1378692 - Make it easier to release a feature in a specific version with Switchboard

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Sebastian Kaspari (:sebastian; :pocmo)]

We have been using Switchboard to roll out and hold back features successfully. However as soon as we are ready to release a feature ("letting it ride the trains") it's hard to make this rollout happen automatically:

If we enable the feature for all users then we might enable old versions of the code that have partially made it into other release channels

What we actually want to say is that this feature is ready now, let's release it with 56. Currently our switchboard configuration allows us to define a version pattern. But that's a regex and writing a regex that matches 56 and all future version numbers is a bit hacky.

Instead we could add another filter [1] that allows us to define a minimum version. Almost like you can do for add-ons [2].

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Android/Switchboard#Experiment_configuration
[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/manifest.json/applications

Comment 1

[Sebastian Kaspari (:sebastian; :pocmo)]

Related code:
https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/mobile/android/base/java/org/mozilla/gecko/switchboard/SwitchBoard.java#228

Comment 2

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