Firefox3.1/StatusMeetings/2008-07-15

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Firefox 3.1 Meeting Details

• Tuesdays - Firefox 3 - 11:00am Pacific, 2:00pm Eastern, 18:00 UTC
• Mozilla Building S
• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x91 Conf# 217 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 217 (US)
• irc.mozilla.org #shiretoko for backchannel

(See Platform#Meeting_Notes for Gecko 1.9.1 progress)

Firefox 3.1

• Alpha 1 Status
  • Targeted for Alpha 1
    • worker threads (under review)
    • offline storage / local storage (under review)
    • downloadable fonts (kinda maybe)
    • native JSON (under review)
    • WHATWG <canvas> text API
    • Awesomebar improvements (need review gavin, shepherding)
    • border image (under review)
    • media queries (under review)
    • bulk tagging
    • ctrl-tab
  • Not gonna make it for Alpha 1
    • Cross Site XHR (spec issues, yay)
    • SMIL
    • <video> decoders
    • SVG image decoding
    • query selectors (under review, spec issues?)

• Platform Update
  • Storage (sdwilsh)
    • Landed asynchronous API on Friday. See this blog post for details.
    • SQLite 3.6.0 comes out this week

• Front end update
  • Awesomebar (mardak, others)
    • show keywords (bug 392143) - needs review gavin
    • edit middle (bug 407888) - needs review gavin
    • restrict match (bug 395161) - has review
  • Places
    • tag autocomplete (bug 415960, dietrich) - needs UX analysis
    • bulk tagging/editing (bug 412002, dietrich) - new patch imminent
    • reducing fsyncs (bug 442967, sdwilsh) - inconclusive and complex, probably not in 3.1 timeframe (See Places:FsyncApproach for details).
    • transaction manager perf improvements (bug 432706, marco) - needs review dietrich

• currently on OSX there is no way to get Java working
  • nothing new from Sun for Firefox 3.1 timeframe
  • risk profile is that nobody owns OJI/knows that code
  • for 3.0 we enabled OJI
  • action item: jst to file bug to reenable

Localization

where are we on l10n repository structure? 

one repo per locale, settled on today's call

build 

changes somewhere between :bs and releng

progress mostly around bug 434289 and bug 434878

QA

• need to ensure test plans for new features are being filed
• QA Fx3.1 Testplan in progress.
  • Working on correlating Fx3.1 features to QA owners.
• Alpha 1 testing will consist of smoketests and high level spotchecks. En-US only.

Build

• progress on build automation?
  • not yet started. Worst case, will do manually which is slower.

Round table