Firefox/Planning/2013-09-11

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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

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Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Firefox Desktop

Beta (128)

• Firefox Desktop 24.0b10 has been shipped yesterday
  • Backed out bug 881634 - crash in mozilla::gfx::DrawTargetSkia::DrawSurface for Fx24.b10 to resolve bug 911502
• We have also gone to build with our Release Candidates for Fx24.0, ESR24.0, 17.0.9esr

Firefox Metro

Iteration #14 Performance

• Team completed 43 story points across 10 features which resulted in a decreased average team velocity of 57 story points per iteration.

• Average team velocity rate decreased 10% from the previous iteration.

Metro Preview Release

• The Metro Preview Release (public name not finalized) is the en-US, and a robust batch of early locales (TBD), preview planned to be available on the Aurora channel during the Aurora 26 cycle.

• The goal of the Metro Preview Release is to gather feedback and defects from the larger Aurora community.

• Whether or not the Metro Preview Release will graduate from Aurora to Beta and Release channels is still to be determined. At a minimum, it should significantly increase the number of testers and feedback.

Metro V1 Public Release

• At the conclusion of Iteration #14, given the historical velocity performance values of 30,32,33,43,46,50,51,63,68,74,75,75,77,80, the Metro Team has a median velocity of 57 and there is a 90% likelihood that the actual velocity will fall between 43 and 75.

• With a velocity performance of 57 the Metro Team can expect to complete between 129 and 225 more units of work with a median value of 171.

• With a forecasted total of 171 points remaining development would be completed in 3 iterations on October 28, 2013 - Development Iteration #17.

• The decrease in average team velocity over the two previous iterations positions Metro for a Firefox 27 release on January 21, 2014.

Firefox Mobile

Beta (128)

Full list of features for Fx24

• Patches from bug 899159 were uplifted in order to fix bug 904784 Local shared active media does not stop recording on tab close. This can be tested as of Beta 10, Build 2 can be found here: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/candidates/24.0b10-candidates/build2/android/multi/
• Dogfood: https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Fennec/WebRTC/Dogfood

Aurora (54)

Full List of Features for Fx25

Market Insights from the Product Marketing Strategy Team

Mobile

[Irina is on holiday, just text this week].

• September brings the beginning of pre-holiday releases in the mobile industry, when all manufacturers start competing for a share of the holiday gift budget.

• Apple released the iPhone 5S and its lower-end version, the 5C. iPhone 5S - Available in silver, gold and 'space grey', iPhone 5s features an A7 chip, a Touch ID fingerprint identity sensor, ultra-fast wireless, an iSight camera with a larger 8MP sensor and iOS 7. iPhone 5C - Available in green, blue, yellow, pink and white, iPhone 5c features an A6 chip, ultra-fast wireless, an 8MP iSight camera and iOS 7.

• Qualcomm and Samsung both released smartwatches. Branded Toq, Qualcomm's version is a touch-enabled smartwatch that tethers to Android (now) and iOS (soon) smartphones via Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Users can read e-mails and texts and respond to them using pre-programmed responses they've entered into the app. Also other simple smartwatch-y things like check the weather and check stock prices are available on the device. The Samsung Galaxy Gear has a single - core 800MHz processor, a 1.9-megapixel camera, a speaker, and two microphones — allowing users to shoot short 720p movies and even conduct phone calls. It pairs with the newest smartphones from Samsung's Galaxy and Note lines.

• Samsung released version 3 of its extremely large handset line, the Galaxy Note. Equipped, as usual, with a stylus, the device has a 5.7 inch screen and features the new Samsung Exynos 5 Octa processor.

• Android version distribution for September puts Gingerbread at 30.7% of the market, Ice Cream Sandwich at 21.7% and Jelly Bean at 45.1%.

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction

PR

"Mozilla has been trying to popularize its Persona alternative to that single sign-on system. Mozilla makes sure your e-mail provider verifies that the account belongs to you. Then, for every site that accepts a Persona login, you can log in with the original verified e-mail. Passwords are not required." - Somini Sengupta, New York Times

• 7 Smart Reasons to Consider Using Firefox For Back To School, Babble
• Machines Made to Know You, by Touch, Voice, Even by Heart, New York Times
• Security tools and web browsers come together in Mozilla Plug-n-Hack, SC Magazine
• Cybersecurity Basics: Surf the Web Safely With These Browsers, Entrepreneur
• Mozilla’s Firefox available in isiXhosa, IT News Africa
• Here Are Some Of America's Most Privacy Friendly Companies, Forbes