Firefox/Planning/2009-10-14

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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 Firefox Releases

Firefox 3.0.15 / Firefox 3.5.4

• 3.5.4 went to beta on Friday, caught two regressions
• fixing the regressions (one applies to 3.0.15 as well)
• planning to start a re-spin today
• might delay release by a day or two, possibly more depending on beta period

Namoroka

• Firefox 3.6 beta 1 is code frozen, went to build this morning
• revised beta 1 schedule
  • October 13th, 11:59pm PDT: Code freeze on mozilla-1.9.2, all P1 blockers landed
  • October 14th: Beta 1 builds available
  • October 14th-20th: QA testing
  • October 21st, 5pm PDT: Beta 1 launched

Fennec 1.0x beta 5

Support

• common issues
• Realplayer browser record plugin causes pages to blank out in 3.5 bug 422290

Product Development

as always, you can read the development meeting notes as well, but here are the big items:

• OJI was re-enabled on Firefox 3.6 (for Java on OSX)
• Aero Peek tab previews enabled on mozilla1.9.2 (Windows 7)
• development teams moving on to Firefox 3.6 blockers and work targeted at Firefox 3.7
• some security reviews are still pending
• lots of progress on Ts, some of it can be back-ported to mozilla1.9.2
• lots of talk about being more aggressive about backing out patches which cause performance or functionality regressions

Localization

• Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 with 53 locales
• Two bugs with further string changes on my radar. If you have bugs that should be on there, make sure they're blocking-firefox3.6 or blocking1.9.2 and have the late-l10n keyword set.
• When to do outreach for RC? 3-level outreach, news, group-mail, individual. Moved to a reply to the meeting announcement in .planning.
• How do we update from 3.5 to 3.6? Need to open a thread in .planning.

QA

• Fx3.6 QA
  • Starting qa cycle for 3.6beta1 this afternoon. Email sent to frequent volunteers to help us test.
  • Henrik found a couple of 1.9.2 blockers
    • Fixed: bug 521818 - [Mac] Disabling Java on 1.9.2 doesn't destroy current plug-in instance
    • New & Relnoted: bug 522041 - Crash on startup with FIPS mode enabled [@pthread_mutex_lock | nsSSLIOLayerAddToSocket] ...
  • 28 bug verifications on 1.9.2 in a week. http://tinyurl.com/ykhhsg5 (not so hot.)
  • more testcases added to litmus for new features
• Testday - Website Compatibility - Friday, Oct 16
• Fennec
  • We have end-to-end mochitests able to run using the new mobile framework [1] on the mobinova device
    • [1]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/TDAI/NewFramework
    • [2]: Also, the bugs for the small (non-design) issues: bug 522135: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522135
  • We are still working out bugs and bringing the test server online, but we are getting there. We have not done a complete run of tests yet on the device.
• Tegra
  • Testing Firefox nightlies on new OS drop
  • Latest Nightlies appear sluggish
  • Will test Firefox 3.6 B1 when it is available

Release Engineering

Add-Ons

• Launching AMO 5.2 on 10/20
• Add-on Compatibility for Fx 3.6

Web Dev

Partners

Evangelism

3.6

• Starting to roll out features for 3.6 on hacks.
• Docs underway (as usual!)
• WOFF rollout is probably next week.
• Organization is looking pretty good so far.

3.7

• Doing our storage conversation today with high-touch developers.

Marketing/PR

Roundtable