Firefox/Goals/2011Q4

Overall Firefox Organization

Not finalized, but the top line engineering goals for the quarter are likely to keep us pretty busy.

Team Goals

Release Management

Ship Firefox

Maintain

• [DONE] Ship Firefox 8 on 2011-11-08 (on time)
• [ON TRACK] Ship Firefox 9 on 2011-12-20 (on time)

Improve

• [AT RISK] Get the add-on escape valve feature into Firefox 10
• [DONE] Advance WinQual to a state where we can write bugs based on the information in Microsoft's system
• [ON TRACK] Prevent a Firefox 8.0.1 chemspill for reasons in Mozilla's control
• [ON TRACK] Prevent a Firefox 9.0.1 chemspill for reasons in Mozilla's control

Processes

Maintain

• [ON TRACK] Triage all Aurora bugs within 5 days of the request
• [ON TRACK] Triage all Beta bugs within 5 days of the request
• [ON TRACK] Run a post-mortem for Firefox 8 regardless of outcome

Improve

• [ON TRACK] Create, message, and implement a better triage process
• [ON TRACK] Create a proposal for better bug management/states
• [ON TRACK] Create a flowchart of the current release process
• [ON TRACK] Create a formal, machine-readable specification for releases
  • Future quarters will track integrating the specification into QA and RelEng automation

Tools

Directly applicable

• [ON TRACK] Set up relman.mozilla.org
• [ON TRACK] Create web calendar system for release dates

Indirectly applicable

• [ON TRACK] Set up pulse.mozilla.org blade cluster
• [ON TRACK] Get bugzilla-pulse integration rolled out
  • Joint goal with IT
• [ON TRACK] Get hg-pulse integration rolled out
• [DONE] Create one tool to solve some pain outside of Release Management

Outreach

• [ON TRACK] Create a video/presentation for community members and new employees detailing the release process
• [ON TRACK] Answer 25 questions on SUMO
• [ON TRACK] Answer 25 questions on Twitter
• [ON TRACK] Triage 150 bugs in Firefox/General or Toolkit/General

Jetpack

Name	Owner	References	Status	Description	Notes
Mobile Page Mods	Matteo		[DONE]	Build a prototype SDK that can build add-ons that use non-UI based features for Fennec	landing this week which should work on birch and sdk-1.4
l10n	Alex	691782	[DONE]	Build an API that developers can use to localise JS strings	landing soon
l10n	Myk		[MISSED]	Create a plan for extending that API to allow localising HTML content	proposal will be complete but there wont be enough time for discussion and iteration
IndexDB platform support	Gabor	587797	[DONE]	Land the platform support side of an IndexDB API to be ready for the developer-facing API in Q1	waiting for final review
Add-on Tab API	Irakli	644595	[MISSED]	Create a new Add-on Tab API	could be done if a few changes land, but was more work than originally thought
Prefs API	Everyone	645207	[DONE]	Support community member(s) landing Prefs API
No Unpacking XPIs	Brian	638742	[DONE]	Make it no longer necessary to unpack/repack XPIs	very close - may land
Release SDK!	Everyone		[DONE]	Continue to release new versions of the SDK periodically with new features and bug fixes

Developer Tools

• [ON TRACK] Land highlighter and related styling tools
• [ON TRACK] Land e10s support for one of the developer tools on m-c
• [ON TRACK] Land initial Remote Debugging Protocol support on m-c