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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)
    
  • Share Market Stats (Stuart keeps updating)
    
  • Check Feature Spreadsheet vs. Wiki - see below 'Mobile Feature Documentation' (Stuart, Thomas)
    
• ==> Take the Mobile Rapid Release Survey // ViewSurvey Results
• New ACTION ITEMS
  
  • Publish Fx5 in the Ovi Store (Thomas)
  • Share results of Rapid Release Survey (Thomas - next Thu meeting)
    

Firefox 4.0.1 (launched April 28): User Feedback Update

• as of 6/07/2011: 2362918 downloads, 1015341 active (42.97%), ratings (5/4/3/2/1) 8422 / 4916 / 4550 / 3503 / 4516 = 3.36 stars average

Firefox 5 BETA 6 - launched June 14

Firefox 5 BETA 7 - launched June 15

Firefox 5 final - June 21, 7am

Release Candidate

• RC is built with same changeset as Beta 7, the only difference is channel, branding, and feedback extension.
• Beta 7 is currently available in the Android Marketplace (AM), and external beta users can test it.
• The RC build will NOT be available in the AM until Tuesday when it is officially released as final. Meanwhile, internal QA will test the RC build, focusing on the above known differences*.
• If respin is needed, this will require a Beta 8 and a new RC.
  
• QA will have RC signoff ready before tomorrow (Friday) 11am go/no-go meeting (joint with desktop).
  

• 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

QA

• Untested device compatibility survey summary (~405 completed/~940 partial )
  • June 16th generated report http://people.mozilla.com/~atrain/mobile/summary-report-06162011.pdf
  • Lots of comments from frustrated folks who can not find Firefox and or know of any other ability to install Firefox on cheap tablets that don't have the Android Market installed.
• completed Firefox 5 beta 4 work yesterday
• test plan for Firefox 5rc is set
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Fennec/Milestones/5.0rc
• testplan for Firefox 6 features is complete
  • QA/Fennec/Milestones/6.0
• Starting planning for Firefox 7

Marketing & PR

• Firefox (5) target release at 7am PDT, June 21
  
• Firefox Gone Mobile, June 25, in SF
  Site Optimization
  
• Site SEO effort underway (Android, Home, Sync)
• /m page optimized for iOS
• dnt.mozilla.org optimized for mobile
• /mobile merging with mobile/download
• nightly page designed and being pushed with next update

QUESTIONS:

• Remove Maemo from /m?
• Device Compatibility survey/effort update?
  

TOPICS & FEATURE ROUND-UP:

Irina and Caitlin to run a discussion next week?

• Features to stay competitive
• Features to differentiate ourselves
• Features/areas of focus to trailblaze

Feedback Summary

Feature Feedback

General Insights

• About +20% differential increase in praise for 5.0 since the release

Support

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

UX and User Research

Design

• see dev meeting notes for detailed breakdown
• new interesting work on some Firefox android widget concepts (partly with apps team)
• mbrubeck drafting readability spec so we can talk to platform
• madhava gave talk on mobile design to Moz-related group in the Philippines this morning

Research

Firefox Home Talking to a few iphone users to understand why they browse and when they browse and what they want to do better to see if it aligns with our future plan for Fx Home.

Sidebar Study Blog Post Will be posted next week as part of the User research blog launch!

Insights

Summary below, full update here

Competitor news: Dolphin HD was updated to v5.1 and Opera Mini will come preloaded on the Onda N235 in Brazil

Nokia is facing losses in marketshare, sales and profits as it transitions to Windows Phone 7. Some predict Samsung's Bada OS might become 3rd major smartphone platform, after iOS and Android.

Asian handset microvendors have captured nearly 13% of the global mobile handset market share shipping 48 million units globally in Q1 2011

Voice recognition potential in mobile gaining more attention as Chrome adds it to desktop

The mobile Web the 5th in terms of developer revenue per-app after iOS, Java ME, Blackberry and Android

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?