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

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Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

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: TBD points over 5 stories
• Number of new Defect Stories: TBD points over 8 stories

• Iteration Velocity: 33

Iteration Performance History

Iteration #1	Iteration Points Committed = 102 Completed = 30 Completion Rate = 29% Iteration Stories Committed = 13 Completed = 5 Completion Rate = 38% Scope Change New Defects Generated = 0 New Changes Generated = 3 points over 1 story
Iteration #2	Iteration Points Committed = 110 Completed = 32 Completion Rate = 29% Iteration Stories Committed = 14 Completed = 6 Completion Rate = 42% Scope Change New Defects Generated = 4 points over 2 stories New Changes Generated = 10 points over 4 stories

Upcoming Iteration

• Iteration Backlog: Firefox Metro Iteration #4: March 14, 2013 - March 27, 2013

Firefox Mobile

Beta (147)

• We shipped Fx20b3 to Google play: https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Fennec/20/Beta/3
• Fx20b4 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 5, we plan to uplift: bug 840593In content UI cut off on small screens, bug 832942 - Searches to Google.com over SSL cause OOM error page on ARMv6 builds

Add-on SDK

Release (1.13.2 -> Firefox 19, 20)

Stabilization (1.14 -> Firefox 20, 21)

Development (Firefox 22)

Market Insights from the Product Marketing Strategy Team

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.