User:Dria/Roadmap draft

Last updated: 2013/11/26

Releases

Firefox 25: (Shipped)

Schedule

• Tracking Fx25
  • Nightly: Jun 24, 2013
  • Aurora: Aug 5, 2013
  • Beta: Sep 17, 2013
  • Release: Oct 29, 2013

Features

• [ON TRACK] API: Web Audio
• [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, continued
• [ON TRACK] Settings UI clean-up excluding search provider management
• [ON TRACK] Guest browsing
• [ON TRACK] Page Actions
• [ON TRACK] SkiaGL improvement
• [ON TRACK] Mixed content
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Ukrainian (ua-UK)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Irish (ga-IE)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Romanian (ro-RO)
• [ON TRACK] Setting wallpaper bug 886996
• [ON TRACK] Developer Tools: Remote Debugging

Firefox 26: (Beta)

Schedule

• Tracking Fx26
  • Nightly: Aug 5, 2013
  • Aurora: Sep 17, 2013
  • Beta: Oct 29, 2013
  • Release: Dec 10, 2013

Features

• [ON TRACK] AMO discoverability
• [ON TRACK] Addition of search engines - Yahoo and Bing for en-US, FR, DE, es-ES and en-GB
• [ON TRACK] About:home redesign
• [ON TRACK] search provider management in settings menu
• [ON TRACK] Add-ons can add content to the "promotional banner" tile
• [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, continued

Firefox 27: (Aurora)

Schedule

• Tracking Fx27
  • Nightly: Sep 17, 2013
  • Aurora: Oct 29, 2013
  • Beta: Dec 10, 2013
  • Release: Jan 21, 2014

Features

• [ON TRACK] Overhaul of the favicon system bug 914296
• [ON TRACK] Marketplace discoverability - simple UI polish
• [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, continued
• [ON TRACK] Remove overscroll and show highlight instead bug 705246 and bug 791475
• [ON TRACK] Developer improvements: IDE support bug 924961
• [ON TRACK] Memory usage improvements: bug 931843
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: South African English (za-EN)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Thai (th)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Lithuanian (lt)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Slovenian (sl)

Firefox 28: (Nightly)

Schedule

• Tracking Fx28
  • Nightly: Oct 29, 2013
  • Aurora: Dec 10, 2013
  • Beta: Jan 21, 2014
  • Release: March 4, 2014

Features

• [ON TRACK] bug 768667 - Use the action bar for text selection on ICS+
• [ON TRACK] bug 852608 - Add support for OpenSearch. Firefox Mobile ignores <link rel="search">
• [ON TRACK] bug 875750 - Implement <input type="color">: Android widget/color picker
• [ON TRACK] Dynamic snippets add-on
• [ON TRACK] Multiple Quickshare Buttons
• [ON TRACK] Quickshare Contexts
• [PROPOSED] Developer improvements: Geckoview support for 2.3 -> 4.3 <== nightly only
• [PROPOSED] bug 932865 - Hang detection
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Estonian (et)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Belarusian (be)

Firefox 29

Schedule

• Tracking Fx29
  • Nightly: Dec 9, 2013
  • Aurora:
  • Beta:
  • Release: Apr 29, 2014

Features

• [PROPOSED] PDF.js support (v1 cupcake)
• [PROPOSED] WebApp experience - APK Synthesis
• [PROPOSED] Quickshare: Settable default service for quickshare buttons
• [PROPOSED] My List: Manage current lists in settings
• [PROPOSED] API: Contacts (incl permissions bump)
• [PROPOSED] Geolocation services (incl permissions bump)
• [PROPOSED] Telemetry probes for Fennec UI elements
• [PROPOSED] Project video to second screen (preffed off)
• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Serbian (sr)
• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Vietnamese(vi)

Firefox 30

Schedule

• Tracking Fx30
  • Nightly: Feb 3, 2014
  • Aurora:
  • Beta:
  • Release: Jun 10, 2014

Features

• [PROPOSED] Third-party service integration MVP
  • [PROPOSED] My List: How My List works (MVP reqs only)
  • [PROPOSED] My List: Save any web-viewable content (MVP reqs only)
  • [PROPOSED] My List: Add new My List from Promotional Panel (MVP reqs only)
  • [PROPOSED] My List: Subscribe to feed or service as a new list (MVP reqs only)
  • [PROPOSED] My List: Add new and improved list management in Settings (MVP reqs only)
  • [PROPOSED] Service integration: Downloads (MVP reqs only)
• [PROPOSED] Preferred web content language

Firefox 31

Schedule

• Tracking Fx31
  • Nightly: Mar 17, 2014
  • Aurora:
  • Beta:
  • Release: Jul 22, 2014

Features

• [PROPOSED] Quickshare: Collect aggregate usage data
• [PROPOSED] Promotional banner enhancements
• [PROPOSED] My_List: Add new My List from Promotional Banner
• [PROPOSED] API: Web activities

Firefox 32

Schedule

• Tracking Fx32
  • Nightly: Apr 28, 2014
  • Aurora:
  • Beta:
  • Release: Sep 2, 2014

Features

• [PROPOSED] Password handling improvements
• [PROPOSED] Form auto-fill improvements
• [PROPOSED] Gestures
• [PROPOSED] My List: Auto-play video and audio lists
• [PROPOSED] API: Push notifications

Firefox 33

Schedule

• Tracking Fx33
  • Nightly: Jun 9, 2014
  • Aurora:
  • Beta:
  • Release: Oct 14, 2014

Features

• [PROPOSED] Tablet refresh

Firefox 34

Schedule

• Tracking Fx34
  • Nightly: Jul 21, 2014
  • Aurora:
  • Beta:
  • Release: Nov 25, 2014

Features

• [PROPOSED] Kid browsing

Project funnel

Unprioritized projects

P#	Project	Stage 1	UX 2	Eng 3	Next steps
X	Kitkat download integration	Define			project page
X	Helper widgets for error pages	Define			project page
X	Added locale: Hindi (hi)
X	Added locale: Hebrew (he)				Dependent on RTL support
X	Added locale: Arabic (ar)				Dependent on RTL support

P1 projects

P#	Project	Stage 1	UX 2	Eng 3	Next steps
P1	Shumway
P1	Firefox Accounts integration
P1	Added locale: Indonesian (id)
P1	Screencasting: Project WebRTC video to second screen	Ready	Ready	L	WebRTC > WebRTC, blocked on end point WebRTC support.
P1	Added locale: Canadian (en-CA)	On hold			Need to find someone to start this work.

P2 projects

P#	Project	Stage 1	UX 2	Eng 3	Next steps
P2	Gecko Webview phase 1
P2	General sharing improvments	Define			project page
P2	Service integration: Backup and restore	Define			project page
P2	Webapp integration: Include content from installed webapps in search results and awesomescreen	Define			project page
P2	Webapp integration: Register webapps for handling filetypes/actions	Define			project page
P2	Webapp integration: Enable webapp launching from about:home	Define			project page
P2	Webapp integration: Enable webapp launching from awesomescreen	Define			project page
P2	Webapp integration: Facility for webapp content discovery in about:home	Define			project page
P2	Webapp integration: Facility for including webapp content reminders in about:home	Define			project page
P2	Webapp integration: Facility for embedding content from webapps in about:home	Define			project page
P2	Webapp discovery: Suggest webapps based on local user history and other data	Define			project page
P2	Firefox flavour: Silverfox	Define			needs creative brief and cupcake - break out initial shippable features
P2	New Sync	Define			whatever the Identity team needs from us
P2	My List: Sync read-state and location	Define			Ready for UX & Eng review.
P2	My List: Sync multiple lists when available	Define			project page
P2	My List: Sync offline access across devices	Define			project page
P2	My List: Allow users to create smart lists	Define			project page
P2	My List: Allow users to select offline access per My List and media type	Define			project page
P2	DDG as a built-in search engine	Define			Discussion with DDG.
P2	Ability for add-ons to customize sound effects	Define			Ready for UX & Eng review.
P2	Mobile/Projects/API: Alarm	???			[tbd]
P2	WebRTC	In development			implementation guidance
P2	Privileged apps support	???			[tbd]
P2	Directional game console navigation				[tbd]
P2	Set top box optimization	???			[tbd]
P2	EOL official Android 2.2 support	???			project page

P3 projects

P#	Project	Stage 1	UX 2	Eng 3	Next steps
P3	Reflow on zoom (double tap) by default	???			[tbd]
P3	Multiple profile support	???			[tbd]
P3	API: Gamepad	???			[tbd]
P3	API: Bluetooth	???			[tbd]
P3	SNAV support	???			[tbd]
P3	Webapp discovery: Better marketplace discovery and promotion	Define			project page
P3	Firefox flavour: Devfox	Define			needs creative brief and cupcake - break out initial shippable features
P3	Firefox flavour: Firefox for Enterprise	Define			needs creative brief and cupcake - break out initial shippable features
P3	Non-multilang build localizations	???			[tbd]
P3	Send to device	???			[tbd]
P3	Location-based search engines	Define			project page
P3	Data bandwidth monitoring	Define			project page
P3	Data bandwidth optimization (Necko)	Define			project page
P3	Support for hybrid devices	Define			project page
P3	About:home - Add-ons can add a page	Define			revisit project page
P3	First-run UX improvements	Define			revisit project page

Creative briefs

P#	Project	Stage	Next steps
X	TBD	Define

Legend

1) Stages - not every project will go through all of these stages

• Define - Initial project definition - mostly Product working with UX and Eng to figure out what the feature is going to do and look like.
• Design - UX & visual design work.
• Prototype - For some larger features we'll want to do a Prototyping and user testing stage -- this will be relatively rare.
• Ready - All project definition and design work is finished and the project is just waiting for engineering to pick it up and start hacking.
• In development - Coding has started, but the project isn't targeted to a particular release yet.

Once a project has been targeted at a particular release, it will move up to the Release roadmap, graduating out of the project funnel.

2) UX - estimated relative UX effort, expressed as a t-shirt size (S, M, L, XL)

2) Eng - estimated relative engineering effort, expressed as a t-shirt size (S, M, L, XL)

Strategy: Four Pillars

Partnership opportunities

Pursuing opportunities that enable and support larger distributions of Firefox for Android.

Innovate to Differentiate

Focusing on innovations where we can truly excel and differentiate from the competition.

Developer Ecosystem

Supporting the larger Firefox ecosystem and better enabling the developer community on mobile projects.

State of Good Repair

Ensuring good code all around: paper cuts, user efficiencies, stability and performance.

Archives

• Roadmap Archive

Reference

• [ON TRACK] - {{mok}} - actively being worked on and those assigned feel comfortable and confident in achieving the target milestone.
• [PLANNED] - {{mplan}} - feature has resources identified and assigned, work is adequately scoped out and engineering agrees that enough information is available to get the work started. Resources are identified and assigned, but work may not have commenced.
• [PROPOSED] - {{mprop}} - feature is defined to an adequate degree for engineering to assess that they have the resources that can address the feature for the targeted release. Resources can be identified, but work has not commenced.
• [AT RISK] - {{mrisk}} - blocking bug / high number of bugs / other confidence-shakers makes us feel that a feature may not achieve the targeted milestone.