WeeklyUpdates/2009-04-20

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Development Updates

Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x

• Firefox 3.0.9
  • On schedule to ship tomorrow
• Firefox 3.0.10
  • Code freeze is set for Wednesday at 11:59pm
  • Aiming for mid-late May release
• Firefox 2.0.0.20 -> 3.0.9 Major Update
  • Planning a major update for mid-next week

Gecko 1.9.1

• Beta 4 progress: JS has 6 bugs blocking the last planned beta, and 3 of those 6 have patches or has a potential fix. Overall, 7 remaining P1s.
• Don't forget, Platform planning ongoing:
  • There's several ongoing dev.planning discussions of the work lists for each of the groups. Links to threads: Javascript, GFX, Layout, and Content.
  • For overall Platform planning, see this wiki page.
  • Next steps are to discuss the overall plan for what the next Gecko release will look like, not just features, but duration and timing.
• Blocker Status:
  • 9 final blocker bugs left in content. (9 last time)
  • 3 GFX final blockers. (Last week: 4)
  • 9 Layout final blockers. Six have patches. (Last week: 11)
  • 2 SVG final blockers.
  • JS with 29 blockers. (Last week: 37)
• Triage needed. 23 (I updated this number this time!) noms are in the queue right now.
• For weekly engineering meeting notes and other info see the Platform page.
• 73 total 1.9.1 blockers (two weeks ago: 70).

Mobile

• Windows Mobile, expected alpha release this week
  • 2 alpha blockers remain
    • bug 479808 Mobile "save as" dialog
    • bug 481914 Dialogs too big for screen

• Weekly Meeting notes

IT

• Preparing for two Firefox releases this week
• Still working through iSCSI storage issues from last week

QA

Test Execution

• Shipped 3.0.9 to beta
• Firefox 2.0.0.20 to 3.0.9 Major Update testing
• Bug Verifications last week
  • 157 1.9.1+Trunk bugs verified (core/firefox/toolkit)
  • 102 1.9.1 bugs verified

Web Dev Testing, Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community

• WebDev Testing: AMO- Verified 5.0.5 bugs. SUMO- Verified 1.0.2 bugs. Mozilla.com - Tested the IE switch, homepage, and download pages for 3.5
• Community:
  • Website Compatibility Testing Project is live on QMO! Please help test your banking and financial sites on Firefox and log your results here.
  • Finished the QMO Discoverability Project Page including mock-ups. This is now up for review via the dev-quality newsgroup.
  • Ported the Litmus Triaging Guidelines to QMO.
  • A Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 Testday is planned for Friday.
  • The 2nd bi-quarterly QA meetup is on wednesday 4/22
    • Anyone is welcomed to attend, and bring your laptops for some Firefox 3.5beta community testing!
    • Please RSVP on the site for food headcount
• Top Site Automated Regression Testing found 2 critical regressions in TM last week: bug 488734 and bug 489007
• Accessibility: Reviewed the addition of WAI-ARIA landmarks to the WordPress default template submitted by Peter Krantz, a Swedish accessibility expert. Submitted a similar ticket for bbPress, Automattic's forum software project. Also published an article on using NVDA to aid in website testing. Worked together with Frank Hecker, David Bolter, Willie Walker and a few others on the new high-level Mozilla accessibility strategy document.
• Metrics: broadened our project metrics analysis to include branch coverage. This will give us better insights into the complexity of the code and answer recent questions about security sensitive files we might want to keep an eye on.

Test Development

• Got first test system working on Windows Mobile - XPCShell
• Develop community fennec testdev initiative
• Streamlined Mozmill testing of extensions from the command line. Still need to document...

Security

• No updates for this week.

Marketing/PR

General

• A/B testing on the Firefox download page (en-US) concluded:
  • Goal: improve download conversion and display appropriate content based on visitor's browser
  • Improved visit-download conversion by 0.3%
  • Results posted soon at http://giantspatula.com

PR

• Linux Magazine Top Ten Firefox Add-ons
• Internet News profiles Weave
• Brendan discusses ECMAScript Fifth Edition with SD Times
• Firefox 3.5 beta 4 timing in the news
• Firefox add-on in NYT personal tech

Events

Evangelism

• Mozilla Developer Center
  • Planning to start testing the upgrade to Deki Lyons this week, on a test VM.
  • Planning to switch over to the new, more easily navigated, menu hierarchy for MDC this week.
  • Watching some possible late-compat issues for Firefox 3.5 docs.
  • Documentation touch-up work for Firefox 3.5 is ongoing.

• Continued work on our features + performance pages - have a look in case you have edits or additions.
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Evangelism/Firefox3.5

Add-ons

• Compatibility Update
  • 77% of add-ons now compatible with Fx3.1b3 and above
    • Measuring was revised to exclude the Sun Java Console because of impact on user experience and they way they do updates. Measured the old way, 3.1b3 compatibility is now at 70.4%, still an increase.

Webdev

• Alex Buchanan starts today fulltime. Welcome Alex!
• AMO 5.0.5 open bugs & fixed bugs - Code Freeze 4/27; Code Push 4/30
• Socorro - Lars and team are focusing on dumps migration to reduce overall database size prior to hardware migration -- moving the db as-is would require 24 hours+ of downtime vs. 1-3 hours. Once this dump migration is tested, we will move dumps out of the main database and will proceed with the hardware migration. Time frame for completion is 2 weeks.

L10n

• 70 locales participating in Firefox 3.5 beta 4
  • Find the shipped locales here.

Foundation Updates

• With the help of the Mozilla accessibility developers we drafted a proposed accessibility strategy and blogged about it.
• Last week's open web tech seminar of the online educators course has been rescheduled for Tuesday of this week; there will also be the regularly-scheduled week 4 seminar on Thursday.