Firefox/Planning/2013-01-16

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Planning Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am PT, 18:00 UTC
• Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
• Toronto Offices: Finch Conference Room
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
• (the developer meeting takes place on Tuesdays)

Video/Teleconference Details - NEW

• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 99696 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99696 (US)
• Vidyo Room: ProductCoordination
• Vidyo Guest URL

REMEMBER

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Actions from Last Week

• Marco to move metro planning docs to wikimo - Update: Marco unable to attend this week, will roll this over to next week.

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Firefox Metro

Action From Last Week: Metro planning documents now available on public Metro Wiki.

This Week

• Team currently in California participating in Project Work Week.
• On Monday, Asa reviewed updated Feature Stories with development team.
• On Tuesday, estimates were completed for all P1 Feature Stories.
• On Wednesday:
  • functionality testing will commence on all previously completed stories to determine if they are done.
  • develop inventory of outstanding visual assets required for Feature Stories.
  • re-format Metro on Bugzilla to accommodate sprint, component, story point values and updated Feature Story format.
  • development team to pull Feature Stories they can commit to for the upcoming iteration.
• On Thursday:
  • work on draft Forecast Release Schedule.

Firefox Mobile

Aurora (54)

• about:home customization feature review was yesterday; UX is working on refinements based upon discussion (this is an important feature for MWC)

Nightly (129)

• bug 831354 We have landed on 2 open source fonts Open Sans (sans serif) and Charis (serif), they should be landing in nightly here in the next day
• bug 820491 Download support for private browsing mode has landed
• viewport caching re-landed, 22% panning improvement

Add-on SDK

Release (1.12 -> Firefox 18, 19)

Stabilization (1.13 -> Firefox 19, 20)

Development (1.14 -> Firefox 20, 21)

Market Insights from the Product Marketing Strategy Team

Desktop / Platform

Google

• Chrome Beta for Android is now available. Features include Text Autosizing, 30% performance improvement in the Javascript Octane benchmark, CSS filters, improved developer tools, and more.
• Chrome Beta for Desktop now supports Shadow DOM, CSP, the Javascript Web Speech API, concurrent transactions for IndexedDB, and more.

Microsoft

• Microsoft made another critical security bug fix release for Internet Explorer 6, 7,and 8.

Nokia

• Nokia admitted that their recently-launched Xpress browser, which runs on their Asha and Lumia platforms, routes all HTTPS traffic through its servers, temporarily decrypting it in the process.

Opera

• Opera released a new TV App Store

Security

• Oracle released a fix for a critical security issue in the Java 7 runtime environment.

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

Marketing

Mobile

• FX 18 and FX19 launches went well: ADIs & downloads were at the expected levels, and PR reception was neutral to positive.
• Communications
  • One-off email planned for this month to feature app improvements and highlight upcoming features. We'll also have FFA social posts and FFA snippets.
  • Social Advertising (on facebook and twitter) to kick off soon, with a renewed focused on FB mobile ad units