Firefox/Planning/2009-12-02

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Firefox/Gecko Delivery Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am Pacific, 2:00pm Eastern, 18:00 UTC
• Mozilla Square Conference Room
• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 8605 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8605 (US)
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
• (the developer meeting takes place on Tuesdays)

Upcoming Product Releases

Firefox

Firefox 3.0.16 / Firefox 3.5.6

• a couple respins down, QA is currently testing
• should still be on track for shipping in mid-December

Firefox 3.0.17 / Firefox 3.5.7

• proposed schedule on the wiki
• already some feedback to include, but mostly thumbs up so far
• if you have feedback, please let ss know

Firefox 3.6 Beta

• 500k ADUs total, 350k are on beta 4
• update yours, today!

Firefox 3.6 RC

• closing rapidly on blockers
• long poles will be a Fennec font/kerning bug and JS fixes
• expect to go to build late this week, deliver to beta users next week

Fennec 1.0x Maemo RC

• slushy code freeze since yesterday
• qa will start at the end of this week
• now have maemo nightly updates repository

Fennec 1.0x WinMo Alpha

• coming up on code freeze with 4 blockers left

Labs

• weave beta 3 expected this week.
• personas compatibility with 3.6
  • personas extension 1.5RC1 released last Wednesday; feedback positive and release expected by end of week
  • getpersonas.com 2.0 now localizeable; hand off to QA on 10/4

Support

• common issues
• Keeping an eye on likely traffic increase as a result of 3.5.5 MUP and tracking common issues from it.

Product Development

Firefox 3.6 / mozilla-1.9.2

future / mozilla-central

QA

• Fx 3.6
  • Fx3.6b4 last week; preparing for b5, RC
  • Ongoing crashkill work
  • Working on testing MUs to 3.6
  • Weave Beta Testday
• Fennec
  • Updated Smoketest for upcoming Maemo RC
  • Release Test Plans are up
    • Maemo RC1
    • WinMo Alpha 4
• Tegra
  • Firefox 3.6 Beta 4 testing for release last week.
  • Bug verification
  • Running nightly builds and reporting bugs.

Release Engineering

• 3.5.6 build 3 updates coming Real Soon Now

Add-ons

• Firefox 3.6 compatibility at 59%
• Nick updating recommended list this week, and 3.6 compatibility is a requirement
• Continuing to work directly with popular add-ons like Cooliris, Java Console, Flash installer, Greasemonkey
• AMO 5.4 launching next Tuesday
• Add-on-Con is next Friday! Let fligtar know if you'd like to go. We also have a meetup the night before at Mozilla HQ.

Marketing/PR

• mozilla.com basically ready to go - still need to make a few tweaks to some marketing language, but it will be ready whenever 3.6 is.
• have run into some implementation challenges in getting the open version of Meta on the First Run/What's New pages - will be fine for launch, but will be working with Blizzard & team to see how we can smooth out these issues going forward. (such as implementation an open font across all of mozilla.com, for example)
• EU PR briefings underway
• US PR briefings getting scheduled
• Reviwer's Guide finalized and l10n in progress

Roundtable

• Major update "billboards"? (beltzner)