Firefox/Planning/2009-08-12

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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 3.0.14

• on track for early September release

Firefox 3.5.3

• on track for early September release

Fennec 1.0b3

Firefox 3.0.13 -> 3.5.2 Major Update Offer

• today? tomorrow? beltzner has been bad about this :(

Support

• Top issues are still crashes (working on automatically gathering crashes-by-signature), Norton, Yahoo toolbar blocks right click

Development

• development meeting notes from this week
• front end project list here
• branching for mozilla-1.9.2 tomorrow
• shipped Firefox 3.6a1 on Friday

Localization

QA

• Testdays:
  • Previous: Test scripting with Mozmill 1.2 - Friday, August 7.
    • Had a max of 31 in the testday channel at its peak
    • Major contributors outside mozQA: tmyoung, kbrosnan, TMZ, gaby2300, ankush, merike, Milos
    • 5 Bugs Filed
    • Documentation for MozMill Test Creation was introduced by whimboo
  • Upcoming: Fennec 1.0 Beta Testday - Friday, Aug 21
• Tegra
  • Closed out a bunch of bugs, opened a few new ones.
  • No further automation testing development on Tegra device since last week's reftest run.
  • Reboot needed on the rom on both mobinova devices as right now the devices are not usable.
  • Tegra run complete in Litmus ->marcia will send out to Nvidia team
• Fennec:
  • testday next friday the 21st (see above)
  • mochitests running on winmo (about half way done with test)
  • tile caching has landed, but taking many days to fix. QA will need 2 days to test after the the bugs blocking bug 509381 are fixed.

Release Engineering

• TB2.0.0.23 in progress
• Branch for FF3.6 tomorrow morning

Add-Ons

• Add-on Usage Stats blogged
• Disclosure of Add-on Practices Spec
• Compatibility Reporter Spec
• About-Addons newsletter

Partners

Evangelism

• Bugs from the 3.6 alpha 1 list that appear to affect docs have been marked "dev-doc-needed". Please review the list and double check to be sure!
• Documentation work is underway.

Marketing/PR

• Working on a new set of videos including browser basics, privacy, tabs, and customization.
• Press coverage around 3.6 alpha - also, a great review of Firefox 3.5 from the Financial Times

Roundtable

• Plugin work
  • Firefox/Projects/Plugin_Update_Referrals
  • Can get something working and in place by 3.6