Firefox3.1/StatusMeetings/2008-11-26
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Firefox Product Delivery Meeting Details
- Wednesdays - Firefox 3 - 11:00am Pacific, 2:00pm Eastern, 18:00 UTC
- Mozilla Building S
- 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 8605 (US/INTL) <-- note new extension: x92 instead of x91!
- 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8605 (US)
- irc.mozilla.org #shiretoko for backchannel
NOTE: See Platform#Meeting_Notes for development meeting notes
Contents
Firefox 2.0.0.x / 3.0.x
- Firefox 2.0.0.18 -> 3.0.4 Major Update
- major update beta shipped last week
- aiming for major update final on Tuesday, December 2
- Thunderbird 2.0.0.18
- shipped, yay!
- Firefox 2.0.0.19 and 3.0.5
- Now frozen but investigating one regression
- Aiming for release in mid December after long QA period
- Phishing Protection (uses SafeBrowsing v1 protocol) will be disabled in this version
- Aiming for builds to start on Monday or Tuesday at the latest
Support
- Locked/corrupted places.sqlite is still common, also seeing a couple corrupted cookies.sqlite
- bug 464486
3.0.4
- New 3.0.4 issues (tracking on RRRT page):
- Follow-up from last week's 3.0.4 issues (see 3.0.4 RRRT page):
- more crashes (may be related to memory usage, or that could be a red herring?)
- OSX: bug 459531
- Windows: crash on 0x00 may be AVG8 bug 446224, Backdoor.Ulrbot.C rose a lot of places in the topcrashes list after 3.0.4 came out bug 434403.
- Firewall blocks connectivity (Norton mostly)
- Firefox 3.0.4 uses 100% of the CPU while idle bug 464864
- Unsolved memory leak in windows: bug 457234?
2.0.0.18
- Follow-up from last week's 2.0.0.18 issues:
- Gmail loads in basic mode: large forum thread {bug 464796. Forcing https is a solution that I got working with someone in Live Chat.
- Only one new report of this, may have been fixed on gmail's side
- Gmail loads in basic mode: large forum thread {bug 464796. Forcing https is a solution that I got working with someone in Live Chat.
Firefox 3.1
Development
(see development meeting notes)
- builds are now available and being tested
- QA timing still being worked out, new release schedule pending
- hoping for Dec 5th, no promises yet!
Branching Post Beta 2
- landing backlog of patches now
- periodically syncing to mozilla-1.9.1
- branch will become the active development repo for Firefox 3.1 work as of Monday, and trunk (mozilla-central) will re-open to non-blockers
Beta 3
- Beta 3 proposal (see dev.planning thread)
- re-triage deadline Dec 4th using
- blocker/P1 = must be fixed for next beta
- blocker/P2 = must be fixed for release
- deliver new blocker numbers and estimates
- propose a schedule based on those roll ups
- limited string change
- no new features
- no add-on compatibility changes
- with exception of tab drag and drop
- re-triage deadline Dec 4th using
- developers accepted proposal
Support
Localization
- about:rights backport moving OK, down to zero regressed locales.
- 3.1b2 relbranch push went with less noise this time around
- branch repos gonna be exciting new lesson to teach
- most apps gonna focus on 1.9.1, just fennec is not?
- dashboard not up for 3.1 branch yet, waiting for pushlog update
- dashboard at 240 builds, 3.2 and fennec coming up. Might hit the limits of the current design.
QA
- QA is currently testing b2. Results here
- signoff target late next week
- No other new updates
Release Engineering
- bhearsum: beta2 updates now on betatest channel
- downtime monday morning
- cutover version bumps, branding
- still sorting out l10n, nightly updates, talos 1.9.2 vs tip
Evangelism
- Add-ons mail + blog post ready to go ahead of beta 2.
- Beta 2 list is coming together.
Marketing/PR
- PR: Upcoming taken news days (by us or others) - Dec 2, Dec 10
