Releases/Fennec Native 14 Beta/Final Signoffs
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Focus Areas
Mobile Engineering
Current Status
Good to go
Outstanding Issues/Concerns
Migration concerns, but those will be addressed in next beta
Mobile QA
Current Status
Outstanding Issues/Concerns
Stability
Current Status
Outstanding Issues/Concerns
Build Mechanics
Current Status
Waiting for go-to-beta.
- Phones will get the en-US Fennec Native beta-from-aurora.
- Tablets will get updated to a zero-change 13.0b2 build (multilocale, but with only en-US).
Outstanding Issues/Concerns
None for 14.0b1.
Web Content
Current Status
- https://www-dev.allizom.org/en-US/mobile/14.0beta/releasenotes/
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/platforms/ needs a beta equivalent linked from https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/beta/
- Will source https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Platforms/Android#System_Requirements to create a page similar to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/13.0beta/system-requirements/
- https://www-dev.allizom.org/en-US/mobile/14.0beta/releasenotes/ will need to be updated with the system requirements link as well
Outstanding Issues/Concerns
Support
Current Status
• https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fennec/NativeUI/BetaReadinessReview#Support_Plan
Outstanding Issues/Concerns
Services
Current Status
- Client Is Ready To Rock
- Ops is prepared for worst case
Outstanding Issues/Concerns
- Services ops is doing maintenance tomorrow. syncs may be delayed, but users should see no visible errors. Expected to hit ~50% of sync users.
Localization
Current Status
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fennec/NativeUI/BetaReadinessReview#Support_Plan
Outstanding Issues/Concerns
MTD
Current Status
Outstanding Issues/Concerns
- Font inflation
- Flash crashiness
Marketing
Current Status
- Blog post being finalized by PR, getting sign off
- Google Play Store content, mozilla.org/mobile/beta content ready
- Facebook ads for messaging testing starting tomorrow
- Rolling out additional promotions over Beta period on track
Outstanding issues/concerns
- Possible PR/communication challenges with English only build
- Are we creating any efforts in advertising the current native alternative to tablet users who are sick of XUL ? (Aaron)
