Firefox3.1/StatusMeetings/2008-10-08

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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 x91 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 2.0.0.x / 3.0.x

• Currently in triage.
• Scheduled code freeze date is October 24, final ship date is November 12.

Support

• Weekly common issues
  • New issues:
    • Updates to 3.0.3 "failing"
    • People complaining about "pushed" updates
    • Still have issues with Password manager in 3.0.3, may be bug 457358
    • Specific crash causes
      • bug 444930
      • bug 451724
      • Crash when downloading, may be AV software related. (Norton Internet Security, crash is in OfficeAV) bug bug 458667
    • Still have trouble with logging in to Yahoo specifically and with cookies in general.

Firefox 3.1

Beta 1

• builds coming out now
• QA estimate is 5-6 days
• looking to launch next week

Beta 2

• Plan for Beta 2 for review
  • complete work on the following features, based on feedback from beta 1
    • <video> front end bug 448909
    • drag tab to create new window bug 225680
    • plugin blocklisting UI bug 391728, bug 391714, bug 449027
    • software update issues bug 324121, bug 407875
  • complete these late feature additions
    • private browsing mode bug 248970
    • and associated clear private data improvements bug 453440 and others
    • improvements to awesomebar based on community feedback bug 455561 (see Awesome++ wiki page)
    • updaates to default windows xp & vista theme (bug needed)
  • we're also considering reviewed, solid, tested patches for some other small improvements but we will not hold Beta 2 for these

Support

• Private browsing documentation:
  • Official name?
  • More info on features (UI specifically)

• Please use "user-doc-needed" when submitting patches that change user facing options, strings, etc.

Localization

44 locales with localizer commits: be ca cs de en-GB eo es-AR es-ES et eu fi fr fy-NL ga-IE gu-IN he hi-IN hu id it ja ja-JP-mac ko lt mk nb-NO nl nn-NO oc pa-IN pl pt-BR pt-PT ro ru si sk sq sr sv-SE tr uk zh-CN zh-TW

19 locales with just Axel: af ar as bg cy da el gl is ka kn ku ml mn mr sl ta te th

l10n dashboard going through unification for fx3, tb2, sb1, sm2.

QA

• Tracking Testplan Beta 1 testing began yesterday
• Fx3.1 Feature testing progress spreadsheet
  • Testplan completion %: 58%
  • Estimated testcases: 382
  • Testcase completion %: 18%
    • Targeted % by Beta 2 ship: Testplans 100% | Testcases 50%
    • Targeted % by RC1 ship: Testplans 100% | Testcases 90%
• As always, Feature Testplans and progress here.

Release Engineering

• tree open, so now ok to enable a11y tests? bug 424195

Evangelism

• Documentation for CSS transforms is complete; see Using CSS transforms.
• Documentation of HTML 5 canvas text is complete.
• Documentation of shadow effects is complete.
• Documentation of DOM Text nodes is complete.
• Documentation for CSS media queries is now underway.

• Beta messaging
  • Figure out which developer features to highlight
  • Message what isn't complete and will continue to be enhanced
  • Which features we should not highlight (performance?)

Marketing/PR

Roundtable

• Proposing new criteria/approach for branch releases
• Geode / Geolocation launch