Firefox3.1/StatusMeetings/2008-12-10

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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)
• 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

• Firefox 2.0.0.18 -> 3.0.4 Major Update
  • Went out on Thursday
  • So far, about 2.4m have switched (about 5x as many as normally switch in a week)
• Firefox 2.0.0.19 and 3.0.5
  • planning on going to beta with these releases today
  • the firstrun page for 2.0.0.19 users is here
  • Phishing Protection (uses SafeBrowsing v1 protocol) will be disabled in Firefox 2.0.0.19 (Phishing and Malware Protection using SafeBrowsing v2.2 protocol will be available in Firefox 3.0.5)
• Firefox 3.0.6
  • Proposed schedule on the wiki
  • Release set for early February
  • Code freeze January 6
  • Comments?

Firefox 3.1 Development

(see development meeting notes)

Beta 2

• release announced on Monday at 3pm PST; updates were available shortly before
• went very smoothly, making us think morning releases might be the way to go

Beta 3

• blockers re-triaged, component leads all feel good about progress
• need to be careful about holiday schedules
• holiday time means we need to be cautious to ensure that people get patches up in time for reviews, etc
• first draft schedule (component leads to think about this, beltzner to get QA estimates and double check assumptions):
  • Jan 13 - code freeze
  • Jan 19 - QA start
  • Jan 26 - release
• goal will be to accelerate that schedule if possible, especially code freeze to QA start

Support

3.1

• Tutorial on Private Browsing is drafted. We still need to review it. (You need to be logged in to view it, currently.)
• Article on places.sqlite being locked is also drafted, and currently under review. (You need to be logged in to view it, currently.)
• We should be able to start updating current articles with 3.1 content next Friday. (maybe earlier, depending on a webdev push)
• David's blog post about redesigning the start page will also apply to the product help start page (Help > Firefox Help)
• Issues: Hotmail doesn't work, bug 462428

3.0.4

• Spike in Awesomebar/lost bookmark complaints after MU. bug 435439 perhaps

2.0.0.18

RRRT

• Report for 2.0.0.18 -> 3.0.4 Major Update
• RRRT for 3.1b2

Localization

• 1.9.1 repos picking up, long tail of localizations figure out how that goes.

QA

• Need to review beta 2 feedback and compile
• Feature 3.1 Testplans. Anything missing?
• Tracking 3.1 Feature testing spreadsheet
  • 89% Testplans completed
  • 72% Testcases completed
  • Backlog of Fixed bugs that need verification
    • TM fixed bugs
• Beta 3 testplan to be created in Jan

Release Engineering

• "official" l10n now running on m-c; should be enabling on mozilla-191 friday
  • important as it means we can now do l10n for each new project branch.
• will be turning off "temp" machines from bsmedberg also. (Thanks again bsmedberg!)

Evangelism

• add-ons outreach
• demo applications for 3.1

Marketing/PR

• press response to Beta 2
• planning for Beta 3
• added link to direct traffic from mozilla.com to help test localized versions of 3.1 Beta 2 (all.html page)
• working on consumer-facing messaging and changes to mozilla.com for 3.1 GA release. Need to determine which pages need l10n.
• Preliminary list of pages to be updated is posted here:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3.1/Messaging#End-user

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