Firefox/Planning/2010-06-16

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Firefox/Gecko Delivery Meeting Details

• Wednesdays – 11:00am Pacific, 2:00pm Eastern, 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)

Upcoming Releases

Agenda

• actions from last week:
  • christian to work with chofmann and Socorro team to investigate crash rate spike
  • erica and mayumi to finalize comms plan with beltzner
  • QA to test with new Flash and new Silverlight
• schedule and progress on upcoming releases
• review highlights and notices
• respond to questions and concerns

Action Items

Schedule & Progress

Firefox 3.5.10 / Firefox 3.6.4

• Would like to release on Thursday, depends on the investigation of crash-stats irregularity. Shipping on Thursday is at-risk
• Discussing the crash-stats irregularity and how it relates to our 3.6.4 release decision
• You can use this query to see OOPP issues that are not necessarily blocking but may flare up after 3.5.4’s release: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=%5Boopp-watchlist%5D

Firefox 3.5.11 / Firefox 3.6.6

• Tentative plan is to code freeze Thursday 2010-06-24
• Will send out schedules later this week

Mozilla 1.9.3 Developer Preview 5

• shipped on Monday

Fennec 1.1 RC

• looking to release today

Jetpack SDK 0.5

• froze yesterday, Tuesday, June 15
• tentative RC1 today, Wednesday, June 16
• tentative final Wednesday, June 23
• landed additional APIs (Tabs, Request, Lifecycle, Localization, Selection), some docs canonicalization, SDK search path fixes, plus many bug fixes and minor enhancements
• missed extension auto-detection, E10S compatibility, privilege reduction, docs restructuring, some docs canonicalization, Panel & Page Mods APIs

Firefox Sync 1.4

• 1.4 string froze yesterday. code freeze should happen today. Pending https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=570636
• Release date moved from June 22 to June 29 to allow time for l10n.
• Landing on trunk is happening right now as well. ETA for landing backend is June 18, ETA for landing front-end is June 23.

• Main tracking bug for landing: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=571896
• Backend landing bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=571902
• Fennec front-end landing bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=571898
• Firefox front-end landing bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=571897

Firefox 4.0 beta 1

Highlights / Notices

Please add notes for issues you’d like to bring to everyone’s attention!

• Build
  • Will be switching to gcc 4.5 on mozilla-central soon, which will change the compiler used for the beta. Speak up now if this is a bad idea!
• Engagement
  • Fx 4 Beta Site (so far)
    • Download: http://www-trunk.stage.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/beta/
    • Features: Media:Features_.jpg
    • Feedback: http://www-trunk.stage.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/beta/feedback/
    • Technology: http://www-trunk.stage.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/beta/technology/
    • First Run: Media:Firstrun_.jpg

• Laura and the Socorro team (and others) are doing a great job investigating crash-stats, thanks!

Questions and Concerns

Please add any questions or concerns you would like discussed at today’s meeting.

• Working etherpad for the state of ongoing 3.6.4-related Socorro analysis

• Support report: Bing concerns topped the list last week. They pushed a Windows update that added a Bing bar for some users or sent location bar searches to Bing.

• QA FF4 test plan
  • qa ff4 test plan
  • focus is on testing nightlies as features land
  • we are building up a web compatibility suite
    • top web sites
    • top web apps
    • testing sites
  • developers should give QA a heads up when things land
    • when
    • test requirements
  • beta1 will be tight, need to have builds in our hands for testing on jun 22

• Engagement
  • Survey Question on the Feedback page
    • How did you find out about the Firefox 4 beta program?
    • Someone I know told me about it
    • Twitter
    • Advertisement
    • Facebook or other social media
    • Printed news source
    • Mozilla communication
    • blog/online article or news source

• • Confirm feedback Channels
    • Test Pilot
    • Bugzilla
    • Input
    • UserVoice
    • SurveyGizmo
    • Community Channels

Press & Public Reactions

• Touring the Minefield: Firefox nightlies hands-on
• Firefox 4 upgrade ideas start becoming reality
• Mozilla releases Firefox 3.7 Alpha 5 developer preview
• Firefox readies WebM support
• Mozilla girds Firefox with ‘hang detector’
• Firefox 4 To Offer WebM Video Codec Support

Future Releases: Planning & Co-ordination

Agenda

• action items from last week:
• review highlights and notices
• respond to questions and concerns

Action Items

Highlights / Notices

Questions and Concerns

Please add any questions or concerns you would like discussed at today’s meeting.

• l10n for Firefox 4 Beta 1? branching, setup, build infra?