Firefox/Planning/2011-01-05

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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)

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)

• Beta 8 post-mortem will likely be sometime next week. Christian will send an email around and talk about it during the Monday meeting
• Plan to do a quick, date-driven beta 9 (for reals this time)
  • Plan to code freeze this Friday, 2011-01-07
  • Weekend will hopefully shake any issues out
  • Branch and build on Monday, 2011-01-10 if no major issues are found
    • If issues are found, day-for-day slip on the builds
  • Release to beta audience on Thursday, 2011-01-13

• Have you used Beta 8? It’s awesome. We need to ship this. May require re-scoping features such as:
  • WebGL
  • Hardware Acceleration
  • Panorama

Firefox 4 (Mobile)

Firefox 3.6/3.5

• Humming along, announced the blocker/non-blocker freeze split
  • Code freeze for non-blockers is now 2011-01-11 (1 week away)
  • Code freeze for blockers is still 2011-01-17 (2 weeks away)
  • Final release is still planned for 2011-02-08

Add-on Builder 1.0a7

• The 1.0a7 release will ship this week, it’s going through the QA paces now.
• 1.0a8 finalization imminent – there are a few remaining items to discuss with Kevin about the new Skywriter build.
• Worked on Q1 goals with Fligtar – we agreed on what level of AMO integration to shoot for this quarter. The final goal set will be published today.

Input 3.0

• Major New features: a first try at opening our database, ability to copy user agent per message, submission page for major release users
• Feedback page is up on staging (can only get to it if your user agent is associated to the latest major release)
• ETA: 1/21

Cool stuff:

• input.mozilla.com has received 1,000,000 pieces of feedback
• Input 2.2 went out on 12/28 (Thanks wenzel!) with a bigger set of known manufacturers and devices for Mobile Firefox

Add-on SDK 1.0b2

• scheduled to freeze January 19 and ship January 26
• scope is small; not many changes; but gets us back to regular release cycle
• focus is on progress on E10S integration

Highlights / Notices

• Flash artifacts and Amazon Lightning Deals FIXED.
• Copy/Paste, Search Box and Tab Button are new to our watch list of concerns.
• Smorgasboard of issues around Facebook Flash Apps

Questions and Concerns

• Any questions for Axel on switching on l10n-merge and updating compare-locales? [1]
  • We don’t use l10n-merge on branches, correct?
  • How would failure show? Unable to build/repack? Incorrect strings in localized builds?
  • How easy to rollback if needed?
  • Is there any way to test in a RelEng/non-local staging environment first?
• For beta10, want to test MU from FF3.6.x -> FF4.0. Any objections?
• For SUMO documentation, are there any big changes left to happen between now and the final Firefox 4 release (e.g. tabs in title bar) that would likely require explanations to be rewritten or screenshots to be retaken?
• Any info on end-of-life on FF3.5? Not yet.
• When will “more scary” FF3.0 MU dialog be switched on? Still being localized.

Press & Public Reactions

• Mozilla Says Its Time To Create Firefox 4 Add-Ons Now
• Firefox Now Ahead of IE in Europe
• Mozilla Passwords Leaked, Risk Minimal