On Monday, December 15, 2014 4:11:32 PM UTC+2, Dale Harvey wrote: > Thanks to everyone who gave their feedback on the dogfooding survey I put > out, I have been trawling through the dogfooding survey results, the survey > was very unscientific as will be my summary > > > Surprisingly one of the most common pieces of feedback (the survey went to > all-moco-mofo) was the lack of devices, either not having one or not having > one to dogfood as the one they had was used for dev. > > > Unsurprisingly the instability and performance were 2 of the highest reported > issues for dogfooding > > > Most people commented on the lack of specific apps. The lack of good GPS / > maps / navigation was by far the most commented on lack of functionality / > apps, then there were some common suspects, the most popular of these being > WhatsApp, DropBox, Spotify, Google Hangouts, Skype, Instagram > > > The hardware which we have had a full other thread about received a lot of > mentions, mostly the lack of performance and the bad quality of the camera. > > > There was a huge long tail of individual features with not a lot of overlap, > one of the common themes was the lack of sync between various applications, > push notifications was another. > > Another common issue was general confusion and lack of communication around > dogfooding, people did not know how / where to get builds, how to keep up to > date, if they should be provided a phone and that they didnt have any > turnaround on bugs they did report. > > > There is a huge amount of actionable stuff that came out of this, I am in the > process of trying to setup a mailing list dedicated to fxos users / > dogfooders so we can discuss the finer details and will send out another > email when that happens. > > > Cheers > > Dale
A mailing list for users is well overdue. Right now there is a number of fxos phones on the market whose owners could provide useful dogfood; unfortunately all of them use v1.4 at best with no commitment from providers to upgrade them or provide the necessary components and path so that users could do it on their own. ATM dogfooding is useful for at least v2.0 but best for 2.2. So my advice would be, if that users forum is gonna become a reality, Fxos developers should get involved as to help users upgrade their commercial devices safely. _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
