Firefox/Planning/2010-02-03

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Firefox/Gecko Delivery Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am Pacific, 2:00pm Eastern, 18:00 UTC
• Mozilla Square 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)

Upcoming Product Releases

February 2010

Firefox 3.0.18 / Firefox 3.5.8

• Chugging along - builds are coming up as we speak

Lorentz

Maemo Mobile Firefox 1.0

• It went out on Friday night! Woop woop!

Maemo Mobile Firefox 1.1

• 1.1 versioning changes on 1.9.2 slated early next week (more in Product Development)
• mobile-browser tree will open today
  • 12 patches already waiting to land on 1.9.2 nightly builds in the next few days

WinMo Mobile Firefox 1.0 Alpha 4

• release date still tbd
• plan to release off of 1.9.2.1

Product Development

Firefox/Platform Behold, a mere sampling of the mighty awesome that the Firefox team hath wrought:

Lorentz

• UI for crashed, out-of-process plugins basically done bug 538910

Firefox.Next

• Getting close to having the ability to specify custom actions for each update. See Rob Strong's blog post, bug 530872 and bug 538331
• Stephen Horlander exploring changes we want to make to tab animation (creation, re-ordering, tear off).
• Check Boriss' blog for discussion about the new look and function of the extension manager
• Marco added a ton of awesome to browser chrome test harness, including common headers, clean up functions, and timeout extensions. Already cleared a few intermittents.
• Progress on various UI perf and responsiveness bugs (bug 520659, bug 536893, bug 528884)

See the active projects page for the complete list of active work by the Firefox team.

Mobile Firefox

• On maemo, consolidation of xulrunner and fennec deb files slated for next week as a follow-along with 1.1 versioning
  • re-installing repos and fennec installations won't be required
• New homepage for current projects on Fennec
• More details available in the mobile engineering meeting notes

Localization

Questions? No? Next.

QA

• OOPP Testdays - This week and next
• Your 3.next feature needs eyes: ping us.
• Design lunch discussion: reporter.mozilla.org update
• Mobile:
  • components added to fennec product
  • preview of reporter extension should be available within the next couple of weeks
  • marcia is going to do a full run of our BFTs on litmus with the HTC Touch Pro

Release Engineering

• 3.5.8/3.0.18 built, signed bits should be ready this afternoon

Evangelism

• Tracking a few bugs for 3.6.1 related to drag and drop and extensions.

Marketing/PR

Major updates:

• working on 3.0 -> 3.6 copy ([bug 542589 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=542589])
• per Kovash's recent findings, we're adding clearer "free" messaging to the 3.5 -> 3.6 major update ([bug 532540 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=532540])