Firefox/Planning/2012-10-10

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Planning Meeting Details

  • Wednesdays - 11:00am PDT, 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

Basecamp

Firefox Desktop

Release (16, 10esr)

Beta (17)

  • 17.0b1, rebuilding build2 for same bug and targetting Thursday afternoon release
  • Note: 17.0b2 is going to ship on Monday, October 22 at 7am PT for PR news cycle on Social API

Aurora (18)

  • First Aurora 18 update still being targeted for Friday, Oct 12th - currently with QA

Nightly (19)

  • It's Firefox 19 now!

Firefox Mobile

Release (16)

  • Chemspill 16.0.1 being built today, with ride-alongs (see Desktop Release notes for bug numbers)
  • Reader is getting positive reviews
  • Feedback is ending more people to Firefox Input (4x more)

Beta (17)

  • 17.0b2 will ship (as normal) on Friday Oct 19th since it doesn't fall into the PR news on Social Api that Desktop is shipping on Monday Oct 22nd for
  • Deciding on how to promote WebApps/Marketplace

Aurora (18)

  • reflow on zoom landed, defaulted off, but with a primary UI switch. Please help test
  • Safe browsing is now turned on. First Mobile browser to ship this feature
  • Telemetry probes for Awesomebar Perf and Android Startup Action
  • Put a major dent in our crash rate by fixing our top 5 crashers by signature

Nightly (19)

  • Private Browsing (per tab) landed, but UI will be defaulted off behind a perference

Services

Firefox Sync

  • Firefox Account work is ramping up, first stage for the next generation of Sync

Product Announcements (formerly Android Snippets)

  • l10n-impacting pieces landed in advance of Fx18 merge to Aurora.
  • client service on track to land soon, may seek uplift to Aurora depending on timing/risk assessment
  • server component work ongoing

Add-on SDK

Release (1.10 -> Firefox 16, 17)

Stabilization (1.11 -> Firefox 17, 18)

Development (1.12 -> Firefox 18, 19)

Landing plan for Firefox

The core goals is to preserve current development ergonomics and maybe share those with other teams::

  • The canonical SDK repository remains on github.
  • Code can be contributed via pull requests or patches in bugzilla.
  • Changes to SDK modules should not require Firefox builds.


  • Weekly drops from the current github integration branch will be dropped into an HG branch, validated, then merged into m-c
  • SDK test suite will be integrated into the Mozlla test suite and run on each commit

Identity

Apps

Feedback Summary

Desktop

Things are very stable at this point. Just one smaller issue:

  • Delicious add-on may be causing URL not to appear in awesome bar. Waiting for confirmation before filing bug [1]

Mobile

Google Play Reviews are very positive for this Release. Feedback solicitation is working as expected, resulting in a significant increase in Input Feedback. Reader Mode and Performance are the biggest wins for us in this release.

User-Experience (design and research)

  • [desktop]
    • [Australis] (Zhenshuo, Shorlander)
      • starting work on ways to introduce/explain Australis on first-run/update
      • working with engineering to get from designs to implementation
    • [Social API] (Boriss)
      • Exploring alternatives to initial, simple dropdown multi-provider UI, sketching next version *** Mocking up parts of first install experience such as explanatory notifications on feature
      • Reviewing our marketing materials & text
    • [newtab2/hometab] (Boriss)
      • Iterating design document for new design (current WIP version can be downloaded here)
      • Soliticiting feedback on concept & converting to high fidelity mockups
  • [sync/identity] (zhenshuo)
    • iterating on Firefox Account proposal
    • research study on identity completed - results include a set of 5 distinct identity groups; more in this blog post, full report forthcoming (Mary, Lindsay)
  • [project SPF (security/privacy)] (larissa)
  • [webRTC] (Boriss)
    • Incorporating current design & ideas from Shorlander into more complete Australis version of feature
  • [Behavioral Segmentation Study] (Lindsay, Bill, Leo)
    • in the gory details of planning and participant recruiting
    • current list of upcoming field work locations: LA, Toronto, Charlotte
    • Leo designed and analyzed a survey exploring the relationship between psychological factors of user behavior and browser usage patterns, you can read more here: https://blog.mozilla.org/ux/2012/10/firefox-meta-study/
  • [other/future]
    • Planning a "concept week" design sprint the week of October 22nd - turning user-research into design concepts

Market Insights

Desktop / Platform

Adobe

Google

  • Google announced Google Developers Live Presents, a "series of exclusive programming from Google Developers Live". All the sessions feature the use of newer web technologies behind Chrome Experiments.
  • Chrome Canary builds now offer support for AudioContext, which provides low-latency access to live audio from microphone or other audio inputs.
  • Google also published a set of standards, libraries and tools to assist Android developers to make "best-in-class" tablet apps.

Microsoft

  • Microsoft made a blog post and demo of their proposed Internationalization API for handling formatting of strings, date and time objects.
  • Microsoft also issued the first Security Advisory for Adobe Flash on Windows 8.

Opera

Tizen

  • The Tizen 2.0 Alpha release was announced, adding a significant number of WebAPIs, HTML5 video subtitles and captions, the W3C screen orientation API, and many others.

Mobile

Summary below, full update here and in your inbox.

  • 2012 stats: 38% of phones sold are under $39, average price of phones went up to $143, in 2013 more than 50% of all phones sold will be smart, 9% of all phones in use have dual-SIM support
  • Asia reached 1 billion Netizens, of which 794 million will be mobile users by the end of 2012
  • US Congressional report recommends away from business with Chinese network equipment manufacturers
  • LG rumored to be next Nexus OEM
  • Windows Phone 8 device line-up from Nokia and HTC expected to be available soon
  • Nokia introduced data compression app in App Store aimed at emerging markets
  • Amazon opened Japan as a market for app submissions
  • Samsung to merge Bada with Tizen

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

Marketing

Desktop

  • Desktop reached an all-time ADI high yesterday -- CONGRATS!
  • Focus is on launching the Social API -- first to Beta, then to a GA audience November 20th w/Fx 17
  • Entire Engagement team OFFSITE next week Tue-Fri afternoon, we will be really hard to reach

Mobile

  • Firefox for Android 16 was released yesterday with some great new features including Reader Mode, Feedback Solicitation, and Sync improvements
    • Feedback solicitation has produced great information, and we're on the cusp of a 4.0 star rating
      • SUMO: ≈180 pieces of input in a single day (previous around 10 per day)
      • Google Play: ≈900 new 5 star ratings and ≈30 1-star ratings
  • Mobile one-off email scheduled next week to feature Reader Mode
  • Creative meeting with Ansible this week to discuss mobile campaigns for Q1

Press

Firefox 16 Launches With Safari-Like Reader Mode On Android, New Developer Tools On Desktop

Firefox 16 Offers New Tools for Web Developers

More HTML5 deemed ready-to-use in Firefox 16

Firefox 16 released with powerful developer tools

Firefox 16 launches with new developer tools, Reader Mode for Android

Questions, Comments, FYI

  • (Michael Verdi) Just curious, did we message Firefox 3.6 EOL again? We have a huge spike in visits to the 3.6 EOL article on SUMO over the last 24 hrs.
    • Facebook is altering 3.6 users that they need to update and they are linking to the article.
  • (Axel) on vacation for two weeks, CC :l10n on bugs, stas can answer questions, too

Actions this week

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