Firefox/Planning/2013-02-06

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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

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Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Firefox Metro

• Iteration #1 - Completed:
  • Total value of iteration story points committed to: 102
  • Total value of iteration story points completed: 30

• • Total number of iteration stories committed to: 13
  • Total number of iteration stories completed: 5

• • Number of new Change Stories: Available Wednesday February 6 (EOD)
  • Number of new Defect Stories: Available Wednesday February 6 (EOD)

• • Iteration build has been reviewed by QA and Product Owner.
  • Defect and Change Stories will be presented to the team on Wednesday February 6.

• Iteration #2:
  • Review and Planning session scheduled for Wednesday February 6.
  • Iteration #2 is scheduled to run from Thursday February 7 - Wednesday February 20.

• Metro Wiki Updating:
  • All Iteration #1 statistics and Iteration #2 planning details will be available on the Metro Wiki on Wednesday February 6 (EOD).

• Legacy Work:
  • Three areas of the project are currently being organized to allow a schedule forecast to be created:
    • For Editing
    • For Testing
    • On Hold

Firefox Mobile

Current Releases

QA is testing the staged block list in order to repro spike in start up crashes possibly related to bug 838603 Startup crash spike on Android with abort message: "OpenGL-accelerated layers are a hard requirement on this platform [...]"

Beta (128)

• Uplifted: bug 794940 - Visible outline of the navigation toolbar present on the Nexus 7
• Bonus blog post related to above (super interesting): http://sriramramani.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/nebula-7/

Aurora (54)

Recent uplifts for prettier and more usable tabs:

• bug 836043 - Use icons for tab switching in Tabs UI
• bug 834525 - Update Tab thumbnail styling
• bug 833812 - Tabs/Private/Synced menu pops up unexpectedly

Also approved for uplift:

• bug 828892 - Favicons are missing for the default bookmarked pages besides about: ones

Nightly (129)

• Regression fix: bug 837142 - Regression: about:home promo banner swaps on device rotation
• Also fixed, bug 837215 - YouTube video's redirect on play; broken on tablets
• Landed basic distribution support (preferences and lightweight themes) - bug 834681, bug 836517, bug 836838 <== it is soooo nice having Margaret BACK!
  

Add-on SDK

Release (1.12 -> Firefox 18, 19)

Stabilization (1.13 -> Firefox 19, 20)

Development (1.14 -> Firefox 20, 21)

Feedback Summary

Desktop

No new emerging issues. Ramping up for 19. Firefox 18 Sentiment Report will ship later today with much of the feedback from the previous report included.

Market Insights from the Product Marketing Strategy Team

Desktop / Platform

Adobe

• Adobe posted a nice overview of the performance and memory testing suite in WebKit

Blackberry

• Apart from launching their new Blackberry 10 operating system, handsets, and renaming the company from Research In Motion to "Blackberry", the company made a number of blog posts and announcements regarding the application developer interest in porting apps to the new platform.

Google

• Google announced the outlines of their Pwnium competion, awarding up to $3.14159m for demonstrated vulnerabilities to their ChromeOS platform, not Chrome browser. Individual prizes of up to $150K will be awarded.
• Google released "Find Your Way to Oz", another web technologies demo that makes use of WebGL, the Web Audio API, and other recent web advances. As is usually the case with these efforts, it works only in Google Chrome.
• A Canadian market research firm surveyed consumers in Canada, the USA, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, UK, France, Germany, and China, and found that Google was the world's most influential brand.
• Google's online presentation builder now supports offline editing and display, but only if users are using the Chrome browser.

HTML5 Apps

• Beachfront Builder now supports the creation of HTML5 video apps

Microsoft

• Microsoft released modern.ie, a set of tools and information resources for developers to make sure their websites work in Internet Explorer and "other modern browsers". It offers a review of the CSS and HTML in a site as well as free BrowserStack comparison testing, as well as VirtualBox VMs for testing the browser on other platforms.

Sencha

• Sencha released support for Blackberry OS 10 in their Touch application.