Firefox/Planning/2010-06-16
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Firefox/Gecko Delivery Meeting Details
- Wednesdays - 11:00am Pacific, 2:00pm Eastern, 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
These notes are read by people who weren't able to attend the meeting. Please make sure to include links and context so they can be understood.
Contents
Upcoming Releases
Agenda
- actions from last week:
- christian to work with chofmann and Socorro team to investigate crash rate spike
- erica and mayumi to finalize comms plan with beltzner
- QA to test with new Flash and new Silverlight
- schedule and progress on upcoming releases
- review highlights and notices
- respond to questions and concerns
Action Items
Schedule & Progress
Firefox 3.5.10 / Firefox 3.6.4
- Would like to release on Thursday, depends on the investigation of crash-stats irregularity. Shipping on Thursday is at-risk
- Discussing the crash-stats irregularity and how it relates to our 3.6.4 release decision
- You can use this query to see OOPP issues that are not necessarily blocking but may flare up after 3.6.4's release: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=%5Boopp-watchlist%5D
Firefox 3.5.11 / Firefox 3.6.6
- Tentative plan is to code freeze Thursday 2010-06-24
- Will send out schedules later this week
Mozilla 1.9.3 Developer Preview 5
- shipped on Monday
- looking to release today
- froze yesterday, Tuesday, June 15
- tentative RC1 today, Wednesday, June 16
- tentative final Wednesday, June 23
- landed additional APIs (Tabs, Request, Lifecycle, Localization, Selection), some docs canonicalization, SDK search path fixes, plus many bug fixes and minor enhancements
- missed extension auto-detection, E10S compatibility, privilege reduction, docs restructuring, some docs canonicalization, Panel & Page Mods APIs
- 1.4 string froze yesterday. code freeze should happen today. Pending https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=570636
- Release date moved from June 22 to June 29 to allow time for l10n.
- Landing on trunk is happening right now as well. ETA for landing backend is June 18, ETA for landing front-end is June 23.
- Main tracking bug for landing: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=571896
- Backend landing bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=571902
- Fennec front-end landing bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=571898
- Firefox front-end landing bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=571897
Highlights / Notices
Please add notes for issues you'd like to bring to everyone's attention!
- Build
- Will be switching to gcc 4.5 on mozilla-central soon, which will change the compiler used for the beta. Speak up now if this is a bad idea!
- Engagement
- Fx 4 Beta Site (so far)
- Download: http://www-trunk.stage.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/beta/
- Features: Media:Features_.jpg
- Feedback: http://www-trunk.stage.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/beta/feedback/
- Technology: http://www-trunk.stage.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/beta/technology/
- First Run: Media:Firstrun_.jpg
- Fx 4 Beta Site (so far)
- Laura and the Socorro team (and others) are doing a great job investigating crash-stats, thanks!
Questions and Concerns
Please add any questions or concerns you would like discussed at today's meeting.
- Working etherpad for the state of ongoing 3.6.4-related Socorro analysis
- Support report: Bing concerns topped the list last week. They pushed a Windows update that added a Bing bar for some users or sent location bar searches to Bing.
- QA FF4 test plan
- qa ff4 test plan
- focus is on testing nightlies as features land
- we are building up a web compatibility suite
- top web sites
- top web apps
- testing sites
- developers should give QA a heads up when things land
- when
- test requirements
- beta1 will be tight, need to have builds in our hands for testing on jun 22
- Engagement
- Survey Question on the Feedback page
- How did you find out about the Firefox 4 beta program?
- Someone I know told me about it
- Advertisement
- Facebook or other social media
- Printed news source
- Mozilla communication
- blog/online article or news source
- Survey Question on the Feedback page
- Confirm feedback Channels
- Test Pilot
- Bugzilla
- Input
- UserVoice
- SurveyGizmo
- Community Channels
- Confirm feedback Channels
Press & Public Reactions
- Touring the Minefield: Firefox nightlies hands-on
- Firefox 4 upgrade ideas start becoming reality
- Mozilla releases Firefox 3.7 Alpha 5 developer preview
- Firefox readies WebM support
- Mozilla girds Firefox with 'hang detector'
- Firefox 4 To Offer WebM Video Codec Support
Future Releases: Planning & Co-ordination
Agenda
- action items from last week:
- review highlights and notices
- respond to questions and concerns
Action Items
Highlights / Notices
Questions and Concerns
Please add any questions or concerns you would like discussed at today's meeting.
- l10n for Firefox 4 Beta 1? branching, setup, build infra?