Firefox/Planning/2010-04-07

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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

SHIPPED: Firefox 3.6.3

• shipped on Thursday (8FD)
• patches "p0wn20wn" vulnerability disclosed at CanSecWest
• that vulnerability does not exist on 3.0.19 and 3.5.9, though we will be adding some protective code there anyway for good measure

Firefox 3.6.4

• will include out of process plugins for Windows and Linux
• a schedule has been proposed:
  • Tree opens: April 1
  • Code freeze (with OOPP): April 12, 11:59pm
  • QA starts: April 13
  • Beta build: April 14
  • QA with beta build start: April 15
  • Beta offered as advertised major update to 3.6.x beta channel: April 16
  • Beta offered as minor update to remaining 3.6.x beta channel: April 27
  • Final release: May 4
• will discuss more in today's roundtable

Firefox 3.5.10

• schedule tbd based on 3.6.4 discussion

Fennec 1.0.1 Maemo

mozilla-central developer preview

Product Development

Firefox Project 2 things to direct your attentions toward:

• Firefox team Q2 Goals!
• Tab changes, impact on addons!

If you want an RSS feed full of Firefox awesomeness like this, check out planet firefox.

Fennec Project

Gecko Platform

(see the April 6th platform meeting notes for more details)

Localization

• 14 locales with sign-offs for Fennec
• Lorentz with 14 sign-offs, and 29 locales with strings. Issues with testing (bug 557808). Top locales missing still, like German or Japanese.
• Weave localization scheme taking shape

Marketing/PR

• Mozilla.com Optimization
  • First Run
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=555098
  • Getting Started
  • Speed Improvements
    • http://blog.mozilla.com/metrics/2010/04/05/firefox-page-load-speed-%E2%80%93-part-ii/
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557562
• Plugin Project
  • Waiting on Finishing Security Review before choosing launch date.
• Mozilla beats Apple, Microsoft to Pwn2Own patch punch

• Removing the RSA Security 1024 V3 Root

Roundtable

• Shipping OOPP (beltzner/LegNeato)
  • first ship beta of the Lorentz branch
  • then ship an opt-in Firefox 3.6.4 beta
  • then ship Firefox 3.6.4 beta to all users on 3.6 beta channel
  • then ship to all users on 3.6 beta channel
  • collect feedback as we go
  • measure twice, cut once!
  • QA schedule concerns
  • l10n schedule concerns
  • are updates on 3.6.4 web pages coming? (pascalc, l10n)