{"id":1720,"date":"2014-03-13T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T04:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2014-03-13T00:00:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T04:00:04","slug":"firefoxgecko-delivery-planning-2014-03-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/archives\/1720","title":{"rendered":"Firefox\/Gecko Delivery Planning: 2014-03-12"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"mw-content-ltr\" dir=\"ltr\" id=\"mw-content-text\" lang=\"en\">\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_.26_Platform\">Firefox Desktop &amp; Platform<\/h3>\n<h4 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Current_Releases\">Current Releases<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li> Fine.  Will try to not chemspill (due to Pwn2Own) if we can avoid it.\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Beta_.2828.29\">Beta (28)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li> Is now in final stages &#8211; we removed Metro\n<li> &lt;input type=&#8221;color&#8221;&gt; and GamePad API disabled for this release\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Aurora_.2829.29\">Aurora (29)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li> Merging to Beta next Monday  &#8212; Australis, so far, is shipping afawk\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Firefox_Mobile\">Firefox Mobile<\/h3>\n<h4 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Beta_.2828.29_2\">Beta (28)<\/h4>\n<dl>\n<dt>Features\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<ul>\n<li> <span style=\"color: goldenrod;font-size: 80%;font-weight: bold\">[AT RISK]<\/span> <s> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=875750\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 875750<\/a> &#8211; Implement &lt;input type=&#8221;color&#8221;&gt;: Android widget\/color picker <\/s> <b>&lt;==backed out<\/b>\n<li> <span style=\"color: cornflowerblue;font-size: 80%;font-weight: bold\">[ON TRACK]<\/span> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=768667\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 768667<\/a> &#8211; Use the action bar for text selection on ICS+\n<li> <span style=\"color: cornflowerblue;font-size: 80%;font-weight: bold\">[ON TRACK]<\/span> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=852608\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 852608<\/a> &#8211; Add support for OpenSearch. Firefox Mobile supports &lt;link rel=&#8221;search&#8221;&gt;\n<li> <span style=\"color: cornflowerblue;font-size: 80%;font-weight: bold\">[ON TRACK]<\/span> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=943475\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 943475<\/a> &#8211; Predictive lookup for awesomebar entries\n<li> <span style=\"color: cornflowerblue;font-size: 80%;font-weight: bold\">[ON TRACK]<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Mobile\/Projects\/Dynamic_snippets_add-on\" title=\"Mobile\/Projects\/Dynamic snippets add-on\"> Dynamic snippets support<\/a> preffed off\n<li> <span style=\"color: cornflowerblue;font-size: 80%;font-weight: bold\">[ON TRACK]<\/span> Background Thread Hang Reporting <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=932865\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 932865<\/a>\n<li> <span style=\"color: cornflowerblue;font-size: 80%;font-weight: bold\">[ON TRACK]<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Mobile\/Projects\/Localization\" title=\"Mobile\/Projects\/Localization\"> Added locale: Estonian (et)<\/a>, <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=946204\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 946204<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Aurora_.2829.29_2\">Aurora (29)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li> Looking good, note *no* new locale support contrary to plan of record. Translations are complete just not productized. Fx30, Fx31 are chock full\n<li>Go\/No Go for Synth APK Support for Apps, we&#8217;re making sure we feel good about going to beta: <a class=\"external free\" href=\"https:\/\/etherpad.mozilla.org\/fxmarketplaceGONOGO\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/etherpad.mozilla.org\/fxmarketplaceGONOGO<\/a>\n<li> We are going to do some guerilla sync testing now that clock skew issues shouldn&#8217;t be causing failures, stay tuned\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Nightly_.2830.29_2\">Nightly (30)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li> See the list for nightly, we&#8217;re consolidating the Hub feaures, <a class=\"external free\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Mobile\/Roadmap#Firefox_30_.28Nightly.29\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Mobile\/Roadmap#Firefox_30_.28Nightly.29<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Market_Insights_from_the_Market_Strategy_Team\">Market Insights from the Market Strategy Team<\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Desktop_2\">Desktop<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> Happy 25th Birthday to the World Wide Web! <a class=\"external autonumber\" href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/88343326\" rel=\"nofollow\">[1]<\/a> 25 years ago, the draft for the Web was completed, resulting later in browsers which became the killer app of the Internet <a class=\"external autonumber\" href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/how-the-world-wide-web-became-the-internets-killer-app\" rel=\"nofollow\">[2]<\/a> and Mozilla has been part of that story. <a class=\"external autonumber\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2014\/03\/12\/future_of_the_browser_as_web_turns_25\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">[3]<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Chrome Web Store will permit Themes, Extensions and Packaged Apps to be sold, and the latter two can be offered as free trial. <a class=\"external autonumber\" href=\"http:\/\/googledevelopers.blogspot.com\/2014\/03\/new-monetization-and-publishing-options.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">[4]<\/a> Meanwhile, Google&#8217;s new policy automatically disabling extensions downloaded from sources other than the Chrome Web Store <a class=\"external autonumber\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/chromium.org\/dev\/developers\/extensions-deployment-faq\" rel=\"nofollow\">[5]<\/a> has been receiving some criticism <a class=\"external autonumber\" href=\"https:\/\/productforums.google.com\/forum\/#!topic\/chrome\/d35tIyH8dVM%5B151-175-false%5D\" rel=\"nofollow\">[6]<\/a> although unlikely to affect the policy to limit such extensions to dev and canary channel builds and enterprise users.\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Google is expected to unveil plans for its wearable-centric platform and SDK later this month <a class=\"external autonumber\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2014\/mar\/09\/google-sundar-pichai-android-chrome-sxsw\" rel=\"nofollow\">[7]<\/a> aligned with it&#8217;s work with LG in this space. <a class=\"external autonumber\" href=\"http:\/\/reviews.cnet.com\/8301-13970_7-57619335-78\/google-lg-working-on-smartwatch-to-be-unveiled-in-june\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">[8]<\/a> Meanwhile, Chromecast sales crossed into the millions in the US <a class=\"external autonumber\" href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2014\/03\/09\/google-exec-weve-sold-millions-of-chromecast-adapters\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">[9]<\/a> and will be expanding to more countries while the Chromecast SDK <a class=\"external autonumber\" href=\"http:\/\/chromespot.com\/2014\/02\/03\/chromecast-open-developers-google-cast-sdk\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">[10]<\/a> has already been utilized to build some already popular apps <a class=\"external autonumber\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lifehacker.com.au\/2014\/03\/the-best-chromecast-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">[11]<\/a> even as competition emerges. <a class=\"external autonumber\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gadgetlab\/2014\/03\/roku-streaming-stick-hdmi\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">[12]<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> With only 4 weeks to go before 488 million <a class=\"external autonumber\" href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9246837\/Perspective_Microsoft_risks_security_reputation_ruin_by_retiring_XP\" rel=\"nofollow\">[13]<\/a> XP machines, or 30% of all computers on the Internet, lose support from Microsoft and infection rates expected at 66%, <a class=\"external autonumber\" href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9243660\/Windows_XP_infection_rate_may_jump_66_after_patches_end_in_April\" rel=\"nofollow\">[14]<\/a> 49% of computers in China are still using XP with many never having been updated. <a class=\"external autonumber\" href=\"http:\/\/sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/09\/china-warns-of-risks-in-plan-to-retire-windows-xp\/?_php=true&amp;_type=blogs&amp;_r=0\" rel=\"nofollow\">[15]<\/a> The US advises consumers to not use Internet Explorer on Windows XP machines. <a class=\"external autonumber\" href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/computing\/windows-xp-users-should-ditch-internet-explorer-says-uscert\/#!zp8UX\" rel=\"nofollow\">[16]<\/a> as IE versions on XP receive their final patches before April 15th. <a class=\"external autonumber\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomsguide.com\/us\/microsoft-patch-tuesday,news-18453.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">[17]<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Marketing.2C_Press_.26_Public_Reaction\">Marketing, Press &amp; Public Reaction<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> Heads down focused on Australis launch. Specifically a social sharing component not unlike Glow 1.0.\n<li> Beta launch plans: the tour moves to Beta and we\u2019ll be doing outreach to the folks in our Beta channels (newsletter, snippets, etc) + press outreach.\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<p><b>Planning Meeting Details<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Wednesdays &#8211; 11:00am PT, 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<div class=\"printfooter\">\nRetrieved from &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/index.php?title=Firefox\/Planning\/2014-03-12&amp;oldid=949539\">https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/index.php?title=Firefox\/Planning\/2014-03-12&amp;oldid=949539<\/a>&#8220;<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schedule &amp; Progress onUpcoming Releases Firefox Desktop &amp; Platform Current Releases Fine. Will try to not chemspill (due to Pwn2Own) if we can avoid it. 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