Firefox/Planning/2010-05-12

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Firefox/Gecko Delivery Meeting Details

  • Wednesdays - 11:00am Pacific, 2:00pm Eastern, 18:00 UTC
  • Mozilla Square 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)

Now

Firefox 3.6.x / 3.5.x

  • primary focus is shipping out of process plugins to our Firefox 3.6 users
  • also due for a security and stability update

Upcoming Releases

Firefox 3.6.4

  • Schedule is still TBD, will likely send an updated one today (depends on issues solidifying)
  • Landed 5 fixes yesterday, fixing 4 blockers (and a wanted non-blocker). Thanks bsmedberg and jimm!
  • 4 open blockers:
    • Bug 558986
      • Message deadlock between COM/OLE and Firefox/plugin-container messages
      • bsmedberg knows what is going on but not how to fix it
      • Ehsan has looked at it / is helping out
    • Bug 564260
      • Has a fix, waiting on review
      • Initial review mentions the fix is scary
    • Bug 561818
      • Follow-on to a bug we fixed in build 3
      • Needs more investigation/STR
      • Looks like it only happens on slow machines
    • Bug 564389
      • Not a Firefox problem, but tracking until resolution
      • Said they are whitelisting the files early this week
      • Did an ALE request as well
      • Need to do this again if we rebuild

Firefox 3.5.10

  • Have builds finished and available to test here
  • No issues that we know of yet
  • Tied to 3.6.4's release (which is TBD)

Support/QA

  • QA: We'll verify the bugs that landed yesterday and try to find older hardware to investigate bug 561818
  • Support: SUMO report went out just now because apparently I just sent it to sumo-report-admin (ie me) rather than to the list. D'oh!
  • Support Top issues:
    • Lots of users complaining about lost menubar this week bug 547891
    • May be related to bing toolbar bug 565256

Communications

Engagement

Fennec 1.0.x / Fennec 1.1.x

Upcoming Releases

Fennec 1.1 RC

  • Code Freeze today-ish
  • Looking to release out on the 18th

Support/QA

Other

  • Firefox Sync 1.3
    • In code freeze
    • RC targeted for end of this week
    • Release targeted for week of May 17

Future

Firefox 4

  • Presented the product plan to the community
  • next steps are starting to track against the projected milestones

Upcoming Milestones

  • hoping to do another Developer Preview before beta
  • starting work on a comprehensive beta program

Engineering

RelEng

  • What additional platforms do we need? For when? Developer preview / alpha / beta?
    • Linux 64, OSX 10.6 64 on our radar. Need to figure out 10.6 64-bit binary format.
    • Win7 64?
  • Any major toolchain changes (e.g. compiler changes)
    • Some push for VC++ 2010 and gcc 4.5 on linux.

Support/QA

  • QA: If you think your project is going to make 4.0, talk to juanb

Engagement

  • Finalizing engagement program for Beta program
  • Finalized feedback channels and start putting them in place

Fennec 2

  • writing up explanations in wiki documents (above images to be embedded)

Engineering

  • (dougt) khuey (INTERN) has started on investigating the Camera work in progress and related specs.
  • (dougt) Geolocation Working Group: Google submitted a specification to the geo working group for acceleration and orientation events. It looks good. They will implement it in the android browser.
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