Firefox3.5/StatusMeetings/2009-04-22

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Firefox Product Delivery Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - Firefox 3 - 11:00am Pacific, 2:00pm Eastern, 18:00 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 Releases

• Firefox 3.0.9
  • released yesterday
• Firefox 3.0.10
  • Aiming for mid-late May release

Engineering

Firefox 3.5/Gecko 1.9.1 Development Update

• full platform meeting notes available from yesterday
• at 84 blockers without fixes for final ship
  • still two of P1 blockers left for B4,

Beta 4

• string freeze: Thursday, March 19th at 23:59 PDT
• code freeze: should be late this afternoon PDT
• QA start: Thursday, March 23rd AM
• release: unsure at this time, working on estimates with QA

Firefox.next/Gecko 1.9.2 Planning

• there's a variety of planning documents and discussions
  • Firefox (Namoroka): draft plan | discussion
  • Gecko - Content: draft plan | discussion
  • Gecko - Layout: draft plan | discussion
  • Gecko - JavaScript: draft plan | discussion
  • Gecko - Graphics: draft plan | discussion
• need wider stakeholder input
• also a discussion on what to do about client side data storage on Vlad's blog and in w3 public webapps mailing list

Add-Ons

• C API changes between Beta 3 and today:

To get this list, pull the mozilla-1.9.1 tree and run:
hg diff -r FIREFOX_3_1b3_RELEASE -r tip | grep '^+++ b/.*\.idl'

accessible/public/nsIAccessibleRole.idl
browser/components/places/public/nsIPlacesImportExportService.idl
docshell/base/nsIDocShellLoadInfo.idl
dom/public/idl/base/nsIDOMWindowInternal.idl
dom/public/idl/base/nsIDOMWindowUtils.idl
dom/public/idl/events/nsIDOMDataTransfer.idl
dom/public/idl/events/nsIDOMSimpleGestureEvent.idl
dom/public/idl/html/nsIDOMHTMLMediaElement.idl
dom/public/idl/storage/nsIDOMStorage.idl
dom/public/idl/storage/nsIDOMStorage2.idl
dom/public/idl/storage/nsIDOMStorageManager.idl
dom/public/idl/storage/nsIDOMStorageWindow.idl
modules/libpr0n/public/imgIEncoder.idl
netwerk/protocol/http/public/nsIHttpProtocolHandler.idl
netwerk/wifi/public/nsIWifiAccessPoint.idl
netwerk/wifi/public/nsIWifiListener.idl
netwerk/wifi/public/nsIWifiMonitor.idl
security/manager/ssl/public/nsIPKCS11.idl
toolkit/components/contentprefs/public/nsIContentPrefService.idl
toolkit/components/passwordmgr/public/nsILoginManager.idl
toolkit/components/passwordmgr/public/nsILoginManagerStorage.idl
toolkit/components/places/public/nsINavBookmarksService.idl
toolkit/components/places/public/nsINavHistoryService.idl
widget/public/nsIScreenManager.idl
widget/public/nsITransferable.idl
xpcom/io/nsILocalFile.idl
xpcom/threads/nsIProcess.idl

Evangelism

• Firefox 3.5 web dev features are done: Evangelism/Firefox3.5
  • Clint and Pat McManus are discussing how to get measurements together.
  • Performance stuff is still underway (blizzard)
  • Web dev features are done
  • Looking for a wordpress person (maybe from webdev?)

• Public meeting notes from last week: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Evangelism/StatusMeetings/2009-04-16
  • Homework: helping to develop a strong developer relations program
  • New home page for MDC is up

• PR stuff
  • 3D statements up with some clarification

• cnn.com - looking for an update from sam