Firefox/Planning/2009-11-18
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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 Product Releases
Firefox
Firefox 3.0.16 / Firefox 3.5.6
- on target for mid-December
- planning to start builds at the tail end of November
- will have schedules for 3.0.17 / 3.5.7 soon
Firefox 3.6 Beta
- shipped the beta 3 update last night, Nov 17th
- currently over 350,000 ADUs (+100,000 w/w)
Firefox 3.6 RC
- code freeze target is now November 19th
- release target is November 26th - 30th (depending on holiday coverage)
Fennec 1.0x Maemo RC
- string freeze at noon
- still on course for dec 1st code freeze for rc
Fennec 1.0x WinMo Alpha
- still on course for dec 1st code freeze for a4
Labs
Support
- common issues
- Nothing new, still seeing failed updates from bug 525390 or bug 528603 and people complaining about how often we push updates but that's really all that's new.
- Want to help with user support for 3.6? YES YOU DO. (Let me know)
Product Development
Firefox 3.6 / mozilla-1.9.2
- all teams now focusing on remaining blockers and nominations
- probably not going to block on bug 518506 which is an increase in flickering when scrolling Java in Linux - opinions?
future / mozilla-central
- jrmuizel is working on a scrolling performance pageset. If you have any pages that you know scroll slowly, please add them to bug 527728
- tree downtime this weekend for power outage, shouldn't affect RC timeline
- more detail in the full notes online
Localization
QA
- Fx 3.6
- 3.6Beta(revision3) sign-off, WinCE later this afternoon.
- DLL blocklisting test plan
- Testday - l10n general QA on 3.6 - Friday, Nov 20
- Betatesters list announcements to attract more participation.
- Fennec:
- Recap of last week's testday - panning and zoom
- Next Fennec-related Testday will be on 12/4 on Weave Beta
- Tracy working on adding Weave test cases in Litmus
- Mostly winmo related work, stabilized code for xpcshell and talos ts running on device
- Next is mochitest and reftest
- Recap of last week's testday - panning and zoom
- Tegra:
- Smoketested Firefox 3.6 Beta 3 build. Working on update testing today.
- Continued testing of nightly builds
- Bug verification
Release Engineering
- 3.6b3 linux/mac/win32 shipped late yesterday (sorry)
- 3.6b3 wince shipping today
- 650 Castro power outage (re)scheduled for this coming Saturday (November 21st).
Add-ons
- Add-on Compatibility Reporter emails sent last night - blog post
- 25,000 Firefox 3.6 reports on 2,000 add-ons
- 1262 3.6-incompatible add-ons
- 24 add-ons with compatibility problems
- 105 add-ons that probably work fine
- 321 add-ons with mixed reports
- 830 without enough reports
- 445 compatible add-ons
- 321 add-ons not listed on AMO
- Currently at 51%
- AMO 5.3 launched Thursday. examples of self-hosted add-on and pledge drive
- Currently working on AMO 5.4 with release channel support and enhanced localization
- Jorge blogged about the state of our queues and posts a queue report each Friday
Web Dev
Partners
Evangelism
- Ongoing work on docs (File API's next) and demos for 3.6
- Web developer survey closed with 5000+ responses, 30% traffic from beta pages
Marketing/PR
- Plugin Check
- 1.5 million pv since launch; avg of 43K page views for November
- Austin King is working on building dynamic buttons--tracking bug: 528280
- Will be hosted at the bottom of the Plugin Check page
- Hoping to get this done before Thanksgiving break.
- 3.6
- beta outreach on Facebook, Firefox download pages
- key mozilla.com pages are complete and, where applicable, in l10n
- working with Addis (agency that helped with Five Years of Firefox video) on creating a promotional video for Personas