<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><b class=""><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 15px;" class="">STATUS</font></b></div><div class=""><b class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></b></div><div class=""><ul class="MailOutline"><li class=""><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 15px;" class="">Activity Stream is pref’ed off in Firefox Desktop 56 Beta and contains Search, Top Sites, Top Stories. This will be pref’ed on to 10% of Beta population </font></li><li class=""><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 15px;" class="">We kicked off the Experiment Services sub-team who is tasked with operationalizing our A/B Testing practice and making it available to all Firefox teams</font></li><li class=""><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 15px;" class="">Tippytop Icons (most frequently used static site icons), Default Top Sites and Pocket telemetry have undergone extensive legal, business and privacy reviews</font></li><li class=""><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 15px;" class="">We are implementing the <a href="https://trello.com/b/KX3hV8XS/activity-stream-desktop" class="">remaining Activity Stream functionality</a> in Firefox <a href="about:home" class="">about:home</a> and <a href="about:newtab" class="">about:newtab</a> </font></li><li class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">Most significant risks to AS in Fx57 are </span><a href="about:home" style="font-size: 15px;" class="">about:home</a><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""> impact on Comparative Benchmarks and quality/engagement/retention risks associated with newly integrated Onboarding Tour, Snippets and Migration modules </span></font></li></ul></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><a href="https://github.com/mozilla/activity-stream/milestone/41" style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><b class="">Up Next</b></a></div><div class=""><b class=""><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></font></b></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">The focus of the AS team is to land a fully functional version of AS in Fx57. To that end, we have a handy </span></font><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><a href="https://github.com/mozilla/activity-stream/projects/16" class="">GitHub Project to track against that goal</a><font face="Arial" class="">.</font></span></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><ul class="MailOutline"><li class=""><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 15px;" class="">The Activity Stream team short term goals are:</font></li><ul class=""><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: circle; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 15px;" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">land AS on <a href="about:home" class="">about:home</a> </font></span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: circle; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">collect, store and retrieve site metadata (HD icons, descriptions, images) for ++ the Top Sites and Highlights sections</span></font></div></li><ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: square; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 15px;" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">HD icon metadata harvest (on DOM Added events) and PlacesDB insertion</font></span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: square; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 15px;" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">site summary pipeline (HD Icon -> Tippytop -> Screenshot + Favicon) </font></span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: square; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 15px;" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Query optimization</font></span></div></li></ul><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: circle; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 15px;" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Highlights Section which displays </font></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;" class="">Recent Bookmarks + Recently Visited Sites</span></div></li><ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><li class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">harvesting and storage of site ‘description’ data</span></font></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: square; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 15px;" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">on demand image display, retrieval and image caching</font></span></div></li></ul><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: circle; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 15px;" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Top Site UI Customization features</font></span></div></li><ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: square; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 15px;" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Pin/Dismiss, Show More/Less, Add/Edit Top Site</font></span></div></li></ul><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: circle; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 15px;" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Tippytop Icon DB improvements</font></span></div></li><ul class=""><li class=""><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">These are the HD icons for the Web’s most popular sites</span></li><li class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;" class="">Firefox based static payload</span></li><li class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;" class="">Server Based database, infrequently fetched and cached by Firefox </span></li></ul><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: circle; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 15px;" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">10% roll out in 56 Beta to en-US, geo USA, Canada using Shield opt-out pref flip stud</font></span></div></li><ul class=""><li class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;" class="">Next will be >%, more locales/geos + Pocket in Germany</span></li></ul><li class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">Our amazing intern, <a href="https://github.com/AdamHillier" class="">Adam</a>, is building a </span></font><a href="https://github.com/mozilla/newtab-content-extension" style="font-size: 15px;" class="">Web Extension API to make it easy to hack Activity Stream</a></li><div class=""><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div></ul></ul></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><a href="https://github.com/mozilla/activity-stream-okrs/issues?q=is:open+label:%22At+Risk%22+project:mozilla/activity-stream-okrs/4" style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><b class="">Risks</b></font></a></div><div class=""><ul class="MailOutline"><li class=""><span class="name" data-wfid="08f4202a15f8"><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><a href="about:home" class="">about:home</a> is a crucial component when we measure Firefox startup time. The Photon project is trying to </span><a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1355956" style="font-size: 15px;" class="">Make Firefox Start More Quickly</a><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""> Obviously, if Activity Stream ‘takes over’ <a href="about:home" class="">about:home</a>, we must guarantee performance will not degrade</span></font></span></li><li class=""><span class="name" data-wfid="95d23832226b"><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">Our approach to <a href="https://github.com/mozilla/activity-stream/issues/3113" class="">site metadata collection, storage and retrieval</a> must be thrifty in its use of memory and CPU cycles and should cause no perf regression</span></font></span></li><li class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">In our Test Pilot experiments, we found a strong correlation between user engagement and the quality of our site summary metadata (locale agnostic images and icons). A key to our excellent engagement scores was our use of a static database of site summary metadata (called Tippytop). After legal review, it became apparent we need to <a href="https://github.com/mozilla/activity-stream/issues/3111" class="">change our approach</a>, exposing AS to user engagement regression risk</span></font></li><li class=""><span class="name" data-wfid="12c47a161158" style="font-size: 15px;"><font face="Arial" class="">All of our user engagement and retention tests for Test Pilot were done without consideration of the Onboarding Tour, Migration or Snippets modules. Now that these co-exist with Activity Stream on <a href="about:home" class="">about:home</a> and <a href="about:newtab" class="">about:newtab</a> in Firefox, we need to ensure these experiences do not negatively affect key user KPIs</font></span></li><li class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">Any user facing strings in Activity Stream need to be localized, and localization takes time. We need to be mindful of giving enough lead time for any changes that have strings as the 57 merge approaches. Right now our deadline is September 1st for any change to land that require localization.</span></font></li><div class=""><br class=""></div></ul></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><b class=""><a href="https://github.com/mozilla/activity-stream-okrs/projects/4" class="">Activity Stream </a><a href="https://github.com/mozilla/activity-stream-okrs/projects/4" class="">OKR Progress</a> </b></font></span></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><b class=""><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 15px;" class="">Activity Stream KPIs</font></b></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">We are eager to start collecting Beta 56 data, which will be turned on with a Shield opt-out pref flip study next week! Until then, enjoy the various </span></font><a href="https://sql.telemetry.mozilla.org/dashboard/activity-stream-metrics-summary" style="font-size: 15px;" class="">AS Dashboards from out Test Pilot</a><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""> experiment.</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>