Firefox:1.5 Product Team
DEER PARK PRODUCT PLANNING AND RELEASE MANAGEMENT
(Deer Park is the code name for the next release of Mozilla Firefox.) cbeard
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2005-07-21 - The final release of Deer Park will be branded "Mozilla Firefox 1.5". See details 2005-11-29 - We've now released Firefox 1.5 Final on the Gecko 1.8.0 Platform (release notes). See the Firefox 2 (Bon Echo) Planning Center for information on the next release. Weekly team meetings continue to be scheduled for every Tuesday at 11:00am p.d.t. |
BUG TRACKING
We're using the following bugzilla queries to track all bug lists. These will be the queries used during weekly meetings and in tracking progress.
DEER PARK ALPHA 1
- Deer Park Alpha 1 was released on 2005-05-31.
| Description | Tracking Bug | Owner(s) | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extension Manager | 290391 | ben | landed |
| <canvas> | 290392 | vlad | landed |
| SVG | 290387 | tor | landed |
| Fast Back | 290394 | bryner | landed - pref'd off for testing |
| E4X | 290393 | brendan, peterv | landed - partial support |
| Security Consolidation | 290872 | brendan, jst, dveditz | landed |
| Mac Platform Improvements | 290389 | Mano | landed - Aqua compliance completed |
DEER PARK ALPHA 2
- Deer Park Alpha 2 was released on 2005-07-12.
This release is the second release in the Deer Park product development cycle. It includes all major and significant features, whether pref'd on or off in order to achieve wider testing and to solicit quality feedback. The quality standard of this release is pre-production and therefore it should be of the quality required to support testing, and for extension, theme and web application developers to begin compatibility and feature testing in advance of Firefox 1.5. It may break some but not all 1.0+ targeted Extensions. It should not contain any significant known crashers.
| Priority | Description | Tracking Bug | Owner(s) | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P1 | Regression Stomping | - | ALL | done |
| P1 | Software Update | 290390 | darin, ben, morgamic, chase | landed - server-side work continues. plan is to pref off software update in a2, and to then coordinate discrete testing, auto-updating testers to trunk nightlies, performance tuning and load balancing work to be done, with large field test planned for mass update to b1. |
| P2 | Improved Pop-up Blocking | 290396 | jst | landed |
| P1 | Security Consolidation and Enhancement, e.g. 1.0.x+, split wrappers, trusted event checking, and origin tracking. | 290872 | brendan, jst, dveditz | landed |
| P3 | Fast Back | 290394 | bryner |
landed - pref'd on for a2; will evaluate stability for status in b1 and final |
| P3 | Mac Platform Improvements | 290389 | Mano | landed - shell service, safari profile migrator |
| P3 | Enterprise Deployment Improvements | 290399 | bsmedberg | landed - except MSI builds |
| P3 | Platform Debugging Improvements | 290398 | bsmedberg | landed |
| P3 | Drag & Drop Tab Reordering | 290395 | mconnor | landed |
FIREFOX 1.5 BETA 1 / DEER PARK BETA 1
- Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 was released on 2005-09-08.
This is the third release in the Deer Park / Firefox 1.5 product development cycle. It is a branded release, in order to drive even greater visibility and to solicit wider quality feedback.
| Priority | Description | Tracking Bug | Owner(s) | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P1 | Regression Stomping | - | ALL | done |
| P2 | E4X | 290393 | brendan, peterv | landed - partial support enabled, DOM hookup to come in Firefox 2 |
| P1 | Security Audits, e.g. scan and code audit including SVG, <canvas>, and AUS | - | dveditz, chofmann, dougt | scans underway, audits to be scheduled |
| P1 | l10n Dependencies | - | bsmedberg | tbd |
| P2 | Mac Platform Improvements | 290389 | ben, Mano | landed |
FIREFOX 1.5 BETA 2 / DEER PARK BETA 2
- Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 was released on 2005-10-06.
This is the fourth release in the Deer Park product development cycle. It is a branded release, in order to drive even greater visibility and to solicit wider quality feedback.
| Priority | Description | Tracking Bug | Owner(s) | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P1 | Regression Stomping | - | ALL | done |
FIREFOX 1.5 RC1 & RC2
- Firefox 1.5 RC1 was released on 2005-11-01.
- Firefox 1.5 RC2 was released on 2005-11-10.
These are the first two Release Candidates (RC1, RC2) for Firefox 1.5. They are officially branded and have been released to a wider community for testing and quality feedback. They are of close to production quality as possible and are also an opportunity for Extension, Theme, and web application developers to finalize their support for Firefox 1.5.
| Priority | Description | Tracking Bug | Owner(s) | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P1 | Regression Stomping | - | ALL | done |
FIREFOX 1.5 RC3
- Firefox 1.5 RC3 was released on 2005-11-17.
If no showstopper issues are identified with this build, it will be released as Firefox 1.5 (Final)
This is the 3rd Release Candidate (RC3) for Firefox 1.5, addressing any regressions or other bugs uncovered in the 2nd Release Candidate (RC2). It is officially branded as Firefox 1.5 and has been released to the community for testing and quality checking. It is of production quality and is also a final opportunity for Extension, Theme, l10n and web application developers to finalize their support for Firefox 1.5 before final release.
FIREFOX 1.5 FINAL
- Firefox 1.5 was released on 2005-11-29.
This is the final, official release of Firefox 1.5.
| Priority | Description | Tracking Bug | Owner(s) | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P1 | Final Regression Audit | - | ALL | underway |
| P1 | Website Update & Final Documentation (on- & offline), Release notes etc. | - | Asa | underway |
| P1 | Mirror network Preparation | - | Asa | underway |
| P1 | Firefox 1.5 Release Party | - | ALL | underway (?) |
