Firefox/Planning/2009-09-30

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Firefox/Gecko Delivery Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am Pacific, 2:00pm Eastern, 18:00 UTC
• Mozilla Square Conference Room
• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 8605 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8605 (US)
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
• (the developer meeting takes place on Tuesdays)

Upcoming Firefox Releases

Firefox 3.0.15 / Firefox 3.5.4

Firefox 3.0.14 -> 3.5.3 Major Update Offer

• beltzner has suggested we hold off on this to make sure we're prepared
• has QA signed off on testing?
• with the upcoming release of 3.5.4, should we wait for that version?

Namoroka

• renewed focus on stability has seen us add topcrashes to the blocker list, already making solid progress on these
• 83 P1 blockers left before beta
  • not as bad as it looks
  • only 26 are OPEN on mozilla-central or tracemonkey (57 are FIXED or resolved on mozilla-central or tracemonkey)
  • more than half of those OPEN have patches waiting for review or landing
  • JavaScript team building an estimate, all other teams expect to be done by Friday
• proposed beta 1 schedule
  • October 5th, 11:59pm PDT: Code freeze on mozilla-1.9.2, all P1 blockers landed
  • October 6th: Beta 1 build 1 stared (assuming trees are green)
  • October 7th to 13th: QA testing
  • October 13th, 5pm PDT: Beta 1 launched
  • will revisit this proposal on Thursday after gathering feedback from bug owners, QA and build

Fennec 1.0x

• beta 4 status?
• beta 5 status?

Support

• common-issue+
• Facebook issues (infinite redirects, etc) mostly related to apps. Clearing cookies usually helps. Bug worthy?
• Top crash is bug 512406 ... would we be able to ship a blocklist with a point release?
• Top search term is "cookie". May be related to facebook.

Product Development

as always, you can read the development meeting notes as well, but here are the big items:

• talked a lot about P1 blockers remaining and time estimates (see above)
• about:support landed on branch and trunk
• personas landed on branch and trunk (try it on getpersonas.com today!)
• shipped a version of the WinCE build to NVIDIA for inclusion in their reference image
• we'll be getting a new implementation of liboggplay (on trunk now, 1.9.2 soon)
• OJI will be re-included for Firefox 3.6 beta 1 so that Java works on OSX
• out of process plugins is mostly working, should land on trunk soon so we can have it for Firefox 3.7
• discussed schedule for beta 1 (see above)

QA

• Fx3.6 QA - Preparing for beta1; working on or finishing test plans; helping with crashkill
  • TM merge on 1.9.2?
  • Ship to beta, before finishing full functional tests?
• Testdays
  • Meetup (last week) - Fx3.6 Feature Exploration/Live Testing - Sept 23
  • Next - Fennec 1.0 Beta Testday - Oct 2nd
• Fennec
  • Finished SmokeTests and BFTs on our RC1 Release Test Cycle
  • Testday on Fennec 1.0 Beta this Friday
  • Figuring out infrastructure for winmo automation (talos + unittests)
• Tegra
  • Tested interim release; it's on nvidia's hands.
  • Verifying bugs; nvidia testing(?); waiting on new OS from nvidia.

Evangelism

• Everyone's doing great remembering to add the dev-doc-needed keyword to their bugs when appropriate. Please keep it up!

Marketing/PR

• Firefox 3.6 website plan is up.
  • jslater OOTO 10/1-10/9
  • Tara & Laura will be on point while I'm out.

• Revising Firefox 3.6 press outreach list
• Updating mozilla.com security pages