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/16bpDZGCPKrOIgkkIo5mWKHPTlYXOa > tyg_-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
