Fennec/NativeUI/GAReadinessReview
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[Fennec Native] GA Readiness Review
June 18, 2012
GA + Release Schedule
Moco confidential: pls. refer to weekly status email or feel free to contact elancaster directly.
GA Go-To Market Plan
Promotion timeline: https://www.smartsheet.com/b/publish?EQBCT=1b9a19bd30804b03ae1bcb3da43f7b01
Web pages being updated/localized/launched on June 26th [Jaclyn to Update for GA]
NOTE: If there are existing pages that need updating but are not the responsibility of PMM; please state below :)
Product pages:
- mozilla.org/firefox/fx#mobile
- mozilla.org/mobile/features
- mozilla.org/mobile/faq
- mozilla.org/mobile/platforms
- mozilla.org/mobile
- Bug 755411 - "About Firefox Beta" Release Notes link is 404
- Bug 756908 - Link to FAQ on About Firefox Beta page points to a missing page
Website promos:
- mozilla.org
- Tabzilla
Other Promos
Reddit IamA campaign (June 25 as a primer)
Other recommended Blog Posts & Activities
- Performance blog post (similar to something like this)
- Eideticker blog post (William already has this drafted)
Summary of Beta Releases
[5/25] Beta 1 [6/15] Beta 7 QA sign off wiki
Marketing Distribution Plan
List of Benchmarks
https://intranet.mozilla.org/FN14GAbenchmarks
Since performance is a large part of our story, we need to have all benchmark numbers ready to go (JS, Eideticker, Ringmark, HTML5)
PR Intro Plan
- "Future of Firefox" blog post
- Friendly reporters have been given a head's up
- FAQ for inbound press questions
- Press coverage report
Support Plan
- Release notes
- Minimum System Requirements & Device Compatibility
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/platforms/ Updated Platforms page targeted for a beta very soon]
- en-us support docs complete for Google Play launch; l10n ready
- New Firefox 14 for Mobile Support Site; 20 new articles and new tutorials
- L10N 70% complete for top articles in default non-English languages
- firefoxforandroid@mozilla.com: one-time push notification about Flash
- army of awesome will monitor social sites and direct problem solving on sumo;
- Keep feedback flowing into Google Play for best support; monitoring throughout the day
- Daily reports for the first week or so, depending upon traffic:
-Positives
-Negatives
-Rating change
-Interesting comments/trending
Issues and Risks
- en-us only build for beta 1
- Web site compatibility effort is ongoing
- Crash rate (although trending in the direction)
- GFX work is ongoing
- Add-On support for beta: bug 744555, need add-on developer adoption for compatibility with new architecture
- Telemetry being disabled
Deferred Bugs Scheduled for GA
- We will continue to approve until the cut-off for go-to build
- [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=blocking-fennec1.0%3AbetaN%2B;list_id=3083812 tracking issues we want fixed early in the beta cycle with a specific flag
- Other notable bugs in Known Issues
Features Summary
- Performance
- click-2-play Flash support
- Readability
- Refined UI, better tab management,smoother in-content UI
Test Coverage
- Test cases based on each functional area 100% complete
- This includes verification of fixed blockers across a variety of devices, smoke testing, usability, and exploratory testing
- Installation, update, and migration testing 100% complete
- Google Play pre-testing 100% complete
Reliability
- As of June 19th, we are at 4 crashes per 100 ADU
- This is down from 22 crashes per 100 adu on May 14th
- Criteria for GA is no more than 5 crashes per 100 ADU
Performance
Goals
- Fast start up time
- UI is up and running and ready for user interaction quickly
- Responsive browsing: page load, panning & zooming performance
- Better Memory Usage
Performance State
- think we are within acceptable beta quality see state of Fennec Perf Section for more details
- Latest numbers highlighted in weekly status
l10n
Shipping the Following Locales:
- Czech (cs)
- Danish (da)
- German (de)
- Spanish (es-ES)
- Finnish (fi)
- French (fr)
- Japanese (ja)
- Korean (ko)
- Italian (it)
- Norwegian bokmal (nb-NO)
- Dutch (nl)
- Polish (pl)
- Brazilian Portuguese (pt-BR)
- Portuguese (pt-PT)
- Russian(ru)
All available locales, those not included above to be hosted: https://l10n.mozilla.org/teams/
QA sign off:
Two bugs being tracked for possible ride-alongs before we GA. If not, they will go into 14.0.1.
- Sync on Android is not translated at all in Suomi (fi)
- Sync on Android is not translated completely in Português (Brasil)(pt-BR)
Mobile Test Drivers
- Number of testers: 453 (down from 500 around May 14th)
- Number of bugs filed to date 158 (this not include bugs filed outside of the MTD form which auto-magically tags them for tracking).
- Areas of focus: Web compatibility, panning and zooming, flash,
- Builds released: 2 specific aurora builds with gfx changes we wanted extra validation on. Otherwise, the updater provides a new build every day.
- We are *keeping* MTD testers on Aurora
Web Compatibility
- Investigation is ongoing (crowd sourcing test tool launched 20120508), actively working with select partners to fix site issues.
- We are working on top sites. Goals are aligned around k9o. Coordinating with evangelism as needed top priority issues.
- High level goals for k9o are captured in bug 747123. Are targeting active involvement with top apps/sites and mitigation strategies for Alexa top sites in specific locales.
- Directed testing email was sent to Nightly testers on 05/14 to emphasize web compatibility testing and provided them with tips on reporting issues.