Firefox/Planning/2011-01-12
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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)
- generated beta 9 candidate builds late on Monday
- target window for beta 9 release is Jan 14 – Jan 18 depending on feedback
- no set schedule for next beta or RC, evaluating based on blocker closing rate
Firefox 4 (Mobile)
Firefox 3.6/3.5
- Code freeze for non-blockers was yesterday, nailed it
- Code freeze for blockers is still 2011-01-17
- Scary dialog for unsupported versions is planned to go live 2011-01-18
Add-on Builder 1.0a8
- 1.0a7 was released on Thursday of last week, the app is running well
- The new ACE editor should make it into 1.0a8. I received an initial API frozen build from Kevin this morning.
- All 1.0a8 features and deliverables are on-track
- Projecting 1.0a11 will become 1.0b1 (our first beta!)
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)
- Copy UA per message is up on staging
- ETA: 1/21
Sad News:
- Users on 3.x are dealing with a broken “Report a Broken Website”
Feedback Summary
- Copy/Paste, Search Box and Tab Button are new to our watch list of concerns see below for more details.
- Smorgasboard of issues around Facebook Flash Apps and Facebook Chat.
Issue | SUMO | Input | Buglink |
---|---|---|---|
Flash-related crashes | 20-30 just flash related (not all crashes) | 2020 | |
Search Box not working | 30ish | 229+216 | bug 620672 |
Netflix streaming player doesn’t work OSX | 17 | 103 | was bug 598406 |
Copy/Paste issues (also related to issues with not enough storage messages) | 100+ across various threads | 209 | bug 613915 |
DivX player doesn’t work | 61 (180+ overall) | 95 | |
New Tab Button on Tab bar doesn’t work | 50 across various threads | 200 | May be caused by divx extensions |
Google’s Bodybrowser WebGL demo is not compatible with Firefox 4 | 221 | 133 | bug 621718 |
Home button moved to the right of the search bar on load | 924 | bug 622141 |
Highlights / Notices
- (beltzner) Firefox 4 Engineering Team has started using “soft” and “hard” to differentiate between blocking bugs
- the hard blockers must be completed before RC
- some (but not all) of the soft blockers may be deferred to a future release, depending on an aggregate sense of quality and product acceptance
- new schedule estimates are being generated based on this new categorization
- (beltzner) Current plan for tree management is to not branch for Firefox 4 / Gecko 2 until we get to a release candidate
- people working on post-FF4.0 can use local repos, or use any of 3 idle project branches
Questions and Concerns
- Socorro migration is January 22nd
Press & Public Reactions
- February Launch Planned For Firefox 4
- Mozilla: It’s Time To Ship Firefox 4, Seriously
- Firefox 4 tentatively scheduled for a February release