Mobile/StatusMeetings/04-28-2011

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Agenda

• AIs from last meeting
  
  • Seth/Stuart/Mark/Thomas: define roadmap and actions for delivering language packs in Q2
  • Stuart/John/Thomas: find out how more than one person can push to Android Market - see https://market.android.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139626 - meeting on 3/31
    
  • Inform localizers about features and keyboard shortcuts for Desktop build (e.g. Ctrl+Shift+Q to switch orientation, Ctrl+Shift+M to show context menu, etc.) - https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Cheat_Codes
  • Aakash: Talk to Web Dev to include fennec on Nightly Page: Bug 540311 and Bug 627075
• New ACTION ITEMS
  
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• Firefox 4 (launched March 29): User Feedback Update
  
  • as of 4/27/2011: 1789227 downloads, 924723 active (51.7%), ratings (5/4/3/2/1) 6138 / 3673 / 3626 / 2885 / 3814 = 3.27 stars average
    
• Firefox 4.0.1, Firefox 5, Firefox 6
  
  • Goals and schedules
  • Project Plan Update and https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases
    
  • Updated: Android Device Compatibility Criteria Spreadsheet
• New 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 | Firefox Home

2.0

2.0 planning page

• Proposed schedule

Localization

Filed Bug 634679 to address some potential issues with nightly testing and using lang packs.

Dashboard updates: https://l10n-stage-sj.mozilla.org/dashboard/?tree=fennec_mc

Seth continues to post these notes and the schedule to the l10n community.

Release Engineering

• Fennec4.0.1 handed to QA
• work continues on tegras stability
• finishing up "faster cadence" branch setup

QA

• Signed off on 4.0.1
• All Testcases added to Litmus for Firefox for Mobile 5 thanks to nhirata and AaronMT
• Test Plan for 6 in the works
• Waverley Test Results
• Top crashes last week

Marketing & PR

• In NYC April 28-May 1 (Firefox Gone Mobile Ice Cream Truck)
  
• Mobile Engagement + mobile initiative: https://intranet.mozilla.org/Mobile/EngagementSupport
  
• Mobile Beta channel inclusion on Mozilla.com, Mozilla comms channels (Nightly/Beta goal for Q3: 5k, 30k repsectively (25k/150k EOY))
• Phony/Quit Firefox for mobile featured in newsletter, RYF (48% compatibility)
• Mobile acquisition campaig(s) for Q2/Q3 brainstorming underway

Feedback Summary

• No Input coming in for Nightlies and Aurora builds.

Issue	SUMO	Input	Buglink
No Flash support	New 25 17 60 Dn	16
No copy/paste support	New 2 -	5	{{bug|585875}}, {{bug|611741}}
How to disable popup blocker	New 10 -
Reformating text on zoom		4
Firefox for iPad/iPhone?	New 57 22 -
Firefox for Symbian?	New 35 Dn
Firefox for Blackberry?	New 15 Dn
Problems with Marketplace	New 55 -
Sync Issues	New

Support

• Mobile SUMO metrics
  • Generic Android device is now the top device (up 400% from 3 weeks ago)

Insights

Summary below, full update here

• New stats: There are 37 million Android users in the US+DE+FR+IT+SP+UK vs. 67 million iOS users in the same countries. Downloads of Android apps are up 50% from Q4 2010 and have reached over 3 billion installs.

• First reviews of the Blackberry Playbook are out. Will Firefox be allowed in the Blackberry App World?

• Privacy concerns are rising again for both Android and iOS ecosystems. Should we beef up our security messaging?

• Microprocessors: Intel targeting Honeycomb devices for its chips and ARM launching Cortex-A15 (ARMv7, up to 2.5 GHz and 16 cores) in late 2012

• New devices:
  • HTC Flyer launched in the UK
  • Kyocera Echo - P3
  • Toshiba Thrive/ANT
  • Samsung Replenish - P3
  • the Amazon tablet?