Firefox/Planning/2013-12-11

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

Actions from Last Week

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

• Firefox 26.0 shipped on Tuesday! (tell your friends)
• Firefox ESR 24.2 shipped - auto-updates from ESR17 which is now officially dead
• Casual reminder that our next release is on Feb 4, 2014 (2 weeks pushed out)

Firefox Desktop & Platform

Current Releases

• No known issues, we are 10% throttled and will fully throttle on Thursday to gather data

Beta (133)

• FF27.0b1 is with QA, ships tomorrow (Thurs)

Aurora (54)

• Updates are throttled fully, will unthrottle updates to FF28 on Friday morning

Nightly (134)

Firefox Metro

Read Only

• Team working on Iteration #21 until Friday January 03.
• The forecasted size of the work for Aurora (in the Backlog and in Iteration #21) totals 161 points.
• To date, 8 out of 83 points completed for Iteration #21.
• Given our velocity range, there exists a potential carry over of 15 - 40 points to iteration #22.
• To date, 26 bugs are blocking our uplift to Beta 28 - View Backlog

26 Total; 0 Open (0%); 9 Resolved (34.62%); 17 Verified (65.38%);

Firefox Mobile

Current Releases

So far so good with reviews for Fx26 \o/

Beta (133)

• [ON TRACK] Overhaul of the favicon system bug 914296
• [ON TRACK] Marketplace discoverability - simple UI polish
• [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, continued
• [ON TRACK] Remove overscroll and show highlight instead bug 705246 and bug 791475
• [ON TRACK] Developer improvements: IDE support bug 924961
• [ON TRACK] Memory usage improvements: bug 931843
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: South African English (za-EN)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Thai (th)
• [AT RISK] Added locale: Lithuanian (lt)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Slovenian (sl)

Aurora (54)

• [AT RISK] bug 768667 - Use the action bar for text selection on ICS+
• [ON TRACK] bug 852608 - Add support for OpenSearch. Firefox Mobile supports <link rel="search">
• [ON TRACK] Dynamic snippets support preffed off
• [ON TRACK] bug 932865 - Hang detection
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Estonian (et)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Belarusian (be)

Nightly (134)

• [ON TRACK] Dynamic snippets support preffed on
• [ON TRACK] Telemetry probes for Fennec UI elements
• [ON TRACK] bug 875750 - Implement <input type="color">: Android widget/color picker
• [AT RISK] PDF.js support (v1 cupcake)
• [AT RISK] WebApp experience - APK Synthesis
• [AT RISK] Multiple Quickshare Buttons - 2 Quickshare on main menu
• [AT RISK] Quickshare Contexts
• [AT RISK] Quickshare: Settable default service for quickshare buttons
• [AT RISK] Project video to second screen (preffed off)
• [PROPOSED] API: Contacts (incl permissions bump)
• [PROPOSED] Geolocation services (incl permissions bump)
• [PROPOSED] My List: Manage current lists in settings
• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Indonesian (id)
• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Hindi(hi)

Developer Tools

Note: no audible, I'm over in the offline apps brown-bag instead.

• Jetpack
  • Add-on SDK 1.15 due to ship tomorrow
  • Builder EOL delayed 1 week as per PR request
• Outbound
  • Aurora 28 Post is drafted and ready to go for next week
  • working with devengage to get updated devtools info into their stock events slides, thanks cheilmann!
• Landings
  • we're deep in the throes of a major visual visual overhaul, so many bugs being created, filed, fixed. Great work by the team and super-star contributor Optimizer for squashing bugs.

Feedback Summary

Desktop

Watching the Firefox 26 release, nothing on fire so far.

Mobile

Ditto

UX & User Research

• [Desktop]
  • [Australis]
    • Update Experience - Created draft test plan for Australis Update: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkMU8m1rqpdUdE5sRzgyZUw3YXVlTkUtR1loM1BvR3c&usp=sharing#gid=0 [Zhenshuo]
    • Initial design for update page http://cl.ly/0T3k1w2T051Z [Zhenshuo, Holly]
    • Final tweaking of customization behavior: http://phlsa.github.io/ff-customization-animation/ [Philipp]
    • Explorations on tab opening behavior http://phlsa.github.io/ff-tab-opening/ [Philipp]
    • See again interactive mockups for final look and feel: OSX, Windows 7, Windows 8
    • Tips UI for Customization mode bug 870593
    • Blog post coming shortly with more detail on UI simplification and customization

• [Metro]
  • Metro start screen / onboarding: https://bug941284.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=8344046 [mmaslaney]

• [Android]
  • Tablets - planning a Kickoff Sprint for tablet UI https://firefox-ux.etherpad.mozilla.org/tablets-2014
  • Roku - Initial Mockups for feedback (Landing screens, Mobile control [Zhenshuo]
  • Design research into Auto-fill http://goo.gl/rPpe5b [Arun]

• More gory detail in the Firefox UX Team's weekly updates

Market Insights from the Market Strategy Team

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

Product Marketing

• Welcome Eric Petitt, new Director of Marketing all things Firefox
• Firefox for Windows 8 Touch: Starting work on the Windows 8 First Run experience with the UI team next week [Laura]
• Mobile World Congress: Positioning overviews for each of our products has now been submitted and is current under review with the MWC team and Pete [Dan H]
• Indonesia Desktop Campaign: Now live in Indonesia. Great results so far. Goal is to help increase usage levels within Indonesia within Q4. Get your Kumi paper toy here or use this Indonesian Theme here. [Gen, Viking]
• Brazil Desktop Campaign: Update - goes live today. Get ready, Brazil. [Kristin, Laura & NoBox]
• Australis Marketing Launch: The Engagement team "wave" is currently reviewing channel launch plans. The final launch plan will be presented to core Firefox product team early Jan [Laura]
• Van's Social API Sidebar: This social API implementation is helping to support our overall Van's Triple Crown sponsorship and makes Firefox the best browser to keep up with contests.

PR

• Firefox Stable Version 26 Hits The Play Store With New Home Page Interface, Pinned Tabs, Performance Improvements, And More
• Firefox update delivers new home page for Android
• Firefox for Android Updated With New Homescreen Experience
• Firefox For Android Gets New Homescreen, Adds Bing And Yahoo As Search Options

Questions, Comments, FYI

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