Johnathan and I also spoke about this last week, and we were going to sync up with Gavin to work out details and find an owner for channel-specific preference enables/disables. We'd only discussed having Nightly-only, up to Aurora, and up to Beta. Up to early beta is a good addition.
Let me set up a meeting now (I'll include you and gps as well, given his interest :) -Alex On Apr 18, 2013, at 10:03 PM, Lukas Blakk <lsbl...@mozilla.com> 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
