Firefox/Planning/2012-10-10
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
Contents
- 1 Actions from Last Week
- 2 Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases
- 3 Feedback Summary
- 4 User-Experience (design and research)
- 5 Market Insights
- 6 Marketing, Press & Public Reaction
- 7 Questions, Comments, FYI
- 8 Actions this week
Actions from Last Week
Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases
Basecamp
Firefox Desktop
Release (16, 10esr)
- 16.0 shipped on Tuesday, we're chempspilling a 16.0.1 (both Desktop and Mobile) right now for bug 799952 with ride-alongs: bug 798045, bug 790139, bug 793829
Beta (17)
- 17.0b1, rebuilding build2 for same bug and targetting Thursday afternoon release
- Note: 17.0b2 is going to ship on Monday, October 22 at 7am PT for PR news cycle on Social API
Aurora (18)
- First Aurora 18 update still being targeted for Friday, Oct 12th - currently with QA
Nightly (19)
- It's Firefox 19 now!
Firefox Mobile
Release (16)
- Chemspill 16.0.1 being built today, with ride-alongs (see Desktop Release notes for bug numbers)
- Reader is getting positive reviews
- Feedback is ending more people to Firefox Input (4x more)
Beta (17)
- 17.0b2 will ship (as normal) on Friday Oct 19th since it doesn't fall into the PR news on Social Api that Desktop is shipping on Monday Oct 22nd for
- Deciding on how to promote WebApps/Marketplace
Aurora (18)
- reflow on zoom landed, defaulted off, but with a primary UI switch. Please help test
- Safe browsing is now turned on. First Mobile browser to ship this feature
- Telemetry probes for Awesomebar Perf and Android Startup Action
- Put a major dent in our crash rate by fixing our top 5 crashers by signature
Nightly (19)
- Private Browsing (per tab) landed, but UI will be defaulted off behind a perference
Services
Firefox Sync
- Firefox Account work is ramping up, first stage for the next generation of Sync
Product Announcements (formerly Android Snippets)
- l10n-impacting pieces landed in advance of Fx18 merge to Aurora.
- client service on track to land soon, may seek uplift to Aurora depending on timing/risk assessment
- server component work ongoing
Add-on SDK
Release (1.10 -> Firefox 16, 17)
Stabilization (1.11 -> Firefox 17, 18)
Development (1.12 -> Firefox 18, 19)
The core goals is to preserve current development ergonomics and maybe share those with other teams::
- The canonical SDK repository remains on github.
- Code can be contributed via pull requests or patches in bugzilla.
- Changes to SDK modules should not require Firefox builds.
- Weekly drops from the current github integration branch will be dropped into an HG branch, validated, then merged into m-c
- SDK test suite will be integrated into the Mozlla test suite and run on each commit
Identity
Apps
Feedback Summary
Desktop
Things are very stable at this point. Just one smaller issue:
- Delicious add-on may be causing URL not to appear in awesome bar. Waiting for confirmation before filing bug [1]
Mobile
Google Play Reviews are very positive for this Release. Feedback solicitation is working as expected, resulting in a significant increase in Input Feedback. Reader Mode and Performance are the biggest wins for us in this release.
User-Experience (design and research)
- [desktop]
- [Australis] (Zhenshuo, Shorlander)
- starting work on ways to introduce/explain Australis on first-run/update
- working with engineering to get from designs to implementation
- [Social API] (Boriss)
- Exploring alternatives to initial, simple dropdown multi-provider UI, sketching next version *** Mocking up parts of first install experience such as explanatory notifications on feature
- Reviewing our marketing materials & text
- [newtab2/hometab] (Boriss)
- Iterating design document for new design (current WIP version can be downloaded here)
- Soliticiting feedback on concept & converting to high fidelity mockups
- [Australis] (Zhenshuo, Shorlander)
- [sync/identity] (zhenshuo)
- iterating on Firefox Account proposal
- research study on identity completed - results include a set of 5 distinct identity groups; more in this blog post, full report forthcoming (Mary, Lindsay)
- [project SPF (security/privacy)] (larissa)
- a bit of brainstorming about how we measure the effect of usable security design https://firefox-ux.etherpad.mozilla.org/projectSPF-Metrics
- [webRTC] (Boriss)
- Incorporating current design & ideas from Shorlander into more complete Australis version of feature
- [metro] (yuan)
- metro Preview is out!
- assembling a blog post about the design thinking behind what's in the Preview
- Overview of what's next, UI-wise (PDF)
- All the UI documents, as always, are here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox_Metro_UI
- metro Preview is out!
- [android] (ibarlow)
- In Progress
- Font Licensing
- bug 799967 Getting some test fonts this week, and need help getting test builds with them installed
- Private Browsing - Mockups (in progress) http://cl.ly/image/1m3E1V3O2A1X - includes how to create new private tabs, UI changes, tab menu
- Safe Browsing (and updating some other error pages)
- Firefox OS has a set of mockups that we will be following fairly closely on Android: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/57puqw6dr0dlus3/L6YX6IRTb3#/ mockups c/o Patryk
- UI Responsiveness efforts – working list https://firefox-ux.etherpad.mozilla.org/25
- bug 792407 Armv6 design tweaks http://cl.ly/image/1r1A0n172Y1j
- bug 708707 bug 786029 Android home screen and search widgets underway. http://cl.ly/image/0F0k2J3A3Y3v
- Font Licensing
- Longer term work
- Android Sync Setup Improvements
- Sketches – http://cl.ly/image/2r3B1C2i462g
- Working with Sync team and Desktop UX to scope work https://wiki.mozilla.org/Services/Sync/NextGen
- First Run & Update UX – sketches http://cl.ly/image/3c460L2v1Z30
- Search Enhancements – sketches http://cl.ly/image/1Q2x3J2N1X1s
- Top Sites customization on about:home – preliminary sketching http://cl.ly/image/1F1R2J1W1d1c
- Future improvements to about:home – sketches http://cl.ly/image/1x0A1K0r2g2m
- Android Sync Setup Improvements
- In Progress
- [Behavioral Segmentation Study] (Lindsay, Bill, Leo)
- in the gory details of planning and participant recruiting
- current list of upcoming field work locations: LA, Toronto, Charlotte
- Leo designed and analyzed a survey exploring the relationship between psychological factors of user behavior and browser usage patterns, you can read more here: https://blog.mozilla.org/ux/2012/10/firefox-meta-study/
- [other/future]
- Planning a "concept week" design sprint the week of October 22nd - turning user-research into design concepts
Market Insights
Desktop / Platform
Adobe
- Adobe made an urgent security release for Flash that fixed 25 critical flaws.
- Google announced Google Developers Live Presents, a "series of exclusive programming from Google Developers Live". All the sessions feature the use of newer web technologies behind Chrome Experiments.
- Chrome Canary builds now offer support for AudioContext, which provides low-latency access to live audio from microphone or other audio inputs.
- Google also published a set of standards, libraries and tools to assist Android developers to make "best-in-class" tablet apps.
Microsoft
- Microsoft made a blog post and demo of their proposed Internationalization API for handling formatting of strings, date and time objects.
- Microsoft also issued the first Security Advisory for Adobe Flash on Windows 8.
Opera
- Opera announced that their mobile browsers would now provide a "Device-Stock-UA" HTTP header, and are proposing it as an industry standard.
- Opera Mobile 12.1 was also released this week
Tizen
- The Tizen 2.0 Alpha release was announced, adding a significant number of WebAPIs, HTML5 video subtitles and captions, the W3C screen orientation API, and many others.
Mobile
Summary below, full update here and in your inbox.
- 2012 stats: 38% of phones sold are under $39, average price of phones went up to $143, in 2013 more than 50% of all phones sold will be smart, 9% of all phones in use have dual-SIM support
- Asia reached 1 billion Netizens, of which 794 million will be mobile users by the end of 2012
- US Congressional report recommends away from business with Chinese network equipment manufacturers
- LG rumored to be next Nexus OEM
- Windows Phone 8 device line-up from Nokia and HTC expected to be available soon
- Nokia introduced data compression app in App Store aimed at emerging markets
- Amazon opened Japan as a market for app submissions
- Samsung to merge Bada with Tizen
Marketing, Press & Public Reaction
Marketing
Desktop
- Desktop reached an all-time ADI high yesterday -- CONGRATS!
- Focus is on launching the Social API -- first to Beta, then to a GA audience November 20th w/Fx 17
- Entire Engagement team OFFSITE next week Tue-Fri afternoon, we will be really hard to reach
Mobile
- Firefox for Android 16 was released yesterday with some great new features including Reader Mode, Feedback Solicitation, and Sync improvements
- Feedback solicitation has produced great information, and we're on the cusp of a 4.0 star rating
- SUMO: ≈180 pieces of input in a single day (previous around 10 per day)
- Google Play: ≈900 new 5 star ratings and ≈30 1-star ratings
- Feedback solicitation has produced great information, and we're on the cusp of a 4.0 star rating
- Mobile one-off email scheduled next week to feature Reader Mode
- Creative meeting with Ansible this week to discuss mobile campaigns for Q1
Press
Firefox 16 Launches With Safari-Like Reader Mode On Android, New Developer Tools On Desktop
Firefox 16 Offers New Tools for Web Developers
More HTML5 deemed ready-to-use in Firefox 16
Firefox 16 released with powerful developer tools
Firefox 16 launches with new developer tools, Reader Mode for Android
Questions, Comments, FYI
- (Michael Verdi) Just curious, did we message Firefox 3.6 EOL again? We have a huge spike in visits to the 3.6 EOL article on SUMO over the last 24 hrs.
- Facebook is altering 3.6 users that they need to update and they are linking to the article.
- (Axel) on vacation for two weeks, CC :l10n on bugs, stas can answer questions, too