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
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Contents
Actions from Last Week
Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases
Firefox Desktop
Current Releases
- FF21 was released yesterday, 5/14 - release notes are available at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/21.0/releasenotes/
Beta (133)
- 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 (134)
- 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.
27 Total; 0 Open (0%); 6 Resolved (22.22%); 21 Verified (77.78%);
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 (133)
- [AT RISK] Added locale: Slovak <== We'd like to get sk in for Beta 2
- State of good repair:
- [ON TRACK] ANR Reporter
- [ON TRACK] New tab UI <==UX agrees to rename this line item to "refinements" as the UI structure landed in Fx21
- [ON TRACK] [Performance improvements]<== URL for game: http://apps.playcanvas.com/playcanvas/oubliette/latest?overlay=false
- We would also like to be sure we get this in for Beta 2 bug 857459 - some about:home content is not displayed at first start-up
Aurora (54)
- [AT RISK] Firefox Health Report
- [AT RISK] Added locale: Turkish
- [AT RISK] Added locale: Hungarian
- [ON TRACK] Dynamic URL bar
- [ON TRACK] NFC bump for tab sharing
- [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, confirmed: preffed OFF
- [ON TRACK] L10N foundation improvements
- [ON TRACK] READER: Serif/Sans Serif font toggle, Add to reading list from long tap, add to reading list from context menu <== Engineering recommends to hold off on promo of this feature until bug 871014 - Refine Reader Menu is implemented
- [ON TRACK] UI for changing search engine default
- [ON TRACK] RSS/Atom feed handling
Nightly (134)
- Quickshare is in progress, may land bug 869123 - Quick Share from Android menu
- Mixed Content is also a possible addition bug 860581 - Add support for Mixed Content Blocking
- There is great progress being made on About:home redesign and also on https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Projects/Reflow_on_zoom
- [ON TRACK] Reader improvements
- [PLANNED] Packaged apps support
- [PLANNED] Web Audio API
- [PLANNED] API: Push notifications
- [PLANNED] SkiaGL improvements
- [PLANNED] Addition of search engines
- [PLANNED] Set Top Box optimization
- [PLANNED] Directional game console navigation
- [PROPOSED] API: Payments
- [PROPOSED] API: Alarm
- [PROPOSED] Changing default search engines by locale
- [PROPOSED] Shumway: generic video player
- [PROPOSED] bug 850984 Change default search engine for zh-CN
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.
- User Experience Research in SE Asia.
- [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
- Supporting implementation; working doc
- [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
- [Sync, PiCL] Gathering feedback and iterating on design http://people.mozilla.com/~zfang/FirefoxAccount/PiCL0425.pdf (Zhenshuo)
- [Firefox on FxOS]
- Resolved a critical FFOS browser issue that is blocking release: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=833795 (Larissa)
- [metro] WORKWEEK (yuan)
- [android] (ibarlow)
- Work in progress
- Getting up to speed on Mixed Content blocking, and thinking about the mobile UX for it
- Getting into some visual design work for about:health report soon
- bug 864958 Some subtle adjustments to the PB chrome
- bug 808636 Reviewing work in progress on mobile error pages
- Continuing work with Product on some UX prerequisites for Mozilla Apps on Android
- Standing by for any and all questions about Multipage About:home
- Usability testing plan for Multipage about:home
- TV design concepts
- Design thinking http://people.mozilla.com/~zfang/TV/FirefoxonTV.pdf
- Initial Sketches http://people.mozilla.com/~zfang/TV/FirefoxTV_Sketches0506.pdf
- Multiscreening workshop next week, stay tuned
- New tablet concepts (Yuan)
- Designs ready to go
- Lots of exciting refinements lined up for Reader Mode
- bug 862445 Refinements to Serif view
- bug 871014 Refine Reader Menu
- bug 872046 Refine "Entering Reading Mode" experience
- bug 871593 Improved article-to-article Reading List navigation
- bug 871600 Add end mark to Reader Mode articles
- bug 862543 Rethink Exit Reader icon
- bug 871994 Provide better visual feedback for Add to Reading List long press
- bug 869123 Quick Share -- shortcut to most frequently used sharing service
- bug 867371 Updated Settings UI in progress
- bug 853844 New progress indicator
- bug 867633 Consolidate lock icon and forward button animations in toolbar
- bug 847435 Updated look for back session history menu
- bug 868998 Reveal title bar by scrolling a certain distance
- Lots of exciting refinements lined up for Reader Mode
- Work in progress
- [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
- 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
- Microsoft, in a blog post, released a series of third-party market research reports that described how iPad users were unhappy with the browsers on their tablets, and how MSIE10 performed better than competition from Safari or Chrome.
- Microsoft also produced a short-but-interesting video of how to develop for Windows Phone using HTML5 and Javascript
- Microsoft announced that a free update to Windows 8, Windows 8.1, will be release later this year. A rumoured feature will be return of the Start Button.
- In related news, analysts are asserting that Microsoft may walk away from the Windows RT platform due to poor industry takeup.
W3C
- A First Public Working Draft of the HTML5 Encrypted Media Extensions standard, providing for HTML5 APIs to control the playback of DFM-protected content. An international coalition of internet freedom organizations urged the W3C to abandon the effort.
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.