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* Final Beta (and our RC) will go to build on Monday | * Final Beta (and our RC) will go to build on Monday | ||
* Sign-off is next Thursday, during our channel meeting | * Sign-off is next Thursday, during our channel meeting | ||
** WebAudio is looking good | |||
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Revision as of 17:53, 16 October 2013
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
These notes are read by people who weren't able to attend the meeting. Please make sure to include links and context so they can be understood.
Actions from Last Week
Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases
Firefox Desktop
Current Releases
- All is well, outside of a new stability issue we plan to address in FF25 (see bug 925459)
- The upcoming ESR17 version is our last! Long live ESR24. Users will be updated automatically at the end of the cycle
Beta (128)
- In our most recent beta (released today) we fixed FF24 security regression bug 916126 – Firefox 24.0b1+ does not mark downloaded executables as coming from Internet zone
- Looking good two weeks out. Quality is good - we're only really worried about a new networking crash, a mobile bookmark regression, and a third party DLL crasher that we plan to block for Thursday
- Final Beta (and our RC) will go to build on Monday
- Sign-off is next Thursday, during our channel meeting
- WebAudio is looking good
Aurora (54)
- Beta build off of Aurora should be commencing soon, to prevent surprises around merge day
- Metro testing continues on Aurora, and B2G 1.2 fixes are still being landed to keep our platform in sync
- Check out upcoming 26 features at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/26.0a2/auroranotes/
Nightly (129)
- Discussion of download/update sizing (and install footprint) are being discussed on dev.platform. If you've got a horse in that race, please join in.
Firefox Metro
- Team currently working on Iteration #17 - see list below.
- Kats and Botond are conducting a triage review of the outstanding APZC work: View Bug
- Review of findings will be conducted this Friday.
- Team discussing the inclusion of a Profile Sharing feature for a V1 release: View Bug
- Waiting on final approval to move forward.
- Both issues have the potential of expanding our initial release forecast.
13 Total; 0 Open (0%); 7 Resolved (53.85%); 6 Verified (46.15%);
Firefox Mobile
Current Releases
Beta (128)
- Beta 6 is currently published: https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Fennec/25/Beta/6
- Google Play is up to 4.4 stars \o/
- Top crasher just uplifted bug 902426 - crash in mozilla::dom::CanvasRenderingContext2D::Demote
- Fix for a regression was uplifted bug 915938 - Inconsistent baseline for text in canvases
- We backed out bug 848764 - Enable on-demand decompression
Aurora (54)
- We're converging the new about: home and landing/uplifting improvements such as bug 907988, bug 917273, bug 917398, bug 899182, bug 919516
- We've opted to fix this in Fx26 and will relnote for Fx25 given the risk eval bug 923969 - invalid position:fixed rendering
Nightly (129)
- Landed, bug 698437 - Allow navigation with directional controller
- bug 920006- crash in libutils.so@0xf74e (Nexus 10, Android 4.3), this is still a WIP
Developer Tools
- App Manager Hacks post and a related Hacker News thread got a modest reception, plus some press pickup on TNW thanks to Paul Jarrat.
- Landings:
- break on events has landed in the debugger
- SVG -> css inspection
- pretty-printing in the debugger continues to improve
Feedback Summary
Desktop
Mobile
UX & User Research
Market Insights from the Market Strategy Team
Mobile
- More details on KitKat, the next Android version, have been leaked, on a device that has been called by the media the Nexus 5. It features even deeper integration with Google services, that are taking over more of the generic apps and overall experience. The Gallery seems to have been replaced by Google Photos and Google Search can now be accessed as a home screen page in addition to the upward swipe.
- Android version distribution numbers for October put Jelly Bean at almost half of all devices (48.6%), split between version 4.1 with 36.5%, version 4.2 with 10.6% and version 4.3 with 1.5%. Ice Cream Sandwich is now on 20.6% of Androids and Gingerbread still on 28.5% of them.
- MoboTap, the developer of the Dolphin browser partnered with local search engines in China, Japan and Russia and the US (DuckDuckGo) to have them as the default for its localized versions in the respective markets.
- There are renewed rumors that Amazon is planning to enter the smartphone market, with 3 devices from HTC. This would pose challenges for both of the companies, as HTC risks being pushed out of the OHA consortium that produces Android, were it to ship devices that do not support the Google Play Store. For Amazon it would be harder to drive as much content sales on the smaller screen as they on tablets, due to the constraints of the environment, both physical and in terms of connectivity.
- Apple confirmed that it will hold an event on the 22 of October. Expected to be announced are a new version of the iPad and updates to its MacBook Pro line.
- Windows Phone was updated to add support for quad-core processor, larger displays and a set of mobile accessibility apps. The update will be deployed to handsets over the next several months. In the same time, Microsoft launched a new developer program called Windows Phone Preview for Developers, which will provide access to prerelease builds of the OP for developer phones. This provides app creators more time to port their content to the newest platform version and have it ready when it is mass deployed. Windows Phone is a minor platform, having shipped 3.3% (7.4 million) of global smartphone sales in Q2 of 2013, according to Gartner.
- Flexible display and battery technologies are starting to become commercially available, with Samsung and LG both having released smartphones that can bend. Released in South Korea, the Samsung Round and the LG Flex curve each on a different axis. The Round model is a 5.7 inch device that bends latitudinally and is available from SK Telecom for $1014, and the Flex has a 6 inch display that can curve longitudinally.
- The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has released its annual report on worldwide Internet usage. Numbers include 6.8 billion total mobile connections, 2.7 billion people connected to the Internet and 2.1 billion mobile broadband connections by the end of 2013. By the same time 40% of the world will be online, but 1.1 billion households or 4.4 billion people remain unconnected. Leading countries in terms of development of telecommunications services are South Korea, followed by Sweden, Iceland, Denmark, Finland and Norway.