Meeting Notes Meetings notes from the Mozilla community

Schedule & Progress onUpcoming Releases (Lawrence)

• In case you missed it, we shipped the following chemspills last weekend
  • Firefox 36.0.3 and 36.0.4
  • Firefox for Android 36.0.3 and 36.0.4
  • Firefox ESR 31.5.2 and 31.5.3
  • Firefox 37 Beta 7 desktop and mobile

• Firefox 37
  • Desktop RC built yesterday, should ship to the Beta channel today
  • Mobile Beta 8 built yesterday, should ship to the Beta channel today
  • Next up:
    • Desktop may require RC2 (we’ll see)
    • Mobile RC
  • At this point there is some risk for our Tuesday release date. We need to measure the stability of the RC on the Beta channel before we know the impact of the changes that we took.

• Firefox ‘spring’ release will be Firefox 38.1 and will ship on June 2, 2015.

• Next merge day is Mon, Mar 30, 2015
  • 38 becomes Beta
  • 39 becomes Aurora
  • 40 becomes Nightly

Questions, Comments, FYI

Future of this meeting:

• Tyler sent out an e-mail to all regular attendees+those on the regular meeting notes.
• 1 response was sent, advocating that we kill the meeting.

Alternatives to this meeting:
Channel Meeting (Schedule and Progress / User Feedback) https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Channels/Meetings

Mozilla-Wide Meeting (Schedules / Special Project / Marketing, etc.) https://wiki.mozilla.org/WeeklyUpdates

SUMO Meeting (User Feedback) https://wiki.mozilla.org/Support/Weekly_Meetings

Mobile Meeting (Firefox Mobile) https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/ProductPlanning

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 for Android 36.0.2 released on Tuesday (release notes)

• 37 desktop Beta 7 gtb Thu (final Beta)
  • Note: We are evaluating the need for a desktop Beta 8 on Monday
• 37 mobile beta 8 gtb Mon (final Beta)
• 37 RCs build next week – release date is Tue, Mar 31

• Reminder that the next merge day is Mon, Mar 30

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 (Lukas/Sylvestre/Lawrence)

• Firefox 36.0.1 Desktop and Mobile shipped last week (release notes)

• 37 Beta 4
  • Desktop shipped yesterday
  • Mobile ships today

• Will not continue testing EME in 37. I expect Javaun will have an update below…

• Reminder that there are only 3 weeks left until the 37 release (release date Mar 31) due to the short cycle.

Current Cycle 39.1

Top priorities:

• Reading List work for spring campaign (concern over services portion)
• e10s
• Add-on Signing
• Tracking Protection
• Perpetual search work

EME: Backing out of beta 37. No-go. Project is at-risk for 38 due to partner testing 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 (Lawrence)

• Going to release 36.0.1. 36.0 updates are disabled while we create the dot release

• 37 Beta 2 shipped on Tuesday
• 37 Next up
  • Desktop Beta 3 gtb Thursday
  • Mobile Beta 4 gtb Monday

• Note that EME has been uplifted for 37 Beta 3 but is disabled. No plan to ship EME in 37. This isolated uplift is for testing only.

Firefox Desktop & Platform (Javaun/Chad/Martin)

Current Cycle 39.1

Top priorities:

• Reading List work for spring campaign
• e10s
• Tracking Protection
• Add-on Signing

EME uplift for testing to beta 37.3.

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction (Arcadio)

• Spring campaign – agency selection complete
• Android campaign – 1.5 million snippet clicks to GP, 150K SMS messages sent, 250K app install clicks
• Yahoo campaigns

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 (Lukas/Sylvestre/Lawrence)

• Firefox 36
  • Desktop released yesterday (release notes) – plan is to enable updates at 100% on Friday
  • Mobile is delayed for search related fixes and is currently targeting Friday for release

• Firefox 37 Beta 1 released today – went a day early to get an additional day of testing during this shorter release cycle (release notes)

• Firefox 38 Aurora updates are scheduled to be re-enabled on Friday

Feedback Summary (Cheng/Tyler/Matt)

Desktop

• Feb 24th nightly has broken mouse scroll issues that have since been fixed. bug 1136177
• Lots of Hello feedback coming in as a result of the promotion in the snippet. Expect a feedback roll up by EoW

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 (Lukas/Sylvestre/Lawrence)

• FHR/Telemetry are unifying for FF38, dependency tree – expect some potential data collection issues in early Aurora 38

Firefox Desktop & Platform (Javaun/Chad/Martin)

Current Releases

38.3 starts today.
Two Big Priorities for spring campaign/38:

• Hello work: sharing tabs/windows/apps
• Reading list MVP ready desktop/iOS

Another biggie:

• EME finished in 38 for first providers. (Name withheld out of legal/partner concerns). We want to uplift to 37 beta to give us extra testing time. We are not accelerating L10N at this time.

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction (Arcadio/Winston)

• SMS Snippet live – performing well
• Agency pitches for upcoming campaign still on track
• Hello owned media push planned for next week

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

Firefox Desktop & Platform (Javaun/Chad/Martin)

Current Releases

38.3 starts today.
Two Big Priorities for spring campaign/38:

• Hello work: sharing tabs/windows/apps
• Reading list MVP ready desktop/iOS

Another biggie:

• EME finished in 38 for first provider. (Name withheld out of legal/partner concerns)

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction (Winston)

• Android SMS snippet goes live tomorrow
• Turning up volume on Android ads
• Agency meets for Spring

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

Feedback Summary (Cheng/Tyler/Matt)

Desktop

Pulled another round of MSE feedback. Feedback is improving, but still elevated.

Another Flash feedback spike. ex: https://input.mozilla.org/en-US/dashboard/response/4910334

Mobile

Pulled some data for the Rockchip SOC issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1108709

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction (Winston/Arcadio)

• SEM has launched and results are encouraging
• Banner ads are live on the Yahoo network as of Monday. Using funnel cake to measure impact.
• Android marketing live in several markets on Facebook / Twitter. Snippet showing Android marketing at 40% rotation
• New SMS snippet goes live on 2/12

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 (Lukas/Sylvestre/Lawrence)

• We shipped Firefox Desktop 35.0.1 on Monday

• 36 Beta 4
  • Desktop shipped yesterday
  • Mobile ships today

• Next Beta release
  • Desktop Beta 5 gtb Thu, ships Fri
  • Mobile Beta 6 gtb Mon, ships Tue/Wed

• Looking at options for the release date for the spring Firefox release

Feedback Summary (Cheng/Tyler/Matt)

Desktop

35 Snippet Survey going live soon

Writing a report on e10s feedback in nightly

Looks like Youtube made some kind of change yesterday so that more people are on HTML5 video.

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction (Arcadio/Winston)

• Android efforts ramping up
• Yahoo
• SEM

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

Feedback Summary (Cheng/Tyler/Matt)

Desktop

• Input traffic is up as a result of the release but nothing stands out. Doing a deep dive (with MATH) today.

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