Firefox/Planning/2009-08-26
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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)
Contents
Upcoming Firefox Releases
Firefox 3.0.14 / Firefox 3.5.3
- builds available
- QA is testing release candidate
- might have to respin to pick up bug 510583 (migration issue)
Firefox 3.0.15 / Firefox 3.5.4
- schedule on the wiki
- targeting mid-late October release
Firefox 3.0.13 -> 3.5.2 Major Update Offer
- about 15m new users on 3.5.x in the last two weeks
- 3.5.x usages comprises ~35% of Firefox users now
Namaroka
- 14,000 ADUs on Alpha 1
- 6,000 ADUs on Namaroka nightlies
- proposed schedule
- September 14 - string freeze
- September 21 - beta 1 code freeze
- September 29 - beta 1 delivery
- October 12 - rc1 code freeze
- October 20 - rc1 delivery
- early November - final release
Fennec 1.0x
- Maemo Beta 3 shipped last week
- Windows Mobile Alpha 3 later this week
- Maemo Beta 4 in approximately 3 weeks
- looking to do a slushy string freeze shortly
- need to co-ordinate the /toolkit string freeze with Firefox 3.6 and other /toolkit contributors
Support
- Top 3.5 issue over past week is lost bookmarks after updating. bug 510583
- Crash article sprint is Sept 3rd. Please CC me on any crash bugs you want documented.
Product Development
- for Namoroka/mozilla-1.9.2:
- looks like it will be possible to integrate Personas for Firefox 3.6
- also looking at protecting users with out of date plugins, see our current ideas
- also looking at Ts and Tsnap priorities
- for future/mozilla-central:
- last call for comments on the multitouch JS API prototype work (see proposed DOM events)
- CSS Transitions close to landing (dbaron)
- just merged a bunch of things, should be perf wins and Google Docs regression fixes
(for more information, see the developers' meeting notes from yesterday)
Localization
State of the onion:
- product
- Firefox 3.5 with 11 beta languages
- Firefox 3.6 at 60 strings to 1.9.1 right now
- 1.9.2 at 16 green, 27 not yet migrated. Outreach going for a week, 4 done by me
- Thunderbird 3b4 with 150+ strings cf b3 in Sept
- Fennec with 250 strings on top of toolkit 1.9.2, most locales way better. Search, bookmarks, packaging not on track.
- weave coming in, with probably less than the current 200 strings
- web
- lots, but probably different community
- amo
- dito
- sumo
- probably some work for fennec, updates for fx 3.6
Shipping Fennec in particular:
- string freeze for fennec b4?
- should be two weekends, thu - tue the following week
- including toolkit 1.9.2
- packaging of fennec l10n for maemo needs owner (bug 490482)
- testable builds for maemo, packaging, upload etc. see above
- release infra for l10n maemo?
3.5 to 3.6, minor update? how to deal with locales?
QA
- 3.6 QA - Ongoing feature testing brainstorming sessions
- Last week we went through the multitouch feature
- This week Aeropeek
- Testdays:
- Last: (Fennec)
- Had a max of 39 in the testday channel at its peak
- 111 Litmus test cases run
- 24 Bugs Filed with 1 blocker, 2 critical and 4 major bugs in the queue
- Verified 196 Resolved Fennec Bugs!
- Toptester: KenS with 51 litmus testcases run
- Top Bugfinder: kbrosnan with 4 bugs filed
- Major contributors outside mozQA: kbrosnan, wope, mfinkle, bcombee, fabrice, tmyoung, adric, mekic, Ken, gaby2300
- Next: Fx3.5 Session Store using the QA Companion - Sept 4
- Last: (Fennec)
- Fennec:
- Last week:
- Maemo Beta3 is out the door
- Windows Mobile Alpha3 should be out by end of week
- massive bug cleanup (verified 250+ bugs so far, making sweep of open bugs as well)
- this/Next week:
- updating litmus testcases to match latest UI
- more bug cleanup
- update test plan
- update QMO project
- logcompare tool to track new unittest failures
- update talos tpan/tzoom
- Last week:
- Tegra:
- Software update now functional in nightly builds.
- Currently PFS causes Fx to crash
- Investigating leaks on shutdown
- Automation:
- Some automation running and failures are being reported
- Remote reftests strategy is showing promise
- Hardware problems preventing ctalbert from running mochitests
Release Engineering
- l10n nightly updates on m-c, 192
- Not doing on 191 until we sort out bottleneck.
- delays in en-US nightly updates
- super fast 3.5.3 builds; from "go" to handoff of signed win32 builds in same day
- 3.0.14->3.5.3 MU offer will be for manual CheckForUpdates only (again).
Add-Ons
- 5.0.9 launch tomorrow
- Bandwagon Phase II
- Public stats dashboard
- Enhanced validation suite
- Developer.AMO in 5.1
- SWilsher presenting to platform & Fx teams on reviewing add-ons
- Add-ons Meetups
- Miami - Sept 15
- Chicago - Sept 29
- Review queue burndown this weekend
Web Dev
- morgamic & co rocked bug 512483 to get some Flash checking in for 3.5.3
Partners
Evangelism
- Don't forget to mark your bugs with the
dev-doc-needed
keyword if they may impact developer documentation. - Deep into our gap analysis now - looking for interviews
- Starting to get more feedback from developers - need to figure out the forum for getting that feedback in.
Marketing/PR
- Plug-in Detector Page
- Received PSDs of the final design yesterday.
- Web Dev hacking on back end and page implementation for 9/30
- See schedule here: Website/Sprints/PluginProblem#Plug-In_Problem
- Bugs: 512787, 391433
- Firefox Update Education Page
- Firefox Update Content Mozilla.com Optimization
- Silver Orange has files and is implementing page.
- Hope to have page live for 9/8
- Both pages will be promoted on Mozilla.Org for Internet Health Day.
- Bugs: 512756, 509137, 512764, 512768