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Development Updates

Firefox

( Projects | Status | Goals | People )

Firefox 3.6 (Namoroka)

Firefox Future

  • ongoing theme development work for Firefox 3.7 and 4.0, discussions in dev-apps-firefox
  • targeting find-tab-in-awesomebar for Firefox 3.7

Team News

  • Firefox's team goals for Q4 have been set with a focus on ensuring a stable, high quality Firefox 3.6 product is shipped and looking towards the future with work on Firefox 3.7 and Electrolysis.

Gecko

  • Last week, on Tuesday, we attempted to freeze for 1.9.2 beta 1. There were several remaining issues at the close of the usual dev meeting, but the consensus seemed to be that we were good to freeze. Still, two bugs (bug 517355 and bug 517909) kept us from freezing and we're still working on one of them. The last one is a perf regression that is taking the time of Jason Orendorff, Boris, and Andreas. Andreas produced a couple of patches that will hopefully fix the problem, but we need to see numbers today to know for sure.
  • At today's CrashKill we will go over top crash assignments again. Also, we may be at a point where this meeting isn't necessary as we're tracking crashes closely now. We'll have that discussion then.
  • Blockers:
    • P1: 3
    • P2: 90
    • P3: 0
    • Other: 0
  • Team blocker numbers:
    • Layout: 17
    • Content: 13
    • GFX: 9
    • JS: 29

Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Firefox 3.5.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x

  • Firefox 3.0.15 / Firefox 3.5.4
    • 3.5.4 went to beta early on Friday, hoping to get better coverage
    • 3.0.15 will go to beta this week, likely Wednesday
    • Still on track for release on October 21

Thunderbird 3

  • Thunderbird 3 string frozen
  • Schedule:
    • comm-central branches: 2009-10-22
    • Code Freeze for RC1: 2009-10-30 23:59 PST
    • L10n deadline: 2009-11-02 23:59 PST
    • RC1 builds start on: 2009-11-03
    • Subsequent RCs as necessary.
  • Please help us make the release happen with

SeaMonkey

Mobile

IT

This Week

  • bugzilla.mozilla.org Upgrade
  • Socorro Storage
    • Moved Socorro storage to new 20 TB storage platform last night. All the pending submitted reports were processed before the cut over. Deferred crashes for the last 10 days are no longer automatically available. Please find us on #breakpad or log a bug if you want us to find and process a specific deferred crash (from the last 10 days).

Release Engineering

QA

Test Execution

  • Tested and shipped Fx3.5.4 to beta. 153 verified1.9.1 bugs verified to date.
  • Expecting Fx3.6b1 builds this week to QA. 23 verified1.9.2 bugs last week.
  • Mozmill automation update: 92% smoketests, 32% BFTs completed. Full details here

Web Dev Testing

  • Tested the Jetpack Gallery website. Filed 30 bugs. The need for testing Jetpack was a surprise. Please, please, please, let us know if you are working on new web sites or need testing help early on in the project.
  • See Test Coverage spreadsheet to see the manual and automated test cases we are creating
  • Tested Plugin Update site on PPC and Intel Based Mas for Falsh Compatibility
  • MDC: Wrote and sent around a test plan. Sheppy approved.


Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community

Test Development

  • Have verified the agent/server approach by running mochitest and xpcshell on WinMo, and mochitest on WinCE
  • We have XBL2 tests ready for people to contribute - look for an upcoming post on planet this week
  • Prototyped running all tests under valgrind
  • Our sprint roadmap for Q4 is completed. If there is anything you'd like to volunteer to help with, let us know!
  • And more details are here.

Security

  • No updates this week.

Marketing/PR

PR

Mozilla Service Week

  • Please share your "Stories" for our round up next week. Post on Mozillaservice.org or email mary @ mozilla dot com.
  • Total pledge hours: Over 13,000
  • Reported hours to-date: 8,610
    • Please submit your hours and get your certificate!


Events

Community

  • Notes from last community marketing call here.
  • Community marketing call this Wednesday, Oct. 20th at 10 a.m. PDT/17:00 UTC
    • Dial-in Info: +1.650.903.0800, followed by 92# and then 7391#
    • Or you can use our toll-free number: +1.800.707.2533, followed by 369# and then 7391#. If you're outside the US, use Skype to call in with our toll-free number.
    • You can also watch the meeting live in Open Video at air mozilla
    • For those that can't make the call or want to participate online, join us in #marketing on IRC (irc.mozilla.org).

Support

  • Planning for the upcoming EU Browser Ballot
    • Knowledge Base audit of articles relevant for new Windows users
    • SUMO start page customized for new users running Windows 7
    • For details, see the SUMO planning page

Metrics

  • User Outreach - we implemented feedback buttons/forms on three of our most critical user touch points at mozilla.com.
    • We're hoping to better understand user experiences and pain points on the minds of users (and ultimately, make changes and improvements)
    • We should have some results in a couple weeks

Evangelism

Labs

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

Foundation Updates

  • Get involved with the new Get Involved page by adding contribution opportunities to the staging wiki page and by using buttons to promote the page. Contact david at mozillafoundation dot org if you'd like to talk more about this.

Roundtable

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