Services/Meetings/RapidRelease/2012-03-02

Purpose & Audience

• Ops, QA, Engineering, Management, Product, Product Marketing, Support. If you have a stake in Sync, you are expected to be present. :)
• last meeting: https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Services/Meetings/RapidRelease/2012-01-17

Upcoming Client Releases

Firefox 11 (going to release: 2012-03-13)

• Desktop
  • Addon Sync
    • 534956, 712542, 714202, 714383, 708134, 710448, 725083
  • bugfix, channel.URI is undefined in Sync, 704539
  • AppSync (this may not be the appsync you are thinking of)
    • 706545 landed (turned off) but neither toby nor ally know exactly what became of it nor what its future is
• Mobile (XUL/tablet)
  • Addon Sync

Firefox 12 (going to beta, release: 2012-04-24)

• Desktop
  • JPAKE pairing code is not accessible to accessibility APIs, 715877
  • Add "Tabs From Other Computers" to the Firefox button's History menu, 716271
  • "Firefox Recovery Key.html" permissions change, 716868
• Mobile (XUL/tablet)

Firefox 13 (going to aurora, release: 2012-06-05)

• Desktop
  • Papercut: add mention of "default" to server chooser in Firefox Sync setup, 727709
• Mobile (XUL/tablet)
• Native Mobile
  • already in aurora, will remain in aurora, see wildcard section

The wild card that is Native Fennec

• Native is holding on the mobile side, sync is using that time to get as much as possible done, but no target release is known at this time.
• Native may skip the train model fro the first release entirely
• Help us help you
  • File android bugs (http://160.twinql.com/how-to-file-a-good-android-sync-bug)
  • daily triage at 4pm

The wild card that is BID/Persona integration

• we do not have a target release yet.

Backend

The wild card that is AppSync/Apps in the Cloud

• they are targeting june 6, but that is highly volatile at this point and that data may already be stale

Testing, Automation,QA & QoL

• fixed orange: 700540
• fixed orange: 711263
• 702717, finalize the statements in services/sync/test/unit/test_async_querySpinningly.js
• 712715, Intermittent failure in test_addon_nonrestartless_xpi.js
• 716784, Enable FAIL_ON_WARNINGS in services/
• 720596, Ensure all test code sets clusterURL and serverURL (marked as ffx13)

Past issues since last rapid release meeting

• intermittent auth failures: 649231

Specifications

• Sync 2.0 (In Progress)
  • related bugs: 683359
• KeyExchange spec v3 (has been declared finished)
  • 684074

2012 Roadmap

• Is still in progress

New Feature Requests/Pitches

• None have been declared
• open call for new features?