Firefox/Planning/2010-01-27

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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 Product Releases

January 27 - February 3 2010

Jan 29th: Mobile Firefox 1.0 for Maemo RC3

  • qa has completed release test cycle

Jan 29th: Weave 1.0

  • in tandem with Fennec RC

February 2010

Firefox 3.0.18 / Firefox 3.5.8

  • aiming for mid February release
  • code freeze is taking longer than expected
  • will advise as soon as builds are being spun up

Lorentz (OOPP on mozilla-1.9.2)

  • out of process plugins is being stabilized on mozilla-central
  • the project branch is ready for checkins and building nightlies
  • once stable on trunk, we'll begin the mozilla-1.9.2 backport using this project branch

Firefox 3.6.2

  • currently evaluating the bugs that missed the release candidate but are safe and simple
  • a couple of high priority fixes
  • would be nice if we can synchronize schedules with Firefox 3.0.18 / Firefox 3.5.8

Gecko 1.9.3 Alpha

  • triage is ongoing, about 18 blockers but a large number of untriaged nominations
  • hope to get to this milestone in mid-to-late February

Mobile Firefox WinMo Alpha 4

  • targeting sometime in the early part of the month

Labs

  • Weave Sync 1.0 targeting GA on Thursday (aka The Day After The iPad), aligned with Fennec.
  • Jetpack 0.8 (new Toolbar and Places APIs, last release on prototype architecture): RC this week, final release next week

Support

  • common issues
  • Hooray 3.6! This definitely felt like a much smoother release. Thanks everyone for helping out.
  • Here's a run-down of the main 3.6 issues:
    • Mafia wars & other Facebook apps doesn't work. Issue will be fixed by Facebook soon. bug 536900
    • Missing/lost bookmarks after upgrading and can't restore bookmarks.
      • This was due to the Torbutton extension. We've marked the bad version and it seems to have gone down in number from the first day. [1] . Thanks to Jorge for getting this fixed.
    • Having > 2 startup tabs set as homepage leads to only 2 showing.
      • This is a bug in the Tab Mix Plus extension that will be fixed in an upcoming TMP release. [2]
    • Open in New Tab not working (opens tab with URL but doesn't load it): [3] but may be theme related per [4]
    • A lot of causes of scrolling not working.
      • Doesn't scroll when mouse is over plugins bug 483136
      • Doesn't scroll with a mouse scroll wheel bug 542151
    • Extensions: Norton, AVG, Roboform password manager.
  • A couple UI changes caught users off guard
    • Missing properties in context menu. Bring it back with [5]
    • Changing tab opening order. Bring it back with [6]

Product Development

Firefox Project

Fennec Project

Gecko Platform

Localization

skip, unless there are questions?

QA

  • 3.6 is out
  • Last Friday's test day results - Website Compatibility
  • Planning on a multi-process plugins test day. Details to come - bsmedberg
  • Fennec - RC3 signed off

Release Engineering

  • WinCE:
    • QA on 3.6rc2 wince builds and updates?
    • Which branches need regular wince builds / l10n? Currently doing them on mozilla-central, mozilla-1.9.2 and lorentz. How about releases?
  • notify / unthrottling Major Update FF3.5->FF3.6?
  • decision about major update from FF3.0->FF3.6?
  • xulrunner 1.9.0 EOL in dev.planning this morning.

Add-ons

  • Firefox 3.6 compatibility at 89%
  • Personas very popular since launch and helping theme popularity as well
  • Posted last week about AMO's category popularity
  • AMO 5.6 release Tuesday
  • Due to a bug with add-on submissions, some add-ons aren't in the review queue that should be. How to tell if you're affected
  • blog post on Contributions sources
  • YSlow 2.0.5 (3.6 compatible) caused crashes on Windows and Mac. 2.0.6 fixes Windows crash, but Mac crashes caused by separate issue.

Web Dev

Partners

Evangelism

Marketing/PR

  • 3.6 release stuff:
    • launch on mozilla.com went really smoothly thanks to the work of IT, WebDev & QA
    • seeing good increase in Personas usage, Twitter followers & Facebook fans thanks to improved First Run page (more stats to follow)
    • next steps: working on 2010 roadmap for ways we can continue to optimize our sites. Will share details soon.
  • Plugin Check page
    • Was getting an average of 40K views per day.
    • After launch, seeing an average of 90K pv/ day

Roundtable

  • Pike would love feedback on his "purpose of nightlies" thread.
  • OOPP just got turned on by default in mozilla-central (bsmedberg to blog shortly). We will need lots of testing, so please use mozilla-central nightlies of Firefox, see nightly.mozilla.org for download links! (Windows/Linux, Mac doesn't have OOPP for this cycle).
  • when will we advertise updates from FF3.5.7 -> FF3.6 to users?
    • need to first evaluate data from release
    • usually takes a week after release to gather data, then a few days to analyse
    • hope to have decision made early next week, would like to be aggressive
  • decision about offering major updates from FF3.0.17 -> FF3.6
    • premature to discuss this until QA has completed their checks
    • if it checks out OK, should make the update available (but not advertised)
    • decision to advertise will be made as per above
  • discussion about End-of-life for FF3.0.x
    • our policy is that there's a minimum of 6 months support after n+1 version is out; it's only just been 6 months
    • still working to migrate users to newer versions, no plans to end support yet
    • before we do end support, we'll communicate broadly to the development community and to our users
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