Firefox2/StatusMeetings/2006-03-07

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In Attendance

jhughes

Agenda

1. Alpha 1 Status
2. Firefox 2 Feature Status Roundtable
3. Any other business

Alpha 1 Status

Features

• Places infrastructure (performance, stability, toolbar drag & drop)
  • now on trunk, ready for branch?
  • estimated time remaining for A1 readiness

• Undo Close Tab
  • pushed to A2?

• Tab Overflow
  • pushed to A2?

• Extension Blacklisting
  • patch reviewed and landed?

• Extension Dependencies
  • landed, no regressions

• Search Plugin Format Changeover (with sherlock import)
  • patch reviewed?

• Spell-As-You-Type (english only)
  • we are clear to ship en-US with the product
  • all other dictionaries must be downloaded explicitly as XPIs, mscott maintains a list of these extensions; these are the same dictionaries/problems that OpenOffice has.
  • enable this on branch by default? where do we package the dictionary file?
  • (cbeard: we can do better, perhaps we can license or buy dictionaries and release under a compatible license? rebron is going to dive into this. we should continue on the current path regardless.)

• Instrumentation Infrastructure
  • landed on trunk?

• RSS parser
  • SAX parser bug 315826 and dependencies finally got reviewed. Documented and almost ready to land. bug 325080 contains working RSS2/RSS1 parser w/ some Atom support. Need to cover more pathological cases and finish Atom. [-RS]

• RSS content detection (?)
  • has this landed for branch?

Release Issues & Timing

• version number for A1 will be 2.0a1, trunk will be 3.0a1 (see MZ forums post by mscott)
• still have to make the patch to rename trunk/branch
  • trunk will become browser/3.0a1, 1.8_BRANCH will become Bon Echo/2.0a1
• plan is to promote this as developer only release, low-key announce
• any updates from QA/Software Update questions raised last week?

Status Updates

Places

Brett: have seen no new data loss bugs since re-turning on. Startup and PLT are reasonable.

• any other updates?

Tabbed Browsing

• any other updates?

Extension Manager Enhancements

• any other updates?

Installer

• any other updates?

Search Engine UI

• any other updates?

Visual/UI Refresh

• started discussion in moz.dev.themes about new theme for Firefox2; surprisingly low response!
• the Chrome changes UI thread in dev.apps.firefox seems to have wound down, will consolidate feedback and review later today and post back on that thread

Platform Uplift

• anything new from last week?

Inline Spell Check

• we are clear to ship en-US with the product
  • all other dictionaries must be downloaded explicitly as XPIs, mscott maintains a list of these extensions; these are the same dictionaries/problems that OpenOffice has.
  • need to come up with a strategy for handling this issue

Instrumentation / Exit Surveys

• working on getting machines for server
• lots of progress on server side code

Session Saver

• Patch almost ready, testing now.
• No other news.

Branding & Update Systems

• any other updates?

RSS

• any other updates?

Offline mode / better use of cache

• any other updates?

Anti-Phishing

• bug 329292 filed to track the landing of Google's "Safe Browsing" code on branch
  • to-dos include: opening up to other data providers, anonymizing data stream, creating generic API for other Mozilla products to use, renaming to "anti-phishing" (see comment 26 and comment 28)
• Sherman Dickman to take over this bit from cbeard, and investigate heuristic mechanisms as well as integration of this code from Google

EULA

• nothing new here

Performance

• any updates?

Other Business

• any other business?