Discussion:
Activity Stream in Nightly vs. Activity Stream in Test Pilot
Tim Spurway
2017-06-02 18:23:35 UTC
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Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 11:02:03 -0700
Subject: Re: Activity Stream Progress Newsletter June 1st
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Tim, as a Firefox Nightly user that wants to help dogfood Activity
Stream, is it more helpful for me to continue running the Activity
Stream Test Pilot or to use the "native" Activity Stream in Nightly (by
flipping the browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.enabled pref)?
I've been running the Activity Stream Test Pilot since its launch. I'm
looking forward to its graduation so all Firefox users get to use it! :-)
Great question, Chris.

We aren’t currently collecting data from Nightly and won’t until we pref it on later this month, so preffing it on in Nightly right now doesn’t really ‘help’ our team with data (unless you find a bug and file it!). I will let everyone know when it is preffed on.

We are in development of new functionality (Sections) in Activity Stream for Test Pilot, and are collecting a lot of data on that, so it’s super important to keep on using that platform for the time being, as the data we collect will definitely be used to optimize that feature.

Thanks for participating!

PS. Sorry about sending HTML to this list like a n00b! Blame Slack!
Myk Melez
2017-06-02 18:55:20 UTC
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Post by Tim Spurway
PS. Sorry about sending HTML to this list like a n00b! Blame Slack!
I think HTML to firefox-dev is fine. Ehsan has been sending HTML
versions of his Quantum Flow newsletter to it for months. And this
description of the list <https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/firefox-dev>
doesn't say anything about HTML being discouraged.

In fact I personally prefer it to the alternative. Compare Ehsan's
latest newsletter on firefox-dev
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/firefox-dev/JlbdEXLyOnA> to
the plaintextified variant on dev-platform
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/mozilla.dev.platform/hKzwNcC4NJg>,
which is not only harder to read due to link inlining but also is
missing the graph that Ehsan references at the end.

-myk

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