Program Management/Programs/Silent Update/2012-01-05
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Features
Removal of OS security dialog for Windows
Owner: Brian
- Patches have landed on m-c. Nice work Brian!
- A second Nightly build has been manually started. Updates work silently.
- Minor bugs being address and MAR signing patch is being reviewed and hope to land that next week. Only reported issues so far is service missing a description field and there was an extra debug print statement not removed.
- Minor security bugs to be addressed right after the MAR signing patch (couple days of work). Releng will get me new certs and I will have to include those new certs which will be about another day.
- Assuming Robert/Brian is comfortable with the patch on m-c, Brian will land this on Aurora (Fx11) hopefully next week.
- QA (Simona Badau)
- Just got back from holiday today, nothing new to report
Add-ons Default to Compatible (TO BE UPDATED)
Owner: Blair (client), Wil (AMO)
- Client
- bug 707328 backgroundUpdateCheck isn't firing its complete notification correctly
- Requested Aurora approval
- bug 527141 Addon update check should take into account compatibility preferences
- Requested Aurora approval
- bug 706387 Send the compatibility mode when using AMO Search API
- Waiting on AMO bug 707359, which should land today
- After these three bugs land the feature is considered complete
- bug 707328 backgroundUpdateCheck isn't firing its complete notification correctly
- AMO
- bug 707359 Add compatMode to search API URL pattern to avoid 404
- Should land today
- bug 706385 Add compatMode param to Search API
- retargeted to be fixed this week
- bug 703781 Update version check script to use compat overrides
- retargeted to be fixed this week
- bug 707359 Add compatMode to search API URL pattern to avoid 404
- Strategy for detection and mitigation of incompatible add-ons
- QA (Virgil Dicu)
- Exploratory testing and bug fix verification ongoing
- Platforms: Windows XP, Windows 7 (x86, x86_64), Ubuntu 11.10 (x86, x86_64), Mac OS 10.6, 10.7, Windows Vista, Windows 2000
- Results: spreadsheet, Litmus
- Regression test plan for Firefox 10
- Asa/Marcia to be developing user scenarios
- Asa/Jorge to be developing list of add-ons to test manually
- Bob/Clint to be developing long-term automation strategy
- Virgil to develop test plan once all the above is complete
- Anthony to organize testday (Jan 13th / 20th)
- Final sign-off has to occur by Jan 23rd
Background updates
Owner: Ehsan
- Nearly ready for review, will have patches today
- Security review scheduled for Monday
- Switched to using the Oak branch instead of Ash
- Will plan to land this on m-c once Brian lands his UAC work on Aurora (Fx11)
- QA (Vlad Ghetiu)
- Recurring issues getting updates on the test branch
- How can we improve this back-and-forth process?
Updated workflow for updating users with incompatible add-ons
Owner: Rob, Chris
- Bug filed - bug 715607
- Likely will target Fx13 given the user impact is relatively low
- Will follow-up next week in more detail with Robert on how we want to break out this work
- QA (Ioana Budnar)
- Nothing new to report
Getting the word out
- Lawrence's blog post has been reviewed by the team and should be ready to go live soon.
Questions/Roundtable
- Robert to add a brief agenda item to next Monday's all hands - encourage everyone to test the UAC work on m-c and Background updates when that lands on m-c