{"id":1156,"date":"2012-10-17T23:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T03:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2012-10-17T23:00:05","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T03:00:05","slug":"firefoxgecko-delivery-planning-2012-10-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/archives\/1156","title":{"rendered":"Firefox\/Gecko Delivery Planning: 2012-10-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Schedule_.26_Progress_on_Upcoming_Releases\">Schedule &amp; Progress on<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Releases\" title=\"Releases\">Upcoming Releases<\/a> <\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Firefox_Desktop\">Firefox Desktop<\/h3>\n<h4 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Release_.2816.2C_10esr.29\">Release (16, 10esr)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li> Things are looking good for a full unthrottle of FF16.0.1 before the end of the week\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Beta_.2817.29\">Beta (17)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li> FF17.0b2 will be released on Monday morning\n<li> CTP blocklist testing will continue with recent versions of Flash later in the week\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Aurora_.2818.29\">Aurora (18)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li> Working through issues associated with the landing of DLBI &amp; IonMonkey\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Firefox_Mobile\">Firefox Mobile<\/h3>\n<h4 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Beta_.2817.29_2\">Beta (17)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li> Beta 2 will be released Friday\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Firefox_Metro\">Firefox Metro<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Firefox\/Metro\" rel=\"nofollow\">Project page<\/a> has the basic info\n<li> We established a minimum set of features we think are needed to ship a compelling v1\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/ftp.mozilla.org\/pub\/mozilla.org\/firefox\/nightly\/latest-elm\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Nightlies<\/a> are available, built from elm branch. They will update.\n<li> Sam Foster starts working on Metro front-end team!\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Services\">Services<\/h3>\n<h4 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Firefox_Sync\">Firefox Sync<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li> Work is continuing on Firefox Account support for Android and Desktop, in conjunction with Identity team\n<li> Some reports of auth errors for certain users as of Firefox 15, we have fixes baking in Nightly.\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Product_Announcements\">Product Announcements<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li> Initial version of server up and running\n<li> Client pieces are landing, and followups from review are happening\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Firefox_Health_Report_-_Desktop_Client\">Firefox Health Report &#8211; Desktop Client<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li> Greg Szorc (gps) is now working on this full time, targeting landing of as much as possible into Firefox 19.  Once we have a full assessment of risk profile for what we&#8217;ll land, we&#8217;ll contemplate appropriate uplift requests.\n<li> Setting up meeting with UX to start real design work for the user-facing aspect of the Health Report\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Add-on_SDK\">Add-on SDK<\/h3>\n<p>Release (1.10 -&gt; Firefox 16, 17)<\/p>\n<p>Stabilization (1.11 -&gt; Firefox 17, 18)<\/p>\n<p>Development (1.12 -&gt; Firefox 18, 19)\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> prepping for 1.11 release in <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=802277\" rel=\"nofollow\">two weeks<\/a>.\n<li> also prepping for an <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=802277\" rel=\"nofollow\">in-place re-pack<\/a> of a few hundred add-ons once we ship 1.11\n<li> SDK layout changed landed on master &#8211; required for landing in Firefox.\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Feedback_Summary\">Feedback Summary<\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Desktop\">Desktop<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> &#8220;Close other tabs&#8221; prompt <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=772319\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 772319<\/a> &#8211; We did not see much on the SUMO forums (<a class=\"external autonumber\" href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/en-US\/questions\/939530\" rel=\"nofollow\">[1]<\/a>) but there is a definite trend on Input <a class=\"external autonumber\" href=\"https:\/\/input.mozilla.org\/en-US\/?product=firefox&amp;sentiment=sad&amp;date_end=&amp;date_start=&amp;version=16.0&amp;q=close+other+tabs\" rel=\"nofollow\">[2]<\/a>.\n<li> XML Parsing Error &#8211; Spiked the day after the 16 launch. Has now completely dropped off <a class=\"external autonumber\" href=\"https:\/\/input.mozilla.org\/en-US\/?product=firefox&amp;version=16.0&amp;date_start=&amp;date_end=&amp;q=XML+Parsing+Error\" rel=\"nofollow\">[3]<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Mobile\">Mobile<\/h3>\n<p>Please see <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Mobile\/Notes\/17-Oct-2012#SUMO\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Mobile Notes<\/a> for the full Details. Release is going well, <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=792928\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 792928<\/a> is the biggest issue we are seeing for Release.\n<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"User_Experience_.28design_.26_research.29\">User Experience (design &amp; research)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> <b>[desktop]<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li> <b>[misc]<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li> about:net-internals Working with Valentin Gosu to style his summer intern work for inclusion in Firefox (see <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=783205\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 783205<\/a>) (Boriss)\n<\/ul>\n<li> <b>[Australis]<\/b> (zhenshuo, shorlander, madhava)\n<ul>\n<li> Figuring out our firstrun\/updater experience for people updating to Australis from earlier versions of the UI &#8211; <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/firefox-ux.etherpad.mozilla.org\/FirefoxFirstrun\" rel=\"nofollow\">notes here<\/a> (Zhenshuo)\n<li> Example of one direction: <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/cl.ly\/image\/3q2k2x1D0y0a0N0e3A0Q\" rel=\"nofollow\">variant 1<\/a>, <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/cl.ly\/1x1o3U2H3I3l1c403a26\/o\" rel=\"nofollow\">variant 2<\/a> (Shorlander)\n<li> Supporting implementation\n<\/ul>\n<li> <b>[dev tools]<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li> Developer Tools Window &#8211; <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/f.cl.ly\/items\/3O001H411w183b3b2R1Q\/FFxDevTools-Wireframes-v1.2.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">Wireframes (PDF)<\/a> (Brian Dils) and <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/shorlander.dropmark.com\/85185\" rel=\"nofollow\">visual design set<\/a> (Stephen Horlander)\n<\/ul>\n<li> <b>[Social API]<\/b> (Boriss)\n<ul>\n<li> Mocking up  multi-provider options from sketches for next version\n<li> Sketching interactions for different social providers, how the API could work for their content &amp; users\n<li> Filing remaining polish &amp; performance bugs ahead of first release\n<\/ul>\n<li> <b>[newtab2\/hometab]<\/b>  (Boriss)\n<ul>\n<li> Incorporating last week&#8217;s feedback into sketches, digitizing new versions\n<li> Iterating design document for new design (<a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.com\/~jboriss\/specs\/newtabv2\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">current version here<\/a>)\n<li> Talking to Jetpack team about how we can evaluate new designs for efficiency &amp; ease of use\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> <b>[project SPF (security\/privacy)]<\/b> (larissa)\n<ul>\n<li> Put together a <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.com\/~lco\/ProjectSPF\/Certificate_Messages\/Untrusted%20Certificates%20concepts%20v1.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">proposal for reunifying untrusted certificate UI in desktop and mobile (PDF)<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external free\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=795771#c7\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=795771#c7<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<li> Mixed Content &#8211; <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=782654\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 782654<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li> making some iterative improvements to indicator placement\n<li> Engineering (Tanvi) is still working on landing this feature, we&#8217;re hoping it can be part of FX 20\n<\/ul>\n<li> Usable security presentation &#8211; <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.com\/~lco\/ProjectSPF\/121011%20Usable%20Security%20Frameworks%20Talk.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">See the PDF here<\/a> (Note that it looks pretty bad when viewed with pdf.js)\n<li> Asked to do a security UI review for Web RTC &#8211; <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=729522\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 729522<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<li> <b>[webRTC]<\/b> &#8211; Mocking up improvements to Permissions UI (Boriss)\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> <b>[metro]<\/b> (yuan)\n<ul>\n<li> Blog post on the design rationale behind what was in the Metro Preview: <a class=\"external free\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/2012\/10\/ux-principles-behind-firefox-for-windows-8-preview\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/2012\/10\/ux-principles-behind-firefox-for-windows-8-preview\/<\/a>\n<li> Supported the Implementation of Top Site UI &#8211; <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=794028\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 794028<\/a>\n<li> Working on Interactive prototype for Setting charm, and a proposal to integrate feedback support with testpilot\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> <b>[android]<\/b> (ibarlow)\n<ul>\n<li> Ian out this week, but\n<li> things to look for in nighties &#8212; bigger better tab thumbnails on about:home; smoother tab tray transitions\n<li> prototyping and evaluating better default content fonts and some promising adjustments to our menu\n<li> designing and prototyping some search suggestion improvements (Blake)\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> <b>[Firefox on B2G\/Gaia]<\/b> (Larissa)\n<ul>\n<li> Thinking about what happens if you can close the last tap; likely happening in Android as well\n<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.com\/~lco\/FX_B2G\/Prototypes\/closing-last-tab.mov\" rel=\"nofollow\">Closing the last tab (MOV)<\/a>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.com\/~lco\/FX_B2G\/Prototypes\/crashed-last-tab.mov\" rel=\"nofollow\">Last tab crashes (MOV)<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> <b>[Behavioral Segmentation Study]<\/b> (Lindsay, Bill, Leo)\n<ul>\n<li> Planning and recruiting for the qualitative in-person interviews and diary studies are well underway.\n<li> Cori, Lindsay, and Bill will be in the field in Toronto, LA, and Charlotte, NC during the week of November 5, interviewing participants. We will be reaching out to people outside of UX to invite them to come observe the interviews.\n<li> The diary study will kick off the week of November 12. 2020QualBoard has been selected to help us run the study.\n<li> Planning for the larger scale Quantitative Study will begin this week. If you&#8217;d like to see a presentation on a similar Test Pilot study, Leo Yeykelis will be presenting on it in TenForward on Thursday, October 18 at 3PM PDT\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Questions.2C_Comments.2C_FYI\">Questions, Comments, FYI<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> Question: How is the B2G Dogfooding coming along?\n<ul>\n<li> Answer: Tony\/Marcia (QA) are in the process of signing off on today&#8217;s stable Unagi build (confirming that all dogfooding blockers are fixed) so we are on track to start flashing the dogfooding devices with this stable builds today.  Henry (Desktop) has interns standing by and will start preparing shipments to SF\/TO in the next day or two.\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Actions_this_week\">Actions this week<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> Juan to dig into broken XML parsing on netError.xhtml\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"printfooter\">\nRetrieved from &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Firefox\/Planning\/2012-10-17\">https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Firefox\/Planning\/2012-10-17<\/a>&#8220;<\/div>\n<hr>\n<p><b>Planning Meeting Details<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Wednesdays &#8211; 11:00am PDT, 18:00 UTC\n<li> Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room\n<li> Toronto Offices: Finch Conference Room\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"irc:\/\/irc.mozilla.org\/planning\" rel=\"nofollow\">irc.mozilla.org #planning<\/a> for backchannel\n<li> (the <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Platform#Meetings\" title=\"Platform\">developer meeting<\/a> takes place on Tuesdays)\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Video\/Teleconference Details &#8211; NEW<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# <b>99696<\/b> (US\/INTL)\n<li> 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# <b>99696<\/b> (US)\n<li> Vidyo Room: ProductCoordination\n<li> Vidyo <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/v.mozilla.com\/flex.html?roomdirect.html&amp;key=M2wI1JaTt2D2\" rel=\"nofollow\">Guest URL<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schedule &amp; Progress onUpcoming Releases Firefox Desktop Release (16, 10esr) Things are looking good for a full unthrottle of FF16.0.1 before the end of the week Beta (17) FF17.0b2 will be released on Monday morning CTP blocklist testing will continue with recent versions of Flash later in the week Aurora (18) Working through issues associated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209],"tags":[30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}