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Firefox Product Delivery Meeting Details

  • Wednesdays - Firefox 3 - 11:00am Pacific, 2:00pm Eastern, 19:00 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

  • Firefox 3.0.7
    • Shipping today!
    • Semi-related, Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 will ship in a couple of weeks with fixes on par with Firefox 3.0.7
  • Firefox 3.0.8
    • Targeting a mid-April release

Firefox 3.1 Development

Development Update

  • full platform meeting notes available from yesterday
  • at 100 blockers without fixes for final ship, with an average find-fix rate of 25 blockers/week
  • code complete for beta 3!
  • several Firefox team sprints have been completed and will soon land on trunk; we'll evaluate them for branch. Some examples:
    • replace PFS with a much friendlier experience
    • always allow users to add a search engine for any website
    • refactor Places DB for performance

Daily users (weekly average across versions)

  • 3.1b2 - 380k
  • Shiretoko - 10k
  • Minefield - 10k

Beta 3

  • code freeze is today
  • builds expected to start 11am PST March 04
  • QA expected to start 9am PST March 05
  • QA expected to complete?
  • expected ship date?
  • Firefox 3.1 Beta3 RRRT page is ready to go

Version numbering

  • 3.1 -> 3.5 to indicate increased scope
  • will need to figure out how to update all our tools effectively (build, bugzilla, AMO, etc.) -- detailed plan coming this week
  • beta 3 will still be shipped under 3.1 moniker
  • labels existing increase in scope vs original 3.1 plan, not a willingness to further increase scope

Support

  • 7 3.1 cases out of 1801

Localization

Up to 7 late-l10n requests, bug 479645 is new in the list.

QA

Release Engineering

Add-Ons

  • Compatibility status
    • At 80%, up 1% from the week before. Developers still waiting on the next beta.

Partners

Evangelism

  • Docs are in place - please tell sheppy if this is not the case or you know of things that need documentation
  • Screencast over the last week or so on some features
    • Would be good to collect these all together for final release
    • Probably on web-tech or somewhere else?
    • Thoughts from Marketing + PR?
  • Shaver mentioned improving the start page
    • Any ideas?
  • Paul has some more demos up his sleeve

Marketing/PR

  • Plan in place for promoting Fx beta-3 via start page snippet; will add download CTA button and update text on all-beta.html page. Snippet will go into rotation 3-5 days after beta-3 release

Roundtable

  • Release Rapid Response Team Page for Firefox 3.0.7 is now up --> here - Tomcat
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