Firefox/Planning/2010-08-25

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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
These notes are read by people who weren't able to attend the meeting. Please make sure to include links and context so they can be understood.

Agenda

  • actions from last week:
  • schedule and progress on upcoming releases
  • review highlights and notices
  • respond to questions and concerns

Action Items

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Firefox 3.6.9 / Firefox 3.5.12

  • Builds are currently in QA testing
  • Plan to release to the beta audience this Thursday morning PST (depending on QA sign-off)
  • Plan is still to release final on September 7th

Firefox 4

  • Beta update #4 released yesterday
  • Freezing for Beta 5 this friday, but this may not be feature freeze
  • Current discussion is to push beta update #5 on schedule, then land Jaegermonkey, and target September 10 for freeze.
    • Under this plan, beta update #6 would represent Feature+String+API freeze.
  • a few features are at risk
    • indexedDB unlikely to be included (spec is changing rapidly, security implications to be resolved)
    • websockets likely to be included, but only as an experimental & prefixed feature possibly not matching spec (spec changing rapidly with new owner)
    • some of the new UI features may not make the cut off
    • priority is performance, UI upgrades and support for JetPack SDK

Jetpack SDK 0.7

  • RC1 last Thursday, August 19
  • RC2 yesterday, Tuesday, August 24
  • final release delayed one day to allow RC2 to bake
  • tentative final release date tomorrow, Thursday, August 26

Jetpack SDK 0.8

  • thawed yesterday, Tuesday, August 24
  • freezes Tuesday, September 14, 11:59pm PT
  • on tap: Sidebar, Windows, Places, Page Mods APIs; E10S compatibility; module loader security improvement
  • might be blessed as first beta-quality release (1.0b1)

Add-on Builder 1.0a5

  • freeze delayed five days to accommodate vacation of principal developer
  • freezes Saturday, August 28
  • push to staging Monday, August 30
  • push to production Monday, August 5
  • [DONE] warn on leaving editor with unsaved changes
  • [ON TRACK] support for multiple versions of SDK, attachment editing, helper addon experience fixes
  • [AT RISK] auto-saving of name/description changes

Input

1.7

  • Going live on Thursday, 8/26, at 7pm

1.8

  • Proposed ETA is 9/8
  • Preview of the new style for Mobile

Test Pilot Studies

Released Studies

  • Search Interface study
    • released on Aug. 23rd
    • data will come in on Aug.30th.
  • Addon Marketplace survey
    • released on Aug. 24th
    • received 12k answers within less than 24 hours

Upcoming Studies

  • Graphic card study
    • in implementing, aim to release on Sep. 3rd.
  • Firefox Beta Interface study (round 2)
    • in planning, aim to release on Sep.6th
  • A Week In the Life of a Browser (updated version)
    • in planning

Highlights / Notices

Notes or issues that don't correspond to a particular release you'd like people to know about.

Questions and Concerns

Please add any questions or concerns you would like discussed at today's meeting.

  • Firefox 4 is not likely to be supported on PPC architectures - reactions?
    • many of the speed / responsiveness features aren't available on PPC
    • most people seemed to agree with rationale
    • beltzner to wrap up with dev.planning post
  • Is Firebug compatibility considered release criteria for Firefox 4?
    • yes, please make sure Firebug blockers are nominated as release blockers

Press & Public Reactions

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