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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 Product Releases

Firefox 3.6.4

  • shipped opt-in update to users on beta channel
    • showing over 250,000 ADUs yesterday
    • that represents about a 33% opt-in rate
  • Just approved 4 patches, 1/2 of 3.6.4 blockers

Firefox 3.5.10

  • 1 open blocker left to be landed
  • should be able to sim-ship with Firefox 3.6.4

Fennec 1.0.1 Maemo

  • shipped?

Fennec 1.1 Beta Maemo

  • ready to ship?

Labs

Support

Product Development

Firefox Project

If you want an RSS feed full of Firefox awesomeness like this, check out planet firefox.

Fennec Project

Gecko Platform

(see the April 20th platform meeting notes for more details)

Localization

  • Lorentz making good progress
  • Fennec 1.1 RC string freeze pending
  • three new Firefox locales reviewed, upcoming are Asturian (ast), Scottish Gaelic (gd) (in coorp with ga-IE's Kevin), Maithili (mai) (from our own Hindi localizer Rajesh)
  • 3.6.4 buil1 only shipped for 60 locales instead of 74 :-(
  • regressed compare-locales for fennec by including a changeset from September into the release automation :-(, bug 560856

QA

Release Engineering

  • Fennec 1.0.1 live, afaik waiting for Nokia qa review before going to Ovi store
  • Fennec 1.1b1 build2 passed qa, waiting for go to push live
  • Firefox 3.6.4
    • Shipped Advertised Update for 3.6, 3.6.2, and 3.6.3 beta channel on Friday
    • Shipped Automatic Update for 3.6.3plugin1 users on Friday
    • 3.5.9 -> 3.6.4 Advertised Major Update snippets available on the test channels

Add-ons

Web Dev

Partners

  • Call for Feedback on Build Your Own Browser (https://byob.mozilla.com/)
    • Workflow
    • Customizations
    • Use
  • Bundled Extension-to-Profile Installer

Evangelism

  • Going to start an update series about what's going on with our next release over the next couple of weeks. Will ask for help from Engineering and Product people with that, but should actually be pretty low overhead.
  • Working hard with Jay S + others on next release product roadmap priorities.

Marketing/PR

Roundtable

  • Next advertised major update (beltzner)
    • it's been 4 weeks
    • we still have 26% of our users on Firefox 3.5, 14% on Firefox 3.0.x
    • survey data from those who opted out showed that factors were:
      • saw no need to upgrade
      • didn't think add-ons would work
      • concerns about stability
      • concerns about time required to upgrade
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