Planning Meeting Details
- Wednesdays - 11:00am PDT, 18:00 UTC
- Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
- Toronto Offices: Fin du Monde Conference Room
- 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 8605 (US/INTL)
- 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8605 (US)
- irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
- (the developer meeting takes place on Tuesdays)
Actions from Last Week
- Asa to write up a post-facto feature page on async plugin painting on mac
Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases
Firefox Desktop
Release (3.6, 5.0)
Beta (6)
Aurora (7)
Nightly (8)
Firefox Mobile
5
in Android Market and Ovi Store: Total downloads: 2,847,002 (+3.95%) Android Market Active Installs: 1,185,896 (+3.72%) Market rating: 3.4 5/4/3/2/1: 10541/5961/5309/3989/5117
Add-Ons: Reviewed/Public: 167 (+1) Compatible: 31 (5.0-8.0a1) Featured: 20
- Low compatible add-ons count
6
Beta 2 launched last week Total downloads: 126,036 (+16.81%) Android Market Active Installs: 51,934 (+15.73%) Market rating: 3.6 5/4/3/2/1: 533/343/241/145/211
7
in Aurora - last Release for Maemo, goal: publish Aurora on Android Market
8
in Nightly
Action Items from last meeting
- What's in our releases: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Triage and What's coming (also: see http://bit.ly/fennecroadmap)
- Aurora on Android Market (drive decision) -
- Legal clearance: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669929
- Suggestion: call Application "Aurora" (not Firefox Aurora), add "Firefox" in the description.
- Give marketing 30 days before we put anything new in the Android Market
- Legal clearance: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669929
New ACTION ITEMS
Mobile Test Pilot - HELP TEST!
Maemo support: Fx7 will be final release
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
- Shutting off mozilla-2.0 automation?
- Mobile
- Mobile priorities page
- localized Marketplace promo text still an issue bug 663984
- bug 669189 in Android marketplace lets Fennec be installed on incompatible devices - happening to other apps also
- What's New text (localized?) for every release? (500char max)
QA
- testplan for Firefox 6 features is complete
- working on cleanup and organization of feature pages
- Beta 2
- Work has started on testing, target ship date?
- Beta 3 target date?
- started tracking Firefox 7 features and creating test plans for those features
Marketing & PR
- Firefox Gone Mobile - SF & London - great success! Report from Wilson/Dan coming soon
- Mobile Add-Ons campaign for Fall
- Q3: no big campaigns, focusing on optimizing existing channels to drive usage
- Android Market description update and optimization w/ Irina
Headlines
- Mozilla re-establishes Enterprise Working Group
- Mozilla Formulates Enterprise User Working Group to Address Enterprise Needs
- Mozilla Offers Olive Branch to Enterprise With 'Working Group'
Feedback Summary
Feature Feedback
Feature Name | Release Channel | Feedback |
Do Not Track | Beta | |
Better First Run Discoverability | Aurora |
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IndexedDB Local Storage | Aurora |
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Better Form Assistant Integration with Android | Aurora |
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Visual Refresh for Gingerbread | Aurora |
General Insights
- The difference in praise for 5.0 since the release just keeps on increasing!
Clustered Praise Found | Release Channel |
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Beta |
Clustered Issues Found | Release Channel | Bug Id |
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Support
New SUMO Mobile Questions, July 13-20
- Device Wish List 8
- Sync 4
- Known Issues 2
- Unique HowTo 1
- Add-ons 4
- Site/HW-Specific 1
- Android Market 1
Most SUMO Mobile I have this problem too Votes, July 13-20
- Firefox on iPad 148
- Firefox for Symbian/Nokia 113
- Adobe Flash Player 95
- Firefox for Blackberry 40
- Firefox for BADA OS 45
- Firefox for ARMv6 5
- Cannot change language on qwerty 10
- How do I delete the history 16
- Disable pop-up blocker 18
- Market link for FF doesn't work 8
UX and Design
- UX workweek in Toronto this week
- working/revising through Brian's tablet draft specs
- series of blog posts on this starting tomorrow
- madhava to follow up on readability email sent out (you know who you are, brad and doug)
- see Matt's in progress specs for readability options in Design section of Fennec/Features/readability
- ongoing work on android widget, webapp creation (some detail in a feature page) -- talking to apps team about resourcing
Research
Got great feedback on Firefox Home.
Have your friends and family sign up up to do some user testing on upcoming mobile studies.
Next Wednesday - Users in da House - 2pm-4pm PST
Market Insights
Summary below, full update here and in your inbox.
- Dolphin HD released v6.0, a new logo and announced $ 10 million in funding from Sequoia
- Opera announced a 3-year extension to its global agreement to Vodafone and a partnership with Motorola to have Opera Mobile bundled on the Motokey XT device in Brazil
- Android is now growing at a rate of 550,000 activations per day and has a v2.3 SDK with tablet optimization features
- Qualcomm released a mobile browsing benchmark called Vellamo
- Apple announced a strong last quarter, when it sold 33.4 million iOS devices and expanded its international reach
More Info
- Project Plan Update and https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases
- Updated: Android Device Compatibility Criteria Spreadsheet
- Mobile Demos: http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/mobiledemos
- 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
- Flight Tracking: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Flight_Tracking#Mobile