Firefox/Planning/2010-09-01
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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
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 3.6.9 and Firefox 3.5.12
- Went to beta last Thursday, currently have ~350k users on 3.6.9
- Have not found any regressions, but still watching for them
- Still scheduled to ship on September 7th
Firefox 3.6.10 and Firefox 3.5.13
- Draft schedule will be sent around this week
Firefox 4 Beta 5
Firefox 4 Beta 6
- Expected to be the feature freeze
- bug 533038 will stop unpacking extensions by default. Extensions with binary components or which use ctypes will need to be modified to add <em:unpack>true</em:unpack> in their install.rdf.
Jetpack SDK 0.8
- freezes Tuesday, September 14, 11:59pm PT (in about two weeks)
- on tap: Sidebar, Windows, Places, Page Mods APIs; E10S compatibility; module loader security improvement
- much work on track, a few items at risk
- might be blessed as first beta-quality release (1.0b1)
Add-on Builder 1.0a5
- froze on Saturday
- push to staging delayed a few days, now scheduled for tomorrow, Thursday, September 2
- push to production sometime next week
Test Pilot studies
- Completed Studies/Analysis in Progress
- Search Interface Study submissions coming in
- Fx4 Beta Interface Study
- Add-On's Market Place Survey [Patrick Finch]: 29k+ responses
- Upcoming Studies
- About:Firefox (About: Support)
- Tracking: memory use stats, d2d supprot on/off, plugin versions, and modified preferences (records any preference that has been modified, i.e. has a user set value different from the default, but only for certain preferences defined by a whitelist/blacklist from about:support)
- can also add detailed extension info (including extension versions), and the compile info from about:buildconfig
- Graphics Card Configuration
- Meeting with Daniel Witte today
- Fx4 Beta Interface Study Round 2
- Original Fx4 Beta Interface Study updated for additional features (App Tabs, Tab Candy) + complementary survey
- About:Firefox (About: Support)
Highlights / Notices
Notes or issues that don't correspond to a particular release you'd like people to know about.
- Latest beta Feedback
- Positives:
- Love the new tab functions--Panorama is hugely popular
- Facebook issues are much better
- ove the new UI and minimalistic design
- Youtube is more usable, Netflix issues seem to be fixed
- Issues
- orkut is a big issue; may also hinder beta campaign timing if we decide to launch program in Brazil: bug 585744
- close/maximize/minimize button issue is still very annoying - bug 574833
- Hotmail:bug 581502
- Personas extension manager affecting 3.6.x and Beta bug 590608
- Amazon 'Lightning Deals' are not visible on 4.0b1 bug 579119
- Groups of Tabs don't save bug 589665
- App tabs and Tab Candy bug 578553
- Others
- when to expect the new Linux theme?
- Common Add-On Compatibility Requests
- Google tool bar
- Google Gears bug 523924
- Zynga
- Roboform
- Positives:
Questions and Concerns
Please add any questions or concerns you would like discussed at today's meeting.
