>I think you were looking at the docs for opt-in Shield studies Ah, right you are :)
OK, I've filed a bug for the pref study: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1367951 Thanks! Jason On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 2:27 PM, Matthew Grimes <mgri...@mozilla.com> wrote: > I think you were looking at the docs for opt-in Shield studies > (experiments deployed as add-ons), not for pref flipping experiments. Due > to the nature of some of the opt-in studies we run they require a different > approval process. Pref flipping is available for all users, it is not > opt-in. The process currently requires one bug and an email to release > drivers. Feedback on the doc/process is always welcome! > > On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 1:40 PM, Jason Duell <jdu...@mozilla.com> wrote: > >> I'm worried we're going from too little process here to too much (at >> least for this bug). Opening a meta-bug + 4 sub-bugs and doing a legal >> review, etc., is a lot of overhead to test some network plumbing that is >> not going to be especially noticeable to users. >> >> Also, we expect that this code will mostly benefit users with slow >> hardware (disk drives especially). We'll need to cast a very wide net to >> get nightly users that match that profile. The Shield docs say that >> "participation for Shield Studies is currently around 1-2% of randomly >> selected participants" (does that map to 1-2% of nightly users?), so I'm >> not sure we'd get enough coverage if we used Shield. >> >> Jason >> >> On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 11:30 AM, <mgri...@mozilla.com> wrote: >> >>> Hey folks. I run the Shield team. Pref flipping experiments ARE >>> available on Nightly and will be available in all channels (including >>> Release) at some point in Firefox 54. >>> >>> Since the process is still relatively new, I've been hacking on some how >>> to docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16bpDZGCPKrOIgkkIo5mWKHPT >>> lYXOatyg_-CUi-3-e54/edit#heading=h.mzzhkdagng85 >>> >>> Feel free to give those a spin. Feedback on the docs/process is welcome. >>> >>> On Wednesday, May 24, 2017 at 6:14:55 PM UTC-7, Patrick McManus wrote: >>> > a howto for a pref experiment would be awesome.. >>> > >>> > On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 9:03 PM, Eric Rescorla <e...@rtfm.com> wrote: >>> > >>> > > What's the state of pref experiments? I thought they were not yet >>> ready. >>> > > >>> > > -Ekr >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 7:15 AM, Benjamin Smedberg < >>> benja...@smedbergs.us> >>> > > wrote: >>> > > >>> > > > Is there a particular reason this is landing directly to nightly >>> rather >>> > > > than using a pref experiment? A pref experiment is going to >>> provide much >>> > > > more reliable comparative data. In general we're pushing everyone >>> to use >>> > > > controlled experiments for nightly instead of landing experimental >>> work >>> > > > directly. >>> > > > >>> > > > --BDS >>> > > > >>> > > > On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Valentin Gosu < >>> valentin.g...@gmail.com >>> > > > >>> > > > wrote: >>> > > > >>> > > > > As part of the Quantum Network initiative we are working on a >>> project >>> > > > > called "Race Cache With Network" (rcwn) [1]. >>> > > > > >>> > > > > This project changes the way the network cache works. When we >>> detect >>> > > that >>> > > > > disk IO may be slow, we send a network request in parallel, and >>> we use >>> > > > the >>> > > > > first response that comes back. For users with slow spinning >>> disks and >>> > > a >>> > > > > low latency network, the result would be faster loads. >>> > > > > >>> > > > > This feature is currently preffed off - network.http.rcwn.enabled >>> > > > > In bug 1366224, which is about to land on m-c, we plan to enable >>> it on >>> > > > > nightly for one or two days, to get some useful telemetry for our >>> > > future >>> > > > > work. >>> > > > > >>> > > > > For any crashes or unexpected behaviour, please file bugs >>> blocking >>> > > > 1307504. >>> > > > > >>> > > > > Thanks! >>> > > > > >>> > > > > [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=rcwn >>> > > > > [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1366224 >>> > > > > _______________________________________________ >>> > > > > 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 >>> > > > >>> > > _______________________________________________ >>> > > 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 >>> >> >> > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
