Firefox/Planning/2010-10-13

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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)
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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 4 Beta

  • work on beta 7 continues, hoping to be able to go to builds early next week
  • we've re-opened the mozilla-central tree to unblock work on beta 8

Firefox Branches

  • 3.6.10 advertised update went out last week, working well
  • Respun 3.6.11 for a regression yesterday
    • We have builds, QA is testing
    • Plan to go to beta when QA says we can
  • Final release (of both 3.6.11 and 3.5.14) pushed back to Tuesday 2010-10-19

Input 1.9

  • ETA: tomorrow
  • Features: Product differentiation on Themes and Sites, security stuff

Input 2.0

  • ETA: November 11th
  • Work started, but not a lot due to 1.9.1

Jetpack SDK 0.9

  • froze today, Wednesday, October 13 at 11am PT
  • [DONE]
    • distinguish between high/low-level modules
    • E10S compatible Context Menu and Private Browsing APIs
    • identify dependent modules by relative path
  • [MISSED] (all of which are mostly [DONE] )
    • pass all tests on Firefox 4 nightly builds (most failures [DONE] ; a few
      [TODO]
      ; might fix remaining ones during freeze)
    • make high-level modules use EventEmitter event model (7/9 modules [DONE] , tabs and context-menu remain
      [TODO]
      )
    • E10S integration PoC (patch ready; landing blocked by test failures)
  • decided to drop explicit support for 3.6
  • [TODO]
    decide which 4.0 version to target (4.0b6? 4.0b7? trunk tip?)
  • RC1 planned for today (modulo blockers)
  • tentative release Wednesday, October 20

Highlights / Notices

  • User feedback summary: Similar to last week, with the exception of the last point.
Issue SUMO Input Buglink
Youtube & Video rendering ~20 users 144 bug 579597 and related.
Font rendering ~20 226 bug 588880
Middle button click-to-scroll rendering glitch 0 31 bug 588403
Zynga Toolbar not compatible 10 89 Not a bug.
Error at Start-Up (related to Ask Toolbar?? or just extensions) ~160 Hard to know--affects more than just beta users 85 [1]
  • Because we haven't had a 3.6 support feedback update in a while, top issues (more details? read the support report):
    • Sync breakage
    • 3.6 + Flash related things (due to major update)
    • Link strikethroughs in webmail (investigating)
    • Language change/loss in major update?

Questions and Concerns

  • 2.0 branch predictions and l10n? Proposal: kill the branch plan we had, l10n-drivers do the branch work twice, once towards l10n-central now, and then towards 2.0 once we get there? (Axel)
    • let's do that
    • Beta 7 is string freeze, independent of branch
    • string freeze on mozilla-central may stay post-branch to reduce the impact of localizers not switching to the 2.0 branch in time

Press & Public Reactions