Firefox2/StatusMeetings/2006-03-28

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm PST (21:00 GMT)
• Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
• +1 866 216 2181
• join irc.mozilla.org #bonecho for attendance taking

Agenda

1. Feature Planning & Prioritization Review
2. Firefox 2 Planning Wiki
3. Any other business

Feature Planning & Prioritization Review

Visual Refresh

• no comments, yay

Bookmarks & History

• myk: microsummaries should be added as a P3 item
  • P2 - ability for extension authors to define microsummary information
  • P2 - ability for page authors to encode microsummary
  • P3/4? - ability for user to build their own microsummary
  • gerv: will we make this a big name feature for Fx2?
  • beltzner: we'll know closer to RC1, I guess
• schrep: I think we need to ensure that there's a compelling enough reason to move to places if the only aspect of it that's P1 is the backend change
  • API pieces need to be moved to P1
  • beltzner: if we move the new Places UI to P1, will that be bad?
  • ben: that less tags as P1 shouldn't affect ship date
  • shaver: that's not really on the requirements list atm, and it should be

User Experience

• the usability study should be a P1
• shaver: is the scope of session restore just the content, or will hooks be available to extension authors?
  • dietrich: current scope is content area only
  • bsmedberg: we're also just storing the URL and pulling from cache, but not storing the DOM
  • dietrich: we are storing some form data (inputs, textareas, checkboxes)
  • shaver: I'm interested in the extension hooks because it would allow for a deeper type of restore; could be an event, category of observers for serialize/deserialize; I'd propose a P2
  • P2 - ability for extension authors to contribute to the session saving structures
  • axel: we also want to be avoid the crash-reload-crash loop as well, that should be added as a requirement
• spellcheck should bump down a P-level
• jhughes: I'd like to see the browsermessage stuff promoted to being a product requirement, P2
• shaver: the restore defaults thing from search should be promoted to a profile-wide thing; P3? P2?
• need to add back the notification area requirement (general area in browser UI for application and extensions to notify users of ... something)

Feeds

• it's based on the SAX parser
• beltzner: we're gonna drop the requirement for "chrome priv'd controls" since that's a design solution, not a requirement
• dietrich, ben and others: combine feed items #2, 3 and 5 into a single higher-priority item, eliminate item #1 (it's an implementation detail)

Extensions

• beltzner needs to remove his implementation details
• P5s need to be rendered differently, hard to see it was deleted
• improve the UE around application updates for extension updates
• bsmedberg: locale packs need to be P1'd to support the download size requirement
• make first item P1, less implementation detail-y
• shaver: support for new add on types as P3
• shaver: we should rephrase items 1-4 into three seperate entities: management experience, install experience, update experience

Search

• s/adding and removing/managing/
• shaver: leave restore defaults in, but it should be profile-wide
• s/shadow text/discoverability/
• schrep: search bar update toolbars have had a lot of innovation, should we be uplifting?
• ben: a couple of additions
  • P3: combine bookmark keywords and keyword search (ie: single provider for search)

Distribution Support

• rephrase EULA requirement so that it's more understandable
• P2s providing 110n'd EULAs
• P3s legally binding l10n'd version of the EULA
• the bits around anti-phishing should move down to the anti-phishing section, duh
• need to add MSI support at low priority just to get it back on the radar

Infrastructure & Performance

• remove the "respect and protect" item (it's part of the FFx charter)
• rephrase "data model" to talk about requirement to document, fact it's not just UI instrument data
• reprioritize the API and hooks to P3, add "for extensions"
• performance section needs to be revamped entirely
• most people agreed that performance around memory should be a P1
• schrep: the issue is around getting benchmarks to make it crisper; we need to capture a better idea of what's pissing people off about our memory usage, and fix that as compared to our competitors
• shaver: "market acceptable" memory usage?
• choffmann: we also need to be testing more appropriately, with interactions instead of static content
• cbeard: set benchmarks, align to use cases

Security

• move respect privacy to the blurb and link back to the charter
• move API item to P2
• s/removed/disabled/
• remove the last SSL issue

Platform Support

• need to formalize the platforms and locales that we support
• need to formalize which linucies to support, which Mac (universal? PPC?)

Firefox 2 Planning Wiki

totally didn't get to it

Any Other Business

totally didn't get to it