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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 3.0.17 / Firefox 3.5.7

• released yesterday at 3pm
• next prompted major update offer will actually be seen by users!

Firefox 3.0.18 / Firefox 3.5.8

• proposed schedule at links above
• long code freeze -> build period
• might try to co-ordinate with Firefox 3.6.1

Firefox 3.6 RC

• builds now available for testing
• hoping to ship to our beta audience on Friday of this week

Fennec 1.0x Maemo RC2

• QA has completed release testing and no re-spins are going to be needed

Fennec 1.0x WinMo Alpha

• 3-4 blockers left and will be looking at a release after Fennec Maemo 1.0

Labs

Support

• common issues
• Do we know what may be affecting PFS (for Flash)? We're having trouble reliably triggering it. bug 536848
• Facebook chat is hogging memory/hanging Firefox. May be ad related since at least one report of adblock plus helping. bug 536334 list of threads
• A few reports of google new tab feature broken
• Process for crash-causing items suggested for blocklisting?

Product Development

More details available in the platform meeting notes.

Localization

• Firefox 3.6 RC with one additional locale, Kurdish, now at 74. Kurdish will stay as beta language for release.
• Fennec RC with the known set of locales, Korean failed on search. Japanese probably, too.
• EU Browser Ballot making progress
• fx web l10n gonna get some pings next
• More feedback on the .governance thread on l10n bugzilla components?

QA

• Firefox
  • Release Testing 3.6 RC. Targeting Friday for sign off. Results can be found on this Wiki
  • Please test the RC! Testing website compatibility, extension compatibility would be a great help.
  • For website compatibility testing, follow this guide, and even log your results here.
• Fennec
  • Completed Release Testing for RC2. Results can be found on this Wiki
  • Things to test on Fennec 1.0 RC
• Community
  • Testday for Mobile Firefox RC this Friday, 1/8

Release Engineering

• First release where we're running the release builds through automated unittests and talos!
  • http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showbuilds.cgi?tree=Firefox3.6-Release
• Fennec 1.0rc2 builds done on same relbranch; need to coordinate any respins
• Turning off talos for FF3.0 ?

Add-ons

• Java Console Extensions approved by QA
• What to do about Google Gears?
• CoolIris waiting on RC

Web Dev

Partners

Evangelism

Marketing/PR

• Plugin Project
  • Dynamic buttons are live! Get a button here
    • Read more here
  • Next Phase of the Project: New Plugin Directory
• Mozilla.com remains ready to GO for 3.6
• Working on a project to "beautify nightly.mozilla.org"
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524881

Roundtable

• format of this meeting (beltzner)
• major update scheduling in these notes
• ongoing maintenance for Plugin Update feature data; mechanisms/procedures/responsibility