Firefox/Planning/2011-03-23

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Firefox/Gecko Delivery Meeting Details

• Wednesdays – 11:00am PDT, 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)

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)

• we done shipped

Point releases

• There will be at least one for 4.0, see http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.planning/browse_thread/thread/36387069e511fbf1

Firefox 4 (Mobile)

Firefox 3.6/3.5

Firefox 3.6.16 and 3.5.18

• Released these out-of-band updates yesterday with a hardening fix for http://www.comodo.com/Comodo-Fraud-Incident-2011-03-23.html

Firefox 3.6.17 and 3.5.19

• Code freeze for blockers is TOMORROW. Nag emails just went out

Firefox Sync

Add-on Builder 1.0a9

• Release will happen tomorrow
• Search is up next (backend service already finished & landed)
• Will be touching base with marketing to plan beta announcement

Add-on SDK 1.0b4

• RC1 shipped on schedule last Wednesday, March 16
• RC2 shipped morning of yesterday, Tuesday, March 22 to pick up fix for test failure and a couple ridealongs
• RC3 shipped evening of yesterday, Tuesday, March 22 to pick up fix for one more test failure that slipped through the cracks during earlier RC testing
• final on track to ship tomorrow Thursday, March 24

Add-on SDK 1.0b5

• timeline:
  • Thaw: Monday, March 21 (we ended up thawing yesterday, Tuesday, March 22)
  • Freeze: Wednesday, April 27 @ 11am PT
  • RC1: Wednesday, April 27
  • Final: Wednesday, May 4
• goals TBD
• this will be the last 1.0 beta release

Add-on SDK 1.0

• proposed timeline:
  • RC: Wednesday, May 25
  • Final: Wednesday, June 8

Input 3.4

• Expected to release on 3/31
• It’ll include grouperfish clustering and an updated dashboard for mobile users

Next stop is Input 4.x! The biggest things will be support for nightly users and an API (with a corresponding program to integrate feedback into several Mozilla web services)

Feedback Summary

• So far, feedback on social networks like twitter and fb have been extremely positive, with most complaints around add-on compatibility and OMG UI change.
• Known bug with release version on input graphs, so we can’t really use it as is to see how we’re doing–should be fixed with next release.

Highlights / Notices

Questions and Concerns

• How would you like feedback team to continue giving feedback? Any changes need to be made? How can we improve?

Press & Public Reactions

• Hands On With Firefox 4
• Mozilla Releases New Version of Firefox Browser
• Back to the front of the pack: Ars reviews Firefox 4
• Firefox 4 soars, thanks to Microsoft’s Luddite customers

• StatCounter: Firefox 4 Has Already Eclipsed Internet Explorer 9
• Firefox 4 takes back the web from IE9 — 6 million downloads in first 24 hours

• Firefox 3.6.16 and 3.5.18 security updates released as Firefox 4 launches

• Twitter secures mobile Firefox 4 users from XSS attacks
• Twitter Implements Mozilla’s Anti-XSS Tool for Firefox 4 Users