Mobile/StatusMeetings/07-07-2011

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Dial-in

• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 8605 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8605 (US)
• IRC channel #mobile
• Vidyo: Room Warp Core

Agenda

• AIs from last meeting
  
  • Check Feature Spreadsheet vs. Wiki - see below 'Mobile Feature Documentation' (Stuart, Thomas) - see below
    
• New ACTION ITEMS
  
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Firefox 5 (launched June 21): User Feedback Update

• as of 6/27/2011: 2620753 downloads, 1072133 active (40.91%), ratings (5/4/3/2/1) 9698 / 5556 / 5010 / 3773 / 4803= 3.41 stars average
• Firefox constantly in AppBrain's top ten (http://www.appbrain.com/app/firefox/org.mozilla.firefox)
  

Firefox 6 goes to BETA on July 5

Firefox 7 goes from NIGHTLY into AURORA on July 5

• Project Plan Update and https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases
  
• Updated: Android Device Compatibility Criteria Spreadsheet
  
• Go-to-build for Betas every Friday - but that doesn't mean we ship every new Beta

Rapid Release Cycle Survey (take it here) - spend two minutes to tell us what worked well, what needs improvement for future releases

• What is our single source of truth? - Spreadsheet vs. Wiki (see Action Item above)
• Mobile Test Pilot - HELP TEST!

• Mobile Feature Documentation
  • Mobile Eng Team: Master Sheet  (<-- this is our single source of truth; request access if you can't view the doc)
  • Cross-project feature and release documentation (derived from our Master Sheet):
    
    • Flight Tracking: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Flight_Tracking#Mobile
      
    • Feature List: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Features/Mobile
      
    • Feature Pages: linked from Feature List
      
    • New Feature Pages for all ideas features that are related to projects outside of mobile: go here
      
  • Roadmaps: Firefox for mobile | [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Home/Roadmap Firefox Home
    

Localization

• Status quo for the multi-locale dashboard (live link): 12 green, 7 signed off, one more pending (ja)
• chofman: populations and status of the marketing list of top tier mobile languages/countries: https://intranet.mozilla.org/L10n/Mobile
  
  

Release Engineering

Priorities page

• expecting "go to build" 6.0b1 on tuesday, expect to ship approx thursday
• localised Marketplace promo text still an issue bug 663984

QA

• testplan for Firefox 6 features is complete
  • working on cleanup and organization of feature pages
  • QA/Fennec/Milestones/6.0
• started tracking Firefox 7 features and creating test plans for those features
  • QA/Fennec/7
• 06-30-2011 untested device survey summary report (~573 completed, ~1265 partial)
• Moz Japan talking to Softbank Mobile carrier for testing Fennec, all the help appreciated testing foreign devices
• Mozilla.com Q3 project to reconfigure and introduce a scalable listing of supported devices bug 653459

Marketing & PR

• Welcome Jaclyn!
• Firefox (6) for Android Beta blog post -one post being drafted for 7/5
  
• Firefox Gone Mobile - SF & London - great success! Report from Wilson/Dan coming soon
  
• Media Buy starting mid-July
• Touch Events Dev Derby - August (Wilson)

Feedback Summary

Feature Feedback

Feature Name	Release Channel	Feedback
Do Not Track	Beta	1 praise
Better First Run Discoverability	Aurora	None
IndexedDB Local Storage	Aurora	None
Better Form Assistant Integration with Android	Aurora	None
Visual Refresh for Gingerbread	Aurora	2 praise

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
No Flash Input: 37 SUMO: New 152 Up	All	bug 630007
Clear History Input: 27 SUMO: New 4	Beta	bug 656901
Exit button Input: 29	Beta	bug 659670
No Private Browsing Input: 14 SUMO: New 4	Beta	bug 582244
No Copy & Paste Input: 33 SUMO: New 20	All
No way to set default zoom Input: 4	Beta	bug 666600
Text Selection Input: 20	All	bug 661388

Support

• Mobile SUMO metrics
  • Traffic up about 25% due to the release.
• Michelle Luna, our new Mobile support coordinator, starts July 5th.

UX and User Research

Design

• ongoing work on tablet UI; Brian planning to have a draft spec by late next week
• ongoing work on android widget, webapp creation (some detail in a feature page)
• see Matt's in progress specs for readability options in Design section of Fennec/Features/readability
• Ian back on Monday, July 4th

Research

Users in the House! First session - yesterday. 1 think-aloud on early working prototype on desktop on Home with my data.
General feedback from user:

• • modern, clean, simple
  • sees it as popularity (frequently used) from left to right
  • confused when saw multiple gmail "boxes" - spam, inbox-3, inbox-0 etc
  • time of day would be cool - home vs work profile
  • on tablet - popularity didn't come across because 2x2 grid and not 4x? grid
  • search for "cats" and hit enter in search bar, doesn't do a search and then see results in tab first
  • "my fear is it would put me in a bubble"
  • explain to mom "knows what you're interested in and show it to you. you don;t need to think about it."

future updates will be on a private blog

Insights

Summary below, full update here and in your inbox.

Opera released Opera Mini 6.1 and Opera Mobile 11.1, announced a partnership with a top Brazilian Internet website and announced that its former CEO is departing

Android: device activations reached 500,000/day, Market downloads reached 4.5 billion

Search: Google and Baidu are optimizing their mobile search and Baidu is developing own Android flavour

Asia, particularly Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and China, is proving to be a key market for mobile players like Apple and HTC

Nokia is planning new Symbian devices with good specs and Intel is launching a chip aimed at Windows 8 tablets

Other

• How do we reduce the number of meetings?
  • How many people find these updates useful ? Is the wiki enough, or does it help to have a voice?