Product Management

Revision as of 13:06, 1 March 2011

MeeGo Product Management

This page is for MeeGo Product Management topics, and is work-in-progress. Contribution is highly welcome, please send email to meego-pm mail list to discuss.

Team

• Gavin Hindman, Core OS Product Manager
• Makoto Sugano, Core OS Program Manager
• Sami Pienimäki, Handset UX Product Manager
• Pierre Blouin, Handset UX Program Manager
• Joel Clark, In-Vehicle Product/Program Manager
• Ville Lavonius, MeeGo SDK Product Manager
• Jukka Eklund, Product Manager for Nokia's MeeGo contributions

Communication

• Team uses the meego-pm mailing list for communication.

Process

• Product management team meets once a week in general. Currently the meetings are not public.
• Agenda and action items will be posted to the mailing list.
• Anyone can propose topics to the Product management team agenda (see below).
• Product management topics can and should be discussed on meego-pm mailing list.
• Product management team is responsible of making the decision in case consensus is not reached.

Process Improvement Topics

• How to make the meetings open. Not all the topics can be open but most can be. Examples of non-open parts includes topics which involves IPR, legal, patent, business, product or schedule sensitive material
• Address the missing visibility on roadmapping.
• Please propose and discuss new topics in the email list.

Documentation

• MeeGo roadmaps
• TODO: Some ready queries from featurezilla, like this.
• Also add tables pulled directly from featurezilla?
  • MeeGo Features by Product
  • MeeGo Features by component

Meetings

• Calls happen every Wednesday 8AM PST / 6PM EET
• Agenda consists of MeeGo (1.2) Change management topics that are open (see below), and any other issues highlighted.
• Participants are the Team and additional action owners will be invited as needed.

Active topics

• TODO: nice table editing system (missing TableEdit extension)

MeeGo 1.2 change management topics

New topics

• ADD: Security NFRs (Gavin)
• ADD: Security policy enforcement FEAs (Sami to add)
• new CR items for 1.2 (Core, Handset)
• new proposed features for 1.2 (link)
• add new topics here

Still active topics and the proposed action (ADD/DROP/MODIFY)

Core UX

• ADD: Qt components, http://qt.gitorious.org/qt-components (Jukka)
  • Need availability schedule to determine MeeGo intercept
  • Need closure from arch team on what will be the default component set for MeeGo.

• DROP: VoIP/IM backend - NAT traversal for media streams using ICE for SIP calls (link) & DROP: VoIP/IM backend - IPv6 support in Telepathy stack (link)
  • Sami needs to clarify the impact at Nokia
  • Not needed by Nokia.

• ADD/REVIEW: Non-functional requirements: performance (link)
  • Reviewed by QA, discussion visible in FZ
  • Gavin will add Testability OK ones to 1.2, and comment pre-started applications questions
  • TB shall be 1.1.90.0

• DROP: BT LE - Proximity tracking (link)
  • Needs further clarification of schedule and impact (Gavin)

• ADD: Upstart as init provider (link)
  • see FZ, major change and needs to studied

Handset UX

• DROP: vCard support (link)
  • Lilian will clarify

• DROP: Contacts backend - Storing profile information (link)
  • Requirement unclear, Sami needs to clarify

• DROP/CLARIFY: Package management features (Core 1.2, Core unspecified, Handset 'unspecfied')
  • The agreed part of UI application shall be moved to 1.2 content (Sandra)

Closed topics and actions

• CLARIFY: Multiple phone numbers in SIM (Gavin)
  • Jukka to investigate availability of SIMs from Nokia side, should not be dropped.

• DROP: [FEA] [CR] Connection Manager to support 3G to WiFi Data session continuity (Gavin)
  • Sami to clarify OK to drop from Product perspective by 2/11
  • Moved to 1.3

• DROP: Multimedia - WBMP (link)
  • Removed from MeeGo feature set until open-source solution can be identified.

• DROP: [FEA] [CR] Energy Management - System peak current handling (Gavin)
  • Moved to 1.3

• DROP: [FEA] [CR] Energy Management - Multiple charging interfaces (Gavin)
  • Moved to 1.3

• DROP: Post-capture: to capture via SW key (link)
  • OK to drop based on PM feedback.

• DROP: [FEA] [CR] Haptic Feedback for virtual keyboard (Gavin)
  • Cannot be implemented in a generic way - will be product specific - dropping from MeeGo req's

• DROP: [FEA] [CR] Haptic feedback for MeeGo Touch UI widgets (Gavin)
  • Cannot be implemented in a generic way - will be product specific - dropping from MeeGo req's

• DROP: [FEA] [CR] Themable haptic feedback (Gavin)
  • Cannot be implemented in a generic way - will be product specific - dropping from MeeGo req's

• DROP: [FEA] [CR] Media Sync - MTP via functionfs (Gavin)
  • Requires architectural direction setting for MeeGo 1.3. Moving to 1.3. GadgetFS MTP driver available at product level, if required.

• ADD: [FEA] [CR] Tethering - share cellular data connection to wifi tethered device
  • Approved for 1.2

• ADD: [FEA] [CR] Support large (512px) thumbnails
  • Approved for 1.2

• ADD: [FEA] [CR] Video thumbnailing
  • Approved for 1.2

• ADD: CRDA - WLAN Regulatory domain (link)
  • Gavin checks from dev team
  • Closed: added to 1.2

• DROP: NTP support by Timed (link)
  • No need to drop now, will pop up again after code complete if in risk

Other active topics

• STUDY: LTE (MeeGo 1.3)
• STUDY: IPv6 clarification