Firefox/Planning/2011-01-26
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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)
- Beta 10 was released yesterday afternoon
- Thanks to QA and RelEng again for working over the weekend
- Beta 11 depends on remaining betaN hardblockers, see the updated plan
- Questions? Concerns?
Firefox 4 (Mobile)
- Beta 4 is planned for today
Firefox 3.6/3.5
- 3.6.14 and 3.5.17 are going out to beta today
- Original schedule is still holding
Firefox Sync
Add-on Builder 1.0a8
- All 1.0a8 deliverables are on-track for completion
- The new ACE/Skywriter editor landed on trunk this morning. The performance gains and UX improvements have been officially certified as “100% USDA Grade FTW”.
- I have an initial draft of the 1.0a9 release plan ready to share with the Builder team later today; look for a link to the finalized plan here next week.
Add-on SDK 1.0b2
- tree froze last Wednesday, January 19
- 1.0b2rc1 spun last Wednesday, January 19
- no blockers found, bits are ready for release
- nominal release date is today, Wednesday, January 26
- but other pre-release tasks are not done due to other demands on Myk’s time
- thus release today is uncertain, will depend on how many fireballs people throw at Myk today
Add-on SDK 1.0b3
- development plan finalized
- goals are to make progress on E10S integration, module resolution/bundling, security, CommonJS compatibility, and documentation
- tree was supposed to thaw two days ago, Monday, January 24
- thaw delayed until Tuesday to investigate potential 1.0b2 release blocker (that turned out not to be a blocker)
- thaw then further delayed for same reason 1.0b2 release is uncertain
- thaw could happen today
- freeze scheduled for Wednesday, February 16 at 11am PT
- release scheduled for Wednesday, February 23
Input 3.1
- Input 3.0 went out yesterday! Major Releases have feedback!
- Input 3.1 code-freeze date: 2/3
- Major release dashboard, Mobile Firefox major release submission pages, moving to a variant of mapreduce for themes/sites
Feedback Summary
- This week’s feedback based on b9, not b10.
- Beta 10 themes so far, but will have more next week:
- firefox no longer asks to save tabs when closing.
- of sync ui confusion
- twitter.com and apple.com do not render correctly
- Beta 10 themes so far, but will have more next week:
- 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) | 2100 | |
Hotmail Constantly Reloading | 300+ [1] [2] | 420 | bug 627729 |
Twitter.com Page Rendering/Flashing/Slow | 100+ | bug 626211 bug 623852 (one hard one soft) | |
Font Rendering on Windows | 390 | bug 594325 bug 612846 | |
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 | [https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/772223 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
- Firefox 4.0 builds on mac now named with “mac” instead of “mac64” in their filename
Questions and Concerns
- Effectiveness of “scary” 3.0 MU?
- Any questions / concerns about the beta 11 plan above?
Press & Public Reactions
- Mozilla Releases Firefox 4 Beta 10
- Firefox 4 Beta 10 Available for Download
- http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Mozilla-issues-Firefox-4-beta-10-1177064.html
- Firefox 4 entering the home stretch
- Web Tool On Firefox To Deter Tracking
- Mozilla Proposes Firefox ‘Do Not Track’ Feature
- Mozilla’s Firefox Do-not-track Feature Doesn’t Guarantee Anonymity