Mobile/StatusMeetings/05-12-2011

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Agenda

• AIs from last meeting
  
  • Seth/Stuart/Mark/Thomas: define roadmap and actions for delivering language packs in Q2
  • Stuart/John/Thomas: find out how more than one person can push to Android Market - see https://market.android.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139626 - meeting on 3/31
    
  • Inform localizers about features and keyboard shortcuts for Desktop build (e.g. Ctrl+Shift+Q to switch orientation, Ctrl+Shift+M to show context menu, etc.) - https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Cheat_Codes
  • Caitlin/Sayer getting nightly.mozilla.org/night implemented by EOW: Bug 540311 and Bug 627075
• New ACTION ITEMS
  
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Firefox 4.0.1 (launched April 28): User Feedback Update

• as of 5/11/2011: 2013103 downloads, 902275 active (44.8% - down from last week: Android Market introduced new method for measuring actives), ratings (5/4/3/2/1) 7350 / 4400 / 4137 / 3166 / 4128 = 3.33 stars average
  
• Nightly, Beta, and Firefox Home branding update
• Firefox 5 BETA and beyond
  
  • Goals and schedules
  • Project Plan Update and https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases
    
  • Updated: Android Device Compatibility Criteria Spreadsheet
• New Feature Documentation
  • Mobile Eng Team: Master Sheet  (<-- this is our single source of truth; request access if you can't view the doc)
  • Cross-project feature and release documentation (derived from our Master Sheet):
    
    • Flight Tracking: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Flight_Tracking#Mobile
      
    • Feature List: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Features/Mobile
      
    • Feature Pages: linked from Feature List
      
    • New Feature Pages for all ideas features that are related to projects outside of mobile: go here
      
  • Roadmaps: Firefox for mobile | Firefox Home

2.0

2.0 planning page

• Proposed schedule

Localization

• Status quo for the multi-locale dashboard (live link): 6 green, 7 with missing strings, 17 strings max. 3 of the 6 greens have accepted sign-offs.
• Outreach sent to everyone with missing strings or signoffs by mail.

Release Engineering

• RelEng still unable to post Fennec to marketplace; need to resolve before Stuart vacation
• investigating change-of-plan for faster cadence; previous plan was Fennec6 now Fennec5; need to handle consolidated repos, buildbot0.8

QA

• Fx5
  • Re-verifying Fx5 bugs on Aurora builds before moving to Beta
  • Running smoketests and small set of BFTs before May 17th
• Fx6
  • All features have a QA contact, test plans and test cases are being created via each feature wiki

Marketing & PR

• Nightly, Aurora, Beta and Firefox Home Branding
  
• Mobile Beta channel inclusion on /channel, mobile/downloa, Fiefox.com/m (Nightly/Beta goal: 25k/150k EOY))
  
• Finalizing materials for Firefox Beta in Android Market
• Media campaigns underway

Feedback Summary

Issue	SUMO	Input	Buglink
No Flash support	New 102 Dn	22	bug 630007
No copy/paste support	New 6 -	4
Reformating text on zoom	New 0 Dn
Firefox on other OS	New 289 Way up		bug 654940
Problems with Marketplace	New 37 -
Crash when copying URL		1	bug 641010

Support

• Mobile SUMO metrics
  • Traffic up after desktop 4.0.1 release - mainly on desktop related articles.

Insights

Summary below, full update here

Android 3.1 was launched. User features: resizable widgets, USB accessories support, Adobe Flash 10.2. Dev features: Open Accessory API, USB host API, Media Transfer Protocol, Real-Time Transport Protocol API.

The Android 3.1 browser updates: UI improvements, CSS 3D support, animations, CSS fixed positioning, save page locally, support for hardware accelerated plugins

New Android numbers: 100 million activated devices, 400,000 activations/day, 200,000 apps, 310 device models

Android strategy updates: support for launched devices to be 18 months, phone and tablet versions to be merged in Ice Cream Sandwhich, Android@home was presented, a project to bring the OS to household appliances.

The smartphone market has grown ~80% year over year in with 99.6 million units shipped in 1Q2011. Apple is about to become the biggest smartphone vendor with only 6 million shipped units behind Nokia, who is in the first place.

• Devices:
  • Samsung Galaxy S II pre-ordered 3 million times.
  • Motorola Droid X2 specs: dual-core 1GHz Tegra 2 processor, 512MB RAM
  • Samsung Infuse (from AT&T)
  • HTC ChaCha and Salsa to be launched June 26th in the UK from Amazon
  • HTC Puccini
  • HTC Verdi