Firefox/Planning/2010-08-11

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Firefox/Gecko Delivery Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am Pacific, 2:00pm Eastern, 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

These notes are read by people who weren't able to attend the meeting. Please make sure to include links and context so they can be understood.

Agenda

• actions from last week:
• schedule and progress on upcoming releases
• review highlights and notices
• respond to questions and concerns

Action Items

• • beltzner to follow-up with engagement

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Jetpack SDK 0.7

• focus is on additional APIs and E10S compatibility
• E10S integration proving to be challenging, so unscheduled for 0.7 and being treated as a longer term project with no clear completion date (until we figure out what it entails and how long it'll take)
• on track: Panel, Places, Clipboard, Notifications APIs; completed documentation
• at risk: Page Mods, Windows, Sidebar APIs; Page Worker, Widget E10S compatibility
• freezes Tuesday, August 17
• tentative release date Wednesday, August 25

Highlights / Notices

Notes or issues that don't correspond to a particular release you'd like people to know about.

• Beta 2 Feedback--Overall, same feedback as we were getting last week
  • Main concerns
    • Feedback button is not showing up: Bug 575743
    • Orkut display: bug 585744
    • Youtube video player issues, open videos and its black, flickers for windows users: Bug 579262
    • Css border image problems: Bug 497995
    • Issues uploading attachments with hotmail: 547507

Questions and Concerns

Please add any questions or concerns you would like discussed at today's meeting.

Press & Public Reactions

• Firefox 4 beta 3 arrives with Windows 7 touch support, two more betas coming
• Firefox 4 Beta 3 Adds Windows 7 Touch Support, JavaScript Speed-Ups

• Mozilla plans to silently update Firefox
• [http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2010/08/mozilla_switching_to_silent_up.php

Mozilla Switching to Silent Updates For Firefox]