Firefox3/StatusMeetings/2007-05-01

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This wiki page embodies two separate meetings (Firefox 3 on Tuesday then Gecko 1.9 on Wednesday), listed below, which detail the progress of Firefox 3, code named: Gran Paradiso, and the Gecko 1.9 progress. Previously, these meeting notes where separated and we sometimes covered the same information twice with conflicting results. The date/time/channel/number is listed in each meeting's section.

Firefox 3 Meeting

Meeting Details

• Tuesdays - Firefox 3 - 11:00am Pacific, 2:00pm Eastern
• Mozilla <option> conference room
• Wednesdays - Gecko 1.9 - 11:00am Pacific, 2:00pm Eastern
• Mozilla <table> conference room
• 650-215-1282 x91 Conf# 217 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 217 (US)
• irc.mozilla.org #granparadiso for backchannel

PRD Status Update

• We have started to implement the change management process for the PRD
  • Outstanding Requests to review: bug 379313
• PRD has been wiki-fied - thanks Deb - Firefox3/Product_Requirements_Document

Open actions for PRD progress

• AI: All. Potentially enabling HTTP Pipelining - Decision
  • Inform the decision:
    • Wikipedia Article - Mozilla Article - W3C Spec
    • Do any web sites use it? Doesn't appear to be
    • Is it enabled by default with Apache? Yes, part of HTTP/1.1 protocol
    • Does it break the web - proxy servers? Anecdotally, yes
    • Technical risk: what is involved?
    • Any other browsers supporting it?
      • Opera does
• Working list has been closed - Firefox3/Firefox_Requirements_Meetings/Follow_up_Actions.
• AI: Mconnor to post to blog - Find an owner for "Get all Linux distros involved in Firefox development" - ubuntu, suse, redhat, fedora, etc
• AI: Myk/Mconnor - "Rich search results"- proposal, including adding proposed PRD items. What's the resolution?

Work in progress

• Places Bookmarks
  • 16 open blockers (bug 370099) for turning on bookmarks by default.

• Password Manager
  • JS rewrite up for review (bug 374324). mconnor is working through the review still (650k diff!). hopefully landing by Friday
  • next step is design work on other PRD items

• Content Handling
  • Fusion prototype getting

• Security UI
  • Page info updates landed for a4, more things coming in a5 (johnath on vacation this week)

Schedule

• Proposed Schedule
• Added Alpha 5 detailed deliverables and cut-off dates
• How can we use the BZ field: "Target Milestone" to help track what gets delivered in Alpha 5 and subsequent Alphas?

Round table

• Other business?

Gecko 1.9 Meeting

• HTTP Pipelining above?