Firefox/Planning/2014-01-15

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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

REMEMBER

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Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Firefox Desktop & Platform

Beta (128)

[Read Only, at workweek]

• Fx27.0b6 for desktop and mobile have been shipped
• Fx27.0b7 for desktop will GTB tomorrow
• Although a Federal Holiday on Jan 20 in the US, we are going to maintain our Fx 27 Beta 8 go-to-build on Monday as scheduled.

Firefox Mobile

Beta (128)

• Crashes are less then 3 per 100 adu, so it's below our threshold but we'd still like to see this trend to continue to go down, here's some of the latest stability wins uplifted to beta:
  • bug 945327 - crash in libc.so@0x22048 / libc.so@0x21f90 - Android 4.4 Nexus devices - Downloading files
  • bug 930735 - crash in js::CloneFunctionObject(JSContext*, JS::Handle<JSFunction*>, JS::Handle<JSObject*>, js::gc::AllocKind, js::NewObjectKind)
  • bug 935831 - segfault on Android 2.3 [@ memcpy | libfreebl3.so (deleted)@0x7549] [next week's Beta]
• Otherwise, no changes to the plan of record: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Roadmap#Firefox_27:_.28Beta.29

Aurora (54)

• Belarusian is out for Fx28 bug 521981
• Continued focus on converging action bar for text selection: bug 768667

Nightly (129)

• Spinning up an effort to keep firefox lighter bug 942609, and faster bug 959776, bug 947390

Developer Tools

• Jetpack
  • SDK docs migrated to MDN!
  • toolbar api is landed, add-on debugger landing soon
  • native jetpack/npm support in progress to support devtools SDK
• Devtools
  • the hilighter tool is now global and will look much nicer really soon
  • it's a new year, work has begin on new page profiling and memory heap analysis tools
  • libADB is coming along nicely, will enable more reliable device connection from the app manager

Feedback Summary

Desktop

• All of us are at a workweek this week. But we're still working (ironic, I know). We'll have an Australis report for you by the end of the week. [Note: we're also learning a lot about how to build buzz and make teasers from the PR team.]

Questions, Comments, FYI

• Removing a few localizations that haven't been up-to-date for a while, see post to release-drivers and bug 958703