Firefox/Planning/2013-03-13
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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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Contents
- 1 Actions from Last Week
- 2 Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases
- 3 Feedback Summary
- 4 User Experience (Design & Research)
- 5 Market Insights from the Product Marketing Strategy Team
- 6 Marketing, Press & Public Reaction
- 7 Questions, Comments, FYI
- 8 Actions this week
Actions from Last Week
Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases
Firefox Desktop
Current Releases
- 19.0.2 was released across all three platforms last Thursday within 24 hours of the Pwn2Own exploit being announced
- On Monday 3/18, we're going to be CTPing unsupported versions of Flash 11.0-11.2 (bug 850734)
- CTPing of the latest vulnerable Silverlight and Adobe Reader versions is on its way as well
Beta (132)
- FF20.0b5 (the beta for our fourth week) will be going to build today, released before the end of the week
- Stub installer experiment will be running for 2 days, twice over the next ~1wk
Aurora (54)
- FHR is now enabled on Aurora, in case this wasn't called out in this meeting yet
Nightly (133)
Firefox Metro
Forecast Production Schedule
- With the completion of Iteration #3 we have been able to develop an initial production forecast - the Expected Scenario.
- The forecast is based only on data from the previous three iterations.
- At the conclusion of each iteration, the production forecast will be updated to reflect the current state of the project.
- At the conclusion of Iteration #6 there will be enough data to develop the Best Case and Worst Case development scenarios.
- Current total project story points: 824
- Project story points completed to date: 95
- Current Team Velocity: 32
- Forecasted number of story points remaining to complete the project: 729
- Forecasted number of iterations remaining to complete the project: 24
- Forecasted date for completion of development: May 14, 2014
Overall Project Performance
- From Iterations #1 - #3:
- Total Points Completed: 95
- Total Stories Closed: 21
- Team Point Velocity: 32 per iteration
- Average Story Closure Rate: 7 per iteration
- Average Point Closure Rate: 33% per iteration
- Scope Change (Defects and Changes): TBD points over 20 stories
- Story Backlog: 58 stories ready for upcoming iterations.
- Legacy Backlog: 3 stories remaining for QA testing.
- On Hold Backlog: 13 stories remaining for Product Manager clarification before being moved into Story Backlog.
- Planning Backlog: 0 stories for Team to review, relate to work items and assign point values.
Current Iteration Performance
- Completed Iteration Backlog: Firefox Metro Iteration #3: February 26, 2013 - March 11, 2013
- Total value of iteration story points committed to: 69
- Total value of iteration story points completed: 33
- Completion Rate = 47%
- Total number of iteration stories committed to: 14
- Total number of iteration stories completed: 10
- Completion Rate = 71%
- Number of new Change Stories: 9 points over 3 stories
- Number of new Defect Stories: 13 points over 6 stories
- Iteration Velocity: 33
Iteration Performance History
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Upcoming Iteration
- Iteration Backlog: Firefox Metro Iteration #4: March 14, 2013 - March 27, 2013
Firefox Mobile
Current Releases
Beta (132)
- We shipped Fx20b3 to Google play: https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Fennec/20/Beta/3
- Fx20b5 https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Fennec/20/Beta/4 will be qualified as soon as the build is ready. Recent uplifts include:
- bug 817828 - (blacktab) Black area near tabs button after the URL bar is animated
- For Beta 6, we plan to uplift:
- bug 840593 - In content UI cut off on small screens
- bug 832942 - Searches to Google.com over SSL cause OOM error page on ARMv6 builds
Aurora (54)
- Recent uplift requests with patches ready to go include:
- bug 823285 - Private browsing downloads not cleared from Android notification bar
- bug 847849 - Hostname in site settings dialog is misaligned
Nightly (133)
- We've now pref'd this on: bug 716403 - Request to hide the navigation bar when scrolling down content
- We're busy landing follow up fixes including bug 849539, bug 849254, bug 850154
Help wanted: take nightly for a spin and file bug/issues you find, we want this enhancement to be great!
Services
Firefox Health Report
- Continuing to validate data on Aurora, good results so far.
- Still expecting to ship in Fx21
- Android work progressing as a secondary priority to getting desktop right
- Stephen Horlander has produced a working mockup for the user-facing report: http://people.mozilla.com/~shorlander/files/firefox-health-report/firefox-health-report-01.html
Product Announcements
- No updates.
Add-on SDK
Release (1.13.2 -> Firefox 19, 20)
Stabilization (1.14 -> Firefox 20, 21)
Development (Firefox 22)
Feedback Summary
Desktop
Feedback: Feedback for 19 is stable. At this point we have no major fires. We are preparing for latest CTP blocks, but are not expecting any issues.
Sentiment Report: We are working on the Firefox 19 Sentiment Report this week. It should be available Friday.
Mobile
Ditto
User Experience (Design & Research)
- [desktop]
- [General]
- Firefox UX team held a in a Reddit IAmA on Friday - We are the Firefox User Experience team, this is your chance to tell us about your pet peeves! (organized by Limi and Blake).
- Went on well into the weekend; 5722 comments, 70% replied to by UX or front-end dev team members; 2,419 points
- Blake is collecting and synthesizing the feedback; synthesis happening here
- Firefox UX team held a in a Reddit IAmA on Friday - We are the Firefox User Experience team, this is your chance to tell us about your pet peeves! (organized by Limi and Blake).
- [Australis] (Zhenshuo, Blake)
- reminder to use the UX Branch to follow along with implementation - get it here
- [Social API] (Boriss)
- Mocking up install dialog bug 836452
- Mocking up tweaks to menu design, specifically for turning features on/off per provider
- Getting updates icons/states/names for first & future landing bug 845151, bug 804930, bug 843862)
- Updating toolbar button states (bug 804930)
- Digitizing share panel sketches (bug 818675)
- Next versions: working on private browsing behavior (bug 829404), providers w/o login (bug 850292), tooltips (bug 850077)
- [newtab2] (Boriss, Blake)
- Finalizing v1 desktop design doc this week and finishing the prototype for testing
- Digitizing settings panel for implementation** Updating design document to include settings panel, first/experienced/new user design, updates for in-content design
- [GuM/webRTC] (Boriss)
- Tracking bugs revealed by first nightly landing, making mockups as needed
- Sketching how camera button in toolbar supports social panels (future)
- [General]
- [FHR] (Larissa)
- Graphs
- Discussed data viz with metrics team and Shorlander last week:
- https://metrics.etherpad.mozilla.org/98
- Tips Pane
- bug defining the tips we want to see in v1: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=849879
- rework of the tips UI to be more whimsical: http://cl.ly/image/0D3E0w1b2c2w
- scratchpad for tip logic: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/FHR-Tips
- Work to start on the mobile version of the page
- Graphs
- [metro] (yuan)
- Transforming potential audience to Firefox Windows 8 users: proposal v1: http://cl.ly/0c350W3P1034
- [android] (ibarlow)
- Dynamic Toolbar (AKA toolbar scrolls off the top) is landed (bug 716403 and is about to be turned on in Nightly (bug 846772). Please try it and get back to us with your thoughts -- there are still some rough edges to sand down.
- Last week
- Work Week, lots of planning
- Some little (but awesome) UI polish bugs in progress
- bug 848707 Neutralize UI selection color
- bug 847942 Make active tap highlight color gray instead of orange
- bug 739757 Audit all the popups
- bug 763671 New form elements!
- This week
- UX planning and prioritizing
- FirstRun UX
- New about:home/awesomebar
- New Settings IA
Market Insights from the Product Marketing Strategy Team
Desktop / Platform
- Chromium's new threaded HTML parser loads content about 10% faster and reduces the maximum stop time due to parsing by 40%.
- Google and MPEG LA, LLC announced agreements that will result in MPEG LA ending its efforts to form a VP8 patent pool. It allows Google to sublicense the rights, meaning that effectively, VP8/WebM are much safer for developers, device manufacturers, content owners and others to use. Jeff Jaffe of the W3C applauded the announcement.
- Google is continuing to invest in its Native Client plugin architecture, announcing that Quickoffice would be ported to the platform.
Microsoft
- Microsoft released nine critical fixes for Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. A fix for Adobe Flash Player was also released. The fixes, however, did not address the vulnerabilities found in the Pwn2Own contest last week.
- In related news Microsoft announced that all Flash content is whitelisted in MSIE10 in Windows 8 Modern mode and Windows RT
Tizen
- The web browser included in the Tizen Beta 2.0 SDK is now the highest scoring mobile browser at html5test.com, with a total of 492 points + 16 bonus points.
WebKit
- The Ace editor, which powers the Cloud9 web-based IDE, has been included in the Web Inspector as an experiment.
- The WebKit calendar picker UI has been improved.
Security
- Firefox, Chrome, MSIE, Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader and Java were all compromised at the 2013 Pwn2Own contest. A total of US $280,000 was handed out in prizes.
Mobile
- Andy Rubin is stepping down from leading Android. Sundar Pichai will take over, alongside running Chrome and Apps at Google.
- Opera put the beta for its Webkit - based version in the Google Play Store. It has a 3.9 / 5 star rating and under Opera Mobile (4.5 stars). Features promoted in the first - run experience are: off - road mode (switcher to proxy browsing), Speed Dial and Discover (content recommendation engine). The overall performance is good and smooth. The Discover feature gathers news based on location, the default one was the United States, even though I wasn't in the US when I installed it. The Settings menu is in the upper right corner and has a counter for data savings when enabling Off - Road Mode, in Bytes and %s.
- Opera re - organized its advertisement business into one subsidiary called Opera Mediaworks. The re-organization will allow easier evaluation of the company, making potential acquisition talks easier. This comes one month after its founder sold shares to reduce its stake to only 5.18%.
- Chrome Beta for Android includes an experimental feature for proxy - browsing. Google claims it reduces data usage by 50%.
- New Android version distribution numbers: Gingerbread (more than 2 years old) at over 40% of the market, followed by ICS (more than 1 year old) at 29% and Jelly Bean (15%). A new version of Android expected at Google I/O in May.
- Specs of a rumoured new Facebook phone produced by HTC surfaced. It's a mid - range device, with dual - core 1.5 GHZ Qualcomm processor, 1 GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage, running on Jelly Bean. Launch is expected this spring for the US.
- Apple share in India spikes because of a new distribution model they employed. Instead of relying on own retail stores or carrier distribution they worked with small retail places and creating amortized payment plans to incentivize acquisition.
Marketing, Press & Public Reaction
- Firefox is out of the iOS game until Apple changes its ways
- Mozilla wants to bring Firefox to iOS, but mean ol’ Apple’s standing in its way