Some highlights from yesterday's very meaty Web Coordination meeting. The
first 30 minutes were spent discussing the issues most important to Ryan
Feeley (UX) and Alex Davis (PM), the second general dev.
First - *NO FxA Web Coordination meetings on Thursday!*
*UX/PM*
- A lot of work continues on the device list, on both front and back
ends.
- The device should now be correctly sorted [1].
- A new option, "duplicate device" [2], is going to be added to the
list of reasons a user disconnects a device. We have seen a lot of
duplicate devices through our own testing, and hope this will reduce the
number of users that click on "rather not say". Phil aks "should
we add an
`Other...` option too?"
- The current "reasons for disconnecting" is going to be converted
from a dropdown list to a list of radio buttons.
- A lot of backend work is going into displaying the correct device
type. UA parsing using a generic library has not worked as well
as we want
it to because Firefox for Android and iOS send custom user-agent strings.
- We still see a large number of duplicate devices and are trying to
track down why. Many of these may be due to password changes and resets.
- Email confirmation flow phase 1 - "Connect another device"
- The purpose of this phase is to help users who sign up on device A
and verify on device B get device B connected, either via signing in to
Firefox if they opened the verification link in Firefox, or installing
Firefox on Android/iOS.
- A demo of the front end was given yesterday, most of the UI work is
in good shape. There are still some rough edges to iron out, and
we need to
hook up to Able and metrics.
- Vijay is working on a Firefox for iOS patch to help us with "deep
linking" so that when a user installs Firefox on iOS after
clicking on the
iTunes store button in the verification page, Firefox for iOS
automatically
opens FxA and pre-fills the email. [3]
- We need to find out who to talk to about similar functionality in
Android.
- There is an open question about how to handle users that open the
verification link in Firefox for iOS. Since users cannot override the
default browser in iOS (but they CAN in the Outlook app), this isn't the
highest priority.
- Email confirmation flow phase 2 - Send an SMS
- Alex is putting together the feature doc at [4].
- We need to decide which SMS provider to use, options so far are
Salesforce, Amazon and Twilio. Salesforce's SMS API does not appear to
allow for dynamic content so we may not be able to use it. If we
want to go
through Amazon or Twilio, we will need to loop in legal for approval.
*General Dev*
- We are seeing database timeouts on fxa-dev which is causing Circle CI
test failures. [5][6]
- If a database request times out, the auth server currently returns a
500 and logs an ugly error that implies something went wrong with l10n. I
wonder if the auth server should instead return a 503 and log which DB
request failed.
- Now that the auth-server takes care of sending emails to unverified
users on /account/login, Vijay is removing the "sendIfUnverified" logic
from the content server. It's no longer needed. [7]
- Phil is working on a PR to drop invalid utm_ params on the ground. [8]
- We have decided the "show-password" experiment is no longer needed. It
should be enabled for everyone.
- We need a way to report AB test decisions to re:dash so that we can
bucket users appropriately. [9][10]
- Vlad is adding functional tests to ensure SRI is enabled and that all
expected resources contain valid SRI attributes. [11]
That's a meeting to be proud of!
Shane
[1] - https://github.com/mozilla/fxa-content-server/pull/4430
[2] - https://github.com/mozilla/fxa-content-server/issues/4429
[3] - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1317580
[4] -
https://docs.google.com/document/d/133_Cu0TlWQZIw-ihMH1s-U_80I12MXZcvHQEuFhWbPg
[5] - https://github.com/mozilla/fxa-auth-server/issues/1553
[6] - https://github.com/mozilla/fxa-dev/issues/290
[7] - https://github.com/mozilla/fxa-content-server/pull/4424
[8] - https://github.com/mozilla/fxa-content-server/pull/4431
[9] - https://github.com/mozilla/fxa-content-server/issues/4290
[10] - https://waffle.io/mozilla/fxa/cards/5804f8fc7b5d9f6401eeb849
[11] - https://github.com/mozilla/fxa-content-server/pull/4432
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