Firefox/Planning/2013-02-13

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Planning Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am PT, 18:00 UTC
• Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
• Toronto Offices: Finch 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# 99696 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99696 (US)
• Vidyo Room: ProductCoordination
• Vidyo Guest URL

REMEMBER

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Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Firefox Metro

• Iteration #1 - Completed:
  • Total value of iteration story points committed to: 102
  • Total value of iteration story points completed: 30
  • Total number of iteration stories committed to: 13
  • Total number of iteration stories completed: 5
  • Number of new Change Stories: 1
  • Number of new Defect Stories: 0

• Iteration #2 - In Progress
  • Iteration #2 is scheduled to run from Thursday February 7 - Thursday February 21.
    • Total points for iteration: 115
    • Total stories included in iteration: 16
    • Completed points to date: 37
      • 32% of total iteration backlog complete
    • Completed stories to date: 6
    • Days remaining in iteration: 7
  • QA will be conducting functionality testing on completed stories during an iteration to provide developers the opportunity to submit a release that is the best it can be at the end of the iteration.
    • 2 of the 6 completed stories have already been reviewed and passed testing.

• Legacy Work:
  • Three areas of the project are currently being organized to allow a schedule forecast to be created:
    • For Editing - To Be Scheduled
    • For Testing - 17/36 legacy stories remain to be tested - no defects found to date.
    • On Hold - To Be Scheduled

Add-on SDK

Release (1.12 -> Firefox 18, 19)

Stabilization (1.13 -> Firefox 19, 20)

Development (1.14 -> Firefox 20, 21)

Market Insights from the Product Marketing Strategy Team

Desktop / Platform

Adobe

• Adobe posted a detailed summary of how their WebKit implementation of the CSS Custom Filters specification works.
• The company also released a critical security fix for Adobe Flash to address at least two known "zero-day" vulnerabilities.

Google

• Google has officially announced that the new manifest type for Chrome Apps and Extensions will be mandated as of March 4, 2013. The new framework introduces a number of security and API improvements.
• Google posted another call to the web to adopt its WebP image format, saying that they were able to reduce image sizes by 30% on average in the Chrome Web Store

Microsoft

• Microsoft released fixes for thirteen critical security vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10.

Opera

• Opera officially announced that they had 300 million users, and that all their browser products would be switching to the WebKit and V8 browser/JavaScript engines, saying that "instead of tying up resources duplicating what's already implemented in WebKit, we can focus on innovation to make a better browser. "

W3C

• The W3C HTML working group announced that they would publish a first public working draft of the Encrypted Media Extensions document, a proposal by Google and Netflix for browsers to support Digital Rights Management of various content types (e.g. video)