Firefox/Planning/2013-02-20

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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

REMEMBER

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Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Firefox Metro

• Iteration #2 Update:
  • Remaining days in iteration = 2
  • Points closed to date = 18
  • Stories closed/verified to date = 3
  • Reopened Stories: 4
  • Priority 1 Change/Defect Stories: 1
  • Remaining points in iteration = 97
  • End of iteration status report will be delivered on Friday February 22.

• Performance To Date:
  • Confirmed Story Backlog: 19 ready for upcoming iterations.
  • Legacy Stories: 13 remaining for QA testing (originally totalled 37).
  • On Hold Stories: 10 remaining for Product Manager clarification before being moved into Story Backlog.
  • Triage Work: 13 items for Product Manager to review before being converted to Defects.
  • Stories to be Planned: 27 stories for Team to review, relate work items to them and assign point values.

• Updates:
  • As each story is completed (Fixed Status) it is submitted to QA for testing.
  • If the story passes the functionality tests, then it is marked as Verified and if it fails it is reopened.
  • Last week the team had completed 7 stories totalling 40 story points.
    • The Team had completed more points at the half-way point of Iteration #2 than all of Iteration #1.
  • 4 of the 7 stories had quality issues and were reopened reducing our story point completion count to 18.
  • This follows our 'Definition of Done' to ensure the project does not collect any 'technical debt' moving forward.
    • View Metro DOD
  • This results in a release build being submitted to QA at the end of an iteration that is smaller but of a higher quality.

• Upcoming Iteration #3:
  • Review and planning session to be conducted on Friday February 22 and Monday February 25.
  • Iteration #3 starts on Tuesday February 26.

Firefox Mobile

Current Releases

Lightweight themes, Expanded ARMv6 support and Support for zh-TW and zh-CN are some of the highlights. We also worked on the streamlining Session Restore, cleaned up the way we store Favicons and Thumbnails, and added History expiration. The UI was tweaked in several places, including About:Home and the Awesomescreen. Content rendering was also greatly improved with: Tile-by-tile drawing, Low-res tiles and Mitigated locking.

We are hitting many DB related crashes during the upgrade. It's difficult to figure out when some of the crashes are happening, but others are definitely happening during the DB upgrade. Risk mitigation meeting is happening today at 1PM Pacific in the Mobile Vidyo room. bug 791958, bug 829927, bug 752828

Nightly (129)

• The highly anticipated scrolling of the nav bar off the top of the screen has been green-lighted by UX and patch is under review bug 716403

Add-on SDK

Release (1.13.2 -> Firefox 19, 20)

Stabilization (1.14 -> Firefox 20, 21)

Development (Firefox 22)

• final loader changes required for Firefox 21 landed to m-c, Mossop will handle uplifts to m-a
• required PWPB changes landing this week, hoping for uplift to m-a early next week.

Feedback Summary

Desktop

Positive Feedback

PDF.js

• Loved the PDF feature, made the feature a lot easier to use and faster. GJ!
• The built in pdf viewer makes life so much better on a Linux machine. No I can view my annual tax report without hassle
• I am SO happy about the new pdf reader (I'm using linux version). Until today, I cringed every time I tried to open a pdf, and half the time it wouldn't work. THANK YOU
• PDF Viewer => 100% Thanks
• pdf view finally!!!!
• built in PDF viewer (pdf.js) in Firefox 19 seems to totally kick ass :)

General

• I really like that you are here for us user's...it's great that we don't have to pay for you...lol... keep up the good work...
• Congratulation for all team who work on Firefox, nice work for this newer release! Faster and fluid, HTML5 improvement and more secure of course. Together we build the world of "tomorrow"... Thanks!
• Its faster than other browsers and user friendly
• I am a web designer and firefox helps me to improve my work efficiency and speed. by the help of firefox i can work easily.
• It just seems exponentially faster than internet explorer or chrome.... i cant believe anyone still uses them

Negative Feedback

PDF.js

1. Users don't like being switched to pdf.js/don't know how to change
2. Broken sites (Complete list sent to PDF.js team)
3. Don't know how to download/save
4. Poor Font rendering (Example: https://input.mozilla.org/en-US/opinion/3576134)
5. Printing is broken
6. Lots of German feedback. Assuming it is about umlauts
7. Thai language does not display correctly

Market Insights from the Product Marketing Strategy Team

Desktop / Platform

Google

• Google Chrome will soon offer support for a (at present, Google-only) file synchronization service. Web app developers will be able to seamlessly use Google's services to store data, letting users use apps on multiple devices more easily.

Tizen

• The final Tizen 2.0 SDK has been released -- the alpha version was released in the fall of 2012. Highlights include an enhanced HTML5 web framework, APIs for Bluetooth and NFC, and a full WYSIWYG Web IDE for development.

WebKit

• There is some evidence that Apple may be upstreaming some of the changes they have made to WebKit in their private iOS branch.
• Google employees have started a project to handle HTML tokenization and parsing on a background processing thread, which will help performance on multi-core devices.
• Other WebKit members have added the Khronos WebGL conformance tests into the WebGL tree.

Other

• Worldwide mobile data traffic will increase by 13x over the next four years, Cisco has forecasted.
• The Pew Internet and American Life project produced a report stating that "a majority of current Facebook users ... have at one time or another tired to the point of avoiding the social-networking site.