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9-August-2011

Thunderbird Meeting Minutes: 2011-08-09

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

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Thunderbird Meeting Details :

Remember to press *1 to unmute yourself before talking!

Feel free to ask questions in the meeting either by speaking up or by asking them in <a href=”http://www.mibbit.com/chat/?server=irc.mozilla.org&channel=%23maildev“>#maildev</a> on IRC.

Other ways to get in touch with us can be found on our <a href=”Thunderbird/CommunicationChannels”>communications</a> page

Agenda

Action Items

Friends of the Tree

  • No nominations this week.

Thanks to our Friend of the Tree. When adding someone to this section, please get their T-Shirt size, phone number (needed for shipping!) and send it to rebron@mozilla.com so that he can send them a shirt!

Thunderbird Development

For more details, see also the <a href=”Thunderbird/Driver Meetings/2011-08-09″>driver meeting notes</a>.

<a href=”Thunderbird:Feature Work”>Feature Work</a>

<a href=”Thunderbird/Experiments#Account_Provisioner”>Account Provisioner</a>
  • No news this week.
OpenSearch
  • No news this week.
Test Pilot
  • Coming along nicely. Merging changes to main trunk this week.

<a href=”Thunderbird/Experiments”>Experiments</a>

Thunderbird Conversations
Compose in a tab
Account Summary
Ubuntu Unity Integration
  • Unofficially, mission accomplished!
  • Canonical will bundle my EDS Contacts Integration add-on with Thunderbird after the next beta is released
  • I’ve started poking at the EDS provider for Lightning – might try to flex some muscle on that

Schedule and Progress

Thunderbird 6
  • Releasing final beta today or tomorrow.
    • 48 locales in this release.
  • Final builds should start on Wednesday or Thursday.
  • Add-on compatibility bump happening on Thursday or Friday
    • We’re aware this is late, will be able to improve and do this earlier from now on.
  • Releasing on the 16th August assuming no issues found.
Thunderbird 7
  • Merge to beta on 16th August – next week, we’ll start beta builds soon after.
Thunderbird 8
  • Merges to Earlybird on 16th August.
Thunderbird 3.1.x

Extension of the week

<a href=”https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/bugmail/“>bugmail</a> A nice extension that adds value if you receive plenty of bugspam. Say you have a Thread of emails and start reading it, with that extension you’ll know the status of the bug at the beginning of the thread. Combined with the magic r keyboard shortcut you can be way more efficient at reading your daily bugmail. Bugzilla, Trac, Flyspray and Launchpad are the currently supported bug systems.

<a href=”Thunderbird:Testing”>QA</a> Updates

Working on releases mostly.

Marketing Updates

Infrastructure Update

Build / Release Update

Web Update

  • patched amo-validator to add Thunderbird compatibility checks
  • committed blog theme, still needs some tweaks
  • merges, bugfixes on mozilla.org/thunderbird and discussed the upcoming mozilla.com+org merge

Documentation

  • contributor engagement form
    • responses
    • metric collection
    • update / create boilerplate for responses

<a href=”Thunderbird/Support”>Support</a>

(If you support Thunderbird or write or translate documentation to help support Thunderbird, please <a href=”https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/tb-support-crew“>subscribe to the tb-support-crew mailing list</a> and briefly introduce yourself to the list)

  1. 1993 new support topics (1938 2 weeks ago) – <a href=”1-7August2011-Community_stats_for_Mozilla_Messaging.png” class=”internal” _fcknotitle=”true” _fck_mw_filename=”1-7August2011-Community_stats_for_Mozilla_Messaging.png” _fck_mw_type=”media” title=”1-7August2011-Community_stats_for_Mozilla_Messaging.png”>1-7August2011-Community_stats_for_Mozilla_Messaging.png</a>
  2. <a href=”Thunderbird/Thunderbird5.0SupportIssues”>Thunderbird 5 Support Issues</a>
  3. Started <a href=”Thunderbird/Thunderbird6.0SupportIssues”>Thunderbird 6 Support Issues</a> in preparation for TB6 release. Please edit the page and add any issues found in TB6 Beta 1, 2, 3 and release
  4. See <a href=”Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2011-08-09/SupportAppendix”>this week’s Support Appendix</a> for full Get Satisfaction metrics and other support details

Lightning Updates

Unfortunately I can’t make it to the meeting today. As discussed with the Thunderbird Drivers, Lightning needs to return to non-beta version numbers as fast as possible. I will be attempting to release Lightning 1.0 together with Thunderbird 7, so on September 27th.

To achieve this goal, I have further condensed the buglist to a very small number. Despite exams I’m going to try to fix these bugs in the next weeks, so we can broaden testing to make 1.0 as good as possible. Please take a look at <a _fcknotitle=”true” href=”Calendar Talk:1.0 Product Planning#Version_2:_Together_with_TB7″>Calendar Talk:1.0 Product Planning#Version_2:_Together_with_TB7</a> and let me know if there are any more urgent issues that you think need to be taken care of in 1.0.

Status Updates

See the <a href=”http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/weekly-updates.fcgi/project/thunderbird“>Mozilla Status Board</a> for status updates specific to developers.

Roundtable Highlights

protz: At Vancouver office, several GLODA improvements now and more next week.

Attendees

bienvenu, bwinton, jb, jenzed, mconley, jhopkins, rebron, sancus, andreasn, standard8, ludo, irving, rolandtanglao

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Mozilla Platform Meeting Minutes: 2011-08-09

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Platform/2011-08-09

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Applications

Notices / Schedule

  • mozilla-central → mozilla-aurora source migration is on 2011-08-16…exactly 1 week away
  • We’re in the endgame for this development cycle, if you find any issues/regressions that need to be fixed on mozilla-beta please email release-drivers
  • Firefox 3.6.20 went to beta today, if regressions are found we will need quick turnaround from branch patch developers

Firefox Development

  • Intern Jez Ng is working on adding e10s support to sessionstore in bug 516755. See his post to dev.apps.firefox for more info (seems to be missing on Google Groups for some reason 🙁 ).
  • Dave Townsend, Blair McBride and Boriss/faaborg have been working on UI that will prompt users to deal with addons that were “dropped-in” by other installers or programs, that should be landing on central soon, hopefully in time for Firefox 8 (bug 596343)
  • dao and mstange have been doing theme work to improve Firefox’s appearance on OS X 10.7, landed on trunk this morning (bug 667456)
  • Jared Wein and dao are working on making the forward button appear conditionally, to match recent UX mockups, in bug 674744 and bug 677027.

Firefox Developer Tools

Performance

GFX

JS

bhackett’s Type Inference project (aka TI, JM+TI) is getting close to landing. It’s a complex change that is not easily reversible, so it’s hard in the standard train model. dmandelin will be sending out a proposal for getting this out to users via a parallel set of repos, so that we point users at different builds instead of landing or backing out changes.

Layout

  • Full-screen API is moving along; if you’re interested in the API or the UI issues, check bug 545812
  • CSS 3D transforms partially landed, currently disabled by pref
  • Hyphenation dictionaries for many languages have been landed, packaged for desktop only for now
  • unification of standards mode and quirks mode text-decoration (underline, overline, line-through) landed. One codepath instead of two. bug 403524
  • CSS background-size algorithm for vector images has now been fully implemented, as of about 9am this morning, in m-c bug 609714
  • Zzzzzz

DOM

  • Strong parent pointer changes landed bug 335998 (smaug)
  • New DOM bindings for NodeList and friends close to landing (peterv etc)

Network

Plugins

Mobile

Improved build, debug and testing docs: Mobile/Fennec/Android

Accessibility

Multi-Process

  • jez has posted a plan/schedule for session-restore with content processes
  • meeting later today to discuss Jetpack SDK integration

Tree Management

  • bug 629759 – FYI: On Aug. 4th the drivers of the XP rev3 minis got updated to version 260.99

Security

Security reviews this week (calendar) 

Wed 10-Aug
Web apps support in Fennec :: 15:00 PDT

Fri 12-Aug
[Mobile] Anti-malware/phishing :: 11:00 PDT

Be aware Security review/discussion scheduling is changing per the note to dev-planning

Stability Report

Desktop

  • Socorro
    • 2.2 due out later this week or Monday. The crash rate and top crash lists will be differentiated per beta and between beta and release.
    • Drop in crash rate for all versions yesterday and missing reports. Socorro team is looking into the problem Bug 677459 and Bug 677502
  • Beta: Everything looks pretty good for FF6. Breakdown of ADUs per Beta
  • Aurora: Things are fairly stable on Aurora but we are still tracking quite a few items.
  • Trunk: Some new signatures appearing only for 8.0a1.
    • Bug 673984 – crash in _purecall | nsImageLoader::DoRedraw(nsRect const*)
    • Bug 677273 – mozilla::dom::workers::WorkerPrivate::RescheduleTimeoutTimer(JSContext*).
    • A couple of the new signatures are simply due to the instrumentation work Bill is doing for the GC crash diagnosis – Bug 677277, Bug 676571
    • 2 hangs have regressed on the trunk as shown in Kairo’s explosiveness report. Apparently those have been logged and fixed as of a couple of hours ago bug 676361.
  • We are starting to put together wiki pages that track a particular area of the crash landscape. This one organizes all the Flash issues, has reports, lists bugs we need to verify, bugs we need to find test cases for and details work that would help with the diagnosis. We are going to put together something similar for malware etc.

Mobile

  • Crash Analysis for Fennec 08/09/2011
    • bug 664510 – Get valid crashreporter reports again
    • Not sure if Content crashers are making it to the crash-stats
    • The graph is showing aggregation of content and app crashes
    • bug 671818 – play a webm file report error after fennec6.0, crash [@ mozilla::gfx::ScaleYCbCrToRGB565] ; request to push to aurora
  • Mobile team needs to get URL report for certain crashes. There are a couple of bugs logged to handle this.
    • Bug 630293
    • Bug 676719
    • Marcia/chofmann putting together a “how to” page for running URL reports.

Roundtable

  • bug 677256 Geolocation wifi protocol changing. new API, rewrite of the component. Will land next week.
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8-August-2011

Mozilla Project Meeting Minutes: 2011-08-08

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

WeeklyUpdates/2011-08-08

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Video for today’s meeting

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Friends of the Tree

Upcoming Events

This Week

  • Webtools team is onsite this week doing a Socorro code sprint – if you have questions about Socorro, graph server, Elmo, DLL directory, Sheriffs, PTO, something else…come find us!

Monday, 8 August

Tuesday, 9 August

  • Metrics ETL processing of web log data – Anurag & Daniel
  • 12:00PM Pacific
  • Presenting Metrics ETL processing.

Wednesday, 10 August

  • N.N., Zurb (www.zurb.com) – Design Drives Action
  • 12:00PM Pacific
  • In this talk, we’ll dive deep into the psychology of web users and show powerful examples to help illustrate how marketers can think beyond a single landing page and earn powerful bumps in sales through conversion actions.

Thursday, 11 August

Friday, 12 August

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox Future (6, 7, 8)

  • The (hopefully) final Beta update for this cycle was released on Friday
  • mozilla-central → mozilla-aurora source migration is on 2011-08-16. 1 week!

Firefox Current (3.6, 4.0, 5.0)

  • 3.6.20 will be pushed to the beta audience tomorrow, on schedule

Mobile Firefox

Thunderbird

  • 3.1.12 going out to beta channel today.
  • Thunderbird 6 will be released next week.
  • Thunderbird’s Rapid Release document is up. Feedback welcome!

Drumbeat

(no voice update this week)

Speakers

The limit is 3 minutes per speaker. It’s like a lightning talk, but don’t feel that you have to have slides in order to make a presentation.

Title

 Presenter

 Topic

 Media

 More Details
Your Title Here

 Your Name Here

 What are you going to talk about?

 Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen

 Link to where audience can find out more information
An Overview of Engagement Tools

 Aakash Desai

 An overview of the current state of how contributors can get involved with Mozilla and where we’re aiming to go with the Engagement Tools initiative.

Status Updates By Team

Firefox

Platform

Messaging

Mobile

IT

Release Engineering

QA

FirefoxQA
  • Firefox 6 beta 5 shipped to Beta audience
    • this will be the last beta before release on August 16th
    • Juan is on vacation for the next couple of weeks, Anthony (ashughes) is in the driver seat
  • Fennec 6 beta 5 tested and shipped to Android market
  • Targeting device and website compatibility testing this week
  • Moved all of James’s Services documentation to the Services QA Wiki pages
  • QA ramping up on OpenWebApps test strategy
WebQA
QA Community
Automation Services

Automation & Tools

  • Refactor Special Powers so we can use the same API throughout our harnesses – bug 676274
  • Lots of items in progress. More notes here

Security

Engagement

PR

Firebug 1.8.0 brings Firefox 5.0 support

Mozilla reveals possible new Firefox UI direction
Firefox could get even more Chrome style

Mozilla cracking down on Firefox crapware add-ons

Mozilla goes WebRTC: Who will be the next AT&T?

Mozilla’s New Vision: A Platform For Your Internet Life

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

What’s up with SUMO – Aug. 3
Meet new members of the SUMO team:

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

Introducing New Hires

  • James Willcox: joining Mobile Platform team, working remotely from Michigan
  • Mark Reid: joining the Metrics team, working remotely from Bridgetown NS, Canada
  • Mark Goodwin: joining the Infrastructure Security Team, working remotely from UK
  • Katherine Nelson: Taking her rightful place as a Full-Time member of the Recruiting team in MV

Foundation Updates

Roundtable

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3-August-2011

Mobile Meeting Minutes: 2011-08-03

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

Mobile/Notes/03-Aug-2011

Details

  • Wednesdays – 9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern, 16:30 UTC
  • Dial-in: conference# 95312
    • US/International: +1 650 903 0800 x92 Conf# 95312
    • US toll free: +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 95312
    • Canada: +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 95312
  • Vidyo: WarpCore (not WarpCorePolycom)
  • irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel

Schedule

  • Fennec 8 (nightly)
    • This is the active development trunk
  • Fennec 7 (aurora)
    • Need to move only required fixes from trunk (as those fixes are made)
    • Fixed on Aurora this week:
      • bug 636042 – All fonts are serif, give preference to stock android fonts
      • bug 675236 – portrait view shifted on tablet awesomescreen
      • bug 673674 – Fennec freezes when viewing a non .txt file from disk.
  • Fennec 6 (beta)
    • Fixed on Beta this week:
      • bug 636042 – All fonts are serif, give preference to stock android fonts
      • bug 675236 – portrait view shifted on tablet awesomescreen

Next merge date is 2011-08-16

Major Topics for This Week

Application

Front-end

  • Work for Fx8
    • Tablet UI
      • Implementation is being tweaked to match latest designs
      • Plan to land soon with a pref to enable/disable
    • Selecting text in web content followup bugs
      • Landed more fixes on fx8
      • Seems like we should move the existing fx8 fixes to fx7 and will be OK.
    • Language picker support for locales on AMO
      • Process of getting XPIs to AMO bug 674253
      • Logistics work is underway to figure out how to handle nightly and aurora impact (bug 675254 and bug 675252)
    • Basic webapp support
      • Need to “appify” the tab in a similar way to desktop
      • Need to support manifest approach bug 609043
    • Master Password
      • Should be good for landing. Status?
      • Security review completed
      • waiting for code review form kaie bug 592772
  • Let’s make sure we are working on other bugs and minor features too

UX design

  • reviewing current and near-future state of text selection handles (madhava)
  • tablet designs refining, moving to dev (brian)
  • working on
    • start page (ian)
    • “fennecomb” visual design (ian)
    • webapp/shortcut-on-desktop taskflow (madhava)
  • if you have bugs that need UX-input/feedback/review – please add the ui-wanted keyword (and/or email madhava)

Platform Support

  • bug 669410 Safe Browsing update – (Gian-Carlo)
  • OpenGL Update (CLord)
    • probably ff9
  • Startup Shrink (stover)
    • gladium is working on PGO
    • stover working on tools

Android

  • NDKr5 deployed
  • Mike Hommey (glandium) is working on building an NDK with gcc 4.6 and enabling PGO. See blog post and bug 632954.
  • Enabled high-quality (bilinear) image scaling on Tegra devices in Nightly (bug 669851). We may want to take this for Aurora (Firefox 7) after getting feedback from Nightly users.
  • Some upcoming work may require updating the Android SDK (bug 672661, bug 675901, bug 664149). Filed bug 676275 to update the build machines.

Performance

Testing

QA

Test Suites

Test Automation

  • DougT secured a tegra and started looking at the libc abort during testing.
  • mochitest chunks 5-8 are turned on for most branches
  • new weekly meetings to coordinate Mobile/Testing

Release Engineering

Priorities page

  • Tegras – tests are enabled across all applicable branches.
    • Some have no mobile builds or any tests running, so not on those branches.
    • Ateam has a list of more tests that can be enabled once green.
    • Wait times are still good.
    • We have full branch coverage on the tegras; is there anything else to stop us de-prioritizing Maemo? (Also, Ops wants to kill production-mobile-master because it needs to move from ESX to Ganeti.)
    • Priorities page is largely out of our hands at this point — move to public wiki or tracking bug, any pref? Who should own?
    • Consolidate monday meeting with this meeting?
  • bug 669189 – Market fixed

Other

Issue metrics July 26-Aug 2

5.0 (86 total negative posts on input this week)

  • 8.3% of input sad face posts say ‘too slow’
  • 1% of input sad face posts say ‘too hard to use’

6.0 (126 total negative posts on input this week)

  • 7.1% of input sad face posts say ‘too slow’
  • 5.5% of input sad face posts say ‘too hard to use’

6.0 (21 total negative review comments on android market this week)

  • 43% of android market negative comments say ‘too slow’
  • 19% of android market negative comments say ‘too hard to use’

7.0 (9 total posts on input this week; positive and negative)

  • 11% of input sad face posts say ‘too slow’
  • 22% of input sad face posts say ‘too hard to use’

See the full report for raw numbers of posts, SUMO ‘I have this problem too votes’, new questions asked on SUMO and other themes from input (no flash, crashy, hangs, and can’t find bookmarks).

Retrieved from “https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Notes/03-Aug-2011“

Firefox/Gecko Delivery Meeting Minutes: 2011-08-03

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Firefox/Planning/2011-08-03

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Planning Meeting Details

  • Wednesdays – 11:00am PDT, 18:00 UTC
  • Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
  • Toronto Offices: Fin du Monde Conference Room
  • 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 8605 (US/INTL)
  • 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8605 (US)
  • irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
  • (the developer meeting takes place on Tuesdays)
REMEMBER

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NOTICE

  • OMG DIAL IN CHANGING NEXT WEEK

Actions from Last Week

  • Asa to post about the product team’s view of 64-bit support and update the group here
    • Let’s pull this. It’s dependent on data I don’t yet have. I’ll post when I have the plug-in data
  • Cheng to file bug on os X lion intercepting old navigation gestures
  • Cheng/Aakash/Axel to figure out locale-specific input scrubbing
    • Planning to have a feedback loop with localization leads on every new release. Feedback triage teams will coalesce those locale-specific reports the week after the release and add to the feedback summaries as well as deliver on any take-aways.

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Firefox Desktop

Release (3.6, 5.0)

  • 3.6.20 is going to build today, slightly behind schedule but it shouldn’t impact final ship
    • We’re not doing anything about Google Toolbar for this release FYI

Beta (6)

Hoping to go to Firefox 6 final builds ASAP.

Aurora (7)

  • Tipped over 100k Aurora users yesterday!

Nightly (8)

  • There’s been an awesome amount of bug fixing this last week — over 300 resolved fixed bugs. Truly awesome.
  • Frank’s awesome implement animation for tab reordering has landed on m-c. This also dramatically improved the experience of tearing off a tab to make it a window.
  • Session Restore losing nearly all tabs should be fixed.
  • Memshrink continues to kill it. Read more at http://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2011/08/03/memshrink-progress-week-7/

Firefox Mobile

5

6

  • Fixed:
    • bug 636042 – All fonts are serif, give preference to stock android fonts
    • bug 675236 – portrait view shifted on tablet awesomescreen
    • bug 673674 – Fennec freezes when viewing a non .txt file from disk.

7

  • Fixed:
    • bug 636042 – All fonts are serif, give preference to stock android fonts
    • bug 675236 – portrait view shifted on tablet awesomescreen

8

  • Switched NDKr5, got performance
  • Working on:
    • Tablet UI
    • Text selection in web content
    • WebApp support

Firefox Sync

Add-on Builder

  • AMO integration is going well, add-ons should be able to be pushed to AMO by early next week. (on master)
  • More advanced search facets are in-flight and on-track
  • We will freeze 0.9.9 this Friday and launch next Wednesday
  • We realized a 10x average build speed improvement on the Builder last week:

Add-on SDK 1.1

  • first merge from development branch to stabilization branch took place yesterday, Tuesday, August 2
  • first stabilization build spun and distributed yesterday, Tuesday, August 2 (announcement)
  • next stabilization build on schedule for next Tuesday, August 9 (and at least weekly thereafter until release)
  • release remains on schedule for Tuesday, September 13

Input 4.3

  • Nothing new -> No ETA just yet; IT’s having resource constraints that are limiting the amount of coverage for projects across the board.

Other notes:

  • Trudged through all blocking requirements for Tell Us More from last week! BMO team is moving on to technical details planning with the new Bugzilla extension.
  • Our little experimental add-on, Alert the Developer, is now fully reviewed and available. Please try it out and offer feedback via the comments section in the blog post or on IRC at #input !
  • Michael Kurze is back as an intern for the next month and is going to be leading the effort with a few other Metrics Engineers to get Grouperfish to a 1.0.

Feedback Summary

Desktop

Firefox 6.0

Firefox 7.0

  • About 70% less feedback (negative) over the last week relative to previous week.

Mobile

Feature Feedback

Feature Name

 Release Channel

 Feedback
Do Not Track

 Beta
Better First Run Discoverability

 Aurora
  • None
IndexedDB Local Storage

 Aurora
  • None
Better Form Assistant Integration with Android

 Aurora
  • None
Visual Refresh for Gingerbread

 Aurora

General Insights

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

 Release Channel
  • Speed Improved!
  • Input: 32
Beta

Clustered Issues Found

 Release Channel

 Bug Id
All

 bug 630007
  • Clear History
  • Input: 27
  • SUMO: 8 new
Beta

 bug 656901
  • Exit button
  • Input: 24
Beta

 bug 659670
  • No Private Browsing
  • Input: 12
  • SUMO: less than 10 new
Beta

 bug 582244
  • No Copy & Paste
  • Input:
  • SUMO: less than 10 new
All

 bug 582244
  • Zooming
  • Input: 14
Beta

 bug 666600

General Negative Mobile Insights

Beta (126 total negative posts on input this week)

  • 7.1% of input sad face posts say ‘too slow’
  • 5.5% of input sad face posts say ‘too hard to use’

Beta (21 total negative review comments on android market this week)

  • 43% of android market negative comments say ‘too slow’
  • 19% of android market negative comments say ‘too hard to use’

UX & User Research

Market Insights

Desktop

  • Google Chrome becomes UK’s second most popular browser, according to Statscounter and reported by The Guardian. “Three years after launch, Chrome last month captured 22% of UK users and marginally overtook Mozilla’s Firefox browser, according to the web metrics firm Statcounter. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is losing market share to Chrome but remains the most popular browser for UK users with 45% – although it has a head start by being pre-installed on almost all computers sold in Britain. Apple’s Safari is UK number four, with a 9% share. Google’s rise in the browser market is in part down to nationwide advertising – Chrome is the first Google product advertised on British TV – but is largely attributed to its speed.”
  • According to Net Aplications, here are the browser marketshare movements betweehn July 2010 and July 2010, reported by Ars Tehnica:
    • Internet Explorer is down 0.87 points to 52.81%
    • Firefox is down 0.19 points, to 21.48%
    • Chroma gained 0.34 points to 13.45%
    • Safari gained 0.57 points, to 8.05%
    • Opera fell by 0.08 points to 1.65%
  • “The mix of operating systems used on the Web reached a landmark during July. Windows XP, the operating system that was first released a decade ago this month, dipped below a 50 percent share. After years at the top, Microsoft’s ancient operating system is now used by 49.84 percent of Web users. It’s still the most widely used operating system, but Windows 7 is gaining fast, and at current rates, by next August Windows 7 will have passed its ancient predecessor.” – Ars Tehnica

Mobile

Summary below, full update here and in your inbox. Next update in 2 weeks, due to summer holidays.

  • Dolphin HD was updated to v6.1 beta and voted No.2 on CNET’s Top 100 Android apps
  • In Q2, smartphone sales experienced 62% year-over-year growth and a re-shuffle of the top OEM positions due to Nokia’s decline from the first place to third
  • Approx. half of smartphones sold in Q2 run Android and their top manufacturers are Samsung (34%), HTC (23%) and Sony Ericsson (11%).
  • Alibaba, a Chinese ecommerce giant, released its own mobile OS, which runs Android and Web-based apps
  • Phone Gap 1.0 was released and Nvidia announced tablets featuring its Kal-El quad-core CPUs to be available this fall

Press & Public Reaction

Desktop

  • We are working on ad campaigns and SEM to continue to grow users in Firefox Aurora.
  • In addition, we also continue to optimize pages in moz.com to continue to promote Firefox Aurora
  • The campaign is targeted to launch with the Sept merge date. We will be rolling out the SEM plans between now and the Sept. merge.

Mobile

Firefox Aurora now in /Channel page: www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/channel/

  • Mobile Optimized Channel Page: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/m/firefox/channel/
  • We tweeted it in in MozMobile. Please retweet and help us get more users in Firefox Aurora mobile
  • Announced in the community call today
  • About:Home Snippets launching this week

Updating sites for EOL Maemo

Optimizing Android Market description to improve SEO (“browser” search word now at #5) – talked to Irina about categories but doesn’t seem like it would affect. can look into more though

Questions, Comments, FYI

  • Christian: Thunderbird is planning to release on the same day (2011-08-16). The other option is a week later
    • If you have any preference or concerns, please contact Rafael and/or Christian
  • Christian: Pretty much every Android browser is in the “Communication” category. We’re in the “Productivity” category. Is someone looking into if we’re in the correct place 9perhaps as part of an overall SEO strategy? If not, should we?
  • Growth rate for Aurora? (blizzard)
  • Fx 3.6 & future stable release quick discussion (blizzard)

Actions this week

  • Jen follow up on sync bustage in FF5
Retrieved from “https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Planning/2011-08-03“

2-August-2011

Thunderbird Meeting Minutes: 2011-08-02

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

Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2011-08-02

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(current release schedules returning soon)

Thunderbird Meeting Details :

Remember to press *1 to unmute yourself before talking!

Feel free to ask questions in the meeting either by speaking up or by asking them in #maildev on IRC.

Other ways to get in touch with us can be found on our communications page

Agenda

  • Who’s taking minutes? –> gozer
  • Minute taking Schedule. Talk to Standard8 for schedule changes/additions.
  • Note: this meeting is for interactive discussion. Feel free to ask questions!

Action Items

Friends of the Tree

  • No nominations this week.

Thanks to our Friend of the Tree. When adding someone to this section, please get their T-Shirt size, phone number (needed for shipping!) and send it to rebron@mozilla.com so that he can send them a shirt!

Thunderbird Development

For more details, see also the driver meeting notes.

Feature Work

Account Provisioner
  • Documents written.
  • Reviews scheduled.
  • Need to turn the code into a patch.
  • (Blake will be working on reviews this week instead.)
OpenSearch
  • Documents written.
  • Reviews scheduled.
  • Jim needs to turn the code into a patch.
Test Pilot
  • We’ve got an index of tests on the Test Pilot server now.
  • Jim has ported his changes to the most recent Test Pilot code.
  • The next thing is probably to host that code somewhere so other people can test it.

Experiments

Thunderbird Conversations

Now at ~50000 users. Arrived in Vancouver, started to fix the most urgent bugs in Conversations. Released a beta version (see “install development version”) on AMO, please install and give feedback to me on IRC concerning the UI improvements (esp. for the inline reply). Lots of bugs to fix, please help for support: see threads in mozilla-labs (google group) and GetSatisfaction.

Compose in a tab
Account Summary
Ubuntu Unity Integration
  • This week, I’m demonstrating write/delete capability for EDS Contacts.
  • August 4th is the last day that Canonical can back out of our efforts to be the default client – so if we get past that date, we did it!

Schedule and Progress

Thunderbird 6
  • Releasing beta 2 today.
  • May do one or two more betas, depending on l10n.
Thunderbird 7
  • Merges to beta channel on 16th August.
Thunderbird 8
Thunderbird 3.1.x
  • Thunderbird 3.1.12 release is scheduled is for August 16th, will be building it tomorrow.
  • Bug Lists: 3.1

Extension of the week

QA Updates

  • tb6 beta2 and earlybird tb7 continues

Marketing Updates

  • PR Update: short article on Lightning and here, a few other mentions 1, 2,
  • Thunderbird ADUs: majority of users now on Thunderbird 5
  • Next TB beta.
  • Continuing work on Test Pilot studies.

Infrastructure Update

Build / Release Update

  • Thunderbird Beta 2 ready to push to beta

Web Update

  • kitsune upgrade soon, had some problems merging due to major lib changes
  • merged some l10n and other revisions to production mozilla.org
  • learned about amo-validator and how to validate our add-ons and bump versions

Documentation

  • Back – catching up on emails and stuff

Support

Lightning Updates

  • Go test latest Lightning on AMO version, Lightning 1.0 beta5 release a few days ago.

Status Updates

See the Mozilla Status Board for status updates specific to developers.

Roundtable Highlights

Attendees

bienvenu, bwinton, jb, jenzed, mconley, jhopkins, rebron, sancus, andreasn, standard8, ludo

Retrieved from “https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2011-08-02“

Mozilla Platform Meeting Minutes: 2011-08-02

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

Platform/2011-08-02

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Applications

  • Installing an app to the platform
    • DOM API
    • App points to URI with json meta data
    • Permissions granting is up in the air
    • How to offer apps -> via a website
    • Profile integration for stand alone apps
  • Web Activities/Intents
    • Webkit working on this too
    • W3C proposal
  • Mail threads to dev-planning
  • Apps

Notices / Schedule

Old and busted

  • The code freeze for Firefox 3.6.20 was YESTERDAY
    • If you have a bug in this list you have outstanding work
      • Andreas and Benjamin: If you won’t get to the fix, think it is too risky, or think we don’t need to block please let us know (w/ reasoning of course)

New hotness

Beta

  • Planning to create the last beta build / “RC” for this cycle TOMORROW, 2011-08-03
  • If no issues are found we will ship the last beta build / “RC” as final on 2011-08-16
    • If you find any issues that would require a respin or prevent us from releasing please email release drivers

Aurora

  • The AMO automated compatibility bump was done late last week

Nightly

  • Reminder: The next mozilla-central → mozilla-aurora source migration date is 2011-08-16, ~2 weeks away

Firefox Development

  • Marco Bonardo landed a patch to collect telemetry data about places databases (bug 671001)
  • Frank Yan landed tab dragging animations last week (bug 455694) – \o\
  • Ran into some issues with sessionstore dataloss due to sessionhistory bugs, Paul O’Shannessy worked to develop some workarounds on the session restore side (bug 669196), and Tim Taubert and Justin Lebar have been doing great work investigating the underlying issues (bug 670318, bug 673467)

Firefox Developer Tools

Performance

GFX

JS

  • Sean Stangl joined Monday, initially working on IonMonkey
  • A few ARM perf wins from Marty (with a little help from Jacob Bramley, I think):
    • bug 673314: enable ARM multiply instructions in JM
    • bug 674143: new value tags that are easier to compare on ARM (this is also worth a few percent on x86)

Layout

DOM

Network

Plugins

Mobile

  • Switched to new toolchain from NDKr5
  • Testing update
    • make targets for mochitests and reftests, coming soon for xpcshell tests
    • Weekly meetings to coordinate work between dev, ateam and releng (Mobile/Testing)
  • Need help diagnosing individual test failures

Accessibility

Multi-Process

Tree Management

  • enabling more android unittest, talos on different project branches.
  • NDK5 rolled out in production.
  • win32+linux builder machines vibration fix done (joint w/IT)

Stability Report

Socorro

  • New Socorro release going out to production today.
    • Fix for graph/line colors in crashes per user page.
    • Includes plugin and content crashes so the numbers might change a bit.

Desktop

Beta

  • Juanb – seems very easy to crash using WebGL.
  • Firefox freezes in full screen mode on youtube – Bug 675645
  • Fixed the spike in plugin hangs but most users still on beta3 so we haven’t seen those crashes go down yet.
  • Bug 469267 – this has spiked up between b2 and b3.

Aurora

  • Verified the fix for the Flash hang.

Trunk

  • Some new signatures showing up only for 8.0a1.
  • Some regressions late last week due to a parser change.
  • All major regressions seem to have bugs and are being worked on.

General areas of concern

  • Flash
    • Flash hangs and crashes seem to be rising – worse on 5.0 today than 2 weeks ago.
    • For the particular crashes we looked into, they seem to be rising across all versions.
    • Largest rise we saw was with Bug 675200
    • Doesn’t seem to correlate to particular Flash versions.
    • Might be due to websites making some changes.
    • Reach out to Adobe for help diagnosing the issue and the crash team is going to work on gathering more data.
  • http://espn.go.com/espnw/news-opinion/6823356/x-games-17-bang-bruise-fall
    • Reporter makes a comment that she is getting a lot of Firefox crash reports.
    • Probably site related – we are looking into it.

Fennec

  • Nothing new to update today.

Roundtable

  • Dropping the 10.5 OS X *SDK* (not support for OS X 10.5)
    • Email thread dev-platform
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1-August-2011

Mozilla Project Meeting Minutes: 2011-08-01

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

WeeklyUpdates/2011-08-01

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Video for today’s meeting

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Friends of the Tree

It’s a bit overdue, but a bunch of Mozillians truly deserve a warm thank you for their help with WSOH: (the list is quite long): IT (Tim, mrz, Derek, Guillermo), Havi, Pascal, Julie C, Todd, Potch, CHeilmann, Anant, Philipp, Bret, Kimber, Jill A., Didem, Felipe, Spencer, Margaret, Frank, Gilbert, Saptarshi, Chris Jung, Rainer and Spencer!

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 1 August

Tuesday, 2 August

Brown Bag, 12:00PM Pacific Time

Jim Cook / Facilities / IT Team – SF Office Move Brown Bag

Everything you need to know and every question answered about your upcoming move to our new and awesome SF Office!

Wednesday, 3 August

Thursday, 4 August

Brown Bag, 12:00PM Pacific Time

Jay Sullivan – Mozilla Products and Strategy (Intern Series)

Interns, this week’s speaker Jay Sullivan will help to describe Mozilla products and what the horizon looks like from here

Friday, 5 August

Brown Bag, 3:00PM Pacific Time

World Series of Hack – Show & Tell of the top 3 winning projects (Julie Deroche)

The top 3 winning teams of WOSH will be at Mozilla to do a live demo and answer questions about their projects.

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox Future (6, 7, 8)

Beta

  • Planning to create the last beta build / “RC” for this cycle on this Wednesday, 2011-08-03
  • If no issues are found we will ship the last beta build / “RC” as final on 2011-08-16
    • If you find any issues that would require a respin or prevent us from releasing please email release drivers

Aurora

  • The AMO automated compatibility bump was done late last week

Nightly

  • Reminder: The next mozilla-central → mozilla-aurora source migration date is 2011-08-16, ~2 weeks away

Firefox Current (3.6, 4.0, 5.0)

  • The code freeze for Firefox 3.6.20 is TODAY
    • If you have a bug in this list you have outstanding work
    • Please get your fixes in by 11:59 am PDT
  • Firefox 3.6.20 is scheduled to release on 2011-08-16

Mobile Firefox

Thunderbird

  • Thunderbird 6.0 Beta 2 will be released tomorrow.
    • The Aero Glass theme has been changed to try and make it easier to read.
    • Bug 658534 (can’t collapse+expand folders) has been fixed.

Drumbeat

Speakers

The limit is 3 minutes per speaker. It’s like a lightning talk, but don’t feel that you have to have slides in order to make a presentation.

Title

 Presenter

 Topic

 Media
Firefox Brand Toolkit

 John Slater

 Quick overview of what this is and why we’re doing it + we need input

 http://www.intothefuzz.com/2011/08/01/firefox-brand-toolkit-first-draft/
WSOH

 Julie Deroche

 Quick update + video of the event

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuQ3byMEuI8

Status Updates By Team

Firefox

Platform

Messaging

Mobile

IT

Release Engineering

QA

Desktop Firefox
  • Fx6 Beta 4: To be signed off this morning before ~9am.
    • Preparing for a crowd-sourced web compatibility testrun on top sites functionality (to be done by uTest).
Browser Technologies
  • Firefox mobile 6 beta 4 testing in progress. Targeting sign off this week
  • Setup a QA sync server within the group. have a machine to point against
  • First week of support against BrowserID beta environment
WebQA

Automation Services
  • great workweek in Cambridge UK notes

Automation & Tools

  • Helped land Cameron’s patch to remove the UI from mochitests, saving us nearly 20 minutes of time from every mochitest chunk
  • Packed.js removal should happen this week – saves about 5 minutes of time on every mochitest chunk
  • Performed first end to end test with Talos testing for addons, working with AMO crew to finalize.
  • Bringing up a possible replacement Tree Status tool that Catlee wrote to help replace the old tinderbox one – should be live this week (waiting on IT).
  • More notes

Security

Engagement

PR

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

Introducing New Hires

  • Jeffrey Griffiths: joining the Developer Engagement team, managed by Stormy Peters, located in Vancouver office.
  • Sean Stangl: joining the JavaScript team, managed by David Mandelin, located in Mtn. View office.
  • Donovan Preston: joining the Research team, managed by Andreas Gal, located in Mtn. View office.
  • Christian Holler: joining the Security Engr team, managed by Brandon Sterne, located in Germany.
  • Julius Berry: joining the Desktop team, managed by Tim Fairfield, located in Mtn. View office.
  • James Willcox: joining the Engr Platform team, managed by JP Rosevear, located in Mtn. View office.
  • Tomcat is the Product Team’s Partner Services Administrator

Introducing a New Intern

Michael Kurze, Metrics (welcome back! Daniel Einspanjer will introduce on phone)

Foundation Updates

Roundtable

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