Schedule & Progress onUpcoming Releases (Lukas/Sylvestre/Lawrence)
- Desktop 35.0 RC build 2 is now with QA after having to rebuild for bug 1076975, a late-arrival
- Mobile 35.0 build delayed for bug 1073554 – we’re looking at the options here including shipping with the regression and doing a 35.0.1 once a verified fix is ready
- ESR 31.4.0 on track
- We’ll be moving the updates enabling by 4 days this cycle which means that we release next Tuesday, collect feedback for a few days and then enable updates at 100% on the Friday same week. First time experiment with this more rapid process.
- Merge Day is on Monday Jan 12th.
Firefox Desktop & Platform (Javaun/Chad/Martin)
There wasn’t an official 37.3 iteration, due to holidays, but we start 38.1 next Tuesday. The areas of focus are:
Hello:
- wrapping up Firefox 36/37 work, getting started on 38 (with a focus on sharing)
Task Continuity:
- finishing UX design work for Reading List/Synced Tabs
- research work support those features
- investigating sync back-end changes needed to support them
Search:
- continue to address important regressions from the Firefox 34 work
- UX design/research for next steps in search UI improvements
Password Management:
- focus on telemetry to begin improving filling/saving reliability
Sync Migration:
- finishing the migration work needed to start migrating “old sync” users to “new sync” in Firefox 37
Places:
- continue the refactorings needed to avoid main-thread IO
E10S:
- continue supporting the e10s team in pushing through the e10s milestones
Polaris Privacy Work:
- Tor relays: doing tech spec’ing this week. NetOps/Opsec are designing this week, may start hardware work next week.
- User testing on Tracking Protection (Polaris pref in Nightly) starts next week. Questions to answer:
- what do users think about tracking? Does our experience meet their needs?
- Do we break their experience, and if so do they accept the tradeoff or blame the browser.
Developer Tools (Jeff)
- Goals planning
- new performance tools are coming together nicely
- 21 bugs fixed last week, despite the holidays
Feedback Summary (Cheng/Tyler/Matt)
Desktop
- No significant change in Hello feedback for 35: Still very, very low amounts of feedback. Most negative (non-prompted) feedback people who don’t want it. One comment on the branding (Telefonica/O2).
- Only spike in negative feedback around the break was around the donation campaign which was viewed as spammy (especially since people got it even after they donated).
Marketing, Press & Public Reaction (Arcadio or Winston)
- Dev browser campaign / message testing
- Search hijackers
- Yahoo optimization
- Hello
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
- AirMozilla: for broadcast and saved recordings