Firefox/Planning/2011-01-19
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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)
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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 (Desktop)
- schedule for next beta beltzner to fill in more detail!
Firefox 4 (Mobile)
Firefox 3.6/3.5
- Code freeze was yesterday, actually got somewhat decent last-minute convergence (20 blockers down to 10 on 3.6)
- Waiting to send the go to build, will likely be this Friday
- We pushed the scary advertised update to 3.0 users yesterday
Firefox Sync
Add-on Builder 1.0a8
- All 1.0a8 deliverables are on-track
- The new ACE editor is highly awesometastic
- 1.0a9 release draft will be ready for initial review next week
Input 3.0
- Code-frozen. We’re releasing on 1/25
- Started work on Input 3.1 which’ll have submission methods for mobile firefox and the dashboard for major release users across rate, site issues and ideas
Discussion Topics:
- In regards to bug 617393…
- What will the appversion look like for betachannel users when go to a major release?
- There’s a ui-review and string-review required there. What would be the right approach to ask for various reviews in the future?
Add-on SDK 1.0b2
- froze today, scheduled to ship January 26
- scope is small; not many changes; but gets us back to regular release cycle
- major deliverables mostly missed, but several are in late stages, and we made good progress on E10S integration
Feedback Summary
- Flash crashes seem to be the biggest issue on input.mozilla.com
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASSERT message when closing tab | about 250-300 hits on SUMO | 203 | bug 608589 |
| Flash-related crashes | 2293 | ||
| Search Box not working | 30ish | 331 | bug 620672 |
| Netflix streaming player doesn’t work OSX | 17 | 204 | was bug 598406 |
| Copy/Paste issues (also related to issues with not enough storage messages) | 100+ across various threads | 768 | bug 613915 |
| DivX player doesn’t work | 225 (180+ overall) | 61 | |
| 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 | 402 | bug 622141 | |
| Twitter.com not rendered properly | 100 | bug 622064 bug 613040 |
Highlights / Notices
Questions and Concerns
- Concern: 3.6.13 crashes don’t look like they are being recorded, or certain views aren’t showing all the data (.16 crashes / ADUs? SWEET!). Filed bug 627123. Just noticed today, not sure if it affects other versions.
Press & Public Reactions
- Firefox 4 Beta 9 available, ready for testing
- Firefox 4 Beta 9 now out fixing 661 bugs.
- Firefox 4 Beta 9 Hits the Web
- First Look: Firefox 4 Beta 9