Firefox/Planning/2013-05-15

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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 (154)

  • FF22b1 has gone to build yesterday and is targeted to be release before end of week

Aurora (54)

  • Aurora updates are disabled - will enable on Friday to update to Aurora 23

Nightly (154)

  • Nightly is now FF24 as of 5/13

Firefox Metro

Read Only

  • Metro Team currently in Vancouver on Work Week.
  • Work Week has focused on areas of:
    • Improving our team velocity.
    • Improving our quality levels.
    • Prioritizing our existing Defect Backlog.
    • Removing unnecessary features from our V1 release.
    • Discussions on Aurora and Beta uplift criteria.
  • Team working on Iteration #7 until May 23.
    • 20% of the Iteration work has been completed to date.

<bugzilla> 

   {
       "id": "8781002, 831905, 831909, 831915, 833131, 833132, 833182, 849395, 850737, 855147, 855297, 860899, 869237, 872159, 872243, 831913, 833130, 833133, 835623, 855663, 856049, 856267, 858598, 866065, 867115, 867121, 867163, 867616"
   }

</bugzilla>

Firefox Mobile

Current Releases

Congrats everyone! New web content fonts, Holo-ish theme changes, distribution file support (themes, bookmarks, pinned sites), Long-tap session history and HTML5 improvements. Overall feedback seems positive.

Beta (154)

Aurora (54)

Nightly (154)

Services

Firefox Sync

Product Announcements

Developer Tools

  • Jetpack shipped yesterday. BOOSH!
  • Aurora 23 aka ( Devtools Episode XXIII: Revenge of the Minotaur )
    • network monitor
    • source maps
    • remote style editing
    • options panel
    • ubiquitous variables view
    • browser console
    • gcli appcache command
    • Web Console in Debugger Frame
    • Multiple Paused Debuggers

Feedback Summary

Desktop

  • Looking at Feedback, pretty good sized spike in untrusted connections but that seems to have started two days ago (not release related)
  • A TON of feedback on Firefox Health Report ... haven't looked in detail yet but I'll have more next week.
  • Words that are spiking: install, complete (something about updates not completing?)

Mobile

User-Experience (Design and Research)

  • [User Research] (Bill Selman)
    • User Experience Research in SE Asia.
      • The UXR team has selected three emerging markets to conduct user research in for 2013. The work will be divided into two phases. the first phase will take place this summer and focus on Indonesia and Thailand. The second phase will take place in the fall and focus on India.
      • We are in the process of sending out and reviewing RFPs from potential partner consultancies with experience in these emerging markets to help with the field work and analysis, specifically, services such as logistics, recruiting, and translation.
    • User Type Study Presentation
      • Bill Selman and Cori Schauer have been presenting the results from the Firefox User Types in North America to various groups within Mozilla.
      • A Brownbag presentation of the findings will be presented to Mozilla as whole via Air Mozilla on Tuesday, June 4 at 12PM PST.
  • [desktop]
    • mockups for Australis-era jetpack API toolbar UI http://people.mozilla.com/~shorlander/files/addons-in-toolbar-i01/addons-in-toolbar.html (Stephen)
    • [Australis] (Zhenshuo, Stephen)
      • Supporting implementation; working doc
        • UX Nightly has a lot of progress in it; a lot still to come
        • Bugzilla re-org, use whiteboard [Australis:M5], [Australis:M6], and [Australis:M7] for tracking
      • Customization
        • Design details into bugs
        • The Add-ons Bar - coming to decision whether we remove it with Australis; if now, how to show in Customization
      • Help Menu (Zhenshuo, Michael Verdi)
        • Promoting and improving Reset Firefox: bug 872240 & bug 872241
        • FHR as a fallback if reset doesn’t solve the problem
      • also see First-run section, below
  • [Firstrun] (Zhenshuo, Holly)
    • Holly in SF this week - workweek
    • Goal: working prototype for feedback and testing
  • [WebRTC] (Boriss)
    • Creating mockups for next priority sprint user stories (audio communication, text, etc)
    • Making next series of design from where contractors left off
    • Working with team during talkilla workweek in Paris, fleshing out user stories and design work in agile context
  • [metro] WORKWEEK (yuan)
  • [other/future]
    • Design Engineer intern, Jack Montgomery, starting in SF next week!
    • Continued work on our design strategy framework -- more to share next week

Market Insights from the Product Marketing Strategy Team

Desktop / Platform

Google

  • Chrome Web app developers are now able to make use of Google Cloud Messaging for Chrome to enable efficient notifications to Chrome users. Notifications only work when the user is signed into Chrome.

Microsoft

W3C

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

  • PR - out at work week - coverage report to come later
  • Marketing - desktop product marketing currently focused on kicking off Consumer Value Proposition research, as well as conducting an assessment on our strengths & challenges our marketing channels face in key emerging markets.

Questions, Comments, FYI

Actions this week

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