Firefox/Planning/2010-10-20
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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)
REMEMBER
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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 Beta
- schedule update coming later this week, will pass it around dev planning
- the current milestone schedule is obviously out of date
- stability and compatibility becoming our top focus
Jetpack SDK 0.9
- RC1 released Monday, October 18
- respun yesterday, Tuesday, October 19 to take some docs fixes
- release tentatively scheduled for tomorrow, Thursday, October 21
Jetpack SDK 0.10
- tree thaws for checkins today
- switching to Git repository
- development plan being finalized this week
- aiming to make this release the first beta (1.0b1)
Add-on Builder 1.0a6
- hotfix release 1.0a5.1 went out 5 days early on October 15th to regain compatibility with Fx 4 beta 6 and later
- 1.0a6 release on schedule for November 15th freeze
- details in the development plan
Input 1.9
- Release last Thursday
Input 1.9.1
- A large portion (>50%) of submitted user feedback was resulting in a 403
- The problem was around our caching mechanisms
- A push on Monday fixed the issue
- We’ll have a post-mortem to make sure this doesn’t happen again
Input 2.0
- ETA: November 11th
- started work, nothing to show just yet
Highlights / Notices
- User feedback summary: Similar to last week
| Issue | SUMO | Input | Buglink |
|---|---|---|---|
| Youtube & Video rendering | ~4 users | 144 | bug 579597 and related. |
| Font rendering | ~5 | 226 | bug 588880 |
| Middle button click-to-scroll rendering glitch | 0 | 31 | bug 588403 |
| Zynga Toolbar not compatible | 4 | 89 | Not a bug. |
| Error at Start-Up (could be AVG? or just extensions) | ~12 Hard to know–affects more than just beta users | 85 | [1] |
| Cannot download attachments from Hotmail | 9 | 140 | bug 581502 |
Questions and Concerns
Press & Public Reactions
- Firefox 4 beta 7 hits ‘spectacular list of crashes’ roadblock
- Firefox 4 Beta 8 Drops Status Bar, Claims Speed Advantage Over Webkit
- Firefox 4 falling behind schedule?
- Firefox dirty dozen: Mozilla patches ‘critical’ browser flaws
- Mozilla quashes 12 Firefox bugs
- Firefox update plugs 9 security flaws