Firefox3.1/StatusMeetings/2009-01-14

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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 2.0.0.x / 3.0.x

• Firefox 2.0.0.20 -> 3.0.5 Major Update
  • Shipped January 8 (six days ago)
  • Uptake isn't very good yet, but still monitoring
• Firefox 3.0.6
  • Code frozen (minus one bug, which we may or may not take)
  • QA is currently testing
  • If all goes well, will start builds Monday, January 19
  • Aiming for final release date in early February
• Firefox 3.0.7 (no wiki link yet!)
  • Targeting one month after 3.0.6
  • Look for a post to dev-planning about final schedule by Friday
  • Planning to re-open the tree shortly after builds start for 3.0.6

Firefox 3.1 Development

Development Update

• large outstanding set of P1 blockers (lion's share in TraceMonkey/JS Engine)
• moving code freeze for Beta 3 to Jan 25th to contain
• goal will be to get to 0 P1s in all components ASAP and then cut into P2s until freeze; this should prevent significant delay to final release date for Firefox 3.1

(see development meeting notes for more details)

Daily users

• ~ 250k users on the Firefox 3.1 Beta 2
• ~ 11k users on Shiretoko nightlies
• ~ 5k users on Minefield nightlies

Beta 3 New proposed schedule based on code slip:

• String freeze will maintain in place
• Code freeze is January 25th, 11:59pm PDT
• QA Start is January 27th, 9:00am PDT
• Release is targeted at Feb 2nd, noon PDT

Support

• Malware reports on the rise (redirected searches/pages, mostly, but also unblockable popups) 10 in a small sampling this week.
• Do we have "official" things to say for users of unsupported OSes?

Localization

Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 status

• 53 locales opted in and green
• 4 locales green, not opted in (gl (red on windows), id, ka, uk)
• 10 locales building and red, -2 far fetched (as, ta), -2 on the hook (ml, sl), further poke to bg, cy, da, ko, mn, oc?

QA

• Beta 3 Testplan posted
• Firefox 3.1 Feature testing progress:
  • Testplans (92% completed)
  • Testcases (81% completed)
• Need to verify 373 fixed1.9.1 bugs
  • Will be creating a QMO project to leverage community help
• Organizing a testweek on Places Testing in QMO (tracy)
• Major Update test run of 3.0 -> 3.1b3 (ETA mid-late jan)
• Converting Fx3.1 smoketests to Mozmill automation this quarter

Release Engineering

• handover dates?
• l10n improvements
• two unexpected downtimes this week

Add-Ons

• Add-Ons are now 54% compatible with Firefox 3.1 (exactly like a week ago).
• Add-Ons review queue is beyond 600 nominated and updated Add-Ons. Details at Cesar Oliveira's post.
• Two official AMO blog posts on the topic: from Nick and Rey

Partners

• Yahoo! pushing fix for bug 471816 on 2-Feb-2009, and will work with us on QA beforehand.

Evangelism

• On the chopping block to work with slater / bottoms on perf messaging.

Marketing/PR

• Working draft of Web site update plan posted [1]