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Dial-in

• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 8605 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8605 (US)
• IRC channel #mobile
• Vidyo: Room Warp Core

Agenda

• AIs from last meeting
  
  • Define single source of truth: Check Feature Spreadsheet vs. Wiki - see below 'Mobile Feature Documentation' (Stuart, Thomas) - see below
    
  • Aurora on Android Market (drive decision) - Stuart & Thomas with Jay, Chris
  • Legal request: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669929
    
• New ACTION ITEMS
  
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Firefox 5 (launched June 21): User Feedback Update

• as of 6/27/2011: 2620753 downloads, 1072133 active (40.91%), ratings (5/4/3/2/1) 9698 / 5556 / 5010 / 3773 / 4803= 3.41 stars average
• Firefox constantly in AppBrain's top ten (http://www.appbrain.com/app/firefox/org.mozilla.firefox)
  

Firefox 6 goes to BETA on July 5

Firefox 7 goes from NIGHTLY into AURORA on July 5

• Project Plan Update and https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases
  
• Updated: Android Device Compatibility Criteria Spreadsheet
  
• Go-to-build for Betas every Friday - but that doesn't mean we ship every new Beta

Rapid Release Cycle Survey (take it here) - spend two minutes to tell us what worked well, what needs improvement for future releases

• What is our single source of truth? - Spreadsheet vs. Wiki (see Action Item above)
• Mobile Test Pilot - HELP TEST!

• Mobile Feature Documentation
  • Mobile Eng Team: Master Sheet  (<-- this is our single source of truth; request access if you can't view the doc)
  • Cross-project feature and release documentation (derived from our Master Sheet):
    
    • Flight Tracking: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Flight_Tracking#Mobile
      
    • Feature List: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Features/Mobile
      
    • Feature Pages: linked from Feature List
      
    • New Feature Pages for all ideas features that are related to projects outside of mobile: go here
      
  • Roadmaps: Firefox for mobile | [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Home/Roadmap Firefox Home
    

Localization

• Status quo for the multi-locale dashboard (live link): 12 green, 7 signed off, one more pending (ja)
• chofman: populations and status of the marketing list of top tier mobile languages/countries: https://intranet.mozilla.org/L10n/Mobile
  
  

Release Engineering

Priorities page

• expecting "go to build" 6.0b1 on tuesday, expect to ship approx thursday
• localised Marketplace promo text still an issue bug 663984

QA

• testplan for Firefox 6 features is complete
  • working on cleanup and organization of feature pages
  • QA/Fennec/Milestones/6.0
• started tracking Firefox 7 features and creating test plans for those features
  • QA/Fennec/7
• Moz Japan talking to Softbank Mobile carrier for testing Fennec, all the help appreciated testing foreign devices
• Mozilla.com Q3 project to reconfigure and introduce a scalable listing of supported devices bug 653459

Marketing & PR

• Firefox (6) for Android Beta blog post -one post being drafted for 7/5
  
• Firefox Gone Mobile - SF & London - great success! Report from Wilson/Dan coming soon
  
• Media Buy starting mid-July
• Touch Events Dev Derby - August (Wilson)

Feedback Summary

Feature Feedback

General Insights

• The difference in praise for 5.0 since the release just keeps on increasing!

Support

• Mobile SUMO metrics
  • Traffic up about 25% due to the release.
• Michelle Luna, our new Mobile support coordinator, starts July 5th.

UX and User Research

Design

• ongoing work on tablet UI; Brian planning to have a draft spec by late next week
• ongoing work on android widget, webapp creation (some detail in a feature page)
• see Matt's in progress specs for readability options in Design section of Fennec/Features/readability
• Ian back on Monday, July 4th

Research

Users in the House! First session - yesterday. 1 think-aloud on early working prototype on desktop on Home with my data.
General feedback from user:

• • modern, clean, simple
  • sees it as popularity (frequently used) from left to right
  • confused when saw multiple gmail "boxes" - spam, inbox-3, inbox-0 etc
  • time of day would be cool - home vs work profile
  • on tablet - popularity didn't come across because 2x2 grid and not 4x? grid
  • search for "cats" and hit enter in search bar, doesn't do a search and then see results in tab first
  • "my fear is it would put me in a bubble"
  • explain to mom "knows what you're interested in and show it to you. you don;t need to think about it."

future updates will be on a private blog

Insights

Summary below, full update here and in your inbox.

• Dolphin HD reached 8 million users

• Alibaba launching its own Android version

• In the Q2 smartphone market, HTC, Samsung, Huawei and ZTE have experienced strong growth, while Nokia and RIM have been losing marketshare

• 3D screens are becoming more popular among smartphones and Japan is getting an Android powered waterproof TV

• Europe is planning to dramatically cut roaming prices

• The Asia-Pacific region will see extreme growth in the tablet segment, which will continue to be dominated by Apple

Other

• How do we reduce the number of meetings?
  • How many people find these updates useful ? Is the wiki enough, or does it help to have a voice?
• Aurora in the Android Market