Firefox/Planning/2009-12-16

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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

Firefox 3.0.16 / Firefox 3.5.6

• released yesterday evening

Firefox 3.0.17 / Firefox 3.5.7

• proposed schedule on the wiki
• already some feedback to include, but mostly thumbs up so far
• if you have feedback, please let ss know

Firefox 3.6 Beta

• Beta 5 is built and being tested by QA, target ship date is Thursday
• contains 137 fixes
• if we get RC builds on Thursday, we'll scrap Beta 5 and focus on RC testing with an eye to shipping early next week

Firefox 3.6 RC

• desperately close on code completeness, long pole is 2 JS blockers
• if we get there by the end of today, we'll start builds and shift QA focus to working on the RC
• the RC contains 37 additional fixes over Beta 5

Fennec 1.0x Maemo RC

Fennec 1.0x WinMo Alpha

Support

• common issues
• New stuff: Startup Crash that doesn't trigger breakpad (possibly Norton, see bug 535345)

Product Development

Firefox 3.6 / mozilla-1.9.2

• blockers, blockers, blockers
• blocklisting DLLs working with vendors to prevent crashes

future / mozilla-central

• out of process plugins landed and stuck (disabled) on trunk

More details available in the platform meeting notes.

QA

• Fx 3.6
  • Ongoing testing for 3.6b5 for potential ship this Thu
  • Plugin update check was found broken during testing bug 535030
• Fennec
  • Preparing for RC this week
• Tegra
  • No cab files generated for 3.6b5 bug 535019, needs comment so we can test for 3.6b5

Add-ons

• Firefox 3.6 compatibility at 70%
• AMO 5.4 launched last Tuesday with support for release channels, enhanced localization, and GetSatisfaction support
• AMO 5.5 underway

Marketing/PR

• Plugin check page broken for 3.6b4: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=535030
• Mozilla.com is in good shape for 3.6: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3.6/WebsitePlan
• Personas video is complete, working on implementing it on mozilla.com and getpersonas.com.