Meeting Notes Meetings notes from the Mozilla community

Schedule & Progress onUpcoming Releases (Liz/Sylvestre/Lawrence)

• 38.0.5 released on Tuesday for desktop and android.
• 39 beta 2 released
• 39 beta 3 gtb tomorrow, release Friday (desktop only)

Firefox Desktop & Platform (Javaun/Chad/Martin)

Current Releases

• Pocket released. Great social media feedback.
• In the Fx40 timeframe, if you have Win10, upgrade and try Fx.( Ask Bryan Clark)
• Desktop privacy/security: working on Control Center security block panel. Two bugs landing: 1146269 and 1146282 (includes screenshots)
• GPU runtime hardware testing will be landing in the next few days. Bug:1156135

Firefox Mobile (Mark/Brad/Jenn)

Firefox for iOS

• Noteworthy Items for this weeks build: mostly continued improvements, resolving regressions etc…
• History Sync (incl. Timed) has landed. Soon moving on to the final Sync instance for V1: Passwords
• External testing/feedback is expanding this week to include approx. 400 new users
• iOS Roadmap in Aha!

Firefox for Android

Android Roadmap in Aha!

Beta (39)

• OSCP will probably slip
• Google maps won’t zoom bug 1150284

Aurora (40)

• ‘Passwords in-content UI’ and ‘Support SSO Framework’ still underway/in development for 40
• In general a pretty light release for new features

Nightly (41)

• ‘Privacy: option to always use private browsing’ moved up from 42 -> 41
• ‘magnifying glass in areas of clustered links’ has landed in nightly and is preffed on
• ‘Open External URL in Background (tab queuing)’ requires a permissions bump. Moved from 40 -> 41

Developer Tools (Jeff)

• <Read Only>
• Dev Edition 40 hit yesterday
  • hacks post, hacks post
  • response is good so far

Feedback Summary (Rob/Tyler/Matt)

Desktop

New Top Issue Dashboard! https://useradvocacy.mozilla.org/dashboards/top-issues/

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

Schedule & Progress onUpcoming Releases (Liz/Sylvestre/Lawrence)

38.0.5 is going to the release channel but until we are certain it’s stable there we can’t put 39 onto the beta channel. 39 will have only 3.5 weeks on beta. One of those will be the workweek in Whistler.

38:

• 38.0.5 beta 4 [mobile] release today
• 38.0.5 [mobile] go to build (for the release channel) today
• 38.0.5 [mobile] release Thursday

39:

• 39.0 beta 1 build 2 [mobile] [desktop] should finally be on the beta channel on Thursday. Still not 100% certain.

40:

• Dev edition special release coming up; we should avoid doing anything to destabilize aurora right now.

Firefox Mobile (Mark/Brad/Jenn)

Firefox for iOS

• iOS Roadmap in Aha!
• No recent changes to iOS roadmap. See Aha! for the current ‘story’.
• V1.0 continues to progress
  • Sync continues to chug along – History!
  • Ongoing improvements around scrolling and other visuals
  • Call for (additional) external beta testers received notable attention
  • New release date has not been established yet. Dependent on external feedback trends, as the program ramps up. Downstream teams will be notified with sufficient lead team once we have a better idea of timing.

Firefox for Android

• Fennec Roadmap in Aha!
• ‘Mobile browsing history prioritized over synced DT history’ de-prioritized, and moved out to 42
• ‘quick search bar above keyboard’ will not hit 40. Moved to 41.
• There are a handful of over items that ‘may’ be targeted/re-targeted shortly. Follow-ups in progress. (Voice Integration, QR Code Reader, Magnifying glass on clustered links, click-to-view-images). Watch for updates!
  • Update – QR Code Reading and Voice Integration now targeted for 41

Developer Tools (Jeff)

<Read Only>

• final stages of devedition-40 project, things are looking 10% less crazy than they did last time. I call it a win?
  • 97 user-facing bugs fixed since early April
  • hacks blog post, website content and 2 screencasts all in flight
  • might have a fun surprise?

Feedback Summary (Cheng/Tyler/Matt)

No updates today.

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction (Arcadio)

• Full throttle on Spring campaign
• Android test campaign results coming in from Yahoo network

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

Schedule & Progress onUpcoming Releases (Lawrence)

• Firefox Desktop, Mobile and ESR 38.0.1 shipped last week (release notes: Desktop/ESR, Android)

• 38.0.5 Desktop and Android will build RCs on Thu/Fri this week
  • mobile b4 will gtb on Thu, release on Fri

• 39b1 scheduled to ship Tue, May 26 (gtb Fri, May 22)
  • SoftVision will be using the b1 build to test against Windows 10

• Dev Edition 40 updates were enabled last Fri, May 15

Firefox Mobile (Mark/Brad/Jenn)

Firefox for iOS

• No longer on the critical path for June 2nd campaign launch
• Sync is progressing well
• No new official launch date yet, as we are dependent on the outcome of the external feedback cycle, which is in progress. Feedback so far has been generally favorable in nature.

Firefox for Android

• See Android Trello Board for status of specific features

Beta (39)

• Reader View & Local Only Reading List for this release. Pocket Integration is not in scope for the 38 release.

Developer Tools (Jeff)

<Read Only>

• landing / uplifting various patches for June 2
• Dev Edition 40 Post on hacks.

Feedback Summary (Cheng/Tyler/Matt/Rob)

Desktop

Slowness

• A lot of slowness feedback
• Bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1165732
• We’re working on pulling Remote Troubleshooting data to see what correlates exist.

Mobile

None

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

Schedule & Progress onUpcoming Releases (Lawrence)

<read only>

• Tuesday releases
  • Firefox 38.0 desktop and mobile
  • Firefox ESR 38.0 and 31.7.0
  • Firefox 38.0.5b1

• Firefox 38.0.1 – coming this week to fix stability issues reported in both desktop and mobile

• Firefox 38.0.5b2 gtb Thursday, expected release Friday (may be impacted by the 38.0.1 release)

Developer Tools (Jeff)

• <Read Only>
• uplift has passed, but we expect a number of Aurora Branch uplifts in the next few weeks. All strings should be in.
• we fixed 75 user-facing bugs since 2015-04-07.
• current e10s plan is to default off, but prompt on update for users to test. There are currently known performance problems but also known performance improvements. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Feedback Summary (Cheng/Tyler/Matt)

Desktop

Gearing up for Firefox 38 feedback. We’re not seeing much yet, but we expect that to change as we ramp up unthrottling.

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

Schedule & Progress onUpcoming Releases (Lawrence)

• Firefox 38.0 and ESR 38.0 RCs built and are being tested – release day is Tue, May 12
• Firefox 38.0.5b1 delayed until next week

• Next merge is Monday
  • mozilla-release = 38.0.5
  • mozilla-beta = 39.0
  • mozilla-aurora = 40.0
  • mozilla-central = 41.0

Firefox Desktop & Platform (Javaun/Chad/Martin)

Current Releases

Desktop Fx38

• EME launching
• MSE on MacOSX
• In-content Prefs

A Video theme: EME, MSE Win/Mac. This is understandable as a user-facing issue. If anyone is uncomfortable with PR highlighting it like this, please let me know.

38.0.5: A lot of work in flux.

Win64: Call for help. If you’ve been hands-on with Windows 10, please reach out.

Firefox Mobile (Mark/Brad/Jenn)

Firefox for iOS

• No longer on the critical path for June 2nd campaign launch
• Scope is not changing, but taking the additional time to complete committed sync work, and to allow time for an external feedback cycle
• No new official launch date yet, as we are dependent on the outcome of the external feedback cycle, but expected to be in terms of weeks, not months.

Firefox for Android

• See Android Trello Board for status of specific features

Beta (38)

• Reader View & Local Only Reading List for this release. Pocket Integration is not in scope for the 38 release.

Nightly (40)

• Tab Queues
• Voice Search
• Password Manager
• Otherwise, light in terms of new feature content as the majority of work completed for this cycle was uplifted.

Developer Tools (Jeff)

• Dev Edition 40 is on track
  • perf tools features will be feature flagged off in 40.0, plan is to re-enable in 40.1
  • devedition-40 progress – 55 bugs fixed since April 9

Feedback Summary (Cheng/Tyler/Matt)

Desktop

Pulling weekly MSE summaries

Mobile

No updates

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

Schedule & Progress onUpcoming Releases (Lawrence)

• 38.0b8 desktop and mobile shipped
  • Note: There was not 38.0b7 due to build issues related to shipping Betas off of the m-r branch

• 38.0.5b1 gtb on Thu, May 7

• reminder that branches are currently as follows:
  • m-r: 38.0
  • m-b: 38.0.5
  • m-a: 39.0
  • m-c: 40.0

Firefox Desktop & Platform (Javaun/Chad/Martin)

Current Releases

EME is on track for 38. Some bugs for us, some for Adobe.

38.0.5: Some elements at risk. Good news: L10N out of scope, EN-US only.

64 bit rollout planning is resuming today. We are not launching Win64 in 38 nor 38 ESR.

Iteration 40.3: Some work for 38.0.5. Add-on signing planning is happening.

Beta (38)

• GMP regression from EME patch that was uplifted to Beta, this should be a block-ship issue and we’re working on a patch bug 1159300

Firefox Mobile (Mark/Brad/Jenn)

Firefox for iOS

• iOS Status Report for this week
• Sync is considered At Risk for June 2nd Campaign timelines, at least partially (history, passwords)
• Timing of feature availability (such as Sync) means any external feedback cycle is also At Risk for June 2nd.

Firefox for Android

• See Android Trello Board for status of specific features

Beta (38)

• Reader View & Local Only Reading List for this release. Pocket Integration is not in scope for the 38 release.

Nightly (40)

• Tab Queues
• Voice Search
• Password Manager
• Otherwise, light in terms of new feature content as the majority of work completed for this cycle was uplifted.

Developer Tools (Jeff)

• no audible, complicated day
• meta bug with links for tracking [devedition-40] progress: bug 1159780

Feedback Summary (Cheng/Tyler/Matt)

Desktop

Tracking a few crashes on release:

Trusteer (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1159484)

Old versions of Displaylink drivers seem to be causing a few different crashes.

Market Insights from the Product Team (Kev)

No update this week, but will add items of interest for next

One item of note is the Microsoft Build developer conference this week in SF. It has an online presence with streaming of some sessions, some of which will give more info on Edge (the official name of what’s been referred to as “Spartan”).

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

Schedule & Progress onUpcoming Releases (Lawrence)

• 37.0.2 desktop shipped on Monday (release notes)

• 38.0b6 desktop and mobile shipped Tuesday

• Spring Firefox release version has changed to 38.0.5

• FYI, branches are in a non standard state right now
  • mozilla-release = 38.0
  • mozilla-beta = 38.0.5

Firefox Mobile (Mark/Brad/Jenn)

Firefox for iOS

• Status Report found here
• RL Sync is now out of scope. Tab Sync is progressing. History & Password Sync are currently in the red for V1 release.

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

Schedule & Progress onUpcoming Releases (Lawrence)

• 37.0.2
  • mobile shipped yesterday (release notes)
  • desktop gtb today

• 38b4
  • desktop shipped yesterday
  • mobile shipped today

• Next Betas
  • Desktop: 38b5 gtb Thu
  • Mobile: 38b6 gtb Mon

Developer Tools (Jeff)

• no audible, complicated day is complicated
• the team is furiously burning down bugs tagged devedition-40

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

Schedule & Progress onUpcoming Releases (Lawrence)

• Firefox 37.0.1 desktop and mobile released on Fri, Apr 3 (relnotes: desktop, mobile
  • Desktop updates enabled at 100% yesterday

• 38 Beta 2 desktop and mobile released yesterday

• 38.1 plan
  • Features will be disabled midway through the 38.0 Beta cycle
  • 38.1 builds will be released on the Beta channel for 2 weeks after 38.0 wraps up
  • Target is May 26 for first 39.0 release on the Beta channel

• 39 Aurora updates have been re-enabled

Firefox Mobile (Mark/Brad/Jenn)

Current Releases

• “Request Desktop Site” issue (bug 1151469)

Beta (38)

• Reading List Sync will be in the next Beta

Developer Tools (Jeff)

• currently intense planning for dev-edition 40 ‘moment’ on June 2
  • watch the ‘devedition-40’ whiteboard for all the excitement
• outbound: recent hacks post got some nice feedback

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction (Winston/Fabio)

• Fabio working on some funnel analysis for Hello
• Yahoo Android campaign ramping up next week
• Spring campaign marketing pieces on schedule
• Q1 Growth team results

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

Schedule & Progress onUpcoming Releases (Lawrence)

• Firefox 37 released yesterday (desktop, mobile)! …
  • ..but desktop updates were disabled yesterday due to a startup crash (bug 1149761, bug 1149864)
    • gfx team has fixes that we’re going to vet and then we’ll need to push 37.0.1
  • mobile is good

• Firefox 38 Beta 1 desktop and mobile ship tomorrow

• Firefox 39 Aurora updates are scheduled to be re-enabled on Friday

Firefox Desktop & Platform (Javaun/Chad/Martin)

Current Releases

read only update:

Desktop 40.1
We are starting the control center, a UI element to offer in-context controls around site history, site identity/authentication. Eventually it will be a home for site-level permissions and tracking protection. It is place where users to experience site-level control at their fingerttips.

EME: lands in 38 beta tomorrow. We’re in the release notes for 38. PR is primed, the SUMO page is live. We have binary uninstall working. We have a DRM free repack being created.

Developer Tools (Jeff)

• 50 bugs fixed.

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction (Winston/Fabio)

• Android campaign for q1 initial results in
• Spring campaign – moving along
• Hello

Questions, Comments, FYI

Update on the future of this meeting:
Tyler is still tracking down the proper people to inveite to this meeting, and will be doing a few more things over the next week to encourage attendance.

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