Firefox/Planning/2013-10-30
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
Contents
Actions from Last Week
Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases
Firefox Desktop & Platform
Current Releases
- No known issues at this time, release updates are currently throttled to 10%
Beta (133)
- 26.0b1 is with QA, ships tomorrow if all goes well
- CTP by default will be closely watched. See https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/firefox-dev/2013-October/001052.html for details about the UI choices.
Aurora (54)
- Unthrottling updates to FF27 on Friday
- Mixed content warning will no longer show on a HTTP site (bug 909920)
Nightly (134)
- as you can see, we have a new version on Nightly, please use the 'feature' keyword on anything you want early attention on
- Network "seer" (predictive pre-opening of connections/DNS/etc.) has landed (bug 881804)
Firefox Metro
- Team started Iteration #18 which runs until Friday November 8.
- APZC Development - Stephen Pohl and Kartikaya Gupta are now on Metro working on APZC: View Bug.
- Profile Sharing Features have been added to the Backlog: View Bugs.
- Legal review has cleared development: View Bug.
- Completion of features in time for uplift to Aurora 28 cannot be determined at this time as development has just begun.
- To date, 28 bugs in the Backlog are blocking uplift to Aurora 28: View Bugs.
- To date, 20 bugs in Iteration #18 are blocking uplift to Aurora 28: View Bugs.
22 Total; 0 Open (0%); 11 Resolved (50%); 11 Verified (50%);
Firefox Mobile
Current Releases
Beta (133)
Aurora (54)
Nightly (134)
Developer Tools
- Outbound - a quiet week but the Aurora uplift post is coming next week, and a post on the WebGL Shader Editor the following week.
- Ability to push certified apps from the App Manager is on it's way to Beta bug 927108
- Recent landings in 27:
- CodeMirror is everywhere, and Orion is no longer used.
- Edit as HTML bug 895561
- Preview Images in Inspector bug 765105
- -jsdebugger flag for running mochitests bug 895471
Feedback Summary
Desktop
Monitoring Firefox 25 release
Mobile
Monitoring Firefox 25 release
User Experience
- [Desktop]
- [Australis] (Zhenshuo, Shorlander, Michael)
- Triaging and Bug Grouping: https://firefox-ux.etherpad.mozilla.org/Australis-finalpass
- Final polish pass of visual design for Windows 8 — https://people.mozilla.org/~shorlander/mockups-interactive/australis-interactive-mockups/windows8.html
- Measurement - we have a plan for instrumenting Australis with Telemetry (Blake)
- Australis Update Experience & First Run Experience (Zhenshuo, Holly)
- Project summary & flow PDF: http://cl.ly/1J2S2K1y2Q1f Keynote: http://cl.ly/0B3M1s2E3d1u
- Chenxia will be adding a UITelemetry module to make it easy for front-end developers to instrument! bug 932092
- [In-content UI] - Updates for Preferences (Zhenshuo, Michael)
- Updated visual design: General, Content, Applications, Privacy, Security, Sync, Advanced
- Interaction design: http://people.mozilla.org/~zfang/Preferences/InContentPrefs-Popup10:29.pdf
- Searchable Prefs Demo: http://geeksbynature.dk/ux/in-content-search.webm - bug 782599
- [Australis] (Zhenshuo, Shorlander, Michael)
- [Metro] (Yuan)
- Recruiting participants for v1 usability study scheduled in mid November: https://metro.etherpad.mozilla.org/usabilitytesting
- Readability concept: http://cl.ly/300S2T220B32 bug 927124
- In-content crash reporting update:http://cl.ly/1f413r0Q1H0Z
- [Android]
- Kicking off second screen work (mobile --> tv) (Zhenshuo)
- Home page enhancements
- Adding other lists / feeds -- expect designs next week!
- sneak peak http://cl.ly/image/1g380k3d302D
- bug 931021 refinements to contextual actions
- Adding other lists / feeds -- expect designs next week!
- Quickshare enhancements
- Support for multiple providers
- Support for QS in contextual menus
- Expect designs next week!
- Split action bar
- putting implementation on hold to explore other UI alternatives
- PDF.js (early stage sketches in progress): https://www.dropbox.com/s/eup9h3o5idlvqdy/PDF-js%20Demo%20%28UX%20crit%29.pdf (Arun)
- Up next
- Form input UX enhancements
- Mobile commerce
- Kid browsing v1
- Tablet refresh scoping
- Other/Future
- Ryan Feeley (Services UX team) is working on website wireframes and future vision for what coalesces around accounts.firefox.com. Please review basic vision diagram and drop in a post-it note or two: http://www.lucidchart.com/invitations/accept/5270069f-db78-400e-bc41-5a360a009754
Market Insights from the Market Strategy Team
Desktop / Platform
- Study: 75% of businesses are already exploring Internet of Things. Only 6% of those interviewed think of it as hype, and 94% believe IoT will have a significant impact in the next 3 years.[1]
- Li-Fi, also known as visible light communications (VLC) using LED light bulb can produce data speeds of up to 150 Mbps. [2]
- Google+ has 300 million monthly active users, up from 190 million in May. [3]
Microsoft
- Windows sales to makers of consumer PCs declined 22% in the last quarter from a year ago, while sales of Windows for professional PCs rose 6%. Commercial revenue grew 10%. [4]
Amazon
- Amazon's Matchbook service now live, works with over 70,000 books for $3 or less. [5]
Marketing, Press & Public Reaction
~~ New Items ~~ Happy Birthday Firefox! (New): Firefox turns 9 next week on November 9th. To help celebrate the Engagement Team is launching a campaign to share our accomplishments with our users and industry press via a blog post, snippets, email, and social. Get ready to wish Firefox a happy golden birthday! [PR Team, User Engagement]
~~ Headlines & Accomplishments ~~ Consumer Value Proposition Discovery: This one has been on this list for a while and is reaching another milestone this week. The survey will be signed off on this Wednesday and translation will start for the regions where this will launch: Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, US, and Germany. [Laura]
Search Engine Optimization: Our first measurement to gauge how this is working was last week. The conclusion was that two weeks is just too early to judge SEO results. The next check-in will happen in another two weeks looking at a month worth of Data [Laura, Chris More, Jen B, Global Strategies]
~~ Key Next Steps ~~ Brazil Desktop Campaign: We're currently designing a campaign to coincide with the launch of Firefox OS in Brazil in order to leverage our partner's spend in this region since Firefox will "be in the air." This week we'll be deciding on campaign concepts that were proposed last week. [Kristin, Laura & NoBox]
Australis Marketing Launch: The launch strategy has been finalized across engagement and we're now in "wave" planning mode (a "wave" is a name for a large cross-engagement marketing campaign). This week the Engagement Leads will review the Wave RASCI and then we can start cracking. [Laura]
Indonesia Desktop Campaign: Viking from the Indonesia campaign is driving a large-scale national campaign to help increase usage levels within Indonesia within Q4. Next step: decide on a launch date and then launch the thing! [Gen, Viking]
Questions, Comments, FYI
- Mozilla releases 10 patches, five critical, for Firefox
- Firefox 25 now official with guest browsing on Android
- Firefox 25 Welcomes Mobile Guests
- Firefox 25 arrives with Web Audio API support, guest browsing and mixed content blocking on Android
- Mozilla releases Firefox 25, includes Web Audio support