I missed this earlier. Lacking any major concerns (Jet did express one), I approve the deployment of this experiment on Beta 32 on behalf of release management.
Lawrence ----- Original Message ----- > This is an official notice of intent to deploy the experiment in bug > 1018200 to the beta channel. > > The experiment is an A/B test to determine the optimal value of the > dom.ipc.plugins.unloadTimeoutSecs on the FF32 beta. This setting > determines primarily how long we wait to unload Flash and other plugins > after a user isn't using it any more while browsing. Users in the > experiment will be grouped into 8 equal groups whose timeouts will be > set to various values: 0, 5, 15, 30, 60, 90, 120, and 300 seconds. > > The experiment parameters are: > MinVersion: 32.0 > MaxVersion: 34.* > Start Date: 01-Jul-2014 > End Date: 02-Sep-2014 > Maximum runtime: 42.0 days > Update Channels: beta > Sample Rate: 5% > Low-priority experiment: this experiment is lower-priority than the > translation experiment already scheduled for beta, so any users eligible > for that experiment will participate in that one first. A reminder that > the experiment system only runs one experiment at a time, so there is no > chance of multiple experiments conflicting. > > To analyze the results I intend after 2-3 weeks to correlate the > experiment groups against the telemetry measurement for plugin launch > time (bug 1011136). This will tell us both how often users are launching > plugins, but also how long those plugin launches take. My intent is to > pick a final value for this preference based on the data before we ship > FF32 to release. > > Chad, I'm looking for your approval to use 5% of the beta population for > this experiment. > Release-drivers, I am looking for your approval to enable this > experiment as soon as Kamil completes QA verification on staging. > gps, I would like you to take care of getting this experiment deployed > to production when everything is ready and monitoring the deployment, > since I will be on vacation. > > I want to thank Qeole, a contributor who implemented the correct timeout > setting, the telemetry probe, and this experiment all himself. He/she > has done this thoughtfully and well. > > --BDS > > _______________________________________________ > release-drivers mailing list > release-driv...@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/release-drivers > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
