Firefox/Planning/2012-10-10

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Planning Meeting Details

  • Wednesdays - 11:00am PDT, 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
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Actions from Last Week

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Basecamp

Firefox Desktop

Release (16, 10esr)

Beta (17)

  • 17.0b1, rebuilding build2 for same bug and targetting Thursday afternoon release
  • Note: 17.0b2 is going to ship on Monday, October 22 at 7am PT for PR news cycle on Social API

Aurora (18)

  • First Aurora 18 update still being targeted for Friday, Oct 12th - currently with QA

Nightly (19)

  • It's Firefox 19 now!

Firefox Mobile

  • See Desktop notes for schedule, nothing unique to Mobile right now

Release (16)

  • Reader is getting positive reviews
  • Feedback is ending more people to Firefox Input (4x more)

Beta (17)

  • Deciding on how to promote WebApps/Marketplace

Aurora (18)

  • reflow on zoom landed, defaulted off, but with a primary UI switch. Please help test
  • Safe browsing is now turned on. First Mobile browser to ship this feature
  • Telemetry probes for Awesomebar Perf and Android Startup Action
  • Put a major dent in our crash rate by fixing our top 5 crashers by signature

Nightly (19)

  • Private Browsing (per tab) landed, but UI will be defaulted off behind a perference

Services

Firefox Sync

  • Firefox Account work is ramping up, first stage for the next generation of Sync

Product Announcements (formerly Android Snippets)

  • l10n-impacting pieces landed in advance of Fx18 merge to Aurora.
  • client service on track to land soon, may seek uplift to Aurora depending on timing/risk assessment
  • server component work ongoing

Add-on SDK

Release (1.10 -> Firefox 16, 17)

Stabilization (1.11 -> Firefox 17, 18)

Development (1.12 -> Firefox 18, 19)

Landing plan for Firefox

The core goals is to preserve current development ergonomics and maybe share those with other teams::

  • The canonical SDK repository remains on github.
  • Code can be contributed via pull requests or patches in bugzilla.
  • Changes to SDK modules should not require Firefox builds.


  • Weekly drops from the current github integration branch will be dropped into an HG branch, validated, then merged into m-c
  • SDK test suite will be integrated into the Mozlla test suite and run on each commit

Identity

Apps

Feedback Summary

Desktop

Things are very stable at this point. Just one smaller issues:

  • Delicious add-on may be causing URL not to appear in awesome bar. Waiting for confirmation before filing bug [1]

Mobile

Google Play Reviews are very positive for this Release. Feedback solicitation is working as expected, resulting in a significant increase in Input Feedback. Reader Mode and Performance are the biggest wins for us in this release.

UX & User Research

Market Insights

Desktop / Platform

Adobe

Google

  • Google announced Google Developers Live Presents, a "series of exclusive programming from Google Developers Live". All the sessions feature the use of newer web technologies behind Chrome Experiments.
  • Chrome Canary builds now offer support for AudioContext, which provides low-latency access to live audio from microphone or other audio inputs.
  • Google also published a set of standards, libraries and tools to assist Android developers to make "best-in-class" tablet apps.

Microsoft

  • Microsoft made a blog post and demo of their proposed Internationalization API for handling formatting of strings, date and time objects.
  • Microsoft also issued the first Security Advisory for Adobe Flash on Windows 8.

Opera

Tizen

  • The Tizen 2.0 Alpha release was announced, adding a significant number of WebAPIs, HTML5 video subtitles and captions, the W3C screen orientation API, and many others.

Mobile

Summary below, full update here and in your inbox.

  • 2012 stats: 38% of phones sold are under $39, average price of phones went up to $143, in 2013 more than 50% of all phones sold will be smart, 9% of all phones in use have dual-SIM support
  • Asia reached 1 billion Netizens, of which 794 million will be mobile users by the end of 2012
  • US Congressional report recommends away from business with Chinese network equipment manufacturers
  • LG rumored to be next Nexus OEM
  • Windows Phone 8 device line-up from Nokia and HTC expected to be available soon
  • Nokia introduced data compression app in App Store aimed at emerging markets
  • Amazon opened Japan as a market for app submissions

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

Marketing

Press

Firefox 16 Launches With Safari-Like Reader Mode On Android, New Developer Tools On Desktop

Firefox 16 Offers New Tools for Web Developers

More HTML5 deemed ready-to-use in Firefox 16

Firefox 16 released with powerful developer tools

Firefox 16 launches with new developer tools, Reader Mode for Android

Questions, Comments, FYI

  • (Michael Verdi) Just curious, did we message Firefox 3.6 EOL again? We have a huge spike in visits to the 3.6 EOL article on SUMO over the last 24 hrs.
  • (Axel) on vacation for two weeks, CC :l10n on bugs, stas can answer questions, too

Actions this week

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