Planning Meeting Details
- Wednesdays - 11:00am PT, 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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Actions from Last Week
Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases
Firefox Desktop
Current Releases
Beta (140)
Aurora (54)
Nightly (140)
Firefox Metro
Project Performance
- From Iterations #1 - #2:
- Total Points Completed: 62
- Total Stories Closed: 11
- Team Point Velocity: 31 per iteration
- Average Stories Closed: 5.5 per iteration
- Average Point Closure Rate: 29% per iteration
- Scope Change (Defects and Changes): 17 points over 7 stories
- Story Backlog: 26 stories ready for upcoming iterations.
- Legacy Backlog: 6 stories remaining for QA testing.
- On Hold Backlog: 4 stories remaining for Product Manager clarification before being moved into Story Backlog.
- Triage Backlog: 43 items for Product Manager to review before being converted to defects, changes or work.
- Planning Backlog: 33 stories for Team to review, relate to work items and assign point values.
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Iteration #3 - In Progress
- Iteration Backlog: Firefox Metro Iteration #3: February 26, 2013 - March 11, 2013
- Team Commitment: 72 points over 12 stories
- Progress To Date:
- 22 points completed over 7 stories.
- 30.5% closure rate on points.
- 50 points over 5 stories remain to complete iteration.
Iteration #4 - Upcoming
- Iteration Backlog: Firefox Metro Iteration #4: March 14, 2013 - March 27, 2013
Firefox Mobile
Current Releases
Beta (140)
- We shipped Fx20b2 to Google play: https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Fennec/20/Beta/2
- Fx20b3 is currently being tested: https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Fennec/20/Beta/3
Aurora (54)
Nightly (140)
Services
Firefox Sync
Product Announcements
Add-on SDK
Release (1.13.2 -> Firefox 19, 20)
Stabilization (1.14 -> Firefox 20, 21)
Development (Firefox 22)
Feedback Summary
Desktop
Mobile
UX & User Research
Market Insights from the Product Marketing Strategy Team
Desktop / Platform
- In a continued extension of Google Plus services into the Android ecosystem, Android developers can let users login to applications using Google+.
- Chrome Canary on Windows now sports an app launcher, which allows Chrome-installed packaged web apps to be easily installed outside of the browser.
- Google also unprefixed the CSS properties for transitions and now offers support for the <template> element part of Web Components. The latter is a feature that has received significant attention from the developer community.
- The company also open-sourced Zopfli, a deflate-compatible, compress-only replacement for zlib that offers 3-8% better compression levels
- Chrome Beta for Android now offers support for http://blog.chromium.org/2013/03/data-compression-in-chrome-beta-for.html SPDY-based proxy browsing]. The service compresses traffic, serves it all via SSL, replaces DNS lookups, and transcodes all images to the WebP format. Chrome for Android now also syncs all passwords and form autofill entries between desktop and mobile browser.
- Chrome Stable now supports the Web Speech API, with a nice Chrome-only demo.
- Chrome has also disabled silent extension installs, improved their spell checking to support grammar, homonym, and context-sensitive checking, a web game that can be controlled by up to four Chrome for Android devices, and improved their Octane Javascript performance by 25%.
- Chrome OS has increased the priority of tabs which are playing audio, making it less likely that they will be discarded in low memory situations. Tabs which are playing audio will now have a visual indicator displaying the volume, making it a lot easier to determine where these random sounds are coming from.
HTML5
- A survey by HTML5 tools vendor Kendo UI found that 50% of developers developed HTML5 apps in 2012, but 90% plan to in 2013, and that only 15% of developers would do "native-only" development.
Microsoft
- Microsoft has been fined fined €561m by the European commission for failing to give users a choice of web browser when they logged into Windows computers for the first time between May 2011 and July 2012. The fine works out to about 37 euros for each user affected.
- Microsoft released the GA version of Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7. Their blog post features a new TV commercial highlighting the benefits of IE10 for touch-based devices.
Opera
- Opera skipped version 13 and went directly to Opera Beta 14 for Android for the new WebKit-based version of their browser. Initial reviews have been positive, both for performance and for the inclusion of a "Discover" curated content discovery tool. Some of the first WebKit patches from Opera engineers also landed.
Canonical / Ubuntu
- Just in time for Mobile World Congress, Canonical released "Ubuntu Touch 12.10 Preview", which was an early-stage preview of the Ubuntu Linux operating system for Nexus-series mobile phones. The preview was awarded best of MWC 2013 by CNet.
Security
- The Pwn2Own security contest starts today, with multiple security researchers competing for $560,000 to defeat the security of popular browsers. Chrome released an update shortly before the event that fixed 10 security vulnerabilities.
WebKit
- Google's Paul Irish posted a simple clear summary of the architecture design of most WebKit-based browsers.
- WebKit's new threaded HTML parser is now passing all tests and can be enabled with a flag.
W3C
Marketing, Press & Public Reaction
Desktop Marketing
- Marketshare holds "steady as a rock" at 20% for February.
- Mobile World Congress: It's now over! As you've heard it was a huge sucess. Top WebRTC question: "When will it be available on Android?"
- Other Desktop Projects: Speaking to SEO vendors, Social API multi-provider planning, ongoing release planning