Projects & Programs

• PM Goals and projects should directly support highest engineering and product priorities.

Desktop

Minimal Impact Update

• [CARRY OVER] Oversee all pieces of Silent Update through release
  • [DONE] Windows security (UAC)
  • [DONE] Background updates
    • On Fx15 Aurora and making it's way towards release.

Killimanjaro

• [DONE] Dashboard for tracking burn down
• Draft project charter

Apps

• [DONE] Analyze Gecko App compatibility with QA+Dev and create plan to tackle App compat issues
  • Initial analysis done, plan done, lots more work coming in Q3 and Q4.

Games

• [DEFER] Launch game developer focused documentation stream
• [DONE] Successfully port 3D property using Emscripten
• [DONE] Land a substantial number of AreWeFunYet features
• [DONE] Continue and expand conversations with tool developers
• [DONE] Work with Web App Store to define game specific needs
• [DONE] Identify and incorporate Mobile and Dev Tools representatives into game strategy
• [DONE] Improve techniques for keep the community connected

Responsiveness

• Continue to organize and run regular Snappy meetings.
• Track responsiveness initiatives targeted for Q2 through completion.
  • [DONE] Cycle collector improvements
  • [DONE] New profiling tooling
  • [DEFER] Front-end improvements
    • Deferred as resource required to support other initiatives in Q2.
  • [ON TRACK] Slow SQL improvements
    • Some improvements have already landed. More coming in 3Q.
  • [DONE] Slow startup improvements
  • [ON TRACK] Networking improvements
    • Some improvements have already landed. More coming in 3Q.

Rapid Response Projects

• Drive the team to a proposed design for Search Hijacking project.

Mobile

Firefox for Android

• Ship Fennec Native 1.0
  • Track burn down to release
  • Weekly status: risk evaluation and mitigation
  • Final release plan
• Road Map Planning Support
  • Themes
  • Scope
  • Timeline

B2G & Gaia

• Converge M2.5
• Schedule for M3
• Feature Tracking and Status
• Engage with TF counterparts
• Gaia v1.0
  • Scope
  • Schedule
  • Weekly UX Review

Cross Product

Crashkill

• Track Socorro Q2 goals
• Dashboard for managing crash landscape - showing incoming crash rate, fixes crash rate, per component breakdown, top crashes, reproducible crashes and release to release comparisons
• Triage and cleanup of crash sub lists

Telemetry

• [CARRY OVER] Improve adoption rate from current 2% on release and nightly.
  • [DEFER] Finalize enabled by default plan on dev channels
    • Some progress made on approvals.
  • [DEFER] New Telemetry promotion for consumer channels
    • Deferred until resources come available from UX and engineering.
• [DEFER] Complete privacy requirement - embed about:telemetry in product
  • r+ received, should land early 3Q after security review is complete.
• [DEFER] Continue to improve consumability of Telemetry front-end (dashboard)
  • [DEFER] UX design work
    • Metrics team has put redesign work on hold.
  • [DONE] Functional improvements based on user feedback

Process

• [DEFER] Design of dashboards for tracking quality metrics
  • Some progress made, the release readiness project is in transition
• [DEFER] Make elastic search database public
• [DEFER] Presentation of bugzilla anthropology results
• [DEFER] Work with stakeholders to develop solutions to pilot

Other

• [DONE] Hire 1-2 more program/project managers