Firefox/Planning/2014-03-26

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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 Mobile

Current Releases

Thank you for 28.0.1

• bug 963621, bug 945429
• http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/28.0.1/releasenotes/
• Up for continued investigation: bug 987223 - No visible H.264 video playback on MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (avc1) (Planar 4:2:0 YUV)

Beta (128)

• Progress bar is looking good for Beta 2: https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Fennec/29/Beta/2/progressbar-results
• Sync feedback is looking healthy
• Go/No-Go for web apps is April 7th

Aurora (54)

• Blocking bug was fixed so aurora updates are on, thank you gfx team bug 983208 - Regression: Panning and zooming yields flickering and or vanishing content
• Another gfx related issue bug 988370 - Regression: position: fixed element corruption when panning
• Making progress on RSS Hub add-ons for Fx30
  • https://github.com/leibovic/world-cup-feed
  • https://github.com/leibovic/fennec_rss

Nightly (129)

• We are working through the list to hone in on scope: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Roadmap#Firefox_31_.28Nightly.29
• bug 942279 - UI Telemetry: v1 documentation in the tree, iron out event/session guidelines, trying to land first probes
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Android/UITelemetry#Technical_details
  • Look for an email update on how to get started [mobile-firefox-dev]

Developer Tools

• Outbound
  • GDC posts for the Canvas Debugger and robcee's devtools demo video
  • Robcee's GDC feedback summary: "The answer’s still Performance Tools."
  • Aurora post went out yesterday ( hacks / hacker news / Twitter )

• Landings (now or soon)
  • Canvas Debugger bug 917226
  • Pixel Inspector bug 939040
  • Itchpad back-end bug 987089 (new name TBD)
  • Add-on Debugger bug 899054

Feedback Summary

Desktop

• USR 27 today
• Snippet surveys live in Release
• Significant Australis feedback in Beta. Expect the usual feedback reports for Australis.

Mobile

• USR 27 today

Desktop/Platform

• Google Now is in Chrome for Windows and Mac, [1] in addition to Android and iOS users. [2] 90% of those who have a personal assistant [3] feature on their phone use it because it’s quicker, easier, and more convenient than traditional mobile use. Nearly 60% use it every day and over 80% want to use the same mobile personal assistant across all of their devices – phones, tablets, PCs, cars, TVs, apps and cameras [4], and Google is getting ready to use it along these lines [5]

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

• Mozilla is testing out a revamped look, syncing, and more with the Firefox 29 beta
• Mozilla’s Australis Design And Improved Sync Come To Firefox Beta 29
• Firefox Beta For Android Gets New Support For Firefox Accounts In Update To Version 29