Firefox/Planning/2013-11-06

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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

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Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Firefox Metro

READ ONLY

• Team concluding Iteration #18 on Monday November 8.
• 17 out of 30 Aurora 28 blocking bugs resolved this iteration representing 53 points.
• Profile Sharing Feature - 18 out of 47 points completed - 29 remain for Iterations #19 and #20: View Bugs.
  • Uplift of Profile Sharing to Aurora 28 cannot be determined at this time. First round of QA will begin at the conclusion of Iteration #18.
• To date, 19 bugs in the Backlog are blocking uplift to Aurora 28: View Bugs.
• To date, 14 bugs remaining in Iteration #18 are blocking uplift to Aurora 28: View Bugs.

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Firefox Mobile

Beta (155)

Fx26 (Ships 12/10)

• [ON TRACK] AMO discoverability
• [ON TRACK] Addition of search engines - Yahoo and Bing for en-US, FR and es-ES
• [AT RISK] Addition of search engines - Yahoo and Bing for en-GB and de (just en-GB is at risk)
• [ON TRACK] About:home redesign <= top issue is getting good traction, bug 933323
• [ON TRACK] search provider management in settings menu
• [ON TRACK] Add-ons can add content to the "promotional banner" tile
• [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, continued

Aurora (54)

• [ON TRACK] Overhaul of the favicon system bug 914296
• [ON TRACK] Marketplace discoverability - simple UI polish
• [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, continued
• [ON TRACK] Remove overscroll and show highlight instead bug 705246 and bug 791475
• [ON TRACK] Developer improvements: IDE support bug 924961
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: South African English (za-EN)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Thai (th)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Lithuanian (lt)
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Slovenian (sl)

Nightly (155)

• bug 852608 - Add support for OpenSearch. Firefox Mobile ignores <link rel="search">
• [PROPOSED] Dynamic snippets add-on
• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Greek (el)
• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Punjabi (pa-IN)
• [PROPOSED] Developer improvements: Geckoview support for 2.3 -> 4.3 <== nightly only
• [PROPOSED] New Sync (PiCL MVP)

Developer Tools

• Outbound:
  • Re-introducing the devtools: scratchpad and style editor
    • Quote from HN: "Hey Firefox dev tools team: nice work. Keep it up! :)"Link
  • Aurora Hacks Post
    • Hacker News
• Development:
  • faster pretty-printing has landed and we're arranging uplifts.
  • many many leak fixes!
  • working on fixes for Brazil Device debugging, intermittent Jetpack failures
  • Add-on SDK 1.15 Beta 1 this week.