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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
  
  • get our nightlhy builds published on nightly.mozilla.org : Bug 540311 and Bug 627075 (Caitlin)
    
  • Set up process for getting Android Market stats (Caitlin, Thomas, John)
  • Get crash data from Android Market (DougT, Blassey, John)
  • Share Market Stats (RelEng via Android Market)
  • Publish updated release schedule(RelEng, Thomas)
    
  • Check Feature Spreadsheet vs. Wiki - see below 'Mobile Feature Documentation' (Stuart, Thomas)
    
• New ACTION ITEMS
  
  • All: ==> Take the Mobile Rapid Release Survey
    
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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 4
  
  • Goals and schedules
  • Project Plan Update and https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases
    
  • Updated: Android Device Compatibility Criteria Spreadsheet
    
• Go-to-build for Betas every Friday - but that doesn't mean we ship every new Beta
• NEW: Rapid Release Cycle Survey (take it here) - spend two minutes to tell us what worked well, what needs improvement for future releases
  

• Mobile 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

Priorities page

• releases
  • (lsblakk) bug 661764 - Fennec 5.0b5 - built and handed to QA. Lukas is in Paris, and will be building in UTC+1 time.
  • bug 660943 - Fennec 5.0b4 - pushed live Tuesday
  • bug 574764 - port mobile releases to 0.8 automation. Go/no-go for 6.0b1 will be this Friday. Fallback option is to continue using split repo releases until it is ready.
• tegras
  • Now on Firefox tinderbox page. Unit tests are hidden -- bug 661896 tracks the blocking bugs needed to unhide.
  • [FIXED] bug 660365 - org.mozilla.fennec_unofficial
    • [FIXED] bug 661994 - fennec won't install on tracemonkey
  • [FIXED] bug 662470 - tegra jsreftests on tracemonkey
  • [FIXED] bug 643607 - browser-chrome T-FAIL

• fyi: l10n changes. Note that "de" was last in Fennec5.0b1, not b2,b3,b4; "no-NO" has not been in Fennec5.0b1,b2,b3,b4.

QA

• Untested device compatibility survey summary (~250 responses)
  • June 7th generated report http://people.mozilla.com/~atrain/mobile/summary-report-06072011.pdf
• completed Firefox 5 beta 4 work yesterday
• test plan for Firefox 5 beta 5 is set
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Fennec/Milestones/5.0b5
  • localization
• testplan for Firefox 6 features is complete
  • QA/Fennec/Milestones/6.0
• Starting planning for Firefox 7

Marketing & PR

• Firefox (5) communications (blog, rev guide, faq, Moco Email)
• Featuring/communicating Cleary, Clear Mobile History
• Sync SEO effort
• Coming Up: Media campaign kick-off, Touch Events Dev Derby, Game On:II, Spark: II
• Firefox Gone Mobile Truck: 15-17, London
• What's the text reflow resolution? What did Brad/Blassey/Jay/Gary learn/decide about Flash?

Feedback Summary

Feature Feedback

General Insights

Support

• Mobile SUMO metrics
• More questions in the forum related to sync than usual (still not many).
• English KB articles are done.
• My issue with Sync and Fx 5 beta has been resolved on both of my devices with the latest beta.

UX and User Research

Design

• see dev meeting notes for detailed breakdown
• had meeting about readability; Matt drafting spec, madhava and stuart to follow up with platform

Research

Android Sidebar Study Usability testing with new animations - using Samsung Galaxy S - talked to 3 non-smartphone, college-aged users at the Stanford Mall. Everyone found bookmarks and tabs, although two took about 6 minutes to find the sidebars. Everyone looked in the menu button, or the site button, so we have a UI fix that we're going to test next week which shows tabs and bookmarks in the menu view.

Insights

Summary below, full update here

Android OEMs are opening up to 3rd-party device customizations

iOS 5 was announced at WWDC. Safari updates include full tabbed browsing, Safari Reader, Reading List and deep Twitter integration

The mobile Web is the 3rd platform for which developers create, after Android and iOS

NFC technology is made a priority in S. Korea

Other

• How do we reduce the number of meetings?
  • How many people find these updates useful ? Is the wiki enough, or does it help to have a voice?