Mobile/StatusMeetings/04-21-2011

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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
• New ACTION ITEMS
  
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• Firefox 4 (launched March 29): User Feedback Update
  
  • as of 4/20/2011: 1670619 downloads, 879780 active (52.7%), ratings (5/4/3/2/1) 5833 / 3535 / 3490 / 2776 / 3654 = 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

• Waiting for "go to build 4.0.1"
• tegras stability: 25 in production last night, survived the night. rest in staging
• mobile-browser consolidated into mozilla-central
• finishing up "faster cadence" branch setup

QA

• Test Plan for 4.0.1 in the works
• Test Plan for Firefox for Mobile 5 ready to go

Marketing & PR

• Mobile Awesomeness project underway (James Long project lead)
• Mobile technology and performance page development underway
• Q2 acquisition campaign brainstorming (Tomorrow)
• DNT discussion in mobile for press cycles
• Add-ons - "feature" committee, RYF, promo spots on AMO
• Nightly/Beta goal for Q2: 5k, 30k repsectively (25k/150k EOY)

Feedback Summary

• Working on a feedback strategy to support the new channels process. The plan, thus far and going forward, can be found on our central wiki

Issue	SUMO	Input	Buglink
No Flash support	New 42 19 72 Dn	16
No copy/paste support	New 2 -	5	{{bug|585875}}, {{bug|611741}}
How to disable popup blocker	New 7 -
Reformating text on zoom		4
Firefox for iPad/iPhone?	New 52 21 -
Firefox for Symbian?	New 47 Dn
Firefox for Blackberry?	New 21 Dn
Problems with Marketplace	New 55 Dn
Problems w/ Spark	New 11
SwiftKey	New 18

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:
  • Kyocera Echo - P3
  • Toshiba Thrive/ANT
  • Samsung Replenish - P3
  • the Amazon tablet?