Firefox3.1/StatusMeetings/2008-10-01

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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 x91 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 2.0.0.x / 3.0.x

2.0.0.17 / 3.0.2 / 3.0.3:

  • Shipped 2.0.0.17 & 3.0.2 last Tuesday
  • A bug was found after shipping that affected the password manager
  • Determined we needed to firedrill for the aforementioned bug
  • Shipped 3.0.3 on Friday

2.0.0.18 / 3.0.4:

  • Currently doing triage
  • Target release date is November 12 (See Releases)
  • Also tracking a couple bugs on both branches to see if we need to move the release up by a couple weeks; should know more by the end of the week.

Support

  • common issues
  • New this week:
    • Possible new malware attack, doubled pages is the most common symptom
    • Slowness in downloading/rendering pages may be LinkedIn extension, may need some QA
    • Norton Firewall blocking EVERYTHING after Firefox update
    • Threatfire3
  • Preliminary data from KB metrics is up now
  • Stats on the 3.0.2 password manager bug: at least 500 people found the KB page on this topic so thanks to everyone in the RRRT for helping us get it up so fast.

Firefox 3.1

Beta 1

  • once done with Beta 1, we'll keep the tree frozen for sdwilsh

Beta 2

  • continuing to evaluate content for revised schedule, should have decisions by end of this week
  • string freeze is Thursday, October 30th at 11:59pm
  • code freeze is Tuesday, November 4th at 11:59pm

Support

  • list of changes so far
  • Please keep using user-doc-needed or add stuff to that page so we can start writing/updating articles.

Localization

  • 35 lanuages for Firefox 3.1 Beta 1
  • Release specific dashboard is available.
  • Sign-off thread on google groups with given stamps worked good, no green locales missing opt-in.
  • Dropping tinderboxens due to long cycle time make collecting tinderstatus impossible, ignore that info on the dashboard.

QA

  • Shipped Fx3.0.3 to beta and release channels last friday
  • Began automating smoketests for Fx3.1 litmus tests in javascript
  • More progress on testcase and testplan development for:
    • CSS Border Radius
    • XHR tests
    • SVG as image and Media Queries
    • Video Seeking feature for use in Video tests
    • Search text widget work (mostly mochitests)
    • Private Browsing
    • SVG SMIL and CSS
  • Nightly bug verifications and nominating beta1 blockers
  • Beta 1 around the corner, resources will shift to release testing mode

Release Engineering

Evangelism

Marketing/PR

Roundtable

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