Firefox/Planning/2010-08-04

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Firefox/Gecko Delivery Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am Pacific, 2:00pm Eastern, 18:00 UTC
• Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
• Toronto Offices: Fin du Monde 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)

REMEMBER

These notes are read by people who weren't able to attend the meeting. Please make sure to include links and context so they can be understood.

Agenda

• actions from last week:
• schedule and progress on upcoming releases
• review highlights and notices
• respond to questions and concerns

Action Items

• • beltzner to follow-up with engagement

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Firefox 3.5.12 / Firefox 3.6.9

• schedule posted
• should also include new locales

Firefox 4.0 Beta 3

• code freeze on Monday, tree frozen as we stabilize, bad regressions from Sync
• release likely delayed to next Monday or Tuesday
• major features
  • new JS values - could affect add-ons that use JSAPI
  • OSX uses UNIX filesystem code instead of OSX filesystem code
  • SQLite 3.7.0 backed out due to regressions
  • Sync UI built in backed out due to regressions
  • complete changelist here

Highlights / Notices

Notes or issues that don't correspond to a particular release you'd like people to know about.

• Beta 2 Feedback
  • Generally positive feedback on App Tabs and Speed. Primarily UI feedback
  • Main Issues:
    • Feedback button disappears
    • Flash games noticeably slower
    • App tabs should indicate change of state Bug 577096
    • App Tabs don't stay after a session is closed [STOPPER] bug 580512
    • Cant drag App Tabs, new tabs sometimes appear on the right, sometimes on the left

• Our Recommendations for Blockers for Big Consumer Push:
  • Facebook games/chat slow [STOPPER]
  • App Tabs don't stay after a session is closed [STOPPER] bug 580512
  • Close min/max buttons [STOPPER] bug 574833
  • See what Sync issues there are when it lands--if there are major problems, it should be a Blocker [STOPPER]
  • Hotmail attachment [STOPPER] bug 547507
• Thanks to the Community Feedback Team for all their help gathering and analyzing feedback in their locales!

Questions and Concerns

Please add any questions or concerns you would like discussed at today's meeting.

• Trying to figure out where to spend our SEM/ad dollars for the beta--what kinds of sites/types of people do we want to target with a big consumer push?