Firefox3.1/StatusMeetings/2009-03-11

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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)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8605 (US)
• irc.mozilla.org #shiretoko for backchannel

NOTE: See Platform#Meeting_Notes for development meeting notes

Firefox 3.0.x

• Firefox 3.0.8
  • Targeting a mid-April release

Firefox 3.1 Development

Development Update

• full platform meeting notes available from yesterday
• at 106 blockers without fixes for final ship, went back up a bit
• several more Firefox team sprints have been completed and will soon land on trunk; we'll evaluate them for branch.

Daily users (weekly average across versions)

• 3.1b2 - 380k
• Shiretoko - 10k
• Minefield - 10k

Beta 3

• expected to release on schedule tomorrow afternoon PDT
• QA has not found any showstoppers
• Firefox 3.1 Beta3 RRRT page is ready to go

Re-versioning to 3.5

• will be renaming 3.1 -> 3.5 to indicate increased scope
• plan on wiki (see above link)

Beta 4

• proposed schedule in dev.planning thread
• approved by development team
• might be able to trim QA time
• build is OK with this
• beltzner to announce on dev.planning and DevNews
• blizzard is concerned about the number of video blockers
  • performance on Linux for 640x480 @30fps
  • can cause heavy load on servers due to our seek behaviour
  • scope is well known, but concerned about being able to get it done on time
  • beltzner will follow up with roc to ensure that it's being tracked

Support

• AOL webmail not showing images to (some) Firefox 3.0.7 users bug 482659:
  • [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
  • Also quite a few livechats, workaround is to use basic mode for now.
• Support Firefox Day 5 will focus on 3.5 and will be March 26th. Mark your calendars now!

Localization

• 8 late-l10n requests, the list
• 4 new locales, Bengali (Bangladesh), Croatian, Oriya, Spanish (Mexiko)
• tree rules discussion in .tree-management for shipping locales info

QA

• Beta 3 Testing in Progress
  • So far, 1 respin early on
  • Test coverage and results
  • On track to ship tomorrow
• 34 1.9.1 bugs verified last week
• Fx3.0.7 -> 3.1b3 MU Trial Run testplan ETA begin tomorrow

Release Engineering

• On track to deliver 3.0 -> 3.5 test MU tomorrow
• Ready to do 3.1 -> 3.5 bump on Tuesday.

Add-Ons

• Compatibility status
  • At 83.5%, up 3.5% from the week before. Developers still waiting on the next beta.
• Meeting w/ Sam Sidler tomorrow to coordinate any 3.5 changes we'll need to make on AMO
• Will email all the 3.1 developers to remind them to up the maxver to 3.1b3

Partners

• We'll be testing 3.0.x -> 3.5 updates with partner distributions. Expectation is that fallback will be used (no separate MU offers required), but need to confirm.
• Yandex as default is in place for 3.1b3 (thanks L10n) for the Russian locale
• Google notified that start page hostnames were changed for 3.1bx/3.5, confirmed this won't cause any issues

Evangelism

• Paul posted the add-ons guide - compatible for 3.5. "In Beta."
• http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2009/03/11/firefox-add-ons-developer-guide/

Marketing/PR

• Plan in place for promoting Fx beta-3 via start page snippet; will add download CTA button and update text on all-beta.html page. Snippet will go into rotation 3-5 days after beta-3 release
• new all beta page looks like this

Roundtable

• New FirefoxBeta Group on Facebook -http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=54860359570&ref=ts - and twitter.com/FirefoxBeta are now online ! So join ! also i will sent out invites for the Facebook group later :)- Tomcat