Firefox:1.5 Product Team
DEER PARK PRODUCT PLANNING AND RELEASE MANAGEMENT
(Deer Park is the code name for the next release of Mozilla Firefox.) cbeard
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2005-07-21 - The final release of Deer Park will be branded "Mozilla Firefox 1.5". See details 2005-11-02 - We've now released Firefox 1.5 RC1. To nominate a bug for consideration as blocking Firefox 1.5 RC2, please set the blocking1.8rc2 flag to ?. Weekly team meetings continue to be scheduled for every Tuesday at 11:00am p.d.t. |
BUG TRACKING
We're using the following bugzilla queries to track all bug lists. These will be the queries used during weekly meetings and in tracking progress.
DEER PARK ALPHA 1
- Deer Park Alpha 1 was released on 2005-05-31.
| Description | Tracking Bug | Owner(s) | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extension Manager | 290391 | ben | landed |
| <canvas> | 290392 | vlad | landed |
| SVG | 290387 | tor | landed |
| Fast Back | 290394 | bryner | landed - pref'd off for testing |
| E4X | 290393 | brendan, peterv | landed - partial support |
| Security Consolidation | 290872 | brendan, jst, dveditz | landed |
| Mac Platform Improvements | 290389 | Mano | landed - Aqua compliance completed |
DEER PARK ALPHA 2
- Deer Park Alpha 2 was released on 2005-07-12.
This release is the second release in the Deer Park product development cycle. It includes all major and significant features, whether pref'd on or off in order to achieve wider testing and to solicit quality feedback. The quality standard of this release is pre-production and therefore it should be of the quality required to support testing, and for extension, theme and web application developers to begin compatibility and feature testing in advance of Firefox 1.5. It may break some but not all 1.0+ targeted Extensions. It should not contain any significant known crashers.
| Priority | Description | Tracking Bug | Owner(s) | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P1 | Regression Stomping | - | ALL | done |
| P1 | Software Update | 290390 | darin, ben, morgamic, chase | landed - server-side work continues. plan is to pref off software update in a2, and to then coordinate discrete testing, auto-updating testers to trunk nightlies, performance tuning and load balancing work to be done, with large field test planned for mass update to b1. |
| P2 | Improved Pop-up Blocking | 290396 | jst | landed |
| P1 | Security Consolidation and Enhancement, e.g. 1.0.x+, split wrappers, trusted event checking, and origin tracking. | 290872 | brendan, jst, dveditz | landed |
| P3 | Fast Back | 290394 | bryner |
landed - pref'd on for a2; will evaluate stability for status in b1 and final |
| P3 | Mac Platform Improvements | 290389 | Mano | landed - shell service, safari profile migrator |
| P3 | Enterprise Deployment Improvements | 290399 | bsmedberg | landed - except MSI builds |
| P3 | Platform Debugging Improvements | 290398 | bsmedberg | landed |
| P3 | Drag & Drop Tab Reordering | 290395 | mconnor | landed |
FIREFOX 1.5 BETA 1 / DEER PARK BETA 1
- Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 was released on 2005-09-08.
This is the third release in the Deer Park / Firefox 1.5 product development cycle. It is a branded release, in order to drive even greater visibility and to solicit wider quality feedback.
| Priority | Description | Tracking Bug | Owner(s) | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P1 | Regression Stomping | - | ALL | done |
| P2 | E4X | 290393 | brendan, peterv | landed - partial support enabled, DOM hookup to come in Firefox 2 |
| P1 | Security Audits, e.g. scan and code audit including SVG, <canvas>, and AUS | - | dveditz, chofmann, dougt | scans underway, audits to be scheduled |
| P1 | l10n Dependencies | - | bsmedberg | tbd |
| P2 | Mac Platform Improvements | 290389 | ben, Mano | landed |
FIREFOX 1.5 BETA 2 / DEER PARK BETA 2
- Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 was released on 2005-10-06.
This is the fourth release in the Deer Park product development cycle. It is a branded release, in order to drive even greater visibility and to solicit wider quality feedback.
| Priority | Description | Tracking Bug | Owner(s) | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P1 | Regression Stomping | - | ALL | done |
FIREFOX 1.5 RC1
- Firefox 1.5 RC1 was released on 2005-11-02.
This is the first Release Candidate (RC1) for Firefox 1.5. It is officially branded, and released to a wider community for testing and quality feedback. It should be of close to production quality and will also be an opportunity for Extension, Theme, and web application developers to finalize their support for Firefox 1.5.
| Priority | Description | Tracking Bug | Owner(s) | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P1 | Regression Stomping | - | ALL | done |
FIREFOX 1.5 RC2
"There will be at least one release candidate, if not more, until such time as the release is ready for production use."
This will be the 2nd Release Candidate (RC2) for Firefox 1.5 addressing any regressions or other bugs uncovered in the previous release candidate. It will be officially branded, and will be released to a wider community for testing and quality feedback. It should be of close to production quality and will also be the final opportunity for Extension, Theme, and web application developers to finalize their support for Firefox 1.5.
- Final Date for Scheduled Commits: 11:59pm (PDT) Friday November 4th 2005
- Testing and Quality Assurance Begins: (Estimated Release Date -5 days)
- Estimated Release Date: Friday November 11th 2005
| Priority | Description | Tracking Bug | Owner(s) | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P1 | Regression Stomping | - | ALL | awaiting feedback from RC1 |
FIREFOX 1.5 FINAL
This will be the final official release of Firefox 1.5.
- Final Date for Scheduled Commits: TBD
- Testing and Quality Assurance Begins: (Estimated Release Date - 5 days)
- Estimated Release Date: TBD
| Priority | Description | Tracking Bug | Owner(s) | Status |
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