Firefox/Planning/2010-12-15

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Firefox/Gecko Delivery Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am PST, 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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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 (Desktop)

• builds of beta 8 started last night
  • a few locales are broken, see bug 619258 as an example
  • RelEng re-spinning all localized repacks, no rebuild will be needed
• QA on the en-US builds will begin today
  • most smoketests alrady complete
  • should be ready by Tuesday at the latest
• tentative schedule (likely will be altered during the meeting today)
  • Dec 20: web content ready
  • Dec 21: QA complete
  • Dec 22: ship

• engineering teams are engaging in The Great Re-triage of all existing blockers
  • already 100 bugs taken off the list
  • focus is on cutting back feature set and shipping what we have
  • may move some features to be behind preferences in order to get to completion
  • will be able to estimate time to product completion after this

Firefox 4 (Mobile)

• builds of beta 3 started last night
• locales are not broken like desktop
• testing should take about same amount of time as desktop
• Firefox Home update submitted to Apple App Store, currently under review

Firefox 3.6/3.5

• No known issues with 3.6.13/3.5.16
• New advertised update dialog may not be ready, waiting on status (bug 615751)
• Draft 3.6.14/3.5.17 schedules posted:
  • View it
  • Subscribe to it
  • Code freeze 2011-01-17
  • Final ship 2011-02-08
  • Please give feedback. The schedule is a bit long due to holidays, FF4, updater changes

Highlights / Notices

• Compartments Issue and Status Bar issue Fixed, plus we have more ADUs.

Issue	SUMO	Input	Buglink
Flash has artifacts that overlay chrome (Flash-related)	6	214	bug 590568
[Cannot Reproduce] Vkontakte Page constantly reloads and HTML5 Video isn't running		50
Flash-related crashes	40-50 just flash related (not all crashes)	2020
Refresh/reload button moved	15	314+216
Netflix streaming player doesn't work OSX	28	203	was bug 598406
Amazon lightning deals don't show	10	23	bug 579119

Questions and Concerns

• Not a concern, but people should know mozilla.com redesign is slated to go live tomorrow