Firefox:1.5 Product Team

DEER PARK PRODUCT PLANNING AND RELEASE MGMT

(Deer Park is the code name for the next release of Mozilla Firefox.) cbeard

2005-07-16 - We've now released Deer Park Alpha 2. See Details The trunk is still frozen but has been reopened for approved check-ins. We've announced the plan to branch for Gecko 1.8 on July 26th, 2005. See Details To nominate a bug for consideration as blocking Deer Park Beta, please set the blocking1.8b4 flag to ?. Weekly team meetings continue to be scheduled for every Tuesday at 11:00am p.d.t. Please Note: We will branch for Gecko 1.8 when Firefox 1.1 (Deer Park) is substantially feature complete, including l10n dependencies and build infrastructure. This is presently targeted to occur shortly before 1.1b1, in approximately two weeks.

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.

Master Tracking Bug for Deer Park

1.8b3+ - Deer Park Alpha 2 Blockers

1.8b4+ - Deer Park Beta Blockers

aviary1.1+ - Firefox 1.1 Blockers

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 will be the second release in the Deer Park product development cycle. It will include 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 1.1. 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. Detailed Status Report
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 completed
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

DEER PARK BETA

This will be the third release in the Deer Park product development cycle. It will be the last unbranded release, but will be given greater visibility to solicit wider quality feedback.

Final Date for Scheduled Commits: TBD

Testing and Quality Assurance Begins: (Estimated Release Date - 5 days)

Estimated Release Date: TBD

Priority	Description	Tracking Bug	Owner(s)	Status
P1	Regression Stomping	-	ALL	awaiting feedback from a2
P2	E4X	290393	brendan, peterv	in progress
P1	Security Audits, e.g. scan and code audit including SVG, <canvas>, and AUS	111111	dveditz, chofmann, dougt	scans underway, audits to be scheduled
P1	l10n Dependencies	290400	bsmedberg	tbd
P2	Mac Platform Improvements - profile migrators	290389	ben, Mano	awaiting reviews

FIREFOX 1.1 RC1

This will be the first Release Candidate (RC1) for Firefox 1.1. It will be officially branded, and will be released to a wider community for testing and quality feedback. It should be of close to production quality and will also be an opportunity for Extension, Theme, and web application developers to finalize their support for Firefox 1.1.

Final Date for Scheduled Commits: TBD

Testing and Quality Assurance Begins: (Estimated Release Date - 5 days)

Estimated Release Date: TBD

Priority	Description	Tracking Bug	Owner(s)	Status

FIREFOX 1.1 RC(X)

'There will be at least one release candidate, if not more, until such time as the release is ready for production use.'

This will be the [number] Release Candidate (RC2) for Firefox 1.1 addressing any regressions or other bugs uncovered in RC1. It will be officially branded, and will be released to a wider community for testing and quality feedback. It should be of close to production quality and will also be the final opportunity for Extension, Theme, and web application developers to finalize their support for Firefox 1.1.

Final Date for Scheduled Commits: TBD

Testing and Quality Assurance Begins: (Estimated Release Date - 5 days)

Estimated Release Date: TBD

Priority	Description	Tracking Bug	Owner(s)	Status

FIREFOX 1.1 FINAL

This will be the final official release of Firefox 1.1.

Final Date for Scheduled Commits: TBD

Testing and Quality Assurance Begins: (Estimated Release Date - 5 days)

Estimated Release Date: TBD

Priority	Description	Tracking Bug	Owner(s)	Status