Firefox/Planning/2012-10-03

Planning Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am PDT, 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

Basecamp

Support readiness meetings begin in earnest this week! See https://etherpad.mozilla.org/mobile-meet-2012-03-10

Also, the first ever SUMO Help Article Day! is this week, help us document Firefox OS!

Write Help Articles October 4th!

Firefox Desktop

Releases/Firefox_16/Final_Signoffs -- 16.0 release is signed off, no blocking issues

Release (15, 10esr)

• 10.0.8esr being released on Tuesday Oct 9th

Beta (16)

• Releasing, throttled, next Tuesday (Oct 9th) due to Patch Tuesday

Aurora (17)

• Merge Day is MONDAY Oct 8th -- get your approval-mozilla-aurora+ patches landed before then

Nightly (18)

• Merging to Aurora on MONDAY Oct 8th - get your no-approval-nom-required r+ patches landed before then

Firefox Mobile

Release (15, 10esr)

Beta (16)

Aurora (17)

• ARMv6 is staying on Beta channel so continue to request approval/land on 17 in preparation for a 17.0 ARMv6 release to GA
• Merge Day is MONDAY Oct 8th -- get your approval-mozilla-aurora+ patches landed before then

Nightly (18)

• Merging to Aurora on MONDAY Oct 8th - get your no-approval-nom-required r+ patches landed before then

Services

Firefox Sync

Apps In the Cloud Server

Add-on SDK

Release (1.10 -> Firefox 16, 17)

Stabilization (1.11 -> Firefox 17, 18)

Development (1.12 -> Firefox 18, 19)

Landing progress:

• loader: ✓
• m-c landing plan - DRAFT available here.

No audible update as I tripped and went to Berlin for the week, will be back next week.

Identity

Apps

Feedback Summary

Desktop

No updates today. Prepping for 16 this week.

Mobile

No Major changes this week. See Mobile meeting notes for specifics. 15.0.1 is stable, 16 is stable and go from the SUMO Side.

User Experience (design and research)

• [desktop]
  • [Misc!] Most of Retina/highDPI has landed: http://cl.ly/image/3K2q153x3z0L/o (about:home changes are still in review)
  • [Australis] (Zhenshuo, Blake)
    • Customization spec document
    • Continues to reference the design prototype
  • [dev tools] (Brian Dils)
  • [Social API] (Boriss)
    • Mocking up multi-provider & provider switching scenarios
    • Working on installation flows for users with less-than-optimal scenarios (such as out-of-date Firefox)
  • [newtab2/hometab] (Boriss)
    • assembling a concept document for end of week
    • general project information is on this wiki page
  • [stub installer] (Madhava, Stephen)
    • Stub installer variants for Aurora and Nightly: http://cl.ly/image/1g0g1k3m473o

• [sync/identity] (zhenshuo)
  • from last week - draft proposal covering all the cases (new user; existing Sync user; existing Persona ID user) for Firefox sign-in / sync setup on desktop and mobile Draft document (pdf) (zhenshuo + ibarlow)
    • still accepting comments go here in an etherpad
• [project SPF (security/privacy)] (larissa)
  • This document Designing Usable Security in Firefox out for review; collecting feedback
  • Working on identifying potential security UI design opportunities

• [metro] (yuan)
  • Q3 Firefox on Win8 summary doc
    • Older doc, for more context, is here on slideshare
  • Updated mozillaWiki page with status: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox_Metro_UI
  • Get your preview build on Win8: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Windows_8_Integration#Elm_Nightly_Builds

• [android] (ibarlow)
  • In progress
    • Private Browsing, Guest Mode, Safe Browsing
    • bug 783092 Lightweight Persona support. Rules for how to use existing Personas: http://cl.ly/image/2e212U1O2h2B
    • UI Responsiveness efforts – working list https://firefox-ux.etherpad.mozilla.org/25
    • Some great refinements happening in our tabs UI, thanks to Lucas!
      • bug 792407 Armv6 design tweaks http://cl.ly/image/1r1A0n172Y1j
      • bug 708707 bug 786029 Android home screen and search widgets underway. http://www.flickr.com/photos/patrykdesign/6477109545/in/photostream
  • Longer term work
    • Android Sync Setup Improvements
      • Sketches – http://cl.ly/image/2r3B1C2i462g
      • Working with Sync team and Desktop UX to scope work https://wiki.mozilla.org/Services/Sync/NextGen
    • First Run & Update UX – sketches http://cl.ly/image/3c460L2v1Z30
    • Search Enhancements – sketches http://cl.ly/image/1Q2x3J2N1X1s
    • Top Sites customization on about:home – preliminary sketching http://cl.ly/image/1F1R2J1W1d1c
    • Future improvements to about:home – sketches http://cl.ly/image/1x0A1K0r2g2m

• [Behavioral Segmentation Study] (Lindsay, Bill, Leo)
  • is underway!
  • writing participant screeners; have selected a recruiter; in process of selecting a firm to help with the diary study
  • anticipate being in the field the last week of october/first week of november
  • more detail here in last week's update

Market Insights

Desktop / Platform

Google

• Google Play's is starting to roll out a series of service-based APIs, all powered by OAuth, allowing app developers to use a standard interface to use Google-based IDs in their apps.
• The latest Chrome Beta now offers WebRTC and Track support for HTML5 video.
• In an effort to win more adoption within businesses and other large organizations, Google now offers telephone support for Google Apps customers
• This week's stable version of Chrome now supports ICCv2 colour profiles

Microsoft

• Microsoft unveiled TypeScript, a Javascript source processor that allows large development teams to more easily create more strongly-typed code.

OpenWebOS

• The OpenWebOS project, as promised, released version 1.0 of the open source version of the mobile operating system originally developed by Palm. Here's a video of it ported to a Samsung Galaxy Nexus

Opera

• Opera 12.10 beta was released, offering SPDY support, touch support on Mac and Windows 8 Classic mode, the Share button in Mac OS X Mountain Lion, Mac Retina display support as well as the Fullscreen and Page Visibility APIs. It also supports a number of webkit-prefixed CSS properties

Yandex

• Yandex, the large Russia-based search engine, has launched its own WebKit-based browser, offering translations between 9 languages.

Mobile

Summary below, full update here and in your inbox.

• Mobile devices account for more than 10% of page views in the US and select European countries
• The average tablet users in the US does not generate more page views than the average phone user, despite longer browser sessions
• Difference in data tracking at infrastructure and device levels exposed in US study
• Upgrade to 4G speeds increases data demand of users
• Rumoured announcement of 7.8-inch iPad Mini in October
• 55% of Androids are on Gingerbread, 23% on Ice Cream Sandwich and 12% on Froyo
• Chrome is default browser on the Motorola Razor M
• 25% of Americans own a tablet, half on iOS and half on Android
• Device with 1.7 GHz quad-core CPU soon available in Europe and North Asia
• Jolla got 200 million euro funding, setting up a Hong Kong data center link

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

Marketing

Press

Safeguard your online Persona with Mozilla ID system

Mozilla launches first beta version of 'Persona' website authentication system

Firefox Will Soon Support Apple’s MacBook Pro Retina Display

Internet Explorer 8 falls below 25% market share, Firefox 15 passes 10% mark, Chrome loses users

Browser Speed Tests, Mac Edition: Chrome 22, Firefox 15, Safari 6, and Opera 12.02

Questions, Comments, FYI

• (catlee) Working on something that's going to require changes to how we build, ship, or update products? Please talk to ReleaseEngineering as early in your project as possible!

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