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Agenda

• AIs from last meeting
  
  • Team: Review Roadmaps for Firefox for mobile and for Firefox Home - scheduled for 3/10
    
  • Stuart: flash / video blog post
  • (Stuart) Materials Needed: Video blog post, RC blog out line
  • (Madhava) Nice to have: UX post from Madhava re usability improvements, text reflow as experimental
    
  • (Mark): tweak code so Spark Campaign doesn't show in RC1- Bug 640647
  • Seth/Stuart/Mark/Thomas: define roadmap and actions for delivering language packs in Q2
  • Michael: ask Cheng - track clicks and devices. Update: Small screen templates are in place and the old, temp page which wasn't being tracked is now bypassed (as of today) so we should be getting stats now.
  • Stuart/John/Thomas: find out how more than one person can push to Android Market - see https://market.android.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139626
  • Caitlin: consolidate public supported devices page into one (mobile/platforms page)

• New ACTION ITEMS
  
  • RC post-mortem:  incl. communication, L10N issues, go-to-build, etc.
• Beta 5 (launched Feb 23): User Feedback Update
  
  • as of 3/15/2011: 925050 downloads, 453559 active (49.03%), ratings (5/4/3/2/1) 2919/1893/1894/1375/1740 = 3.29 stars average (slight increase)
    
  • ratings within 24 hours of Beta 5 launch: 157/99/71/34/32 = 3.8 stars average!
    
• Release Candidate 1
  • http://blocker-reports.brasstacks.mozilla.com/mobile.html
    
  • Release Criteria and User-visible issues
  • Project Plan Update 
    
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases
    
• Updated: Android Device Compatibility Criteria Spreadsheet
• Dogfooding: Results from Internal Fennec Survey (Results)
  

2.0

2.0 planning page

• Proposed schedule

Localization

Filed Bug 634679 to address some potential issues with nightly testing and using lang packs.

Dashboard updates: https://l10n-stage-sj.mozilla.org/dashboard/?tree=fennec_mc

Seth continues to post these notes and the schedule to the l10n community.

Release Engineering

• Fennec 4.0rc1: bug 639948
  • mobile-2.0 branch done bug 639980
  • We will be building off of hg.m.o/releases/mozilla-2.1 and hg.m.o/releases/mobile-2.0. RelEng will sync these for rc1, then they will diverge from m-c and m-b.
  • http://oduinn.com/blog/2011/03/09/branch-mechanics-for-firefox4-0-fennec4-0/
  • builds started, but blocked on l10n.
• Reasons to merge m-b in with m-c
• tegras
  • tegra room setup
  • Network issues "gone away", not blocking right now tegra stability.

QA

• QA has begun release testing the RC.

Marketing & PR

• Silent launch of Spark: 3/25
  
• Work with Aaron to get final list of supported devices
• Proposed blog authors to support final release and subsequent press inquiries
  
• Materials: RC blog post being drafted, release timing
  
• SXSW: A huge success. Next stop: LA April 9-12
• Add-ons compatibility plan with Dan Horner
  
  
• Beta 5 Stats - As of 3/14/11
  Total Installs: 911,665 (+14%), Beta 5 Installs: 261,656
  Active Users: 446,170 (48.94%) (+.04%) / 375,988 ADUs (ADU = 83,553 x 4.5)
  Market Rating: 3.29 (+.03) (5/4/3/2/1): 2877/1874/1873/1368/1721 (Opera 4.0, Skyfire 4.0, Dolphin 4.0 - All Unchanged)
  #22 in Top Free Productivity category (same)
  *We've been seeing a slow and steady rise in our market rating since the release of Beta 5.
• Add-ons
  Reviewed/Public: 152, Compatible with Beta 5: 40 (26%), Featured: 15
• Sync
  Mobile ADUs: 32,391 (+28%) (7,198 x 4.5)
• Feedback (99% of feedback comes from Android devices)
  Issues: 52% (same)
  Praise: 45% (same)
• Speaking Appointments
  CTIA "Internet Mobile Browsing" panel - March 22 - (TBD)
  Web 2.0 Expo "The Future of User Interfaces: Designing for the Small Screen" panel - March 29 - Madhava Enros
• Events
  SXSW Interactive -"Firefox Gone Mobile Ice Cream Truck" - 1st of 3 awareness events
  Snapshot: More than 2k new @mozmobile followers, #2 trending event on Cluster at all of SXSWi (only behind Austin Convention Center), more than 19k check-ins on Foursquare, EVERY person in line got swag and/or discussion with Mozilla representative. Full Report Coming Soon.
  

Feedback Summary

• Since Beta 5, our ranking remains the same - #22
  Top 3 User Issues:
  1. No Flash
  2. Usability: entering text in fields is buggy, trouble with copy & paste, text zoom issues
  3. Slow on start-up
  Top 3 User Praises:
  1. Speed improvement (multiple instances of "faster")
  2. Side controls, tabs
  3. Sync

Support

• Updating support articles over the next week
• Update on metrics
  • Top articles:
    • Will Firefox work on my phone?
    • How do I install Firefox on a mobile device?
    • How do I sync Firefox between my desktop and mobile?
  • Top devices:
    • Galaxy S
    • Galaxy Tab
    • HTC EVO
    • Droid
    • HTC Droid Incredible

Other