Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2012-04-05

Channel Meeting Details

• Tuesdays and Thursday - 2:00pm PDT, 21:00 UTC
• Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel

Video/Teleconference Details - NEW

• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 95312 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 95312 (US)
• Vidyo Room: Warp Core
• Vidyo Guest URL

Previous Actions

• no previous actions

Schedule Update

• QA signed off updates, product-details out before EOD (slight svn account issues)
• Calendar
  • Beta 5 going to build on Tuesday (4/10), with a code freeze on Friday (4/13)

Add-ons

• Jorge: absent from meeting due to holidays.
• Old versions of the Java plugin currently blocklisted on Windows. We had a problem that caused it to be hardblock instead of a softblock for a few days, but it has been corrected.
• No block on Mac OS for now. Apple released an updated version, but there are some problems that prevent us from moving forward. bug 741592.

Stability

Aurora

Beta

• https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/topcrasher/byversion/Firefox/12.0b3/7/plugin - Some crashes showing up in Top 10 with Flash version npswf32_11_2_202_228
  • bug 742740 Get Flash 11.2.202.* symbols up to symbol server

Alex's list:

• bug 737942 – Crash in gfxGDIFont::ShapeWord
  • Need to look for new angles here
• bug 741179 – crash in nsDiskCacheBlockFile::Write
  • Startup crash, also needs more angles, should we do email outreach?
• bug 742113 – crash DispatchHookW and 733892 – crash aswJsFlt.dll (Avast) and Ant extension
  • Do we understand why a new bug was opened for DispatchHookW?
• bug 738640 – [10.7] crash in -[BaseWindow dealloc], caused by bug in RoboForm extension
  • Needs advice from JS team
  • Roboform only problem, can we fix it there?
• bug 738661 – crash in nmsvc from CovenantEyes
  • QA - can we nail down the regression window please?

Release

QA

Aurora

Beta

4 Total; 0 Open (0%); 4 Resolved (100%); 0 Verified (0%);

• Q: if we go to build earlier on Tuesday, can we always get the build out Thursday?
• A: yes, if we get two nights on Romanian testers on the builds, it would be pretty likely to hit this (good to know for b2-4)
• Jorge: AMD block will be pushed to production on Monday.

RelEng

• 3.6 EOL
  • QA impact of updating all users (3.6.13-3.6.28)
  • Method of re-prompting with an advertised update, even if the user said "No Thanks" last time

Marketing/Communications

• 3.6:
  • Doing 3 billboards announcing EOL and automatic update to latest Fx. Billboards are now with L10n.
    • Warning of EOL
    • EOL Declared, last warning of automatic update
    • EOL Declared
  • New Home page for 3.6 Users
    • Page now hosted by Mozilla, adding a drop down warning to start 4/24.
  • WN page for 3.6.28-> 12
    • Will show rel notes to 11->12 users if unable to block showing the page.
• Windows2k and XP SP1 Billboards
  • Two separate Billboards
  • L10n is blocker
  • SUMO working on articles.

Roundtable

• PDF.js
  • bug 741517 – Default PDF Viewer Selector
  • bug 739043 – Can't fill fillable PDF forms with PDF Viewer
  • who will own making the call for when this is ready to uplift to Aurora?
  • Blockers: there are many open issues on github but if something's not in bugzilla, we can't track it - can we get a list of what should be considered a blocker and have corresponding bugzilla bugs?
• Any security bugs we're worried about for FF12's release?

Actions

• Alex to follow up on OS X java
• John to file bugs for next week's EOL MU prompts

Triage

Aurora Queries

• Approval requests
• Tracking noms
• Unresolved Tracking Bugs for FF54

Beta Queries

• Approval requests
• Tracking noms
• Unresolved Tracking Bugs for FF133