Firefox/Planning/2013-10-23

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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

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.

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

• Note: Please start using the 'feature' keyword on bugs that could benefit from advance notice to QA, Stability, User Advocacy, Press team and others so that those bugs show up on https://wiki.mozilla.org/Features/Release_Tracking once a target milestone is set -- you can do this for any major code overhauls, or deprecation/spec changes to web properties as well

Firefox Desktop

Current Releases

• Blocking Java by default was turned on last Friday and was disabled against this morning because of some important bank websites that didn't work properly.

Beta (147)

• We're now code complete (fingers crossed). We had to spin an extra beta and respin the RC to disable OCSP stapling, which was causing intermittent Twitter/Tumblr/Soundcloud stylesheet issues
• Sign-off is tomorrow, release is Tuesday
• Web Audio will be a major focus of our notes/comms, and we'll be running a special whatsnew page in Poland promoting FxOS

Aurora (54)

• Nothing critical

Nightly (148)

• Feature review is on Friday (use that feature keyword!), followed by a merge to Aurora on Monday

Firefox Mobile

Beta (147)

Fx25 is pretty darn amazing (4.4 stars, Just under 2.5 crashes per 100 ADU)

• [ON TRACK] API: Web Audio
• [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, continued
• [ON TRACK] Settings UI clean-up excluding search provider management
• [ON TRACK] Guest browsing
• [ON TRACK] Page Actions
• [ON TRACK] SkiaGL improvement
• [ON TRACK] Mixed content
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Ukrainian (ua-UK)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Irish (ga-IE)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Romanian (ro-RO)
• [ON TRACK] Setting wallpaper bug 886996
• [ON TRACK] Developer Tools: Remote Debugging <= exposes an existing pref to let dev use the remote js debugger

Aurora (54)

• [ON TRACK] AMO discoverability
• [ON TRACK] Addition of search engines - Yahoo and Bing for selected locales <= we are working to unblock by landing bug 923795 - Add condition to MozParam to detect top 2 (or N) position
• [ON TRACK] About:home redesign <= we are working on bug 918007
• [ON TRACK] search provider management in settings menu
• [ON TRACK] Add-ons can add content to the "promotional banner" tile
• [AT RISK] Added locale: South African English (za-EN)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Thai (th)
• [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, continued
• [ON TRACK] Developer Tools: Remote Debugging, continued <=with html/css inspection support

Nightly (148)

These will stick

• [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, continued
• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Hindi (hi-IN)
• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Slovenian (sl)

Here are some notable landings, we will group into themes

• • bug 922338 - Update phishing-protection page in infoURL pref across Firefox products
  • Usability Fit and Finish: Overhaul of the favicon system bug 914296 - (FaviconRevamp) and Remove overscroll and show highlight instead bug 705246 and bug 791475 - Android updater notification should provide more information like progress
  • Progress on ANR effort: bug 909974, bug 926574
  • Progress on GeckoView: bug 927451
  • Make marketplace more discoverable in about apps:
  • Awesomescreen: bug 921265
  • Geckoview prototype for Android 2.3 => 4.2
  • IDE support

These were our initial targets but we'll need to defer

• [PROPOSED] Ability for add-ons to customize sound effects to browser actions <- will be bumped off if we can have some reader / reading list improvements and land some 'save for later' hooks
• [PROPOSED] Directional game console navigation
• [PROPOSED] Set Top Box optimization

Developer Tools

( no audible due to an appt. )

• quiet week for outbound after the recent flurry of posts
• App Manager grew a manifest editor! screenshot here.
• lots of UI polish:
  • color swatches for css in the inspector
  • hiding extraneous properties in the netmonitor's JSON view
  • the debugger layout is vertical when side-docked
  • working towards a lofty goal of switching to Codemirror instead of Orion for 27

User-Experience

• [Desktop]
  • [Australis] (Zhenshuo, Shorlander, Michael)
    • managing the final list of design tweaks and polish
      • Tracking UX bugs: http://people.mozilla.org/~shorlander/Australis-UX-Bugs/
      • More here: https://firefox-ux.etherpad.mozilla.org/Australis-finalpass
    • refining designs and starting implementation of the "update to Australis" experince -- see "Firstrun/update" below
    • measurement (Blake) - work starting to use Telemetry probes to measure some aspects of Australis usage in pre-release channels - more in this firefox-dev thread
  • [Firstrun / update] (Holly, Zhenshuo)
    • Bi-weekly Etherpad: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/first-second-update
    • On Boarding Project Summary: http://cl.ly/0G1E3Q2v1B1N
    • Research Findings: http://cl.ly/2k2W1Q1j0O33
  • [In-content Prefs] (Zhenshuo, Michael)
    • Visual design underway for in-content preferences; some ongoing interaction tweaks
      • Example! http://cl.ly/image/0s390K1M2w2n
    • bug 754344
  • [Click to Play] (Larissa) feedback that in-content click-to play java UI doesn't encourage people to click
    • i.e. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-to-enable-java-if-its-been-blocked
    • need to balance discouraging unsafe behavior with making it clear how to override for experts
    • suggestion is to tweak the string: "This plugin has security vulnerabilities.
      Click to activate Java (TM) Platform SE 7U."
  • [newtab] mockup of a newtab concept that is extensible and would allow intergration of other services (Boriss)
• [Metro] (Yuan)
  • Kicking off usability studies in Nov 13th and 14th. Recruiting 10 participants(Firefox users who have Windows 8 installed) to test a first run prototype and live version of FX Metro
  • Readability for Firefox Metro v1 concept: http://f.cl.ly/items/0428410C1P1A0V190T3d/ReaderMode_101813.pdf
• [Android] (ibarlow)
  • Helping out with product plan grooming
  • Defining a first version of Kinderfox (parental controls / kid-friendly browsing)
    • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Projects/Kid_browsing
  • TV browsing / Living room UX - interaction design ramping up (Zhenshuo)
  • Tablet refresh (Yuan)
    • Gathering user feedback as a first step in updating our tablet UI
  • Homepage enhancements
    • working with desktop UX folk on a design plan
    • State of good repair -- refining contextual actions on the homepage: http://cl.ly/image/2z2E1c1X172q
• Other/Future
  • working on our Firefox user-experience plan/strategy for the next few quarters - more on this soon (Madhava, Ian)

Questions, Comments, FYI

• (lmandel) "Official" guidelines around exposing things to the web. (i.e. How to create new Web APIs.) Andrew Overholt can answer any of your questions.