Firefox/Planning/2013-01-16
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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
- Marco to move metro planning docs to wikimo - Update: Marco unable to attend this week, will roll this over to next week.
Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases
Firefox Desktop
Current Releases
- Firefox 18.0.1 (maintenance, not security-driven, desktop only) has gone to build yesterday and is planned to be released on Friday before EOD. These fixes will be included.
- Faster uptake of Firefox 18 due to bug 803181
- Blocks
- bug 829111 - Blocklist with severity CTP for all versions of Java due to zero-day remote code execution vulnerability being actively exploited went in production Friday, Jan 11
- Firefox Startup Crash related to Websense Endpoint 7.6 - bug 828184.This will be a part of 18.0.1
- Planning to move ahead with bug 826002 - Consider blocklisting Adobe Reader XI on OS X
Beta (128)
- Firefox 19.0b2 has gone to build yesterday and planned to be released , Thursday .
Aurora (54)
Nightly (129)
Firefox Metro
Action From Last Week: Metro planning documents now available on public Metro Wiki.
This Week
- Team currently in California participating in Project Work Week.
- On Monday, Asa reviewed updated Feature Stories with development team.
- On Tuesday, estimates were completed for all P1 Feature Stories.
- On Wednesday:
- functionality testing will commence on all previously completed stories to determine if they are done.
- develop inventory of outstanding visual assets required for Feature Stories.
- re-format Metro on Bugzilla to accommodate sprint, component, story point values and updated Feature Story format.
- development team to pull Feature Stories they can commit to for the upcoming iteration.
- On Thursday:
- work on draft Forecast Release Schedule.
Firefox Mobile
Current Releases
Beta (128)
- Recent uplifts include
- bug 795045 Confine cursor positioning thumb control to edit box
- bug 823325 - Text cursor handle doesn't disappear when switching tabs
- bug 795833 - Loading page in background does not update the SurfaceView
Aurora (54)
- about:home customization feature review was yesterday; UX is working on refinements based upon discussion (this is an important feature for MWC)
- bug 823679 - AnnouncementPresenter notification not using simplified branding icon was uplifted
Nightly (129)
- bug 831354 We have landed on 2 open source fonts Open Sans (sans serif) and Charis (serif), they should be landing in nightly here in the next day
- bug 820491 Download support for private browsing mode has landed
- viewport caching re-landed, 22% panning improvement
- Synced tabs improvements landed bug 817739, along with a handful of other happy Tab UI refinements bug 717739, bug 824501, {{bug|826819
- Lot's of MWC happenings including QA running benchmarks in preparation for MWC
Services
Firefox Sync
Product Announcements
Add-on SDK
Release (1.12 -> Firefox 18, 19)
Stabilization (1.13 -> Firefox 19, 20)
Development (1.14 -> Firefox 20, 21)
Feedback Summary
Desktop
Mobile
UX & User Research
Market Insights from the Product Marketing Strategy Team
Desktop / Platform
- Chrome Beta for Android is now available. Features include Text Autosizing, 30% performance improvement in the Javascript Octane benchmark, CSS filters, improved developer tools, and more.
- Chrome Beta for Desktop now supports Shadow DOM, CSP, the Javascript Web Speech API, concurrent transactions for IndexedDB, and more.
Microsoft
- Microsoft made another critical security bug fix release for Internet Explorer 6, 7,and 8.
Nokia
- Nokia admitted that their recently-launched Xpress browser, which runs on their Asha and Lumia platforms, routes all HTTPS traffic through its servers, temporarily decrypting it in the process.
Opera
- Opera released a new TV App Store
Security
- Oracle released a fix for a critical security issue in the Java 7 runtime environment.
Marketing, Press & Public Reaction
Marketing
Desktop
- Top line ADI growth: We seem to be recovering from the normal download spike we see around the holiday season
- Firefox 18 GA - Launched last week - Updates
- Due to recent improvements on how we serve updates to users, we're seeing record adoption rates for Firefox 18. At 6 days after the release 50% of our user base is on Firefox 18. This normally takes around 16 days.
- PR is working on a statement, if needed, about the improvements in 18.0.1
- A big focus for the coming weeks is MWC preparation - for Firefox Desktop that means showing off WebRTC
Mobile
- FX 18 and FX19 launches went well: ADIs & downloads were at the expected levels, and PR reception was neutral to positive
- Increased focus on industry messaging and position in preparation for MWC
- Communications
- One-off email planned for this month to feature app improvements and highlight upcoming features. We'll also have FFA social posts and FFA snippets
- Social Advertising (on facebook and twitter) to kick off soon, with a renewed focused on FB mobile ad units