Firefox/Planning/2015-01-14

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Planning Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am PT, 18:00 UTC
• Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
• Toronto Offices: Finch Conference Room
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
• (the developer meeting takes place on Tuesdays)

Video/Teleconference Details - NEW

• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 99696 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99696 (US)
• Vidyo Room: ProductCoordination
• Vidyo Guest URL
• AirMozilla: for broadcast and saved recordings

REMEMBER

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Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases (Lawrence)

• Firefox 35.0 shipped yesterday, updates enabled at 25%
  • May need a 35.0.1 to fix a tile drawing bug (bug 1083079), which manifests as bug 1085024
• Firefox 36 beta1 ships Thursday
• Firefox 37 Aurora updates scheduled to be re-enabled on Friday

• Note: 38 (currently Nightly) will be the next ESR.

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Firefox Desktop & Platform (Javaun/Chad/Martin)

38.1 started yesterday. Recap from last week on priorities

- Hello:

 - wrapping up Firefox 36/37 work, getting started on 38 (with a focus on sharing)

- Task Continuity:

 - finishing UX design work for Reading List/Synced Tabs
 - research work support those features
 - investigating sync back-end changes needed to support them

- Search:

 - continue to address important regressions from the Firefox 34 work
 - UX design/research for next steps in search UI improvements

- Password Management:

 - focus on telemetry to begin improving filling/saving reliability

- Sync Migration:

 - finishing the migration work needed to start migrating "old sync" users to "new sync" in Firefox 37

- Places:

 - continue the refactorings needed to avoid main-thread IO

- E10S:

 - continue supporting the e10s team in pushing through the e10s milestones

Also: Privacy: Some UI exploration for privacy and some work on research/telemetry experiments on Tracking Protection

Some EME bugs

Feedback Summary (Cheng/Tyler/Matt)

Desktop

Release going smoothly, nothing to report yet

Contributor Engagement

Mike Hoye announcing the revamp of a community-engagement onramp, to ship end of Q1