Firefox/Planning/2012-10-17

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Planning Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am PDT, 18:00 UTC
• Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
• Toronto Offices: Finch Conference Room
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
• (the developer meeting takes place on Tuesdays)

Video/Teleconference Details - NEW

• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 99696 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99696 (US)
• Vidyo Room: ProductCoordination
• Vidyo Guest URL

REMEMBER

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Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Firefox Desktop

Release (16, 10esr)

• Things are looking good for a full unthrottle of FF16.0.1 before the end of the week

Beta (17)

• FF17.0b2 will be released on Monday morning
• CTP blocklist testing will continue with recent versions of Flash later in the week

Aurora (18)

• Working through issues associated with the landing of DLBI & IonMonkey

Firefox Metro

• Project page has the basic info
• We established a minimum set of features we think are needed to ship a compelling v1
• Nightlies are available, built from elm branch. They will update.
• Sam Foster starts working on Metro front-end team!

Add-on SDK

Release (1.10 -> Firefox 16, 17)

Stabilization (1.11 -> Firefox 17, 18)

Development (1.12 -> Firefox 18, 19)

• prepping for 1.11 release in two weeks.
• also prepping for an in-place re-pack of a few hundred add-ons once we ship 1.11

Feedback Summary

Mobile

Please see The Mobile Notes for the full Details. Release is going well, bug 792928 is the biggest issue we are seeing for Release.

User Experience (design & research)

• [desktop]
  • [misc]
    • about:net-internals Working with Valentin Gosu to style his summer intern work for inclusion in Firefox (see bug 783205) (Boriss)
  • [Australis] (zhenshuo, shorlander, madhava)
    • Figuring out our firstrun/updater experience for people updating to Australis from earlier versions of the UI - notes here (Zhenshuo)
    • Example of one direction: variant 1, variant 2 (Shorlander)
    • Supporting implementation
  • [dev tools]
    • Developer Tools Window - Wireframes (PDF) (Brian Dils) and visual design set (Stephen Horlander)
  • [Social API] (Boriss)
    • Mocking up multi-provider options from sketches for next version
    • Sketching interactions for different social providers, how the API could work for their content & users
    • Filing remaining polish & performance bugs ahead of first release
  • [newtab2/hometab] (Boriss)
    • Incorporating last week's feedback into sketches, digitizing new versions
    • Iterating design document for new design (current version here)
    • Talking to Jetpack team about how we can evaluate new designs for efficiency & ease of use

• [project SPF (security/privacy)] (larissa)
  • Put together a proposal for reunifying untrusted certificate UI in desktop and mobile (PDF)
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795771#c7
  • Mixed Content - bug 782654
    • making some iterative improvements to indicator placement
    • Engineering (Tanvi) is still working on landing this feature, we're hoping it can be part of FX 20
  • Usable security presentation - See the PDF here (Note that it looks pretty bad when viewed with pdf.js)
  • Asked to do a security UI review for Web RTC - bug 729522
• [webRTC] - Mocking up improvements to Permissions UI (Boriss)

• [metro] (yuan)
  • Draft blog post for Firefox for Windows 8: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s153/sh/c4f0f47b-6ea0-41b2-906d-5e264005680f/8b3f2cc7bfa2180b24fcb2b9b87579a5
  • Supported the Implementation of Top Site UI - bug 794028
  • Working on Interactive prototype for Setting charm, and a proposal to integrate feedback support with testpilot

• [android] (ibarlow)
  • Ian out this week, but
  • things to look for in nighties -- bigger better tab thumbnails on about:home; smoother tab tray transitions
  • prototyping and evaluating better default content fonts and some promising adjustments to our menu
  • designing and prototyping some search suggestion improvements (Blake)

• [Firefox on B2G/Gaia] (Larissa)
  • Thinking about what happens if you can close the last tap; likely happening in Android as well
    • Closing the last tab (MOV)
    • Last tab crashes (MOV)

• [Behavioral Segmentation Study] (Lindsay, Bill, Leo)
  • coming!