Firefox/Planning/2015-01-07

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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
• AirMozilla: for broadcast and saved recordings

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Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases (Lukas/Sylvestre/Lawrence)

• Desktop 35.0 RC build 2 is now with QA after having to rebuild for bug 1076975, a late-arrival
• Mobile 35.0 build delayed for bug 1073554 - we're looking at the options here including shipping with the regression and doing a 35.0.1 once a verified fix is ready
• ESR 31.4.0 on track
• We'll be moving the updates enabling by 4 days this cycle which means that we release next Tuesday, collect feedback for a few days and then enable updates at 100% on the Friday same week. First time experiment with this more rapid process.
• Merge Day is on Monday Jan 12th.

Firefox Desktop & Platform (Javaun/Chad/Martin)

There wasn't an official 37.3 iteration, due to holidays, but we start 38.1 next Tuesday. The areas of focus are: Hello:

• wrapping up Firefox 36/37 work, getting started on 38 (with a focus on sharing)

Task Continuity:

• finishing UX design work for Reading List/Synced Tabs
• research work support those features
• investigating sync back-end changes needed to support them

Search:

• continue to address important regressions from the Firefox 34 work
• UX design/research for next steps in search UI improvements

Password Management:

• focus on telemetry to begin improving filling/saving reliability

Sync Migration:

• finishing the migration work needed to start migrating "old sync" users to "new sync" in Firefox 37

Places:

• continue the refactorings needed to avoid main-thread IO

E10S:

• continue supporting the e10s team in pushing through the e10s milestones

Polaris Privacy Work:

• Tor relays: doing tech spec'ing this week. NetOps/Opsec are designing this week, may start hardware work next week.
• User testing on Tracking Protection (Polaris pref in Nightly) starts next week. Questions to answer:
  • what do users think about tracking? Does our experience meet their needs?
  • Do we break their experience, and if so do they accept the tradeoff or blame the browser.

Developer Tools (Jeff)

• Goals planning
• new performance tools are coming together nicely
• 21 bugs fixed last week, despite the holidays

Feedback Summary (Cheng/Tyler/Matt)

Desktop

• No significant change in Hello feedback for 35: Still very, very low amounts of feedback. Most negative (non-prompted) feedback people who don't want it. One comment on the branding (Telefonica/O2).
• Only spike in negative feedback around the break was around the donation campaign which was viewed as spammy (especially since people got it even after they donated).

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction (Arcadio or Winston)

• Dev browser campaign / message testing
• Search hijackers
• Yahoo optimization
• Hello