1608499 - Discovery Stream new locale Pocket feed enablement

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: New Tab Page, enhancement, P2)

Description

[Scott [:thecount] Downe]

Right now the locales that have stories are hard coded in a pref, turning this on for a locale requires a code change and to ride the trains.

We're looking into enabling more locales, so if we can enable a way to have locales get pocket stories to show up without having a code change, it would save us some time.

The way this works now is there is an array of locales that we expect to have stories for, changing it requires a code change. If it's not enabled, stories are turned off completely. (no fetches or updates for stories are made)

I suspect we have two options to make this faster.

1. Move the array into a ff pref, so we can do a rollout and pref flip adding the new locale.
2. Have the pocket server return data on which locales have stories, and use that to determine to display stories or not. This might cause issues by adding requests to pocket when we potentially don't need to, and also more work.

I suspect 1 is significantly easier for this.

Comment 1

[Scott [:thecount] Downe]

This is fixed, we now primarily do this with a pref.