Schedule & Progress onUpcoming Releases (Lawrence)
- Firefox 35.0 shipped yesterday, updates enabled at 25%
- May need a 35.0.1 to fix a tile drawing bug (bug 1083079), which manifests as bug 1085024
- Firefox 36 beta1 ships Thursday
- Firefox 37 Aurora updates scheduled to be re-enabled on Friday
- Note: 38 (currently Nightly) will be the next ESR.
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Firefox Desktop & Platform (Javaun/Chad/Martin)
38.1 started yesterday. Recap from last week on priorities
– Hello:
- wrapping up Firefox 36/37 work, getting started on 38 (with a focus on sharing)
– Task Continuity:
- finishing UX design work for Reading List/Synced Tabs - research work support those features - investigating sync back-end changes needed to support them
– Search:
- continue to address important regressions from the Firefox 34 work - UX design/research for next steps in search UI improvements
– Password Management:
- focus on telemetry to begin improving filling/saving reliability
– Sync Migration:
- finishing the migration work needed to start migrating "old sync" users to "new sync" in Firefox 37
– Places:
- continue the refactorings needed to avoid main-thread IO
– E10S:
- continue supporting the e10s team in pushing through the e10s milestones
Also:
Privacy:
Some UI exploration for privacy and some work on research/telemetry experiments on Tracking Protection
Some EME bugs
Feedback Summary (Cheng/Tyler/Matt)
Desktop
Release going smoothly, nothing to report yet
Contributor Engagement
Mike Hoye announcing the revamp of a community-engagement onramp, to ship end of Q1
Planning Meeting Details
- Wednesdays – 11:00am PT, 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# 99696 (US/INTL)
- 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99696 (US)
- Vidyo Room: ProductCoordination
- Vidyo Guest URL
- AirMozilla: for broadcast and saved recordings