Firefox3.1/StatusMeetings/2009-03-11

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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 3.0.8
  • Targeting a mid-April release

Firefox 3.1 Development

Development Update

• full platform meeting notes available from yesterday
• at 106 blockers without fixes for final ship, went back up a bit
• several more Firefox team sprints have been completed and will soon land on trunk; we'll evaluate them for branch.

Daily users (weekly average across versions)

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

Beta 3

• expected to release on schedule tomorrow afternoon PDT
• QA has not found any showstoppers
• Firefox 3.1 Beta3 RRRT page is ready to go

Firefox3.1/3.5 Re-versioning to 3.5

• will be renaming 3.1 -> 3.5 to indicate increased scope
• plan on wiki (see above link)

Beta 4

• proposed schedule in dev.planning thread
• approved by development team
• discuss!

Support

• 12 3.1 cases out of 1801
  • All fixed (detachable tabs, AVG screwing with Enter in location bar etc)

Localization

• 7 late-l10n requests, the list
• Fennec on the l10n dashboard, blog posts about that are up by Pike and stas
• when do we want to consider a l10n-freeze for b4? (beltzner)
  • want to spend some of the time hunting down untranslated/mistranslated strings there (axel)
  • earlier better of course (axel)
  • suggest 2 weeks after b3 launch (beltzner)

QA

• Beta 3 Testing in Progress
  • So far, 1 respin early on
  • Test coverage and results
  • On track to ship tomorrow
• 33 1.9.1 bugs verified last week
• Fx3.0.7 -> 3.1b3 MU Trial Run testplan ETA begin tomorrow

Release Engineering

• Ready to ship 3.0.7
• Ready to build 3.1b3
• Need to do some testing to find any weirdness with 3.1 -> 3.5 version change.

Add-Ons

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

Evangelism

• Docs are done
• Paul - SA demo - http://www.mozbox.org/pub/sa/
  • Going to do another screencast for beta3.
• beta3 announcement on web-tech - what's changed?
• Firefox Beta Twitter user?

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

• New FirefoxBeta Group on Facebook and twitter.com/FirefoxBeta are now online ! - Tomcat