Should preffed-off-by-default features be mentioned in the release notes?

[Sebastian Zartner]

And again me. :-) I was asked by Daniel Holbert[1] whether we normally include features in the developer release notes, which are disabled by default.

As far as I saw, we include them but tell the user the preference they need to toggle to turn the feature on.

I believe that's ok, as we want to encourage developers to try out new features even when they are not available for everyone yet.
Do you share that opinion or do you think we should just mention a feature when it is enabled by default?

Sebastian

[1] https://bugzil.la/1210575#c33

[Julien Sphinx]

I do share this opinion :)

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[Eric Shepherd]

This has historically been what we do. However, we are about to switch
to creating an "Experimental features in Firefox X" page, if I recall
correctly. Jean-Yves is spearheading that work. Anything not currently
planned to ride the train would certainly go there; I don't know if
we've discussed whether preffed-off stuff goes there too.

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in the release notes?

> And again me. :-) I was asked by Daniel Holbert[1] whether we normally include features in the developer release notes, which are disabled by default.
>
> As far as I saw, we include them but tell the user the preference they need to toggle to turn the feature on.

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[Sebastian Zartner]

I see. Sounds like that would be exactly the place for preffed-off stuff.
Jean-Yves, can you please explain how you imagine this page and for which
version of Firefox we should start creating that page?

Sebastian

On 18 August 2016 at 19:01, Eric Shepherd <eshe...@mozilla.com> wrote:

> This has historically been what we do. However, we are about to switch to
> creating an "Experimental features in Firefox X" page, if I recall
> correctly. Jean-Yves is spearheading that work. Anything not currently
> planned to ride the train would certainly go there; I don't know if we've
> discussed whether preffed-off stuff goes there too.
>
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