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Dial-in

• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 8605 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8605 (US)
• IRC channel #mobile
• Vidyo Room Warp Core

Agenda

• AIs from last meeting
  
  • Caitlin/Sayer getting nightly.mozilla.org/night implemented by EOW: Bug 540311 and Bug 627075
    
  • Set up process for getting Android Market stats (Caitlin, Thomas, John)
  • Scrape crash data (DougT, Blassey, John)
• New ACTION ITEMS
  
  • Share Market Stats (RelEng via Android Market)
  • Publish updated release schedule
  • Stuart/Thomas: Check Feature Spreadsheet vs. Wiki

Firefox 4.0.1 (launched April 28): User Feedback Update

• as of 5/15/2011: 2084614 downloads, 931912 active (44.7%), ratings (5/4/3/2/1) 7595 / 4513 / 4234 / 3229 / 4217 = 3.34 stars average
  
• Firefox 5 BETA and beyond
  
  • Goals and schedules
  • Project Plan Update and https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases
    
  • Updated: Android Device Compatibility Criteria Spreadsheet
    
• Fx 5 Beta 4 will be built tomorrow, projected launch date: next Tuesday
• Go-to-build for Betas every Friday
• 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 | [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Home/Roadmap Firefox Home
    

Localization

• Status quo for the multi-locale dashboard (live link): 12 green, 7 signed off, one more pending (ja)
• chofman: populations and status of the marketing list of top tier mobile languages/countries: https://intranet.mozilla.org/L10n/Mobile
  
  

Release Engineering

• RelEng have new shared marketplace account; bumpy but still good, and we know we can make it better
  • Fennec 4.0.1, Fennec 5.0b3 now showing up
  • Like b2, Fennec5.0b3, Firefox5.0b3 sim-shipped, and both based from same changeset! :-D
• Split repo releases are working, and will most likely continue on through 5.0 release.
• We're aiming for 6.0b1 as our first single repo mobile release.
• bug 557260 fixed.
  • This unblocks work towards 6.0 release automation
• All tegras now on remote power, holding stable.

QA

• We're beginning Device Compatibility checking as well, please share the survey link
• completed Firefox 5 beta 3 work yesterday
• plans are in the works for Firefox 5 beta 4
  • timeframe?
  • sqlite patch
• testplan for Firefox 6 features is complete
  • QA/Fennec/Milestones/6.0
• Starting planning for Firefox 7

Marketing & PR

• Firefox (5) blog post - focused on perf, privacy and general momentum update
• Spark EOL early next week - waiting due to delay in DB query
• Media campaign kicking off in July

Feedback Summary

Support

• Mobile SUMO metrics
• English KB articles being updated now.

UX and User Research

Design

• see dev meeting notes for detailed breakdown
• TO-DO - madhava to book meeting about readability for v7

• revised error pages (mockup | bug) not in v6 after all; moved to v7
  • high-profile UX things for 6: discoverability animation, Form Assistant Android integration, Gingerbread theme, improved image quality (bilinear scaling)
• please try out
  • gingerbread theme!
  • firstrun animation (go to about:firstrun)
  • see whether scaled images look better

Research

Android Sidebar Study Usability testing happening this afternoon in local cafes.

Insights

Summary below, full update here

Opera announced a partnership to ship an Opera browser in IP-based TV boxes.

Microsoft showed thetouch interface of Windows 8, which brings tablet support to the OS.

Chipset makers see in the Windows support for tablets an opportunity to gain share in the mobile market for the x86 architecture.

Nvidia demoed its upcoming quad-core Kai-El chipsets series targeted at mobile devices.

Nokia pledged support for Symbian at least until 2016 and promised to launch its first Windows Phone 7 device in Q4 2011

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