Firefox/Planning/2011-06-15

Planning Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am PDT, 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)

Actions from Last Week

• Daniel and Myk will investigate the viability of auto-updating current SDK-based add-ons to 1.0 final
• Asa to connect with Dan Horner and Dave Mason for featured SDK-based, and builder-based add-ons in Firefox 5.
• Christian is organizing a meeting to discuss release mechanics options (only mozilla.com, automatic update, major update, etc)
  • Scheduled for 2011-06-17 @ 11:00 am PDT in Warp Core (x8605). Announcement will be sent to dev-planning

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Firefox Desktop

Release (3.6, 4.0)

• Respun 3.6.18 yesterday
• Putting build #2 on the beta channel today
• 3.6.18 is still planned to go our with Firefox 5

Beta (5)

• Lining up to release next week!
• Spinning beta 7 to take a single remaining fix, getting that out to users today
• We'll also build the same thing off of releases/mozilla-release and offer to the beta audience (will be functionally the same but we might as well make sure it is as expected)

Aurora (6)

• 3 weeks left in the Aurora window

Nightly (7)

• 3 weeks left in the nightly window

ALSO: Asa Dotzler was recently named the Product Manager for Desktop Firefox. Congratulations, Asa!

Firefox Mobile

5

• Beta 7 will be getting pushed today.
• Will be shipping final at same time as desktop

6

• Ready to convert to Beta from Aurora

7

Firefox Sync

• Sync Discovery looking good for FF6
• Sync Brown Bag - Today 12 PM PST
• EOL of Sync Add-on by end of quarter

Add-on Builder Beta!

• on track for our Tuesday June 21st launch
• after today only critical and low risk bug fixes will be accepted
• crowd-sourced QA is kicking off today

Add-on SDK 1.0

• RC2 last Wednesday
• found a couple more blockers, they have been addressed
• RC3 today
• release still on track for Tuesday, June 21
• tree thaws for post-1.0 development today
• draft release plan will be posted to Jetpack discussion group today (following discussion in Jetpack group, plan will be posted to dev.planning for broader input)

Input 4.2

• Released Input 4.1 on 6/13. It includes a new mobile dashboard and the ability for users to tweet their feedback right after submission.
• Working on Input 4.2:
  • ETA is 6/28
  • ElasticSearch is mostly integrated on Staging and the Metrics team has a cluster set up for it.
  • Grouperfish's status is uncertain for this release.
  • Daily automated metrics reports for rapid release which includes ADUs, crashers/100 users, median startup, add-on compatibility, praise/issues for each channel where relevant

Feedback Summary

• Plugin-checking showing up on every start: bug 663676 caused by bug 608813 which was reverted in bug 663722

Press & Public Reactions

• Mozilla Chief: Government Alone Can't Solve Online Privacy

• Q&A: Jogging Firefox’s Memory
• Mozilla aims to reduce Firefox memory usage
• Mozilla gets tough on Firefox memory leaks

Questions, Comments and Highlights

• Status on 3.5 EOL plan?
  • Google pushed the homepage snippets live on Monday, 2011-06-13
  • Down to 8 million users (from 12 million)
  • Looks like -5% week over week currently
  • Expect even more movement now that Google has announced ending Google apps support for 3.5
  • Still plan to update Firefox 3.5 users to Firefox 3.6.18 on the 21st
• New Flash update yesterday? News? [Cww]

Actions this week

• email going out to developers who have SDK-based add-ons to update their add-ons to >= 1.0 RC2 - we will be auto-upgrading add-ons that fit this version constraint to 1.0 final.
• Jennifer to come back around next week with a plan for sync addon retirement and 3.6.x