Firefox/Planning/2011-09-28

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Planning Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am PDT, 18:00 UTC
• Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
• Toronto Offices: Fin du Monde 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# 95312 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 95312 (US)
• Vidyo Room: Warp Core
• Vidyo Guest URL

REMEMBER

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Actions from Last Week

• Sheila to come back on bug 687991 -- crashes on alice.it without stack
  • Fixed another bug so we could get the crash reports. Crash only showing in builds from 20110923 or earlier so appears fixed by bug 687768.
• Johnath to ping JB about Thunderbird participation in this meeting
  • Sent mail, they are going to participate, but are going to lurk for a few weeks first (hi tbirders!)
• Johnath to ping Todd about apps participation in this meeting
  • Sent mail...

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Firefox Mobile

7

• Released to Android market
• Ad-Block plus is likely the only major add-on affected by "hidden" add-on issue, no plan (let's discuss) to revert to 6.0.
• Reminder: Key Features in this release
  • Copy & Paste
  • Added a ‘Quit’ action to the Android menu
  • Language detection on first-run
  • Improved image rendering on Tegra-based tablets and phones (see bug 669851)
  • The WebSocket API is now available in Firefox for Android (see bug 537787)

Firefox Sync

• Fx7 - Instant Sync
• Beta (8) - Instant Sync - remaining piece
  • Relanded Drop single DeviceInterval to 1 hour. See bug 678588 and crash bug bug 598774 for more info.
• Firefox 10+:
  • Improving Sync Set Up - In development
  • Push to Device - In development. You can play with an add-on here.
  • Addon Sync - In development.

Add-on SDK

Release (1.1 -> Firefox 7)

• 1.0 -> 1.1 repack occurred Monday, September 26
• repack process experienced some problems; they have now been resolved
• repack post-mortem to take place this week or next

Stabilization (1.2 -> Firefox 7, 8)

• second test build, 1.2b2, spun yesterday, Tuesday, September 27 (announcement)
• final release on schedule for Tuesday, October 25, two weeks before Firefox 8
• will probably move up final release one week to Tuesday, October 18, three weeks before Firefox 8 (discussion)

Development (1.3 -> Firefox 8, 9)

• merge to stabilization branch on schedule for Tuesday, October 25
• will probably move up merge and final release one week to ship three weeks before Firefox 9

UX & User Research

Tablet UI exploration (aka usability testing) to take place in Toronto during mobile work week (most likely Oct 18-19th). User research (aka Mary T) is looking for a developer or two to sit in on these sessions.