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Agenda

• AIs from last meeting
  
  • Seth/Stuart/Mark/Thomas: define roadmap and actions for delivering language packs in Q2
  • 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 - meeting on 3/31
    
  • Inform localizers about features and keyboard shortcuts for Desktop build (e.g. Ctrl+Shift+Q to switch orientation, Ctrl+Shift+M to show context menu, etc.) - https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Cheat_Codes
  • Aakash: Talk to Web Dev to include fennec on Nightly Page: Bug 540311 and Bug 627075
• New ACTION ITEMS
  
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• Firefox 4.0.1 (launched April 28): User Feedback Update
  
  • as of 4/31/2011: 1849404 downloads, 952099 active (51.5%), ratings (5/4/3/2/1) 6828 / 4104 / 3903 / 3017 / 3966 = 3.31 stars average
    
• Firefox 4.0.1, Firefox 5, Firefox 6
  
  • Goals and schedules
  • Project Plan Update and https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases
    
  • Updated: Android Device Compatibility Criteria Spreadsheet
• New Feature Documentation
  • Mobile Eng Team: Master Sheet  (<-- this is our single source of truth; request access if you can't view the doc)
  • Cross-project feature and release documentation (derived from our Master Sheet):
    
    • Flight Tracking: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Flight_Tracking#Mobile
      
    • Feature List: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Features/Mobile
      
    • Feature Pages: linked from Feature List
      
    • New Feature Pages for all ideas features that are related to projects outside of mobile: go here
      
  • Roadmaps: Firefox for mobile | Firefox Home

2.0

2.0 planning page

• Proposed schedule

Localization

• Axel opened the fennec localization dashboard on aurora, and opened sign-offs, too. Those will be for fx5 beta.

Release Engineering

• RelEng still unable to post Fennec to marketplace; need to resolve before Stuart vacation
• investigating change-of-plan for faster cadence; previous plan was Fennec6 now Fennec5; need to handle consolidated repos, buildbot0.8

QA

• Fx5
  • Re-verifying Fx5 bugs on Aurora builds before moving to Beta
  • Running smoketests and small set of BFTs before May 17th
• Fx6
  • All features have a QA contact, test plans and test cases are being created via each feature wiki

Marketing & PR

• Mobile Engagement + mobile initiative: https://intranet.mozilla.org/Mobile/EngagementSupport
  
• Mobile Beta channel inclusion on Mozilla.com, Mozilla comms channels (Nightly/Beta goal for Q3: 5k, 30k repsectively (25k/150k EOY))
• Mobile acquisition campaig(s) for Q2/Q3 brainstorming underway
• Spark UX changes resulted in dramatic increase to traffic, EOL go live June 1
• Localizing Android Market beta copy, beta visual branding being finalized

Feedback Summary

Support

• Mobile SUMO metrics
  • No significant changes from last week.

Insights

Summary below, full update here

35% of shipped smartphones worldwide in Q1 2011 are on Android, whose app store is going to soon become the largest one

The Asia Pacific region has become the biggest smartphone market, with 37 million devices shipped in Q1 2011

The Samsung Bada OS with 3.5 million outperformed WP7 phones by 1 million more phones shipped in Q1 2011

Updated Android version distribution puts 2.1 at 24.5% and 2.2 at 65.9%

Bing will become the preferred search and maps application for BlackBerry handsets.

• Devices:
  • HTC Bliss
  • LG Optimus Black available in S.Korea

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