Planning Meeting Details
- Wednesdays - 11:00am PDT, 18:00 UTC
- Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
- Toronto Offices: Fin du Monde Conference Room
- irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
- (the developer meeting takes place on Tuesdays)
Video/Teleconference Details - NEW
- 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 95312 (US/INTL)
- 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 95312 (US)
- Vidyo Room: Warp Core
- Vidyo Guest URL
Actions from Last Week
Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases
Firefox Desktop
Release (3.6, 9)
Beta (10)
Aurora (11)
Nightly (12)
Firefox Mobile
Firefox Sync
- services team is offsite 2012-01-18 & 2012-01-19
- Firefox sync likely to be enabled in native fennec soon.
- The Sync Rapid Release Meeting was 2012-01-17
- covered what has landed in Firefox 10, 11, 12, 13+, serverside, and internal improvements\
- does not cover explicit list of fennec sync bugs or issues.
- https://wiki.mozilla.org/Services/Meetings/RapidRelease/2012-01-17
- covered what has landed in Firefox 10, 11, 12, 13+, serverside, and internal improvements\
- old news that bears repeating
- Addons being sync'ed in firefox 11: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Services/Sync/Features/Addon_Sync
Add-on Builder
Add-on SDK
Release (1.4 -> Firefox 9, 10)
- Released 1.4 last Tuesday, so far, so good.
Stabilization (1.5 -> Firefox 10, 11)
- should spin up 1.5b1 today or tomorrow
- beginnings of mobile work will be in 1.5
- blog post soon about where we are starting with mobile
- 1.5 release on track for Feb. 20, 2012
Development (1.6 -> Firefox 11, 12)
- On track to merge to stabilization Feb 20, 2012
Feedback Summary
Desktop
Mobile
UX & User Research
Market Insights
Desktop / Web Platform
Tizen
Samsung has decided to merge bada, a feature phone middleware layer, common in its Asian phones, into Tizen.
As the first Tizen SDK is examined more closely, some analysts are noting that it does not use the Wayland display server, as some had expected. There has also been a nine-minute video posted of a Tizen session inside the SDK's emulator.
Sencha
Sencha announced that the latest version of its Animator tool now supports Firefox versions 7+.
Google unveiled the Chromebox at the CES show in Las Vegas last week, a desktop version of the Chromebook. It is expected to use the new HTML5-based "window manager" called Aura, that provides a closer desktop experience. See the short demo video of Aura here.
Google Gmail released an updated version of their HTML5 web client, only available in the Google Chrome Web Store, that supports offline management of mail up to 31 days old.
Google Chrome
The Google Chrome security team made a formal post describing the core principles with which they approach security, signalling perhaps an increased focus on security in communications from the project.
The Chromium team is making an effort to ensure all tests in the MSIE Testcenter pass, marking their progress in this Google Docs spreadsheet.
W3C
The W3C has issued a call for comments for a Speech API
Gnome Epiphany
The GNOME project released GNOME 3.0, along with Epiphany 3.0, the default browser. It features WebkitGTK+ 1.4.0 and a number of UI refinements, including a completely reworked download UI.
WebKit
A "source" column has been added to the CSS Profiler, allowing web developers to exactly which line of which CSS file is responsible for performance issues. Two new CSS properties, font-kerning and font-variant-ligatures, were enabled. A patch from a web developer working for the Baidu search engine in China was also received.
Marketing, Press & Public Reaction
Desktop
- 3.6 Update Display ad campaign currently live in English, with more locales coming soon.
- Working on next Firefox update, including Firefox ESR, currently expected on Jan 31st.
- Just finished Firefox Aurora display ad campaign.