Firefox/Planning/2009-08-05

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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)

Upcoming Firefox Releases

Firefox 3.0.14

• targeting early September release
• pushed a week due to code freeze slip

Firefox 3.5.3

• targeting early September release
• in sync with 3.0.14

Fennec 1.0b3

• waiting on last major change (likely will land tomorrow) and then a testing cycle
• goal is to have Maemo Beta 3 / Windows Mobile Alpha 3 ship early next week (Aug 10-12)
  • need to co-ordinate mozilla-1.9.2 branch plan on this

Firefox 3.0.13 -> 3.5.2 Major Update Offer

• major update billboards ready
  • not a blocker, but here's the logo bug for reference: bug 508616
• need to post to Mozilla Developer News
• anyone else we need to notify? A/V vendors OK?

Support

• Yahoo toolbar breaks right clicking in 3.5: bug 505067 [1]
• Flash security update:
  • Before the notice: 662 people posted with plugin data, 630 had some version of Flash installed and enabled (95.2%), 504 of them were 10.0r22 (76.1%)
  • During when we said to disable Flash: 653 people with plugin data, 623 had some version of Flash (95.4%), 500 of them were 10.0r22 (76.6%)
  • Now with the new notice to update Flash: 492 people with plugin data (lower because it's over a weekend), 459 with some Flash (93.3%), 318 with 10.0r22 (64.6%), 64 with 10.0r32 (which doesn't have this security hole) (13.0%)
  • 3000 additional views of the "Using Flash plugin" page clicked through so hopefully the above numbers aren't representive.

Development

• full development meeting notes
• see progress of active front-end work
• still blocking on a single bug for Firefox 3.6a1 and mozilla-1.9.2 branch
• still building out list of Firefox 3.6 features

QA

• 3.0.13/3.5.2 very fast turnaround; lots of help from community volunteers
• Testdays:
  • Upcoming: Test scripting with Mozmill 1.2 - Friday, August 7.
• Other:
  • Presentation Today @12:30 - 10 Forward - AirMozilla - Scott Tilley - Software Engineering Research at Florida Institute of Technology
• Tegra
  • Mobinova devices have arrived and firefox is being tested on them
  • Adding a Tegra testrun to litmus this week
  • Succeeded in first set of reftests to run on device (bundled in an extension)
  • Notes from Nvidia call last week: Mobile/QA/Tegra/2009-07-30
  • [nv] Bug work
    • 5 bugs verified in last 2 weeks: http://tinyurl.com/mv59bv
    • 54 bugs open: http://tinyurl.com/lbtdnk
• Fennec:
  • Litmus smoketests redone
  • link to the litmus test run for fennec 1.0 can be found here
  • first mochitests are running on winmo

Release Engineering

• Last week, FF3.5.2, FF3.0.13, refreshed major update offer
  • Now have 21% users on FF3.5.x
• Waiting for go on Fennec1.0b3, FF3.6a1

Add-Ons

• AMO 5.0.8 launch tomorrow
• Fx 3.6 compatibility discussion tomorrow
• Add-on meetup in NYC

Evangelism

• No big updates - just the usual 3.6 doc work and pleas for dev-doc-needed.
• Need to collect features + performance work.

Marketing/PR

• will be making some content updates to the 3.5.3 What's New page (en-US only) - tweaking existing text to reference the Mozilla mission and Personas
  
• longer term, working with the product team to re-think our methodology for how people get to What's New (i.e., serving different content to people coming in from a recent dot release vs an older major release)
• Associated Press article on Black Hat updates

Roundtable

• blocklist older Flash and Reader plugins now that update is available? (beltzner)
  • might want to wait for new Flash installers that work with PFS (bug 416396)
  • no good answer for users who don't have rights to install software (they'd end up with a disabled plugin, and no way to install) - unless it can be installed in the Firefox directory?
  • might want to reserve blocklist option for after we do a communication push
  • definitely will talk with Adobe to make sure they approve of our actions before doing them, though
  • could also make it part of the Firefox 3.5.3 whatsnew page
• shipping jQuery as part of the mozilla platform? (beltzner)
  • doesn't work well with XUL, but does work well with XHTML (in-content UI, add-ons, content scripts, jetpack panes)
  • jetpack ships jQuery, and Thunderbird is planning to do it
  • pressure is to leverage the existing group of web developers who are used to it, and who might want to write add-ons for mozilla platform products
  • wanted to gather requirements and questions
  • jresig mentioned there's a dozen or so bugs for jQuery and XUL and the team might up the priority of those if they knew it was something we wanted to do
  • hijax stated that several Add-on authors are already shipping it as a library with their Add-ons
  • dascher mentioned that all of the experimental/new UI being prototyped for Thunderbird-future was being done using jQuery