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** [[Services/Sync/Addon_Sync|Addon Sync]] - In development. | ** [[Services/Sync/Addon_Sync|Addon Sync]] - In development. | ||
=== | === Add-on Builder === | ||
* Add-on Builder has moved to weekly releases | |||
* Next week's release will introduce support for pushing your add-ons from the Builder directly to AMO for review and consumption | |||
* Tentatively targeting Q1 2012 for our 1.0 launch | |||
=== Add-on SDK === | === Add-on SDK === | ||
Revision as of 17:59, 7 September 2011
Planning Meeting Details
- Wednesdays - 11:00am PDT, 18:00 UTC
- Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
- Toronto Offices: Fin du Monde 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# 95312 (US/INTL)
- 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 95312 (US)
- Vidyo Room: Warp Core
- 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
- Dave Mason to come back with information about jetpack adoption metrics as viewed through AMO
- In August 22% of new add-ons were built with add-on sdk(jetpack)
- the trend is rising
(source: fligtar!)
- We are going to be adding new stats to pull from AMO soon including:
- number/percentage of new authors submitting new SDK-based addons
- number/percentage of existing authors (of either traditional or SDK-based addons) submitting new SDK-based addons
- number/percentage of SDK-based addons
- number/percentage of SDK-based updates to SDK-based addons (with and without repacks)
- number/percentage of SDK-based updates to traditional addons
- We are going to be adding new stats to pull from AMO soon including:
- Michelle to scour mobile "flash fail" feedback to see if it's clustered around a small number of sites
Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases
- Next source migration date: 2011-09-27 (20 days)
Firefox Desktop
Release (3.6, 6)
- Watching to see if we need to do any more rapid response updates for the DigiNotar CA stuff
- Firefox 3.6.23 is the update that will ship with Firefox 7
- It was originally called .21 and then .22 but those were used up by rapid response updates
- Aside: This is why we started to use code names for previous releases ("Macaw"), but note in the new process they are not needed (Firefox 7 stayed Firefox 7 even though we slipped 2 rapid response releases in there)
- It was originally called .21 and then .22 but those were used up by rapid response updates
Beta (7)
- Release date: 2011-09-27 (20 days)
- Building 7.0b5 today, plan to get it out the beta audience before the weekend
Aurora (8)
Nightly (9)
Firefox Mobile
6
7
8
Firefox Sync
- Beta (7) - Instant Sync
- Firefox 9+:
- Improving Sync Set Up - In development. Targeting FF9.
- Push to Device - In development.
- Addon Sync - In development.
Add-on Builder
- Add-on Builder has moved to weekly releases
- Next week's release will introduce support for pushing your add-ons from the Builder directly to AMO for review and consumption
- Tentatively targeting Q1 2012 for our 1.0 launch
Add-on SDK
Release (1.0 -> Firefox 5 & 6)
- 1.0 -> 1.1 repack testing commenced last week
- AMO blocker bug identified and fixed (fix might have been pushed to production last Thursday; unclear)
- dbuc in charge of repack testing, should report back on progress today
Stabilization (1.1 -> Firefox 7)
- no blockers identified in 1.1rc1 candidate build spun last week
- final release remains on schedule for next Tuesday, September 13
- draft of release notes
Development (1.2 -> Firefox 8)
- development continues apace
- will merge to stabilization branch next Tuesday, September 13
- will spin 1.2a1 test build next Tuesday, September 13
- final release on schedule for Tuesday, October 25
Input 4.3
Feedback Summary
Desktop
Mobile
- 25 new threads on SUMO this week, majority of votes for existing threads are support for new devices and flash player
- Android Market reviews for Release v6 (597 total): 145 1 & 2 star ratings this week, 56=slow/unstable representing 38.7% of below-average ratings; 14 below-average ratings cited need for flash player
- Input feedback this week: 93 issues w/ release v6: 12 are flash-related, 9 are too slow
- http://www.meetup.com/Firefox-Android-superheroes/ Join Us!
UX & User Research
Market Insights
Desktop
- Following last week's Gmail offline webapp for Chrome, Google have added a Google Calendar offline webapp, also exclusively for Chrome.
- Google moved Chrome Frame for non-admin access to Stable Channel. This is probably the main use case for Chrome Frame.
- Tweaks to the Chromium extensions interface show a change from "disable" being the user action, to showing checkboxes of which extensions are "enabled".
- Samsung knocked 10% off the price of Chromebooks.
- Google showed a narrowing focus, with many projects either moving to monetise or be EOL'd. App Engine's pricing model was criticised, and the following projects were ended: Aardvark, Desktop, Fast Flip, Google Maps API for Flash, Google Pack, Google Web Security, Image Labeler, Notebook, Sidewiki and Subscribed Links.
- NetApplications reported browser share for August showing a slight (0.25%) erosion for Firefox globally. Forecasts are that Internet Explorer will be under 50% of browser market by mid 2012 - although given the fragmentation of IE (5 major versions in market by then), it isn't clear what "IE" is apart from a brand. Microsoft responded that IE9 share on Windows 7 is the metric they are concerned about.
- Windows 8 behind schedule? In a blog post, Steven Sinofsky indicated several Windows 8 features would not be available for the Windows 8 build to be released at BUILD.
- Windows 7 update - easier to update IE9. An update for Windows 7 made it less likely that a user needs to rebook a system after upgrading from IE8 to IE9.
- The Palemoon fork of Firefox (for Windows only) is tracking rapid release, but indicated it would not issue a 6.0.1 update, referring users instead to SUMO.
Mobile
Summary below, full update here and in your inbox.
- Opera launched an HTML5 app store aimed at TV and home entertainment devices
- Dolphin introduced Dolphin user accounts with version 6.2 of Dolphin HD, which are used for bookmark syncing
- Net Applications puts Safari as the top mobile browser, followed by Opera Mini. Stats Counter reports differently
- Baidu announced the release of an Android-based mobile OS, called Baidu Yi
- Asia-Pacific leads the world in smartphone use, reveals a survey by Google and Ipsos
Marketing, Press & Public Reaction
- Mozilla Previews Firefox For Tablets
- 'Fennecomb' Firefox Tablet UI Previewed by Mozilla
- Mozilla Brings the Best of Honeycomb to Firefox for Tablets
- Microsoft and Mozilla ban Dutch government root certificate
- Google, Mozilla and Microsoft ban the DigiNotar Certificate Authority in their browsers
- Firefox 6.0.1 protects against fraud Google certificate
- Mozilla's Rapid Firefox Releases Are Killing Me
Questions, Comments, FYI
- 3.6 EOL? Still no word yet, but we are working on something
- Assume the current direction: we'll do updates until you hear differently
- Christian is talking with some people about the plan to prompt 3.6 users to go to Firefox 6+ with an advertised update
- It will be sent more widely for comment once he gets some more opinions/preferences
- New release process and a release on December 20th?
- Christian is exploring if and how we should tweak the process to not impact holidays
- Calendars you can subscribe to with all important release and migration dates are due Real Soon Now™