Firefox/Planning/2011-03-02
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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)
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 (Desktop)
- Not many blockers left (http://canweshipyet.com/)
- Triaging daily @ 11:30 am PST
- Please nominate or email release-drivers@mozilla.com if you find a problem drivers need to look at
- Will wait for 75% of beta audience to be on beta 12 and hardblockers at zero before building
- QA will be talking about their test plan that needs to be done before RC is pushed to the beta audience
Firefox 4 (Mobile)
Firefox 3.6/3.5
Firefox 3.6.14 and 3.5.17
- Released yesterday, thanks everyone!
- The graphs on crash-stats are wrong, don’t freak out
Firefox 3.6.15 and 3.5.18
- Schedule will be coming this week
- Have a plan for a possible pwn2own response
Firefox Sync
Add-on Builder 1.0a9
- Maintenance release due out tomorrow
- Feature release on-track for full completion and release on March 24th
- The 1.0b4 of the SDK is scheduled to be released on March 23rd. If the opportunity presents itself, we will sync announcements of the two.
Add-on SDK 1.0b3
- blockers delayed release for almost a week
- released yesterday, Tuesday, March 1 (release announcement)
Add-on SDK 1.0b4
- focus is on enhancements and polish fixes for Firefox 4 add-on development
- freezes Wednesday, March 16
- ships Wednesday, March 23
Input 3.3
- Code-Freeze: 3/4
- Features: Dashboard for RC/Release “Ideas” and beta releases will be overlayed on x-axis of our graphs
We’re working on a new service, Grundle, to deal with clustering millions of feedback a day. It’ll be a mix-n-match of a several powerful components; to best understand the approach, please read Michael Kurze’s blog post and his excellent powerpoint presentation on it.
Feedback Summary
-Two big new issues we saw were printing issues for Windows users (now fixed-w00t!) and proxy issues accessing sites like webmail.
| Issue | SUMO | Input | Buglink |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windows 7, XP and Vista Users: Beta 12 Prints illegibly (weird spaces/characters) | 10+54 and others | 984 | bug 635768 [FIXED] |
| SSL pages don’t work over proxy | 122 | bug 637361 | |
| Hangs on search/McAfee? | 385 | bug 633199 | |
| An issue with Adobe Reader X | 67 | 505 | May not be fx4. [1] |
| Unable to switch search engines/locks up when using search bar | 33+4 | 265 75 | bug 631746 |
| Hotmail Constantly Reloading | [2][3] | 2599 | bug 627729 bug 636692 |
| Facebook Chat not working | 107 | ||
| Flash-related crashes (fb games, gmail, | 658 1042 | ||
| Font Rendering on Windows | 279 | bug 594325 bug 612846 bug 629857 | |
| Netflix streaming player doesn’t work OSX | 73 | was bug 598406 | |
| DivX player doesn’t work | 35 (302+ overall) | 77 | |
| Broken Panorama (missing button, changed shortcut) | 50+ from: [4][5][6][7] | 167 | bug 624588 |
| No save & close dialog when closing Firefox w/multiple tabs | 40-ish from: [8][9][10][11] | 363 | caused by bug 592822 bug 550559 |
| Gmail Locks Up (proxy issue?) | 6 | 365 |
Highlights / Notices
- QA: Firefox 4 RC Test Plan up for review
- Approach: We would like to qualify the RC after 3+ days of testing, then continue with the testing activities listed in the plan while the build is used by a larger audience before final sign-off.
- RelEng will be branching the mozilla-2.0 repository off of mozilla-central to do the RC build(s).
- Details still being worked out, stay tuned!
Questions and Concerns
Press & Public Reactions
Wall Street Journal Europe: Firefox 4 Reignites Browser Wars
- Mozilla follows Google, patches Firefox as prep for Pwn2Own
- Mozilla puts out critical Firefox and Thunderbird fixes
- Mozilla Follows Google in Fixing Firefox Bugs Before Hacking Contest
- Mozilla releases Firefox 3.6.14
- Firefox 4’s last beta?
- Another Beta: Mozilla Preps Firefox 4 Beta 13
- Firefox 4 Inches Toward Final Release with New Beta 12
- As Firefox 4 Beta 12 Debuts, Mozilla Looks Ahead to Firefox 5