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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 3.0.19 / Firefox 3.5.9 / Firefox 3.6.2

• builds are now available and being tested
• going to beta early next week
• release target is March 30
  • along with SeaMonkey and Thunderbird updates!

Firefox 3.0.18 / Firefox 3.5.8 -> Firefox 3.6 Advertised Major Update

• great success!
• need to get some numbers here from Ken and Blake

Gecko Developer Preview 1.9.3a3

• launching today

Fennec 1.0.1 Maemo

• Will ship whenever its ready in the next week or two

Fennec 1.1 Maemo

• string freeze date set tentatively for march 26th, other dates can be found here

Labs

Jetpack

• SDK 0.2
  • high-level APIs taking longer to develop than originally expected
  • refocusing release around bug fixes and OS support (particularly Windows)
  • schedule moved up a few days
    • freeze this Thursday, March 18 at midnight
    • first RC on Friday, March 19
    • final release on Friday, March 26
• SDK 0.3
  • meeting next Tuesday to plan
  • schedule remains the same
    • freeze Sunday, April 18 at midnight
    • first RC on Monday, April 19
    • final release on Monday, April 26

Weave

Support

Top issues this week (mostly related to 3.6 update):

• Hotmail with Firefox 3.6 has trouble with forwarding and replying to emails bug 538892.
• Webpages appear very small in Firefox 3.6 on Windows (or occasionally very large). This is most likely an issue related to the operating system DPI setting: bug 549919.

We're starting support-reports: a weekly report of common issues and metrics. See drafts here: https://intranet.mozilla.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=61

• Support visitors jumped 9.25% ... see previous graph here

Product Development

Firefox Project

Fennec Project

• E10s/Qt 4.6 are working on device, expect communication about this sometime later today
• Auto add-on update landed on nightlies
• Lots of 1.1 feature patches in review. So, for those on nightlies, expect a lot of changes over the next couple of weeks

More updates can be found in the mobile-team's meeting notes

Gecko Platform

(see the March 16th platform meeting notes for more details)

Localization

• Trying to raise the "which nightlies" thread from the dead.
• All bugs for lorentz betas with l10n filed and set up?
• Drop me a mail at l10n at mozilla.com if there are weekly stats you'd like to be in the wiki notes.

QA

• Multiple Test coverage this week on Fx.3.5.9, Fx3.6.2, and Fx3.7a3
  • Lift your glasses for a special goodbye coverage on Fx3.0.19, Tb2.0.0.24
  • BTW, kudos to releng and al's qa security team for handling the madness of builds and testing!
• Testing of Firefox 3.next projects are up in full swing. Test Plan is always updated. ping juanb or tchung for needed qa coverage of your areas.
• Hey You! Would you like to spend 15 minutes bashing and ripping apart our Quality Portal? Then join us this friday for a QMO Testday!
• Mobile Weekly Test Report
• Talking with Jetpack team to do some light SDK testing (for now, go through the tutorial)

Release Engineering

• Going to need more than usual amount of time to seed mirrors for the 30th. There are 5 releases happening that day (3xFx, 1xTb, 1xSeaMonkey)
• Major updates for 3.0.19 -> 3.6.2, 3.5.9 -> 3.6.2 should be available today for testing
• FF3.7a3 will provide updates for FF3.7a1, FF3.7a2.

Add-ons

Web Dev

Partners

• Still no updates of note. Yes, I felt compelled to write this just to break up the bleakness of this space.

Evangelism

Marketing/PR

• Plugin Check will be released with Cross-browser functionality on March 23rd.
  • Only works with the latest versions of modern browsers:
    • Chrome 4, Safari 4, Opera 10.5, Firefox 3.6
    • Only certain plugins for IE 7 & 8
      • Java, Flash, QuickTime, Windows Media Player, Shockwave, BrowserPlus, DevalVR, Silverlight, VLC
• Working on "What's New" pages for 3.6.2/3.0.19
  • For 3.0.19, changing copy encouraging users to upgrade to 3.6 Bug 549510
  • For 3.0.19 First Run page, a redirect to the What's New Bug 551792
  • For 3.6.2 changing wordmark and header copy Bug 549413
• New plan of attack for Rethinking the Mozilla Web Universe

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