Test Pilot Experiment Dev Meeting notes - May 8

[6a68 (Jared Hirsch)]

Hi all!

Last Monday, the Test Pilot dev team got together with Test Pilot experiment teams to share updates and future plans.

We’ll be having another of these meetings next Monday; I’ll send out a reminder later this week, but info is here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Test_Pilot/Meeting

Notes are pasted in below, and can also be found on the wiki.

Cheers,

Jared

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General Topics / Roundtable

(Want to share a useful library? Blocked on something? Wondering how other experiment teams do something?)

• SDK is going away as of 57; experiments will need to graduate or rewrite before then
  • There’s a helpful guide on MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Comparison_with_the_Add-on_SDK
• The Test Pilot addon is being rewritten right now, so ask in #testpilot if you have questions

Friends of the Test Pilot team

(Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs in Test Pilot or experiments. Introductions for new contributors)

• Resolved bugs (excluding employees):
  • cecilebertin: Add L/R key support to onboarding modal (Screenshots #2784)
• More than one bug fixed:
  • niharikak101: Truncate long screenshot titles (Screenshots #2147), Scale onboarding to fit small windows (Screenshots #2654)
• New contributors ( = First Patch!)
  • jackinloadup: improve docs in Tab Center (#1061)
  • proman21: clarify wording in queues UI (Min Vid #768)
  • jameszone: update addons-linter dependency (Min Vid #774)

Project Updates

(Product, engineering, & community updates. For more ideas, see the meeting proposal doc.)

Test Pilot

(includes eng, UX, user research, product)

• Test Pilot is adding a news feed to the website in the next 1-2 sprints!
  • https://mozilla.invisionapp.com/share/3SBLDS9Z4#/screens
• Test Pilot add-on will be removing Add-on SDK usage soon as well

Add-ons

Activity Stream

• Started a Pocket experiment last week (may 1st)
• Landed preffed off version of AS in FFx Nightly (enable by flipping the browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.enabled pref to true)

Cliqz

• Working on SDK migration

Containers

• Working on a Shield version
  • Same repo, blog post to come about how to build addon and shield version from same repo
• Product backlog is now prioritized partly based on community feedback

Hoverpad

• Making UX right now. We’re planning on using Photon’s paradigms
• Should be possible to do this all as a WebExtension
• Can a browserAction redirect to a sidebar? If you know, talk to vlad

Min Vid

• Milestone for replacing sdk
• Final ui tweaks coming
• Talks with soundcloud ongoing
• Update with lots of minor bug fixes coming this week

Pulse

• Uses the SDK extensively
• We’re collecting data! 21k submissions so far.

Screenshots

• Page Shot is graduating (into Firefox \o/) targeting release in 54.
• Screenshots is pref’d off in Beta. Getting some perf regressions trying to enable (Bug 1361792)
• Using SHIELD pref tagging to roll out a small sample to analyze.

Snooze Tabs

• Work is mainly hibernating, letting metrics come in.

SpeakToMe

• Speech input experiment targeting ~Q2: https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/speaktome-coordination (link to repo/XPI)
• Sharon drafting UR plan
• John working on user stories

Tab Center

• No updates