Firefox/Planning/2010-08-18
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Firefox/Gecko Delivery Meeting Details
- Wednesdays - 11:00am Pacific, 2:00pm Eastern, 18:00 UTC
- Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
- Toronto Offices: Fin du Monde 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)
REMEMBER
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Contents
Agenda
- actions from last week:
- schedule and progress on upcoming releases
- review highlights and notices
- respond to questions and concerns
Action Items
- 3.5.x EOL Plan
- chofmann will create a geographic breakdown of 3.5.x users
- maymumi has offered to help out in terms of focused messaging
- beltzner will come back in 2-3 weeks with a EOL plan for 3.5.x
Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases
Firefox 3.5.12 / Firefox 3.6.9
- Code frozen!
- Plan is to build on the 23rd
- Investigating a possible issue (bug 586543)
Firefox 3.5.13 / Firefox 3.6.10
- We will not be approving bugs yet, but please nominate!
- Schedule will be created in the coming week
Firefox 4.0 Beta 4
- code freeze early yesterday morning
- builds available for testing
- we know there's a problem with the Feedback Add-On not showing up
- will be respinning, but should be able to merge with existing QA efforts, no need to restart
- QA estimate?
- probable ship date?
Firefox 4.0 Beta 5
- this is scheduled to be the feature freeze beta
- there's a lot of things to go in it
- code freeze set for the end of the month
Jetpack SDK 0.7
- froze last night (Tuesday, August 17)
- made it: Clipboard, Notifications, E10S-compatible Panel APIs
- on runway for late landing: Windows API
- missed: Page Mods, Sidebar APIs, some docs work, and addl. E10S compatibility
- RC1 tentatively scheduled for today (tracking down a couple test regressions)
- tentative release date Wednesday, August 25
Add-on Builder 1.0a5
- 1.0a4 pushed to production (https://builder.mozillalabs.com/) yesterday
- changes included addon/library deactivation, Bespin update, and misc UX ensmoothenments
- 1.0a5 deliverables include support for multiple versions of SDK, attachment editing, misc UX ensmoothenments
- 1.0a5 freezes next Monday, August 23
- tentative push to staging Tuesday, August 24
- tentative push to production Tuesday, August 31
Fx Input
- ETA changed to Wednesday, 8/25
- The new dashboard layout is still being developed. If you want a sneak preview though, check out our staging site
Test Pilot studies
Highlights / Notices
Notes or issues that don't correspond to a particular release you'd like people to know about.
- Talking about Beta (lmesa)
- Latest beta Feedback
- Positives:
- App tabs less buggy
- Page loads are getting faster
- New UI
- Youtube is more usable
- Negatives
- orkut is a big issue: bug 585744
- close/maximize/minimize button issue is still very annoying - bug 574833
- hotmail: 547507, 581502
- hard to find the "help->about" in the new firefox menu which makes doing support hard.
- crashes, slowness, broken usability (input fields [bug 571537] and buttons) with Flash
- Others
- people are having a hard time giving feedback in other languages (says they're swearing when in fact, they aren't)
- when to expect the new Linux theme?
- mostly negative perception about changed order with context menu "open page in new..." options
- Common Add-On Compatibility Requests
- Google tool bar
- Adblock plus
- Cooliris
- Antivirus kaspersky
- Positives:
- Add-ons!
- Firefox 4 Compatibility Dashboard is up -- currently 25% compatible with latest beta. Only 37% are not compatible with any 4.0/3.7 pre-release.
- Continuing to work on porting AMO to Django. Upcoming release is a revamp of Collections
- Discovery Pane front-end should be done this week
Questions and Concerns
Please add any questions or concerns you would like discussed at today's meeting.
