Firefox/Planning/2012-05-23

Planning Meeting Details

Wednesdays - 11:00am PDT, 18:00 UTC
Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
Toronto Offices: Finch Conference Room
irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
(the developer meeting takes place on Tuesdays)

Video/Teleconference Details - NEW

650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 95312 (US/INTL)
1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 95312 (US)
Vidyo Room: Warp Core
Vidyo Guest URL

REMEMBER

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Actions from Last Week

ally/jen to come back with an answer on how we feel about Apps/AITC as a blocker to the FF15 apps work
- AitC is a blocker for FF15. The plan is to have FF15 stand up all the pieces of the apps ecosystem and AitC is an integral part of that. In FF16, the fit and finish for K9o will be done. Any questions ping Jen at jarguello@mozilla.com.
matt/alex to figure out why our adobe blocklist didn't eliminate the reader bustage

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Kilimanjaro

Lawrence wrote a short introduction to Basecamp - Hiking to Basecamp
Basecamp requirements published
New Kilimanjaro triage times - see dev-planning post
- Mon and Wed, 1-1:30pm PT

Firefox Desktop

Release (12, 10esr, 3.6)

We're now less than 2 weeks from our next release
Notification Bar "block" notifying users that they're running an old version of Flash (<=10.2.159.1) will go out today. See bug 754723.

Beta (13)

FF13 beta 5 will be released on Friday. Code freeze for FF13 is that same day.
Barring any urgent blockers, Beta 6 is going to build Monday (5/28, despite Memorial Day) for a release on Wednesday
- We're targeting FF13 beta 6 to enable 10.8 signing support

Aurora (14)

Nightly (15)

Once QA signs off on 10.8-compatible builds today, nightly updates will be re-enabled
Merge day will be one day early this cycle - 6/4. This will not affect the release schedule

Background updates landed this week (bug 307181). Last big piece of silent updates.

Firefox Mobile

We've fallen into a cadence of building betas on tuesdays and shipping them on Fridays
crash stats shows our crash rate below 10 per 100 ADU on beta2, which was our goal for beta1
- however ratings in the market complain about stability
We're looking at what we can do to get native goodness to tablet users as soon as possible

Services

Firefox Sync

Services/Meetings/RapidRelease/2012-05-23 today, 2p, in vidyo room 'Services'
Native Sync: going well, release & beta blockers cleared! \o/
Sync 2.0 temporarily stalled while we assist the Aitc client
- :fang is working on shiny new UX for sync 2.0

Apps In the Cloud Server

the HSM machines must be moved out of mountain view before public launch.

Add-on SDK

Release (1.7 -> Firefox 12, 13)

No big issues noted with the release

Stabilization (1.8 -> Firefox 13, 14)

Spinning a 1.8b2 shortly

Development (1.9 -> Firefox 14, 15)

Working on gathering data about repacks
Discussing an "auto-repack" option once landed in Firefox

Identity

Apps

Feedback Summary

Desktop

Firefox 12 issues summary:

We currently have a 5% increase in issues over Firefox 11. This seems to be a combination of issues including:

Firefox 12 is slow - Thread was originally about a gfx card issue, but I think it turned into a pile on thread [1] [2] [3]

Firefox 12 consumes too much memory - Another thread that has spiked but is probably a combination of issues. [4] [5] [6]

Facebook games won't load - Slight spike over 11. Still investigating. [7] [8]

Foxit Reader causing Hotmail issues: Foxit is aware of the issue. They have a fix in the works. We've updated all the threads and are seeing a decrease in the reports. [9] [10]

PDF Issues on Mac - After blocklist we are seeing a dramatic decrease in reports. I've verified the blocklist works. We have updated all the threads and created documentation. [11] [12]

Firefox 12 incorrectly caching pages - Bug filed [13] [14]

FF12 praise summary, down 5% from FF11:

fast: [15] [16]

stable: [17] [18]

Beta (copied from the channel meeting):

Update on beta issues:
- Youtube and Netflix (and possibly others): sound continues to play after the tab is closed. bug 757262 and bug 756250
- Issue with uploading files: bug 757284 [19].
Feature feedback:
- most of the feedback from the new tab behavior has been positive. Complaints are mostly around the precise behavior of how things show up there or wanting to rearrange/edit the boxes.
- New home page reactions are pretty mixed, people say that they're having trouble setting/changing away from it and some people wanted a google bar back. Some users want the newtab page to be part of the home page. Cheng is trying to track down a product person for decisions.