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Agenda

• AIs from last meeting
  
  • Team: Review Roadmaps for Firefox for mobile and for Firefox Home - scheduled for 3/10
    
  • Stuart: flash / video blog post
  • Seth/Stuart/Mark/Thomas: define roadmap and actions for delivering language packs in Q2
  • Michael: ask Cheng - track clicks and devices. Update: Small screen templates are in place and the old, temp page which wasn't being tracked is now bypassed (as of today) so we should be getting stats now.
  • Stuart/John/Thomas: find out how more than one person can push to Android Market - see https://market.android.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139626
  • Caitlin: consolidate public supported devices page into one (mobile/platforms page)

• New ACTION ITEMS
  
  • (Stuart) Materials Needed: Video blog post, RC blog out line
  • (Madhava) Nice to have: UX post from Madhava re usability improvements, text reflow as experimental
    
  • (Mark): tweak code so Spark Campaign doesn't show in RC1- Bug 640647
• Beta 5 (launched Feb 23): User Feedback Update
  
  • as of 3/7/2011: 830584 downloads, 405348 active (48.8%), ratings (5/4/3/2/1) 2645/1746/1771/1288/1641 = 3.27 stars average (slight increase)
    
  • ratings within 24 hours of Beta 5 launch: 157/99/71/34/32 = 3.8 stars average!
    
• Release Candidate 1
• • http://blocker-reports.brasstacks.mozilla.com/mobile.html
    
  • Release Criteria and User-visible issues
  • Project Plan Update 
    
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases
    
• Updated: Android Device Compatibility Criteria Spreadsheet
• Dogfooding: Results from Internal Fennec Survey (Results)
  

2.0

2.0 planning page

• Proposed schedule

Localization

Filed Bug 634679 to address some potential issues with nightly testing and using lang packs.

Dashboard updates: https://l10n-stage-sj.mozilla.org/dashboard/?tree=fennec_mc

Seth continues to post these notes and the schedule to the l10n community.

Release Engineering

• Fennec 4.0rc1: bug 639948
  • Setting up mobile-2.0 branch: bug 639980
  • We will be building off of hg.m.o/releases/mozilla-2.1 and hg.m.o/releases/mobile-2.0. RelEng will sync these for rc1, then they will diverge from m-c and m-b.
  • http://oduinn.com/blog/2011/03/09/branch-mechanics-for-firefox4-0-fennec4-0/
• Reasons to merge m-b in with m-c
• tegras
  • Still working on tegra room + stability.
  • MV network issues have stolen significant time from this, but still top prioriy.
    • Network issues were affecting the tegras as well, so can be considered a blocker to tegra stability.
  • We will 2 more unit test suites when a-team is ready.
    • Jsreftests bug 639678 will be turned on when crashtests are fix
    • Crashtests bug 637660 have a small patch needed to run.
    • Reftest is waiting on a couple patches to get reviewed and landed as well in bug 437817 and bug 636753
• n900s
  • These weren't running as of Wednesday morning -- firewall changes had broken them. Now fixed. bug 638155
• Linux IPC tests deployed.

QA

• QA is ready for RC.
• Top crashes last week
• Waverley Results
• Android Device Compatibility Criteria Spreadsheet

Marketing & PR

• Work with Aaron to get final list of supported devices, consolidating lists
• Desktop download page to point to over-the-air, Firefox.com/m
  
• Spark campaign on staging. 1st of 4 events starts this Friday at SXSW
• Materials Needed: Video blog post, RC blog out line
  
• Nice to have: UX post from Madhava re usability improvements, text reflow as experimental
  

Feedback Summary

• Since Beta 5, our ranking remains the same - #22
  
  1. 1. 1 Issue on AM and Input: No Flash
        2. Usability: keyboard issues, copy & paste, text reflow (lets get a post together to discuss these improvements in RC)
        
• Top Praises: Clean UI, text rendering (universal access)
  
  

Support

• Small screen/mobile templates for SUMO now live. Click "Get Help" on the Fennec/Firefox start page.

Other

• Branching
  • We need an nspr merge to pick up ipv6 and large file support
  • Alon's defer open patch got 2.0-'d by firefox drivers, but we want it