Releases/Fennec Native 14 Beta/Final Signoffs

Focus Areas

Mobile Engineering

Current Status

Good to go

Outstanding Issues/Concerns

Migration concerns, but those will be addressed in next beta

Build Mechanics

Current Status

Waiting for go-to-beta.

• Phones will get the en-US Fennec Native beta-from-aurora.
• Tablets will get updated to a zero-change 13.0b2 build (multilocale, but with only en-US).

Outstanding Issues/Concerns

None for 14.0b1.

Web Content

Current Status

• https://www-dev.allizom.org/en-US/mobile/14.0beta/releasenotes/
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/platforms/ needs a beta equivalent linked from https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/beta/
  • Will source https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Platforms/Android#System_Requirements to create a page similar to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/13.0beta/system-requirements/
  • https://www-dev.allizom.org/en-US/mobile/14.0beta/releasenotes/ will need to be updated with the system requirements link as well

Services

Current Status

• Client Is Ready To Rock
• Ops is prepared for worst case

Outstanding Issues/Concerns

• Services ops is doing maintenance tomorrow. syncs may be delayed, but users should see no visible errors. Expected to hit ~50% of sync users.

MTD

Outstanding Issues/Concerns

• Font inflation
• Flash crashiness

Marketing

Current Status

• Blog post being finalized by PR, getting sign off
• Google Play Store content, mozilla.org/mobile/beta content ready
• Facebook ads for messaging testing starting tomorrow
• Rolling out additional promotions over Beta period on track

Outstanding issues/concerns

• Possible PR/communication challenges with English only build
• Are we creating any efforts in advertising the current native alternative to tablet users who are sick of XUL ? (Aaron)