Meeting Notes Meetings notes from the Mozilla community

Schedule & Progress onUpcoming Releases (Liz/Sylvestre/Lawrence/Ritu)

• 40
  • Plan to release a hotfix for Async init plugin issue (bug 1196000)

• 41
  • 41.0b2 Desktop and Mobile released 8/18
  • 41.0b3 gtb on 8/21

Firefox Mobile (Mark/Brad/Jenn)

Firefox for iOS

• Jenn to update end game plan for 1.0 (first release) over the next day or two – catching up on what happened while I was away!
• First submission to the store is imminent! We expect rejection and fixes required, but if it was accepted we would just keep it unpublished until all PR etc… milestones are met. Target = Early September
• Will not be a full-blown worldwide launch, but phased soft launch/trickled out to select regions (Note** Regions does not = Locales. The release is still fully localized.)
• Will not be a ‘Marketed’ release. PR only. Marketing push will be for the version coinciding with the November campaign, which will be the real ‘worldwide’ launch.
• November version will be named 1.1 rather than 2.0
• November 1.1 Release
  • Scoping out work to include Private Browsing as the most important feature for this release
  • Jenn to work on pulling together all Risk Profile details for this

Firefox for Android

• [Green] Kinderfox Latest Status – Aug 19
• Required feature development completed
• Outstanding: additional automated ui tests, installation of lightweight theme

• [Green] Tracking Protection on Android Latest Status – Aug 19th
• Outstanding: Telemetry probes (decision), & updated SUMO articles

Feedback Summary (Rob/Tyler/Matt)

Desktop

• Nothing to report
• Windows 10 Feedback rollup out soon

Mobile

• Nothing to report

Questions, Comments, FYI

New Meeting Format

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

Firefox Desktop & Platform (Javaun/Chad/Martin)

Current Releases

40.0.1 has been released in order for Windows users to see ‘What’s New’ page. Updates are served for Windows only.

Beta (41)

• Pocket will be available for all locales \o/

Aurora (42)

• Campaign
  • Product is String Frozen and we have declared ‘Locked Feature Set’
  • Next steps: lot’s including final plan of record, test plans
• e10s is enabled; not riding the trains. Will be Fx43+. See blog posts slated for later this week
• Add-On signing is enabled; more information in blog posts also to follow
• Push API will be enabled

Nightly (43)

• Add-ons signing will be enforced

Feedback Summary (Rob/Tyler/Matt)

No updates, keeping an eye of 40

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

Schedule & Progress onUpcoming Releases (Liz/Sylvestre/Lawrence/Ritu)

• Firefox 40
  • m-b -> m-r merge done on Monday
  • 40.0b10 uploaded to Google Play on Tuesday.
  • 40.0-build3 gtb today/tomorrow. We decided to take a fix sec-critical fix.

• ESR38.2.0
  • 38.2.0esrbuild2 gtb today. Sec-critical fix was uplifted to esr38 too.

Firefox Desktop & Platform (Javaun/Chad/Martin)

Current Releases

Nightly (42)

• We are getting closer to Locked Feature Set for the campaign; meeting with marketing at 12:15
• Following up on the ask to get started on Spring 2016

Firefox Mobile (Mark/Brad/Jenn)

Firefox for iOS

Continuing burn-down of tracked bugs. Good progress toward V1 ready in coming weeks.

Firefox for Android

• Kinderfox is back on track for 42. Status Here
• Tracking Protection on track for 42. Status Here

Feedback Summary (Rob/Tyler/Matt)

Desktop

No real updates, just focusing on Windows 10

Mobile

No updates

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

Schedule & Progress onUpcoming Releases (Liz/Sylvestre/Lawrence/Ritu)

• 40.0b9 desktop gtb today
• 40.0 desktop RC, mobile b10 gtb Mon
• 40.0 mobile RC gtb Tue

• ESR 38.2.0 smoke test email sent to Enterprise ML earlier this week.

Firefox Desktop & Platform (Javaun/Chad/Martin)

Current Releases

Nightly (42)

• Fall Moment in time planning and progress is going well. Locking down information to share.
• Action Requested: Please review the following criteria for the first set of milestones. ‘Locked Feature Set’ and ‘Feature Complete’
  • Locked Feature Set (this is a campaign milestone): http://bit.ly/1fHmFNz
  • Feature Complete (this is a product milestone): http://bit.ly/1fHob23

Platform News

• Platform Roadmap has been updated

Firefox Mobile (Mark/Brad/Jenn)

Firefox for Android

• Tracking Protection: Generally on track, with one blocked item aiming to unblock this week
  • See last week’s status report for more details
  • Tracking Doc if you want to see bug by bug status
• Kinderfox: Considered at risk for 42
  • see latest status report for details
  • see Kinderfox Backlog for bug by bug status
  • Team met Tuesday morning to discuss risk status, clarify on some scope details, and prioritize some items, though no scoped requirements were cut at this time. A follow-up is scheduled for Friday.

Firefox for iOS

• Team continues to burn down tracked bugs at a good rate
  • See latest status report for chart of triage/bug trends
• Meeting this week to talk about cross-functional end-game milestones

Feedback Summary (Rob/Tyler/Matt)

Desktop

We’ll be keeping an eye on Windows 10 feedback.

Mobile

No updates.

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

Schedule & Progress onUpcoming Releases (Liz/Sylvestre/Lawrence/Ritu)

• 40.0b5 release was dropped
  • The build was not available in time for QE to sign-off

• 40.0b6 desktop and mobile released yesterday (7/21/15)

• Next up: 40.0b7 gtb Thursday 7/23/2015

Firefox Desktop & Platform (Javaun/Chad/Martin)

Current Releases

42 Campaign work (TP)
Desktop Control Center and TP work is on track. We are highly aware of string freeze deadline and have imposed early deadlines for creative and legal reviews so that we can hit our 8/10 uplift. There are some known unknowns. Doing are best to make L10N’s life easier.

40
We will put win64 builds out on /all. We don’t have sandboxing until 41, nor some other added UX features. We won’t promote heavily until we have those safety/user features in there, since these are better for a broader audience.

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

Schedule & Progress onUpcoming Releases (Liz/Sylvestre/Lawrence)

• 40.0 beta4 shipped on Tuesday
  • Next up: Desktop: gtb beta5 Thursday

• Team is triaging and approving uplifts for Aurora and Beta.

Firefox Desktop & Platform (Javaun/Chad/Martin)

Current Releases

Nightly (42)

• Firefox 42.0/Fall campaign Meetings are going well. Plan of record is being solidified. August 5th is the day we’d like to Lock Down on Feature set.

Feedback Summary (Rob/Tyler/Matt)

General

Negative feedback cycle from Pocket articles calming down

Desktop

Pulled flash crash feedback

Mobile

No updates, looks good

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

Schedule & Progress onUpcoming Releases (Liz/Sylvestre/Lawrence)

• Firefox 39.0 shipped last Thursday, updates enabled at 100% yesterday (release notes: desktop, android)
  • Schedule was delayed two days for this release to deal with a critical stability issue and so far there are no major stability issues on 39.0

• Firefox ESR 31.8.0 and 38.1.0 both shipped last Thursday as well

• 40.0 beta2 shipped on Tuesday
  • Lots of Windows 10 fixes in beta2 desktop
  • Stability is the best that we’ve seen in many cycles
• Next up:
  • Desktop: gtb beta3 Thursday
  • Android: gtb beta4 Monday
• 40.0 is scheduled for release on Aug 11, 2015

• 41.0 Aurora updates were re-enabled last Friday

Firefox Desktop & Platform (Javaun/Chad/Martin)

Current Releases

Aurora (41)

• evaluating stability of e10s in Aurora to determine if we can enable it by default

Nightly (42)

• 42.0 Campaign Kicked Off Today, Wiki landing page: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/2015

Firefox Mobile (Mark/Brad/Jenn)

There is a general discussion going on about permission bumps, their effect on our update rate and what features we should allow to make them.

Feedback Summary (Rob/Tyler/Matt)

Desktop

• Desktop looks smooth
• Working on updated Windows 10 feedback rollup

Mobile

• Android looks smooth
• Working on 2nd round iOS Pre-Release survey

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

Schedule & Progress onUpcoming Releases (Liz/Sylvestre/Lawrence)

• 39 RC build6 is being tested now on the beta channel
• we should know more in a few hours
• maybe we can release later today

Feedback Summary (Rob/Tyler/Matt)

Desktop

• Gathering feedback/files from users with start-up crash
• Looking into potential Facebook video issue

Mobile

• Android – No updates
• iOS – First round of pre-release survey results

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

Schedule & Progress onUpcoming Releases (Liz/Sylvestre/Lawrence)

• 39 beta 7 will release this Friday.
• RC (release candidate) will be on the beta channel next Monday
• still on track for June 30 release date.

Firefox Desktop & Platform (Javaun/Chad/Martin)

Current Releases

• No update on runtime testing of GPU 1156135. Hasn’t landed yet.
• Priv/sec team kicked off yesterday for 42 cycle (Control Center Security Block + TP in PBM)
• 42 Nightly closes on Aug 10. We’re mindful of this and Dave Camp said we can’t be doing uplifts for anything but bug fixes. We’re also mindful of the L10N deadline.
• We’re coordinating w/ android

Firefox Mobile (Mark/Brad/Jenn)

Firefox for iOS

• Still waiting on go-ahead to add the large group of external testers. Hoping to kick off shortly with build 21.
• Whistler Goal is to solidify End-Game plan with target dates

Firefox for Android

• No major juggling in the funnel this week. In general, no major risks to any of the features currently in development.

Beta (39)

• Planned Features On Track/Ready to Ship

Aurora (40)

• Planned Features On Track/Ready to Ship

Nightly (41)

• ‘Option to always use private browsing’ is holding on nightly pending outcome of user testing
• two fixes landed that each give 1.5s wins on startup page load (3s) total
  • one here http://phonedash.mozilla.org/#/org.mozilla.fennec/totalthrobber/local-twitter/norejected/2015-06-03/2015-06-17/notcached/noerrorbars/standarderror/notry

Feedback Summary (Rob/Tyler/Matt)

No updates

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

Schedule & Progress onUpcoming Releases (Liz/Sylvestre/Lawrence)

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• 38.0.6 shipped for funnelcake builds only to correct an issue with search providers

• 39 Beta
  • Only 3 Betas left
  • Next gtb
    • Desktop = Thursday
    • Android = Monday

Firefox Desktop & Platform (Javaun/Chad/Martin)

Current Releases

Feel free to fill out the Survey regarding 38.0.5: https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/forms/d/1_02MEAoKeXdMwcLtiZfM3ii2tbnAB3uR1ji51DjwMiU/viewform?c=0&w=1
Postmortem on Friday @ 1PM Pacific in Vidyo-ProgramManagement

Firefox Mobile (Mark/Brad/Jenn)

Firefox for iOS

• Build 20 now available for internal testers.
• Several hundred external testers identified and to be added, potentially with build 20. Surveys planned to actively solicit feedback.
• Click Here to view roadmap in Aha!

Firefox for Android

Click Here to view roadmap in Aha!

Beta (39)

• Planned features all in ‘Ready to Ship’ state

Aurora (40)

• Nearing ‘Ready to Ship’, but work still needed on ‘Support SSO Framework’

Nightly (41)

• User testing pending for ‘Option to always use private browsing’
• Feature development generally considered to be on track

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