Australis schedule update

[Justin Dolske]

tl;dr: Australis will be landing in Firefox 25 (week of June 24th).

The schedule we've previously been working towards was targeting landing
Australis "early" in the Firefox 24 cycle. This target was set for two
main purposes:

1) Land as soon as we met the minimal mozilla-central quality criteria,
and use the full remainder of the cycle to finish the baseline Australis
implementation.

2) Land in the first week or so in order to have a full cycle to shake
out any "unknown unknowns" that are sure to be discovered, since this is
a major UI change. A backout would be cumbersome, so we want a high
degree of confidence that we can ride the train we land in through to
release.

As the first week of the 24 cycle has approached, it's become clear that
the amount of remaining work would make landing "early in 24" unwise. If
we landed late in 24, we'd be scrambling to finish work in Aurora, and
have no margin to deal with unexpected issues.

So, instead we're going to land in the beginning of the Firefox 25
cycle, with an Australis that's more refined and polished than had been
planned to land in 24. A bit later, but it'll make for a much nicer
first impression.

If you're interested in the gory details of the revised schedule, we're
laying out new milestones at https://etherpad.mozilla.org/australis-schedule

Justin
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[Brandon Cheng]

Justin,

Is there anything a volunteer programmer like me can do to help out and
refine Australis more? Any bugs that need to be looked at and patched?

Brandon

[Alex Jordan]

Dolske/others: will someone post in nightly-testers when Australis lands?

[Jared Wein]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brandon Cheng" <bche...@gmail.com>
>
> Is there anything a volunteer programmer like me can do to help out
> and
> refine Australis more? Any bugs that need to be looked at and
> patched?
>

Yes! Any help would be greatly appreciated. The following bugs should be easy for a newcomer to get started on:

* Bug 870605 --- Add separator between menu button and the other widgets in toolbar.
* Bug 870865 --- (Australis) Disabled buttons in the panel and customization mode should have graytext.
* Bug 870866 --- (Australis) When in customization mode, the Panel Menu button should be in the :active state.
* Bug 870989 --- Menu panel has no right border.
* Bug 871158 --- Missing borders when you're in customization mode and the window is maximized.
* Bug 871203 --- Add Exit button to panel menu.

You'll have to develop off of the UX branch, https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/ux

Thanks,
Jared