Firefox3.1/StatusMeetings/2008-12-17

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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 3.1 Development

(see development meeting notes)

Beta 2

  • ~200k daily users on the beta
  • trying to get solid nightly user numbers

Beta 3

  • holiday time means we need to be cautious to ensure that people get patches up in time for reviews, etc
  • schedule:
    • String freeze is December 31st, 11:59pm PDT (happy new year)
    • Code freeze is January 13th, 11:59pm PDT
    • QA Start is January 15th, 9:00am PDT
    • Release is targeted at January 26th

Support

3.1

  • Private Browsing tutorial is up (no screenshots)
  • bug 414715 - Notification of locked places.sqlite is going to be checked in soon.
    • We still nee to set up the redirect. bug 466125
    • We're still working on destination article. We can have something up now, if we have to. The issue/fix are still under investigation. bug 467814
  • SUMO 0.8 will be pushed tomorrow night, which will include backend support for showing 3.1-specific content (vs. 3.0).
  • We would like to add something to our Hiding bookmarks in the Smart Location Bar article about what is being done to help users disable the Smart Location Bar in 3.1. What do we put?
  • Issue: Hotmail doesn't work, bug 462428, 4 complaints this week.
  • Issue: New Tab button is not movable. bug 457187

3.0.5

  • Bookmarks/cookies not working due to damaged/locked sqlite files is still the top issue. bug 464486
  • Youtube crashing Firefox has completely stopped after a fix on Google's end.
  • Users inadvertently selecting first item from every menu, on the rise, may be Kaspersky bug 454693 or having too many bookmarks bug 406646
  • 3.0.5 RRRT page

2.0.0.18

Localization

  • Outreach starting for 3.1 Beta 3 (gandalf/sethb), flock of locales still on B2
  • Push for remaining 3.0.x locales de-Beta (stas)

QA

Release Engineering

  • Firefox 2.0.0.20
    • Full release - all platform w/ updates
    • MU will now be from 2.0.0.20 -> 3.0.x

Add-Ons

  • Add-Ons are now 39% compatible with Firefox 3.1
  • feel like the word has been well-conveyed, though we still need to do email outreach to all Add-On authors

Evangelism

  • New Demos page Firefox3.1/Demos - starting to collect ideas and links
  • Working with Wikipedia on Ogg Theora support
  • Sheppy working on offline docs with Dave Camp and others

Marketing/PR

Roundtable

  • database hook for buildbot running on l10n.m.o, gonna experiment with presenting builds based on that
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