Firefox3.1/StatusMeetings/2009-03-04

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Firefox Product Delivery Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - Firefox 3 - 11:00am Pacific, 2:00pm Eastern, 19:00 UTC
• Mozilla Building S
• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 8605 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8605 (US)
• irc.mozilla.org #shiretoko for backchannel

NOTE: See Platform#Meeting_Notes for development meeting notes

Firefox 3.0.x

• Firefox 3.0.7
  • Shipping today!
  • Semi-related, Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 will ship in a couple of weeks with fixes on par with Firefox 3.0.7
• Firefox 3.0.8
  • Targeting a mid-April release

Firefox 3.1 Development

Development Update

• full platform meeting notes available from yesterday
• at 100 blockers without fixes for final ship, with an average find-fix rate of 25 blockers/week
• code complete for beta 3!
• several Firefox team sprints have been completed and will soon land on trunk; we'll evaluate them for branch. Some examples:
  • replace PFS with a much friendlier experience
  • always allow users to add a search engine for any website
  • refactor Places DB for performance

Daily users (weekly average across versions)

• 3.1b2 - 380k
• Shiretoko - 10k
• Minefield - 10k

Beta 3

• code freeze is today
• builds expected to start 11am PST March 04
• QA expected to start 9am PST March 05
• QA expected to complete?
• expected ship date?
• Firefox 3.1 Beta3 RRRT page is ready to go

Version numbering

• 3.1 -> 3.5 to indicate increased scope
• will need to figure out how to update all our tools effectively (build, bugzilla, AMO, etc.) -- detailed plan coming this week
• beta 3 will still be shipped under 3.1 moniker
• labels existing increase in scope vs original 3.1 plan, not a willingness to further increase scope

Support

• hunspell issue follow up? -- just one this week: http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?locale=en-US&comments_parentId=282767&forumId=1
• 15 3.1 cases out of 1822

Localization

Up to 7 late-l10n requests, bug 479645 is new in the list.

QA

• First crashing sg-crit? bug (bug 479749) found using Mozmill automation only (whimboo)
• Landed many fixes for Sisyphus and Javascript tests
• Firefox 3.1 Feature testing progress:
  • Testplans (94% completed)
  • Testcases (92% completed)
• 19 1.9.1 bugs verified last week
• Beta 3 testplan pending builds
• Fx3.0.7 -> 3.1b3 MU Trial Run testplan pending builds
  • Depending on timing, we may do a pass from 3.0.7 -> 1.9.1 nightly as well
• TopSite Testing
  • Beside Running the Topsite Tests for Firefox already (see the wikipage and Blog Post for more information), I managed to download the Top 2000 Addons and will integrate this Addons into the Topsite Runs to find Memory Leaks, Crashes and Assertions on Topsites in Firefox. Results will turn into Bugs and testcases if possible! - Tomcat

Add-Ons

• Compatibility status

Evangelism

• Docs are in place - please tell sheppy if this is not the case or you know of things that need documentation
• Screencast over the last week or so on some features
  • Would be good to collect these all together for final release
  • Probably on web-tech or somewhere else?
  • Thoughts from Marketing + PR?
• Shaver mentioned improving the start page
  • Any ideas?
• Paul has some more demos up his sleeve

Roundtable

• Release Rapid Response Team Page for Firefox 3.0.7 is now up --> here - Tomcat