Firefox3.5/StatusMeetings/2009-06-24

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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 3.0.12

• pushed out one week
• targeting mid-late July release

Firefox 3.0.13

• schedule coming this week
• likely late August / early September release

Engineering

Firefox 3.5/Gecko 1.9.1 Development Update

• see yesterday's platform meeting notes as well
• found and fixed the #1 topcrasher from the release candidate builds

Firefox 3.5 RC

• over 1M people testing betas/release candidates
• released RC2 update on beta channel and posted to download page on Friday last week
• now building RC3 and will update beta channel and links on download page late today or early tomorrow
• still on track for shipping final early next week

Firefox.next/Gecko 1.9.2 Planning

• TSnap bugs which aim to make Firefox observably faster
• some of us are working on WinCE compatibility issues
• polish bugs and exploratory sprints
• Multiprocess tabs are very basically working! See cjones' video; this represents near completion of Phase I of the process separation project known as "Electrolysis"

• reminder to review and add your comments/feedback on the discussion page or in the dev-apps-firefox thread
  • 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

Firefox 3.6 alpha 1

QA

• Previous Testday Results: Web Site Testing Project
  • 15 Test Reports submitted within the Testday
  • Had a max of 33 in the testday channel at its peak
  • Major contributors outside mozQA:
  • 5 bugs filed (2 security, of which 1 has severity:critical)
• Upcoming Testday: Web Compatibility with Fennec 1.0pre - Friday, June 24
• Meetup Tonight @6:30 :Testing Mozilla web properties
• Fx3.5rc3 Testing
  • On-going.

Marketing/PR

• Mozilla.com ready to go save for a few tweaks, mainly around updating all the screenshots (which is in progress and should be ready in the next 24 hrs).
• Site l10n is coming in at the end of the process, but is in progress. Details on the l10n dashboard.
• Released Alix & Beltzner's "What's New in 3.5" video yesterday.
• Released the final world record holder video in the Fastest Firefox series yesterday. Still need more community help to get quality video submissions.
• Firefox Parties:
  • Call to Action (CTA) is live on the home page of SFx.
  • Directions on how to host a party are here.
• Regional Social Network Outreach:
  • Sign up here.
• PR
  • First RC shipped on Friday afternoon - not ideal timing for press outreach - PR forces mobilized starting Monday
  • scheduling 3.5 phone interviews for media we did not meet with in-person on tour
  • scheduling run through of demos for Japan PR