Mobile/StatusMeetings/06-23-2011

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Dial-in

• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 8605 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8605 (US)
• IRC channel #mobile
• Vidyo: Room Warp Core

Agenda

• AIs from last meeting
  
  • Check Feature Spreadsheet vs. Wiki - see below 'Mobile Feature Documentation' (Stuart, Thomas) - see below
    
• New ACTION ITEMS
  
  • Make difference between final and Beta clear for users
    
  • Publish Fx5 in the Ovi Store (Thomas)

Firefox 5 (launched June 21): User Feedback Update

• as of 6/22/2011: 2528687 downloads, 1072133 active (42.4%), ratings (5/4/3/2/1) 9304 / 5349 / 4873 / 3684 / 4703 = 3.39 stars average
• Firefox constantly in AppBrain's top ten (http://www.appbrain.com/app/firefox/org.mozilla.firefox)
  

Firefox 6 goes to BETA on July 5

Firefox 7 goes from NIGHTLY into AURORA on July 5

• Project Plan Update and https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases
  
• Updated: Android Device Compatibility Criteria Spreadsheet
  
• Go-to-build for Betas every Friday - but that doesn't mean we ship every new Beta

Rapid Release Cycle Survey (take it here) - spend two minutes to tell us what worked well, what needs improvement for future releases

• What is our single source of truth? - Spreadsheet vs. Wiki (see Action Item above)
• Mobile Test Pilot - HELP TEST!

• Mobile 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 | [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Home/Roadmap Firefox Home
    

Localization

• Status quo for the multi-locale dashboard (live link): 12 green, 7 signed off, one more pending (ja)
• chofman: populations and status of the marketing list of top tier mobile languages/countries: https://intranet.mozilla.org/L10n/Mobile
  
  

Release Engineering

Priorities page

• status w/Fennec5.0 in ovi store?
• localised Marketplace promo text still an issue? bug 663984
• question from tchung: when change from buildbot0.7 automation to buildbot0.8 automation?

QA

• Untested device compatibility survey summary (~503 completed/~1104 partial)
  • June 23rd generated report http://people.mozilla.com/~atrain/mobile/summary-report-06232011.pdf
• testplan for Firefox 6 features is complete
  • working on cleanup and organization of feature pages
  • QA/Fennec/Milestones/6.0
• started tracking Firefox 7 features and creating test plans for those features
  • QA/Fennec/7

Marketing & PR

• Firefox (6) for Android Beta blog post - bring drafted
• Firefox Gone Mobile, June 25,  SF
  
• Firfox Gone Mobile, June 27-29, London
• Media Buy starting July 11
• Last day: July 1 - Mayumi + Jaclyn taking on mobile

Feedback Summary

Feature Feedback

Feature Name	Release Channel	Feedback
Do Not Track	Beta	1 praise
Better First Run Discoverability	Aurora	None
IndexedDB Local Storage	Aurora	None
Better Form Assistant Integration with Android	Aurora	None
Visual Refresh for Gingerbread	Aurora	2 praise

General Insights

Clustered Praise Found	Release Channel	Feedback Channel
Speed Improved! Input: 7	Beta	Android Marketplace

Clustered Issues Found	Release Channel	Bug Id
Acer500 crashiness Input: 1	Aurora
No Flash Input: 47 SUMO: New 104 up	All	{{bug|630007}}
Clear History Input: 6 SUMO: New 5	Beta	{{bug|656901}}
Exit button Input: 2	Beta	{{bug|607051}}
No Private Browsing Input: 3	Beta	{{bug|582244}}
Need link to apk SUMO: New 10	Beta

Support

• Mobile SUMO metrics
• Michelle Luna, our new Mobile support coordinator, starts July 5th.

UX and User Research

Design

• ongoing work on tablet UI, android widget
• UX offsite: good discussion of harmonizing desktop/tablet/mobile -- lots of ideas from mobile UI moving into desktop

Research

Users in the House! I'd love to set up a dedicated time every week (maybe Wed from 2-4pm) where we can invite consumers and developers to chat with us one on one.

We can use any of the following research techniques - in-depth interviews, diary studies, think-aloud usability tests or designing with the help of the user (also called participatory design).

Insights

Summary below, full update here

In competitor news, Dolphin released the beta of Dolphin HD 6.0 and Microsoft launched a mobile demos website.

The next Nexus device, featuring Ice Cream Sandwhich, expected this fall with an up to 1.5 GHz dual-core CPU and 1 GB RAM.

Nokia has announced the Nokia N9, its MeeGo device, days before a video of Stephen Elop presenting its Q4 upcoming WP7 device was leaked.

SE Asia continues to grow in the mobile area and it is expected to maintain long-term high growth patterns

RIM is facing loses in marketshare and sales, while HP is releasing the Touch Pad tablet, welcomed with reserved reviews

Other

• How do we reduce the number of meetings?
  • How many people find these updates useful ? Is the wiki enough, or does it help to have a voice?