Firefox3.1/StatusMeetings/2008-07-22

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Firefox 3.1 Meeting Details

• Tuesdays - Firefox 3 - 11:00am Pacific, 2:00pm Eastern, 18:00 UTC
• Mozilla Building S
• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x91 Conf# 217 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 217 (US)
• irc.mozilla.org #shiretoko for backchannel

(See Platform#Meeting_Notes for Gecko 1.9.1 progress)

Firefox 3.1

• Alpha 1 Status - what got in?
  • In Alpha 1
    • worker threads (under review)
    • offline storage / local storage (under review)
    • downloadable fonts (kinda maybe)
    • native JSON (under review)
    • WHATWG <canvas> text API
    • awesomebar improvements (need review gavin, shepherding)
      • restrict match (bug 395161) + defaultable (bug 424557) - landed
      • show keywords (bug 392143) - landed
      • edit middle (bug 407888) - has gavin review
    • border image
    • media queries
    • ctrl-tab
    • query selectors

• • communication and rollout plan
    • blog

• • Alpha 1 Schedule
    • build will start today, should expect to see them Wednesday AM PDT
    • qa to do en-US only testing, perform spot check, do some feature dig in, aggressively target Friday
    • web changes to be ready by Friday
    • still on track for Friday release

• Ongoing work status - long poles & risk?
  • Not gonna make it for Alpha 1
    • media queries - reviews done, needs revision, looking ok
    • worker threads - needs review
    • offline storage / local storage - needs review
    • downloadable fonts - reviews done, revisions needed, 1wk or so
    • native JSON - needs review request, not a lot of motion
    • Cross Site XHR (spec issues, yay) - spec work going well, looks good!
    • SMIL: Have a CSS patch; now working on the rest of the basic SVG types - still in development
    • <video> decoders - waiting on advice from Harvey, patches ready to roll
    • SVG image decoding - needs work
    • -moz-transform - running into edge cases, not at risk yet
    • bulk tagging ({bug|412002}) - some add-on uplift available
    • add-on updating - waiting for rob on review, needs testing
    • exiting the browser experience - patches underway, needs ui-review
    • ctrl-tab - looking good
    • private browsing mode - needs resource, at risk
    • front end polish work - unscoped, underresourced, at risk
    • prism uplift - underresourced, at risk
    • color management profile on by default - lookin' into it!

• Security reviews
  • dveditz to co-ordinate

Localization

• landed bug 445217 and bug 445328
• compare-locales work ongoing outside of bug land
• if code freeze is Aug 19, string freeze should be Friday the 15th
  • not a lot of string work to be done
• joduinn to drive the l10n repo issue

QA

• need to ensure test plans for new features are being filed
  • when you're ready to think about testing, email tchung@mozilla.com
  • Still looking for documentation/bug numbers/specs of each feature. Also need to know which associated developers correspond to the features.
    • worker threads
    • offline storage / local storage
    • downloadable fonts
    • native JSON
    • WHATWG <canvas> text API
    • border image (dbaron/robarnold)
    • media queries (dbaron)
    • bulk tagging
    • SMIL
    • Cross Site XHR
    • SVG image decoding
    • query selectors
    • SVG fonts
    • SVG CSS

• Fx3.1 Testplan in progress.
  • Feature Assignments being divvy'd up, based on getting the information first from above.
• Alpha 1 testing will consist of smoketests and high level spotchecks. En-US only.
  • Any areas recommended we focus specifically on for alpha 1 regression testing?
• For security reviews, please keep QA in the loop so we can participate also.