Firefox/Planning/2013-05-08
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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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Actions from Last Week
Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases
Firefox Desktop
Current Releases
Beta (147)
Aurora (54)
Nightly (148)
Firefox Metro
- Iteration #7: May 02 - May 23
- 14% of the iteration work (20 points across 9 stories) has been completed to date (see table below).
- 35% of the total project work has been completed to date.
- We will be releasing figures on the project's quality performance and defect levels at the conclusion of Iteration #7.
- Product Manager is reviewing release build to determine which 'out of scope' legacy features to turn off in V1.
- Team on Work Week from May 13 - May 17.
- Iteration #6: Finished on April 30
- Team completed 74 story points across 20 features.
- Team achieved a new average velocity of 51 story points per iteration which was an 8% improvment from the previous iteration.
- Overall performance gain has resulted in a new expected production release forecast of November 19, 2013 - a reduction of 2 iterations from the previous status update.
- Production Release Forecast now includes Best Case and Worst Case scenarios - View Release Forecast
25 Total; 0 Open (0%); 9 Resolved (36%); 16 Verified (64%);
Firefox Mobile
Current Releases
Beta (147)
Aurora (54)
Nightly (148)
Services
Firefox Sync
Product Announcements
Developer Tools
Feedback Summary
Desktop
Mobile
UX & User Research
Market Insights from the Product Marketing Strategy Team
Desktop / Platform
- On iOS, Google has now enabled app developers to embed Chrome within their mobile applications.
- Chrome Beta on Windows and Mac now supports the Chrome Office Viewer, an extension which provides seamless viewing of Microsoft Office files in the browser.
- Google Translate added Bosnian, Cebuano, Hmong, Javanese and Marathi, bringing the total number of languages supported to more than 70
Microsoft
- Microsoft, in a carefully-worded blog post, said that 100 million Windows 8 licenses had been sold.
- Industry analysts complained that poor Windows 8 sales were were partly due to poor retailing practices
- Another zero-day vulnerability was found in Internet Explorer 8.
Tizen
- Another video of recent Tizen builds is available.
WebKit
- WebKit released SunSpider 1.0, an updated version of the Javascript benchmark. Among other improvements, delays between tests have been eliminated so it runs up to twice as fast.
Mobile
- 2013 is the first year that people will buy more tablets than PCs. There will be 256 million tablets sold and 183 million PCs this year. By 2017 the number of tablets shipped will reach half a billion. This is part of a larger trend of sustaining big growth for tablets, at the rate of 67% year - over - year and a decline in PC shipments, by 10% a year.
- New Android version distribution numbers put Gingerbread at 38.5%, Jelly Bean at 28.4% and Ice Cream Sandwich at 27.5%.
- Shipments of smartphones in 8 major developed markets and China put Android ahead with 64.2% on average and 68.8% across the EU, 45.8% in Japan, 61.7% in Australia and 49.3% in the US. iOS is shipped on between 19.4% of devices in the EU to 49.2% of them in Japan. Top device models in the surveyed countries are the iPhone 5, the Samsung Galaxy S III, the iPhone 4S, the Galaxy S III Mini, the Galaxy Ace, iPhone 4, LG Nexus 4, Galaxy Ace 2, Galaxy s II and the Blackberry Curve.
- Developer builds of Chrome OS feature a touch - screen keyboard. Important because it could mean plans to deploy the OS on tablets.
- Google has hired a Chief Game Designer. Gaming is one of the top app categories downloaded through the Play Store
- The first two Tizen phones will be in the mid - end to high - end range and code - named Redwood and Melius.
- Opera partnered with 7 Indian phone and tablet manufacturers such as Celkon, Karbonn, Lava, Intex, Fly, Zen and HCL ME to have Opera Mini pre - installed on their Android devices.