Firefox3.1/StatusMeetings/2009-01-28

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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 3.0.6
  • Shipped to beta users yesterday (January 27)
  • On track for release next Tuesday, February 3
  • Please let me know if you see any bugs that should block the release
• Firefox 3.0.7
  • Code freeze is scheduled for February 3 at 11:59pm (in less than a week)
  • Final release targeted for early March
  • Queries for blockers/nominations/approvals are on the Firefox 3.0.7 wiki page
  • (Only four approved bugs that need landing. My threats worked! ;) )

Firefox 3.1 Development

Development Update

• full platform meeting notes available from yesterday
• still at 18 P1 blockers that need to be fixed for Beta 3
• at this time, we don't have a good estimate for when we'll be done; many of the bugs are proving to be tricky and complicated to fully resolve
• component leads are meeting this afternoon to see what we can do to speed things along

Daily users

• ~350k users on Beta 2
• ~10k users on Shiretoko nightlies
• ~10k users on Minefield nightlies

Beta 3

• code freeze is hard to predict at this time
• thus other downstream dates cannot be predicted
• watch devnews and dev.planning for updates

Support

• Link to support doc when user is notified that places.sqlite is locked is now working.
• New help-topic link planned: about:privatebrowsing will have link to Private Browsing support doc. bug 471726
• Options window article split progress: 25% of locales have sent in their translations. [1]
• Top weekly common issue is still locked/corrupted sqlite files. Are there plans to land bug 414715 in 3.0?
• New issue: Yahoo toolbar not letting you log into Yahoo. (KB article: Cannot log in to websites (landing soon!))

Localization

Firefox Beta 3 

• 63 locales
• only 1 locale missing from Firefox 3.0.x

Fennec l10n 

• basic build infrastructure in place, make installers-ab-CD works
• more bugs open to get to feature parity
• work on support on l10n dashboard started
• Early adopter group driven by l10n-drivers, sethb, gandalf, stas, me

QA

• Beta 3 testplan
• Firefox 3.1 Feature testing progress:
  • Testplans (92% completed)
  • Testcases (83% completed)
    • ETA to completion: post-beta 3
• 135 trunk & 1.9.1 bugs verified in last 2 weeks. Great work! But 921+ to go...
• Beta 3 Nightly Testweek in progress, capping with a testday on friday 1/30. We may do another testday next week, b3 builds pending.

Release Engineering

• waiting for "go" on FF3.1b3
• testing "major update" from FF3.1b3pre -> FF3.1b3pre
• several meetings last week about remaining FF2 users
  • Of the remaining 13.6M on FF2, 6.5M are not even on FF2.0.0.20, so not even seeing the MU offer
  • investigations continue

Add-Ons

• Email going out this week to top 500 developers not yet on 3.1.
• Bringing on more editors on a weekly basis to handle update load.

Partners

• Yahoo! in process of updating all home pages to accept 2009 build ids. will be completed Monday
• Want to clarify change to defaults in ru for 3.1, as well as outline policy moving forward, and end-user notification/impacts
• Review browser.startup.homepage(_reset) pref policy (global, non-localizable currently) and management of locale.start*.mozilla.com hostnames

Evangelism

• Documentation for workers has a new sample.
• Now working on remaining smaller documentation items, since the major doc issues are complete enough to do the job for now.
• Please contact Sheppy if there are any urgent documentation needs for 3.1 beta 3.
• Last call for FF 3.1 features - please look at the messaging page (much love)

Marketing/PR

• Positive coverage of Open Video grant (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/mozilla-spends-money-to-make-web-video-free/)
• Call for beta testers included on today's Community Marketing Call (http://www.spreadfirefox.com/cmt)

Roundtable

• dveditz to drive a project to see if we can have a "check your plugins" site where users can go to determine if their plugins are up to date, and if not, find links to updates (see bug 391433 for details)
  • beltzner, johnath, chofmann asked to be cc'd

• justin agreed to follow up with morgamic to ensure that we could throttle Major Update snippets on a per version / channel basis (to allow users to "Check for Updates..." to Firefox 3.1 on launch day, but not have the offer given to users who do not explicitly check)

• RRRT Pages for Firefox 3.0.6 and Firefox 3.1beta 3 are created (Tomcat)
  • Firefox 3.1 Beta3
  • Firefox 3.0.6