Firefox/Planning/2010-09-08

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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

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Firefox 3.6.9 and Firefox 3.5.12

• shipped Sept 7th!

Firefox 4 Beta 5

• shipped Sept 7th! (release notes)
• there are several visible regressions in rendering, especially on OSX, due to the late landing of a broad-scoped bug

Firefox 4 Beta 6

• feature freeze release
  • no new interactive features after this date
  • no new web platform features after this date
  • limited string changes after this date (require explicit approval)
  • limited API changes after this date (require explicit approval)
• will be "branching" from point of code freeze
• target code freeze date is Sept 10
• not looking like we'll hit it, though

Highlights / Notices

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

• [beltzner] There is now a list of supported platforms for Firefox 4; still deciding about non-SSE2 CPUs
• [beltzner] We will be starting to socialize a roadmap for Firefox that goes beyond Firefox 4 in the coming months
• [beltzner] Working up an EOL plan for Firefox 3.5

Questions and Concerns

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

• [beltzner] need to get legal / engagement / mozilla.org input on a couple of wording changes in the About Window (see bug 579547 and bug 571584)
• [ravi] IT would like to have a downtime this weekend