Firefox/Planning/2011-10-19

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Planning Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am PDT, 18:00 UTC
• Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
• Toronto Offices: Fin du Monde 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# 95312 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 95312 (US)
• Vidyo Room: Warp Core
• 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

• Jen to come back with postmortem summary for sync issues in FF7

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Firefox Mobile

Customer pain points and plans to fix

Feedback has returned to post-release levels, but ratios remain constant for top 3 customer dissatisfiers this week:

• Support for Flash: 10% of Android Market v7 reviews request Flash; 138 votes on SUMO ask how to get flash player working; 11% of Input issues for v7 and 20% of Input issues for v8 are related to Flash. Click-to-play solution is in-progress to fix.
• Performance: 10% of Android Market v7 reviews say Firefox Mobile is slow (start-up speed is most frequent negative comment). Native UI work is in-progress to fix.
• Stability: 9% of Android Market v7 reviews are complaints about crashing/freezing/hangs. Native UI work is in-progress to fix.

Customer compliments on Beta features

• Master password
• Send performance data
• Permissions removal

Firefox Sync

Sync issues - The 503 storm of 2011

• Fuel for the fire:
  • Instant Sync:
    • Created unexpected 30-50% spike in traffic
  • Broken Server-Sent backoff
  • Poor server capacity/health for existing users

• Firefighting:
  • Infrastructure changes
    • DB updates
    • Load balancer updates
    • Webserver tuning

• • Migration
    • Added capacity
    • Pruned stale data
    • Migrate users from overloaded servers

• Fireproofing:
  • Better modeling for current and expected traffic on Sync features
  • Ops review and sign off on feature pages
  • Required system-review for all client behavior changes
  • Require reliability metrics and dashboard of these on all channels
  • Instill a review of changes and metrics 1 week before merging on all channels
  • Fix backoff code in Fx8
  • Re-triage of maintenance bugs for any lurking issues
  • Blog posts coming from both Ops and Engineering

• Firefox 10+:
  • Improving Sync Set Up - In development. Getting close.
  • Push to Device - In development. You can play with an add-on here.
  • Addon Sync - In development.
  • Scoping work for Fennec Java porting for Sync

Add-on SDK

Release (1.1 -> Firefox 7)

Stabilization (1.2 -> Firefox 7, 8)

Development (1.3 -> Firefox 8, 9)

Feedback Summary

Mobile

See mobile section above.

Questions, Comments, FYI

• hg issues slowing or blocking development past few days as well as 8.0b4. We think we're over the hump - see bug 693202 for more info.