Would this mean that Beta-channel users would see some features appear on release-day, and then disappear a couple weeks later, and then those same features (plus maybe some new ones) would suddenly reappear on the next release day, and then potentially disappear again? (etc)
This seems like it could be a bit unsettling & frustrating for those users, unless I'm misunderstanding. If we're planning up-front to switch something off before it hits release, I think it's saner to do it at a channel-boundary (as we did in e.g. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=814530 ). That way, a user on a given channel will have a consistent experience. ~Daniel On 04/18/2013 01:03 PM, Lukas Blakk wrote: > Hello, > > I'm following up on an action from our Firefox 20 Post-Mortem where it was > discussed that it would be helpful to have a way to pref on a set of features > that want to be in early Beta builds to garner feedback and audience reach > but should not ship since they are not ready for public consumption. > > Briefly reaching out on #developers identified that we could use a > pre-processing flag in mozconfigs for early betas, something like #ifdef > EARLY_BETA_ONLY_FEATURE in which case it seems to me the actions needed would > be: > > * Create and publicize to engineering & product teams the location for > listing feature prefs that need enabling in early beta, but should not ship > * Create the EARLY_BETA_ONLY_FEATURE flag and make sure it enables those > prefs accordingly until we no longer include them in later beta mozconfigs > * Releng automation to switch/edit mozconfigs for earlier betas to check for > this flag > > Thoughts? Feedback? People willing to take on any of these items? I'll > file bugs on them soon once we've hashed out the best way to do this. > > Cheers, > Lukas > *-*-*-*-*-* > Release Manager, Mozillian > mozillians.org/lsblakk > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
