Engineering/Goals/2012Q1

Overall Engineering Goals for 2012 Q1

• [MISSED] Ship beta of native Android UI version of Fennec in time for MWC.
• [DONE] Ship minimal impact update system for Firefox 12 (Branch Date: Jan 31, 2012).
• [MISSED] Land BrowserID API in Firefox.
• [DROPPED] Optimized sync experience: Sync on Android, optimized setup and authentication, identify and fix user experience to decrease drop off rate. NOTE: Need metrics and clarification of success factors.
• [DROPPED] Land Apps API in Firefox.
  • [DONE] Work with the apps team prioritized front-end integration with desktop home page over API. This modified goal is done, but the modification crystallized late in the quarter.
• [DONE] Demonstrate B2G at MWC and complete product demonstration.
• GC, and CC goal: 50ms pause time limit.
  • CC pauses currently (FF13 telemetry) have a median of ~20ms, down from ~60ms in FF9
• Ship ARM V6
• [DONE] Conduct and publish a comprehensive impact assessment for our fixed release process and implement identified changes to address problems.

* Placeholder: Responsiveness/Perf/Security achievement: Current suggestion: Move 10 modules doing I/O (primarily disk I/O) off the main thread.

Individual Team Goals

• Firefox
• Platform
• Security
• Localization
• QA
• Release Engineering
• Development Tools and Automation
• Research
• B2G
• Program & Project Mgmt