Firefox/Planning/2011-05-04

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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
• 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

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Actions from Last Week

• Stuart/Thomas to report back next meeting with a more detailed summary of mobile's plans for rapid release
• Johnath to send note to rel-drivers about 3.5/3.6/4.0 push to mirrors workflow tomorrow
  • DONE

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Firefox 3.6.x/3.5.x/4.0.x

• Updates pushed last week
• Advertised update to 4.0.1 coming this week

Firefox 5 (Desktop)

• 2 weeks until FF5 aurora becomes beta
• Beta meetings have started on Mondays at 2pm, Sheila sending reminders to dev.planning
• Channel blog http://blog.mozilla.com/channels/

Firefox 6 (Desktop)

• 3 weeks until mozilla-central merges to aurora for FF 6

Firefox 5 (Mobile)

• Following along with desktop. Will use same beta repo and will migrate at the same time.
• Will be creating a new beta channel with Firefox 5 beta, will want to make sure we have enough users and testing on it before we push it to final, but plan assuming everything goes well is to ship same time as desktop

Add-on SDK 1.0b5

• froze on time last Wednesday, April 27
• landed important changes after freeze along with some low-risk ride-alongs
• spun first candidate build two days late last Friday, April 29 (announcement)
• spun second candidate build yesterday, Tuesday, May 3 to take a few blocker fixes along with some more low-risk ride-alongs (announcement)
• release delayed one day to give second candidate build more bake time
• release now scheduled for tomorrow, Thursday, May 5
• release remains remains on track to be last 1.0 beta
• 1.0rc1 remains on track for late May
• 1.0 final release remains on track for early June

Feedback Summary

Aurora Feedback

• Mouse scrolling issues (may be related to having a PDF open/open in background)

http://input.stage.mozilla.com/en-US/search?product=firefox&sentiment=sad&date_end=&date_start=&version=5.0a2&q=scrolling

• • might be: bug 613756 or bug 642454
• Test pilot is disabled, no Feedback button.

http://input.stage.mozilla.com/en-US/search?product=firefox&sentiment=sad&date_end=&date_start=&version=5.0a2&q=test+pilot or http://input.stage.mozilla.com/en-US/search?locale=en-US&product=firefox&version=5.0a2&sentiment=sad&q=feedback

• Extension compatibility (on the plus side, people say it's more responsive/faster startup)
• Youtube buffering issues.

http://input.stage.mozilla.com/en-US/search?product=firefox&sentiment=sad&date_end=&date_start=&version=5.0a2&q=youtube or maybe laggy/slow http://input.stage.mozilla.com/en-US/search?locale=en-US&product=firefox&version=5.0a2&sentiment=sad&q=youtube

• Netflix streaming doesn't work

http://input.stage.mozilla.com/en-US/search?product=firefox&version=5.0a2&date_start=&date_end=&q=netflix

• • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650141
• Flash game loading issues/slow.

http://input.stage.mozilla.com/en-US/search?locale=en-US&product=firefox&version=5.0a2&sentiment=sad&q=flash 15

• Not localized.

We have pushed the http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-aurora.html page, getting us many new or partically localized versions of Aurora

4.0.1 Feedback

• Sync not working

http://input.mozilla.com/en-US/search?q=sync&product=firefox&version=4.0.1&date_start=2011-04-26&date_end=&sentiment=sad

• Printing issues

http://input.mozilla.com/en-US/search?product=firefox&sentiment=sad&date_end=&date_start=2011-04-26&version=4.0.1&q=printing

• Can't open PDFs

http://input.mozilla.com/en-US/search?product=firefox&sentiment=sad&date_end=&date_start=2011-04-26&version=4.0.1&q=pdfs

• • might be: bug 613756 or bug 642454
• Yahoo (can't attach files to mail)

http://input.mozilla.com/en-US/search?product=firefox&sentiment=sad&date_end=&date_start=2011-04-26&version=4.0.1&q=yahoo

Press & Public Reactions

• Ask LH: Which Channel Of Chrome Or Firefox Should I Use?

• Mozilla Patches Critical Firefox Security Flaws
• Coming Soon: A Faster Firefox for Linux Users
• Mozilla patches Firefox 4, fixes programming bungle