Mozilla Product Strategy Proposal

This post sets out a proposed product and platform strategy developed over the last few weeks by Mozilla project staff and drivers that aims to enable innovative web experiences for consumers, accelerate the time-to-market for user-facing innovation, and improve the security and stability of our products.

To accomplish these goals we’re proposing a shift in product strategy that would call for:

1. Platform releases every 12 to 15 months and product releases every 6 to 9 months with product releases between platform releases limited to new features and enhancements with minimal back-end impact, e.g. API additions to the platform but no incompatible changes.
2. Adoption of a consumer focused support lifecycle where only the current plus the last major release at any given time would be supported with security and stability updates.  Note: We’ll work with downstream enterprise-oriented distributors and support vendors to provide a program to enable extended support for otherwise legacy releases.
3. Scheduling security and stability updates every 6 to 8 weeks to provide a vehicle to address security and stability issues with critical security vulnerabilities addressed “out of band” unencumbered by other patches.

The following diagram shows the implications of this proposed strategy from a branch and release perspective for both the product and platform:

Comments and thoughts are most welcome as we work to nail down our release plans and roadmaps.

Note that Brendan Eich and Mike Shaver have posted a draft of the platform roadmap for Gecko 1.9 at: http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap/gecko-1.9-roadmap.html

And we've also now begun the detailed product planning process required to produce a specification for the next major version of Firefox.  Details and discussions are being coordinated at:
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox:2.0_Product_Planning

- cbeard

 

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