Firefox/Planning/2010-05-05

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Firefox/Gecko Delivery Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am Pacific, 2:00pm Eastern, 18:00 UTC
• Mozilla Square Conference Room
• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 8605 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8605 (US)
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
• (the developer meeting takes place on Tuesdays)

Upcoming Product Releases

• Firefox 3.6.4
  • Code freeze was a week late
  • shipped updates to existing Firefox 3.6.4 users on the beta and release channels
  • next up: shipping to all Firefox 3.6.x beta channel users
  • next next up: shipping to all Firefox 3.6.x users!

• Firefox 3.5.10
  • Have builds finished and available to test here

• Fennec 1.1 Beta 1 Maemo
  • Shipped last week

• Fennec 1.1 RC 1 Maemo
  • Tentative Plan - String Freeze: May 7 and Code Freeze: May 13

• Fennec on Android
  • mwu has us building e10s with customized ndk
  • tracking merge to m-c here

Support

• Support Report
• Hotmail issue has turned out to be a server-side problem, the Hotmail team is taking action (bug 538892)
• foxnews.com issue seems to have gone away (bug 560737)

Product Development

Firefox Project

You know how I always say that planet firefox has the details? Still does!

• New addons manager landed!
  • People loved it!
    • We backed it out because of a mystery performance regression!
      • That turned out to be caused by missing hardware dongles on our test machines!
        • So it'll come back soon!

Fennec Project

• Styling work on dialogs has landed on 1.1
• CrashReporter is close to making 1.1

(see the May 5th mobile engineering meeting notes for more details)

Gecko Platform

• new HTML5 parser is now on by default on trunk

(see the May 4th platform meeting notes for more details)

Localization

• no verbal updates, any questions?
• weave en-US code landed, dashboard is up
• the code behind the dashboard will go triple license any day now, contributions welcome

QA

• Ongoing 3.6.4build3 testing
• Add-ons Manager Testday Results
  • Awesome: 45 participants 53 bugs filed
• Mobile QA detailed status
  • OS integration test checklist for Android
• QA for Weave - expected signoff May 13

Release Engineering

• everything's perfect

Add-ons

• Jetpack SDK 0.3 released Thursday, April 29 (announcement)
• Jetpack SDK 0.4 freezes Tuesday, May 18, 11:59PDT

Partners

• My Internets are no longer pants
• Nothing else to report right now

Marketing/PR

• Away at off site

Roundtable

• updating Firefox 3.6.4 users on release channel (beltzner)
• planned roll out and release criteria for Firefox 3.6.4 (beltzner/LegNeato)
  • 7 day window on 3.6.4 crash-stats
  • http://people.mozilla.com/~chofmann/crash-stats/20100504/topcrash364-20100504.html --just the crashes from post 3.6.4build1
  • Let's look at http://crash-stats.mozilla.com/daily?form_selection=by_version&p=Firefox&v[]=3.6.3&throttle[]=15&v[]=3.6.4&throttle[]=100&v[]=3.6.5pre&throttle[]=100&v[]=&throttle[]=100&os[]=Windows&os[]=Mac&os[]=Linux&date_start=2010-04-10&date_end=2010-05-04&submit=Generate
• https://wiki.mozilla.org/CrashKill/Crashr#3.6.4 has the raw data with hangs filtered.
• Firefox Beta Program thoughts (beltzner)
• these meetings (beltzner)
• (tchung) beltzner: would you like to start hearing timeline and status reports on lab/ops projects like weave, jetpack, iphone sync, etc.. going forward in this call? i've been clueing myself more in on those.
  • [11:17am] beltzner: tchung: maybe - let's talk more in a bit aobut that
  • [11:17am] beltzner: tchung: in the roundtable