Program Management/Programs/Silent Update/2011-11-17

Features

Removal of OS security dialog for Windows

Owner: Brian

• MAR file verification should be done this week
  • will get releng the details they need this week
• Should only support WinXP and above
• Testing issues found on Vista and 2000
• Patches still require further review and refinement, nothing major

QA (Simona Badau)

• Complete
  • Test plan is drafted
  • Have been testing and writing test cases, consulting with Brian
• To Do
  • Continue to test and implement tests
• Questions
  • n/a

Add-ons Default to Compatible

Owner: Blair (client), Wil (AMO)

• 3 client bugs required to complete this feature in Firefox 10
  • bug 695977 Addons shouldn't be compatible by default when their minVersion is greater than the app version
    • Granted Aurora (10) approval
    • Depends on bug 527141 and AMO bug 698355
  • bug 700201 Addons that haven't been updated for an extremely long time should not be compatible by default
    • Granted Aurora (10) approval
    • Discussion started on dev.platform
  • bug 698653 Flip extensions.strictCompatibility pref in Firefox to make addons compatible-by-default
    • Can be enabled once the other two bugs are complete
• 2 AMO bugs required to complete this feature in Firefox 10
  • bug 698355 Add compatMode parameter to VersionCheck.php to allow updating to non-compatible addon versions
  • bug 698358 Add support for new strictCompatibility option in install.rdf

QA (Virgil Dicu)

• Complete
  • Test Plan drafted
  • BFT tests drafted and executed on Win XP, Win 7, OS X 10.6, Ubuntu 11.10 (signed off for Aurora)
  • Feedback requested on bug 702920 and bug 702868
• To Do
  • Draft and execute tests for recently implemented bugs
  • Testday this Friday will include exploratory testing of this feature
  • Migrate test cases into Litmus
• Questions
  • n/a

Background updates

Owner: Ehsan

• Implementation complete, ready for testing
• Working on merging with Brian's patches, things seem to be progressing smoothly

QA (Vlad Ghetiu)

• Complete
  • Test plan is drafted
  • Have been testing and writing test cases, consulting with Ehsan
• To Do
  • Continue to test and implement tests
• Questions
  • n/a

New workflow for updating users with incompatible add-ons

Owner: Rob, Chris

• Chris met with Limi and updated the wiki page with revised specs
• Limi will follow-up with UX specs shortly
• Once we move to add-ons default to compatible, the majority of incompatible add-ons will be ones with binary components
• Add-ons which are incompatible and the user decides to move forward with the update, we will only disable
• "not now" should suppress the dialog for X days, and not til the next Firefox update

QA (Ioana Budnar)

• Complete:
  • Test Plan drafted
• To Do:
  • Continue to revise test plan as feature develops
• Questions (answers above):
  • Are the binary add-ons the only ones that should be listed in the prompt about unsupported add-ons?
  • When the user chooses to continue with the update and ignore the incompatible add-ons, are those add-ons simply disabled, or are they removed from Firefox?
  • Does "not now" suppress the dialog until the next add-on update, next Firefox update, next day, or download the update in the background?

Getting the word out

• Ehsan's blog post was published on his blog and on The Future of Firefox Blog.

Other

QA (ashughes)

• How has the interaction been compared to recent weeks?
  • Consensus is that the dev/QA interaction has definitely improved.