WeeklyUpdates/2009-03-16

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm Pacific time (20:00 UTC until November 1, 2009)
• Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
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Development Updates

Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x

• Firefox 3.0.8
• Thunderbird 2.0.0.21

Gecko 1.9.1

• Beta 4 progress solid. JS bugs are getting closed out faster now. Everyone on the JS team seems to be pulling together to get these issues closed out. A few awesome highlights:
  • Graydon Hoare bug 482263 - Avoid re-entering recorder while deep aborting, r=mrbkap (Also known as the TM: "Assertion failure: x->oprnd2() == lirbuf->sp || x->oprnd2() == gp_ins, at ../jstracer.cpp bug. I LOVE trying to read those kinds-o-bugs).
  • Jim Blandy bug 480132 - SpiderMonkey clones too many blocks into the heap
  • Jason Orendorff bug 480147 - TM: "Assertion failure: cx->bailExit" with string.replace and type instability. r=gal.
• Other areas are looking pretty good to wrap up blockers soon:
  • 14 final blocker bugs left in content.
  • 3 GFX final blockers.
  • 7 Layout final blockers. (Last week: 6)
  • 2 SVG final blockers.
  • JS with 40 blockers. (Last week: 42)
• Triage needed. 47 noms are in the queue right now.
• For weekly engineering meeting notes and other info see the Platform page.
• 89 total 1.9.1 blockers (last week: 86).

Firefox 3.1

Firefox Front End Work

• 11 blockers left, only 1 of which is complicated
• Good progress on code sprints for items that may be taken on the Firefox 3.1 branch, but will be taken on trunk:
  • fixing PFS so that it can be used to install plugins again
  • refactoring Places DB for performance improvements
  • restoring only visible tabs first upon session restore

Beta 3

• released last Thursday
• already at 250,000 users

Firefox 3.5 Beta 4

• this will be the first release with the new version number
• current schedule:
  • string freeze this Thursday at 11:59pm PDT
  • code freeze Monday April 6th
  • release week of April 13th

Reversioning to 3.5

• project plan starts today!

Release Engineering

• stack traces for crashing talos/unit test boxes bug 481495 bug 480577 and Ted's blog
  • thanks to Ted, BSmedberg for their work here!
• downtime tomorrow morning to switch from FF3.1->FF3.5
  • see details at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3.1/3.5
• Fennec beta ready to ship
  • Aki did 2(!) respins for this last week
• shark builds on mac,
  • looking at DTrace, but early days yet.

QA

• Tomcat and I just returned from CeBIT last weeks. Lots of great questions about FFx 3.1 and web standards we support like CSS3, and HTML5. People loved it when Tomcat demo'ed Blizzard's STS-116 Launch Profile video which demonstrated an ogg video. There were lots of web developers who stopped by.

Test Execution

• Shipped TB 2.0.0.21 on 3/11!
• Shipped Beta 3 on 3/12!
  • QA was half-day ahead of schedule. Test results
  • A successful b3 testday with 37 participants and 426 testcases ran on 3/13
• 56 1.9.1 bugs verified last week
• 3.0.7->3.1b3 Major Update Test Run in progress. Tracking results here.

Web Dev Testing, Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Communty

• Community: Will be attending MAOW Berlin Event that will happens in 2 weeks
• Posted notes about FFx 3.1 B3 testing via FaceBook and Twitter, and blogs

Test Development

• • Fixing MozMill bugs now that 1.1 is out.

Support

• No updates this week.

Evangelism

• Documentation
  • The Firefox addons developer guide is now available on MDC. It's undergoing some cleanup and copyediting still, but is a great resource for extension developers.
  • Work is underway on adding a new and easier to navigate menu hierarchy to MDC to make it easier to find documentation when you're not quite sure what you're looking for. An "expert" page will be available as well, with quick links to a wide assortment of subjects.

• New weekly meetings. Announced in planning and evangelism. Meets every Thursday. Please see the weekly meetings section in the Evangelism page for more information including notes + agenda.

Webdev

• AMO 5.0.3 shipped last week
• Personas site work nearing completion
• Contextual landing pages code complete, redirects and QA left
• mozilla.com all.html pages updated and shipped -- thanks to QA and Steven Garrity @ SilverOrange for their awesome work