Mobile/ProductPlanning/Notes-2012-09-18

Details

• irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
• Toronto High Park Vidyo Room
• meetings generally held on Tuesdays @ 9:00am - exceptions apply every 6 weeks
• roadmap 2012-13 landing page
• Sept 18 is the Weekly Product Planning meeting

Meeting Format Reminder

• 3 out of 4 weeks, specific items will be discussed for specific releases <- TODAY!
• Every fourth week, the current roadmap will be presented for a larger stakeholder review
• Meetings to occur on Tuesdays at 12:00am Eastern / 9:00am Pacific, with the exception that every 6th week they will be moved to Wednesdays at 11:00am Eastern / 8:00am Pacific
• Public meeting via dev-platforms-mobile@lists.mozilla.org

Intent, Scope & Objectives - Roadmap Review Meeting (every 4th week)

• Create alignment across major stakeholders across the organisation
• Establish communication channels with the common goal of increasing our active install base with the greatest mobile browser ever
• Review the roadmap over the next 6 releases to agree on the high-level themes and priorities
• Identify any gaps in information or process required to make the above decisions
• Discuss major blockers or sticking points requiring cross-functional input

Intent, Scope & Objectives - Weekly Product Planning (3 out of 4 weeks)

• Stakeholders from each stakeholder group to represent their area, their views and their activities related to Firefox mobile browser product planning
• Focused more on details, feature reviews, specific releases, flushing out upcoming themes
• Ensure clarity of what's going into each release, raise any possible hiccups that may occur, and ensure we're thinking about the medium & long term as well as the 'next' release

Agenda: Product Planning

Roadmap launchpad: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Roadmap12-13

Beta Channel - Fx 16: Casting a Wider Net

• ARMv6 feedback, progress, PR / visibility
  • [DONE] AI follow-up: Lukas to give SUMO ARMv6 listing
  • AI follow-up: Chad/Sam to reach out to PR for help to raise visibility (snippets, Facebook, other)
  • AI follow-up: Karen to look at ARMv6 locale support

• Critical bugs / blockers?

• Product Marketing readiness towards GA release
  • Blog(s)?
  • Other?

Aurora Channel - Fx 17: Making Things Easy

• WebApps inclusion
  • Meeting on Mondays to discuss timing, strategy (focus in on a vertical?)

• Media decoding
  • For clarity: H.264 is included from Fx 17 onwards
  • AI follow-up: Erin to discuss with QA web compat testing to give us an indication of content support

• Critical bugs / blockers?

• Product Marketing readiness towards Beta release
  • Blog(s)?
  • Other?

Nightly Channel - Fx 18: Beautiful Browsing

• Readability initiative
  • Suggestions from product/UX for inclusion in this release:
    • New font: AI Ian: to update the team on licensing discussions and whether this is just for Reader Mode or for all UI strings
    • Form filling / styling
    • Hiding the URL bar
    • Font inflation algorithm updates

• Search improvements
  • Small search widget
  • Search suggestions opt-in

• Private browsing
  • Confirm timing of per-tab versus per-window

• Safe browsing
  • Still on track?

Other Topics for Discussion

• Feature review proposal for next week's meeting: Android Snippets touch-point

• Quality benchmarks per feature and per release to be contained in PRDs associated per release (see Fx 16 as an example https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fx16_PRD)

• Use of meta bugs

• Manual notification of important fixes if not part of a larger feature / function that is already tracked

• Flushing out Fx 19: Ready to Partner
  • Incremental memory improvements
    • Tracking bugs for Fx 18, Fx 19
    • Goal: to determine if we can support a min requirement of 256 MB in March
  • Data consumption improvements
    • Bugs (created?)
  • Metrics and benchmarking
    • Bugs (created?)
  • Customisation & Personalisation
    • Personas (light-weight themeing)
    • Option to customise icons
    • Channel-specific start pages (also useful for partner customisation opportunities)
    • Sound effects
    • Theme packs (pre-loaded bookmarks) - start as add-on?
  • Appia support
  • Support all Android locales
  • Readability: reflow on zoom
  • Readability: ARMv6 improvements - min system requirements (QVGA?)