% | 70% | 70% | 60% | Satisfactory Progress | Candidates include: search / awesome search, onboarding tour and data migration 9/29 - Was intended to help others use ping centre, dash boards, etc. Onboarding started integration | |
| 2.5 Implement a development/staging implementation of data pipeline to commodity AWS components (Logging 2.0) | 60% | 60% | 60% | 0% | Deprioritized | There is some uncertainty around the Logging 2.0 infrastructure and it's suitability for our needs. We are proceeding with a plan to "tee-off" the event pipeline into a Logging 2.0 pipeline and measure it's effectiveness 9/22 - Deprioritized | |
| 2.6 Integrate, productize and deploy redash-client | 80% | 80% | 80% | 60% | Satisfactory Progress | Project details found HERE. 9/22 - Interdependent with experimenter (KR 2.1) | |
| 3. ACTIVITY STREAM PLATFORM - AS Web Extension API |
3.1 Release AS Web Extension API (Newtab Content Extension) to Firefox | 30% | 30% | 30% | 60% | Satisfactory Progress | This will probably not land in Firefox 57 due to schedule constraints and feedback required from Addons team. This is more likely a Q4 KR. 9/22 - Written but not landed. Needs input from other groups |
| 3.2 Release 1 Go Faster System update of AS (Nightly -> Beta) | 60% | 60% | 60% | 0% | Deprioritized | As a system addon, we need to build our "Go Faster" muscles to prove we can quickly roll out new functionality or experiments to Beta and/or Release channels. 9/29 - Deprioritized |
