Firefox/Planning/2010-05-12

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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)

Now

Firefox 3.6.x / 3.5.x

• primary focus is shipping out of process plugins to our Firefox 3.6 users
• also due for a security and stability update

Upcoming Releases

Firefox 3.6.4

• Schedule is still TBD, will likely send an updated one today (depends on issues solidifying)
• Landed 5 fixes yesterday, fixing 4 blockers (and a wanted non-blocker). Thanks bsmedberg and jimm!
• 4 open blockers:
  • Bug 558986
    • Message deadlock between COM/OLE and Firefox/plugin-container messages
    • bsmedberg knows what is going on but not how to fix it
    • Ehsan has looked at it / is helping out
  • Bug 564260
    • Has a fix, waiting on review
    • Initial review mentions the fix is scary
  • Bug 561818
    • Follow-on to a bug we fixed in build 3
    • Needs more investigation/STR
    • Looks like it only happens on slow machines
  • Bug 564389
    • Not a Firefox problem, but tracking until resolution
    • Said they are whitelisting the files early this week
    • Did an ALE request as well
    • Need to do this again if we rebuild

Firefox 3.5.10

• Have builds finished and available to test here
• No issues that we know of yet
• Tied to 3.6.4's release (which is TBD)

Other

• Jetpack SDK 0.4
  • freezes on Tuesday, May 18, 11:59PT
  • first RC on Wednesday, May 19
  • tentative release date Wednesday, May 26
  • Development Plan
  • Stabilization & Release Process

Future

Firefox 4

• Presented the product plan to the community
• next steps are starting to track against the projected milestones

Upcoming Milestones

• hoping to do another Developer Preview before beta
• starting work on a comprehensive beta program

RelEng

• What additional platforms do we need? For when? Developer preview / alpha / beta?
  • Linux 64, OSX 10.6 64 on our radar. Need to figure out 10.6 64-bit binary format.
  • Win7 64?

• Any major toolchain changes (e.g. compiler changes)
  • Some push for VC++ 2010 and gcc 4.5 on linux.