Mobile/StatusMeetings/07-14-2011

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Dial-in

• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 8605 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) 92 Conf# 95312 (US)
• IRC channel #mobile
• Vidyo: Room Warp Core

Agenda

• AIs from last meeting
  
  • Define single source of truth: Check Feature Spreadsheet vs. Wiki - see below 'Mobile Feature Documentation' (Stuart, Thomas) - see below
    
  • Aurora on Android Market (drive decision) -
    
    • Legal request: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669929
      
    • Suggestion: call Application "Aurora" (not Firefox Aurora), add "Firefox" in the description.
    • Give marketing 30 days before we put anything new in the Android Market
• New ACTION ITEMS
  
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Firefox 5 (launched June 21): User Feedback Update

• as of 6/27/2011: 2620753 downloads, 1072133 active (40.91%), ratings (5/4/3/2/1) 9698 / 5556 / 5010 / 3773 / 4803= 3.41 stars average
• Firefox and Firefox beta constantly in AppBrain's top ten (http://www.appbrain.com/app/firefox/org.mozilla.firefox)
  

Firefox 6 went to BETA on July 7

Firefox 7 went from NIGHTLY into AURORA on July 5

• 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

Mobile Roadmap
Mobile Demos: http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/mobiledemos
Mobile Test Pilot - HELP TEST!

• 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
    

Maemo support

• end of official support discussion

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

• waiting for "go to build" 6.0b2
• localised Marketplace promo text still an issue bug 663984
• What's New text (localized?) for every release? (500char max)
• Carryover from Weds mtg: Maemo support level

QA

• testplan for Firefox 6 features is complete
  • working on cleanup and organization of feature pages
  • Beta 2
    • Work has started on testing, target ship date?
  • Beta 3 target date?
• started tracking Firefox 7 features and creating test plans for those features
  • QA/Fennec/7

Marketing & PR

• Firefox Gone Mobile - SF & London - great success! Report from Wilson/Dan coming soon
  
• Media Buy starting mid-July
• Touch Events Dev Derby - August (Wilson)
• Mobile Add-Ons campaign for Fall
• Q3: no big campaigns, focusing on optimizing existing channels to drive usage

Feedback Summary

Feature Feedback

Feature Name	Release Channel	Feedback
Do Not Track	Beta	1 praise
Better First Run Discoverability	Aurora	None
IndexedDB Local Storage	Aurora	None
Better Form Assistant Integration with Android	Aurora	None
Visual Refresh for Gingerbread	Aurora	2 praise

General Insights

• The difference in praise for 5.0 since the release just keeps on increasing!

Clustered Praise Found	Release Channel
Speed Improved! Input: 32	Beta

Clustered Issues Found	Release Channel	Bug Id
No Flash Input: 37 SUMO: New 112 down	All	bug 630007
Clear History Input: 27 SUMO: less than 10 new	Beta	bug 656901
Exit button Input: 24	Beta	bug 659670
No Private Browsing Input: 12 SUMO: less than 10 new	Beta	bug 582244
No Copy & Paste Input: SUMO: less than 10 new	All	bug 582244
No way to set default zoom Input: 4	Beta	bug 666600

Support

• Mobile SUMO metrics

• wiki.mozilla.org/File:Mobile_Status_new.pdf

UX and User Research

Design

• UX workweek in Toronto this week
  • working/revising through Brian's tablet draft specs
  • series of blog posts on this starting tomorrow
• madhava to follow up on readability email sent out (you know who you are, brad and doug)
  • see Matt's in progress specs for readability options in Design section of Fennec/Features/readability
• ongoing work on android widget, webapp creation (some detail in a feature page) -- talking to apps team about resourcing

Research

Got great feedback on Firefox Home.

Have your friends and family sign up up to do some user testing on upcoming mobile studies.

Next Wednesday - Users in da House - 2pm-4pm PST

Insights

Summary below, full update here and in your inbox.

• Opera partnered with Poland's top social network and added features to its cloud-based ad platform for Opera Mini

• Dolphin HD released v5.1

• A new version of the Android Market was released

• Baidu partnered with NTT DoCoMo to build mobile content for Chinese users

• The tablet market sold less than expected in Q1, but still on a growing path

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?
• Aurora in the Android Market
  • mechanically, doing a manual daily upload will be painful to RelEng.