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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 3.0.19 / Firefox 3.5.9 / Firefox 3.6.2

• all blockers checked in
• a few approved but not yet checked in patches remain, we'll be deciding what to do with those shortly, most will likely not land
• builds will "bake" for a while while QA starts tests, official builds to start on March 15

Firefox 3.0.18 / Firefox 3.5.8 -> Firefox 3.6 Advertised Major Update

• RelEng is ready to make the required server-side change this week
• Beltzner to put together DevNews post for tomorrow
• any other blockers?
  • Firefox 3.0.8 users will see: this billboard
  • Firefox 3.5.8 users will see: this billboard

Gecko Developer Preview 1.9.3a3

Labs

Jetpack

• Jetpack SDK 0.1 released yesterday (Tuesday, March 9)
  • initial release of SDK
  • new codebase being incubated for production-quality integration with Firefox
• Jetpack SDK 0.2 tentative release date Monday, March 29
  • first release incorporating high-level APIs for easy extension development

Weave

Support

• Firefox not starting because of hang on close (AV related?) bug 548945
• Toolbars going missing bug 547891
• common issues

Product Development

Firefox Project

For your reading:

• the Firefox Projects page has been re-organized as have the pages for each project to make it easier to read

• The UX team has created a stream-of-consciousness style tumblr with design sketches, inspirations, and pointers to other bits of designery -- From The Bikeshed

For your loving:

• New Theme progress: reworked project wiki, new toolbar button style refinements bug 548027, new location and search field styling bug 549589, and a patch for per-Tab progress bar bug 544818

• Extension Manager Redesign process; API & dev work outlined in wiki, met with QA to develop testing plan, design cases being added, including install from multiple locations & with various levels of security (tracking bug bug 550048)

• OOPP, landed crashed-plugin UI for Alpha 2, working to improve some privacy issues now (bug 550293, bug 550303).

Fennec Project

• Form autocomplete has landed
• look at the March 10th mobile engineering meeting notes for more details

Gecko Platform

(see the March 9th platform meeting notes for more details)

Localization

• updated l10n-changesets for 3.5.x and 3.6.x in the build repos

QA

• Last week we had a work week
• Ongoing feature qa work
• Mobile:
  • Weekly details

Release Engineering

• Working on getting a2->a3 working. bug 546703
  • Need to land bug 540833 before builds
  • Need to land bug 546710 otherwise we'll have broken windows partial updates

Add-ons

• Rock Your Firefox launched today!
• Some users are having problems with their xpinstall whitelist being wiped

Web Dev

Partners

Evangelism

• Going to help push dbaron's css visited on hacks with sid and others

Marketing/PR

• Working on "What's New" pages for 3.6.2/3.0.19
  • For 3.0.19, changing copy encouraging users to upgrade to 3.6 Bug 549510
  • For 3.6.2 changing wordmark and header copy Bug 549413
• New plan of attack for Rethinking the Mozilla Web Universe
• Mozilla.com Website Optimizations
  • Currently 3 First Run variations and 2 IE page variations in testing and hope to have download.html test implemented next week. Read more here

• MetaLab post on Labs blog
• JagerMonkey Mashup? Blizzard's post to clarify
• Launching Rock Your Firefox!
• SXSW

Roundtable