Engineering/Goals/2011Q4

Overall Engineering Goals for 2011 Q4

• Conduct and publish a comprehensive impact assessment for our fixed release process and implement identified changes to address problems.
• Joint with Product: Decide on and publish a clear policy for binary add-on support that enables add-on authors to create add-ons with a reasonable expected compatibility lifetime.
• Implement minimal impact update system.
• Implement a native UI for Fennec.
• Implement a B2G phone that can be used as a daily phone by developers.

Individual Team Goals

• Firefox
• Platform
• Security
• Localization
• QA
• Release Engineering
• Development Tools and Automation
• Research
• B2G
• Program & Project Mgmt