Mobile/ProductPlanning/Notes-2013-05-21

Details

• irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
• Mobile Vidyo Room
• Tuesdays @ 9:00am Pacific
• Roadmap landing page
• Product Planning landing page

Agenda & Minutes

Roadmap launchpad: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Roadmap

Shift in Meeting Topics

• Tuesday product planning meetings to shift focus on features in the Waiting Room
  • Discuss any additions to the project pages relevant to moving forward with those features with the intent of moving them to a targeted release as soon as everyone feels there is enough information
• Good pulse with the Wednesday engineering meetings and Project Management 1:1s with a view of ensuring all release work is on track
• Will keep a standing agenda item to ensure there is time to raise any red flags and hot items that would benefit from a discussion with those in attendance at the Tuesday meetings

Roadmap Review - Engineering

• Product Management is hosting the Engineering Heads to a product-line roadmap review (all products will be reviewed) this Thursday
• Intent is that this becomes a regular feature in the product management calendar

Red Flags / Hot Items

• Any hot items, red flags of important topics to discuss for 21 (GA), 22 (beta) or 23 (aurora)?
• Slovak should make it into b2 for 22
• Dynamic toolbar bugs being worked on
• FHR red flag for Fx 23 release but is moving forward
  • Biggest risk: web dev and 'visualization' of search (desktop records search?) but needs privacy and security sign-off
  • UX talking about this on Wednesday
• about:home redesign - will be done when done, working on FIG
  • Usability testing to be performed on FIG and not on nightly
  • 24 too ambitious, can put it in 25 as the earliest achievable
• shumway - stake in the ground keeping it in at 24 but need to mesh both engineering and productization expectations are met
  • at risk for 24
• No PiCL MVP timing plan

Roadmap Review - content

• https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Roadmap
• Those who are visual, please see PDF version in your inbox)
• WebAudio api
  • Big API for implementation
  • Preffed-on in Fx 23 but not the whole API will have landed (some support lands for 23)
  • Fx 24 - roll-up of work?
  • EL to double-check with Martin
• PushNotification
  • May not turn on if spec is in flux at the WC3 level (so will require monitoring)
  • Also privileged)
• Payments
  • Landed but we don't yet have anything that runs with payments
  • Marketing push needs to be documented (privileged)
• Dynamic snippets
  • FHR is the conflicting project
  • Settings menu should be prio for localization and we can uplift to aurora in 24 if required (marketplace promo) and can slip to 25 if required
  • Meta bug that details out what work can be done in parallel without Richard's need?
• WebApp management -> WebApp experience
  • Needs the webapp team to sign them off as APKs (which transitions them away from an html5 app experience)
  • Tradeoff: treat them as HTML5 webapps, or treat them like native Android apps
  • Engineering talked to the WebApps teams about APK synthesis and pulled together some prototypes
  • Webview will not be packed: Fx will still act as the runtime
  • What needs to be prototyped: privileged apps support, updates, installation, runtime, permissions, ...
  • Do we want a fallback (in about:, or widget, or....)
• Guest mode
  • Not dependent on PiCL
• WebRTC - preffed on?
  • Not supporting 2.2
  • Not supporting ARMv6
  • When prompts (UI) in place, can we pref it on and collect data as it comes in? Blocklist as needed? Use beta as our testing ground

Feature Review

• What feature to review next week?

Exercise

• Worthwhile to run a SWOT for 20 mins with this team to ensure we all recognize and list our strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats
• Strengths & Weaknesses: internal to Mozilla (features, resources, core competences, etc)
• Opportunities & Threats: external to Mozilla (industry, competition, etc)