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

• Aurora Channel - Fx 17: Making Things Easy
  • WebApps inclusion
  • Media decoding

• Nightly Channel - Fx 18: Beautiful Browsing
  • Readability initiative
  • Search improvements
  • Private browsing
  • Safe browsing

Other Topics for Discussion - did not get to these in this meeting

• 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

Minutes: Product Planning

Beta Channel - Fx 16: Casting a Wider Net

• ARMv6 feedback, progress, PR / visibility
  • PR not keen on continuing ARMv6 testing promotions
  • AI Sam/Chad: press the issue with the Facebook team, other avenues to try and raise visibility of this initiative
  • Feedback so far has been positive via Google Play and feedback solicitation channels
  • AI Tyler: roll up the feedback for presentation at Wednesday's mobile meeting
  • Ensure calling out example phones by name / model and not referred to simply as ARMv6
  • Can we use XDA, MDA, hacks, group of evangelists as other avenues?
    • AI Brad/Mark: write blog post on XDA
    • AI Tyler: watch the XDA channel for feedback
    • AI Karen: loop in Hacks editor to see about using that channel, and also talk to Stormy about leveraging the evangelists
  • Currently blocklisting phones that don't support OpenGL2
    • AI: bug filed to display a message to the user if they have downloaded Fennec on a phone that doesn't support OpenGL2 to capture the phones we haven't been able to blocklist proactively

• Product Marketing readiness towards GA release
  • AI Karen, Chad, Sam: work out the messaging of various stories for Fx 16 and 17
  • AI Karen & Erin: review the draft blogs sent out by Sam

Aurora Channel - Fx 17: Making Things Easy

• WebApps inclusion
  • Meetings around the end-to-end WebApps story being run to ensure holistic plan

• Media decoding
  • Website compatibility vs hardware compatibility was discussed
  • QA believes that hardware decoding would be the larger source of bugs rather than website compatibility
  • Tools being developed (John Jensen), but not yet ready
  • Need top handset manufacturers with corresponding chipsets for specific testing
    • AI Irina: provide list of top devices to Kevin & Aaron, and add in corresponding chipsets
    • AI Karen: request to add top x Alexa sites to the QA test plan, trying to focus on top video sharing websites

• Other
  • Menu optimisation: the word 'tools' needs to be localised
    • Hasn't yet landed on ightly, but will request approval and flag for l10n to see if we can get this uplifted and also to see how it feels
  • about:home customisation: decided to target 18 in order not to rush implementation on 17, but cannot be deferred beyond due to market feedback requesting this time and time again
  • Updater: to be uplifted to 17
    • AI Irina: organise call to discuss Appia support

• Product Marketing readiness towards Beta release
  • AI Karen & Erin: review the draft blogs sent out by Sam

Nightly Channel - Fx 18: Beautiful Browsing

• Readability initiative
  • Replacing the font in Reader Mode and possibly throughout UI
    • Need to investigate increase in file size, start-up / performance
    • Licensed font will include all Latin characters, but will require to fall back on native font for non-Latin characters
    • Need RelEng involved to determine where the font should sit AI Erin: add bug to wiki for tracking
  • Form filling / styling: this is CSS work
    • Must ensure no performance issues
    • AI Ian: present work at next week's meeting
  • Hiding URL bar
    • May not be an easy thing to do - requires further investigation
    • Lucas to work on a prototype
    • Better target may be 18
  • Font inflation: AI Erin: organise quorum to look at prototypes and make a decision on which way to go
    • Need 'reflow on zoom' feature to be effective

• Search improvements
  • Small search widget
    • Possible to get into 18
  • Search suggestions opt-in
    • Animations under discussion, so watch this space

• Private browsing
  • Timing of per-tab versus per-window is still under discussion
  • Dependent on platform work
  • Will keep this listed in Fx 18 but this is a risky feature for inclusion in 18

• Safe browsing
  • On track

Other Topics for Discussion

• Feature review proposal for next week's meeting: Android Snippets touch-point
• Flushing out Fx 19: Ready to Partner
  • Off-cycle meeting to discuss this release specifically