Meeting Notes Meetings notes from the Mozilla community

8-August-2012

Firefox/Gecko Delivery Meeting Minutes: 2012-08-08

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm

Firefox/Planning/2012-08-08

« previous week | index | next week »

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
REMEMBER

These notes are read by people who weren’t able to attend the meeting. Please make sure to include links and context so they can be understood.

Contents

Actions from Last Week

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

  • 14.0.2 JB respin went live in Google play yesterday afternoon PT
  • 15.0 beta 4 is going to build today

Basecamp

Firefox Desktop

  • Stub Installer work progressing. UI interaction build made available on 8/6. Functional build in about a week. We’ll QA and release, possibly with a funnelcake study, when it’s ready (doesn’t ride trains.)
  • HiDPI work for retina Macs well underway. Try server build at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674373 that makes text really pretty.

Release (14, 10esr)

Beta (15)

Aurora (16)

  • Bug 574229 – [Mac] Choosing “New Window” from Firefox’s dock menu does not open the new window in the active Space

Nightly (17)

  • Social API landing a lot.
  • Mac Choosing “New Window” from Firefox’s dock menu does not open the new window in the active Space
  • support CSS feature queries (@supports, @-moz-supports)
  • Get Skia backend for Azure canvas working on Windows

Firefox Mobile

Release (14)

  • 14.0.2 with JellyBean only crash fixes

Beta (15)

Aurora (16)

  • Explicitly asking for testing on Reader Mode and Web Apps. Please, thank you.

Nightly (17)

Web Compat

  • Many Google properties now sending us mobile content.
  • Initial Webkit aliasing analysis complete. Summary post coming.

Misc

  • Next week the Mozilla Mobile team (and others) will be meeting at Mozilla Boston to brainstorm and plan future work. We will also be hosting a “Games & Add-on Hack Day” on Thursday.

Services

Firefox Sync

Apps In the Cloud Server

Add-on SDK

Release (1.9 -> Firefox 15, 16)

Stabilization (1.10 -> Firefox 17, 18)

Development (1.11 -> Firefox 18, 19)

Released 1.9 yesterday, working with IT to update Builder to latest version ( it has lagged 2 point releases behind due to resource & co-ordination issues )

Landing progress:

  • loader is riding the trains on Fx 16.
  • tracking bug: bug 731779
  • current status: bug 756542 tracks work on make files to include the SDK modules in Firefox builds.

Identity

Apps

Feedback Summary

Desktop

  • Google Doodle crash getting greater visibility. [1][2] [3]

Mobile

Mobile user feedback is stable, we continue a positive ratings trend since v14 released in response to performance, flash and UI improvements. Negative review topics are related to crashing, slowness and evangelism (site content).

On Beta, reviews are also positive trending with much praise for tablet support. Tyler is helping with mobile user feedback beginning last week, so welcome and thanks to him while Michelle works on Basecamp.

UX & User Research

  • [desktop]
    • [Australis]
    • [Social API] (Boriss)
      • minimum acceptable features have been modified slightly, landing a little later than originally planned
      • Priority 1 is getting chat landed, UX bugs on the table this week are mostly chat-related problems: overflow, popping in/out, error handling
      • Still some style tweaks needed, especially around chat windows
      • Flyover panels still iffy – it may be possible to implement them, but probably not exactly like mockups. Working with jwas & Shane this week
      • Working with Gavin to solidify notification channel appearance and UX
    • [hometab/newtab] Digitizing concept sketches this week, syncing up with sync and browserID on their status with eye to incorporating in design (Boriss)
    • [stub installer] final implementation support, visual and wording tweaks (WIP screenshots (madhava, shorlander)
    • high-dpi (retina) – getting graphics into bugs, like bug 781327 (shorlander)
  • [dev tools] Starting work on “Timeline” tool (Brian Dils)
  • [metro] (yuan)
    • Designing animated tab indicators on Windows 8 UI animated walkthrough (keynote file)
    • Awesomebar and start screen are moving to implementation: bug 747790
    • Working on setting charms on Windows 8, cleaning up content from XUL Fennec and updating for W8 UI.
  • [android] (ibarlow)
  • [other/future]
    • the team had a first session on defining a set of Firefox design values; currently analyzing our first sets of ideas (madhava + whole team)
    • researching experience metrics we can use to assess design success (madhava)
    • Designing space for creative collaboration – looking into opportunities to apply good practices to our offices (including new SF space!) – ideas here on pinterest

Market Insights

Desktop / Platform

Apple

Google

Microsoft

Opera

W3C

  • The W3C announced that Adobe, Google, and Microsoft have provided significant funds to “sponsor more complete W3C staff coverage to achieve Recommendation Status for HTML5 in 2014”.
  • The Web Performance Working Group specifications moved to W3C Candidate Status. These APIs will allow developers to more accurately and easily track the performance of their applications in all browsers.

WebKit

Mobile

Summary below, full update here and in your inbox.

  • Gingerbread still main Android version in market, Jelly Bean at 0.8%
  • Developer policy on Android changed to reduce spam
  • Privacy Policy field for apps introduced in Google Play Store
  • Preloaded YouTube app removed from iOS 6
  • Samsung maintains spot as top handset and smartphone vendor by shipments
  • More than 200 million people are using Opera Mini and Mobile
  • Dual-core processors to reach entry-level smartphone market early 2013
  • Perception of privacy on mobile far from reality, according to University of California study
  • iPads accounted for 73% of tablet sales in China in Q2

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

Marketing

  • No updates this week

Press

Firefox 14 Worthy Alternative to Safari

The Next Version Of HTTP Is Starting To Look Very SPDY

Questions, Comments, FYI

  • [Michael Verdi] What Firefox version will include the stub installer?
    • The stub will go out as soon as it’s ready, potentially late this month. It’s not riding trains so it goes out when it’s ready, not when a particular Firefox release happens. -Asa
  • [catlee] Will changes for high dpi displays require changes to how we run tests on OSX
    • Good question for Jonathan Kew or someone else in Layout/Graphics. -Asa

Actions this week

  • blassey to schedule l10n meeting for mobile
  • sam m to plug our privacy policy in store
  • catlee to come back on highdpi testing q
Retrieved from “https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Planning/2012-08-08“

No Comments

No comments yet.

RSS feed for comments on this post.

Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.

Powered by WordPress