Firefox3.1/StatusMeetings/2008-10-22

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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 x92 Conf# 8605 (US/INTL) <-- note new extension: x92 instead of x91!
• 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

• Mostly on track to completely freeze on Friday
• Release date targeted at November 12. See the Releases page for more information.
• Using the new criteria for triaging. Still working out the details for "appeal" process.

Support

Weekly common issues

New issue for commentary:

• Error/alert box with just "0" when installing Firefox.

Firefox 3.1

Beta 1

• about 20k users
• low compared to Firefox 3 betas, though

Beta 2

• Plan for Beta 2
  • 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

• 3.1 cases are a vast minority of cases on Support (1%), about 25% on Hendrix.

Localization

l10n-merged Firefox 3.1 linux builds available on the l10n server, details in Axel's blog

45 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 te tr uk zh-CN zh-TW

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

2 repositories to migrate: bn-IN lv

Outreach starting tomorrow, with better tooling now that l10n-merge works.

QA

• Recruiting community testing
  • Search Widget (Henrik) and Color Management (Ezadkiel)
  • Additional release testing on Solaris (Sun China Team)
• Fx3.1 Feature testing progress spreadsheet
  • Testplan completion %: 67% (last week: 64%)
  • Estimated testcases: 444 (last week: 414)
  • Testcase completion %: 29% (last week: 27%)
    • Targeted % by Beta 2 ship: Testplans 100% | Testcases 50%
    • Targeted % by RC1 ship: Testplans 100% | Testcases 90%
  • Will present open issues and any flags at next week's platform meeting
• As always, Feature Testplans and progress here.
• Plans for a Private Browsing Testday pass on 10/31
• Running continuously Global-500 Tests on all Platforms with search for Leaks/Assertions/Crash (Tomcat)

Release Engineering

• what machines can we mothball *today*, before EOL of FF2.0.0.x, FF3.0.x?
  • for example, do we need talos on FF2.0.0.x?
  • for example, do we need talos *and* fast-talos on FF3.0.x?
  • Inventory in progress is here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReleaseEngineering:Farm

Evangelism

• New Firefox 3.1 documentation this week:
  • MozAfterPaint DOM event
  • NodeIterators
  • @font-face
  • XMLHttpRequest reference
  • Using XMLHttpRequest
  • XMLHttpRequest progress events are documented as well: nsIDOMProgressEvent, nsIXMLHttpRequestEventTarget, and nsIXMLHttpRequestUpload
• Tracking changes to the video element implementation; documentation updates forthcoming this week.
• Access controls documentation work starts next after that.
• Then comes worker threads.

• Rey will be working with the add-ons folks.
• Add-ons blog is up on blogs.mozilla.com
• Chris and Mike are working on stats + tools
• Dave Townsend and Mark Finkle will be handling tech questions and work with sheppy