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
