Firefox3.5/StatusMeetings/2009-06-17

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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 3.0.x Releases

Firefox 3.0.11

• shipped last week
• one issue with Java (see below)

Firefox 3.0.12

• probably pushing out a week to get more fixes in
• targeting mid-late July release

Support

• Support issues:
  • Flash on OSX is causing lots of crashes (might not be 3.0.11 specific): [1] Top three are all Flash crashes (probably the same one)
  • Some users saying that Firefox is really slow and nonresponsive after updating to 3.0.11, currently suspect either AVG Safe Search extension or Ebay's Browser Highlighter extension.
  • Hanging on certain Java pages: bug 498132
  • Cookies not remembered/saved on many sites (webmail in particular) after 3.0.11. Needs to clear cookies to get it working.
• Support Firefox Day is next Thursday
• Help us with support during 3.5 launch (please!)

Engineering

Firefox 3.5/Gecko 1.9.1 Development Update

• see yesterday's platform meeting notes as well

Firefox 3.5 RC

• QA and Firefox teams actively testing
• released an update to our beta channel users bringing them to rc1build2
• finishing rc2build2 now, will update beta channel again soon
• targeting release / post to website for download on Friday
• see the Mozilla Developer News blog for more details

Firefox.next/Gecko 1.9.2 Planning

• TSnap bugs which aim to make Firefox observably faster
• polish bugs and exploratory sprints
• reminder to review and add your comments/feedback on the discussion page or in the dev-apps-firefox thread
  • Firefox (Namoroka): draft plan | discussion
  • Gecko - Content: draft plan | discussion
  • Gecko - Layout: draft plan | discussion
  • Gecko - JavaScript: draft plan | discussion
  • Gecko - Graphics: draft plan | discussion

Firefox 3.6 alpha 1

• Aiming for four weeks after 3.5 ships

Localization

• One update to l10n in RC, bustage fix for mk
• Update to webpages coming along, stas and pascal determine tomorrow which new locales stay in beta on RC, update locale and product details accordingly

QA

• Moco Testday
  • Organizers: Aakash, Tony
  • Results Summary:
    • Had a max of 64 in the testday channel at its peak
    • Major contributors outside mozQA: Labs team! (jono, myk, Mardak), mak, kbrosnan, tmyoung, asadotzler, ozten, Lucas, TheUni, limi, zpao, dao, dria, mitchell, dveditz,
      • 23 Bugs found
      • 6 Tabbed/Browsing Bugs
      • 5 Video/Audio Bugs
      • 4 Session Store Bugs
      • 2 Geolocation Bugs
      • 1 Private Browsing Bug
      • 1 Drag and Drop Bug
      • 1 Layout Bug
      • 1 Microsummaries Bug
      • 1 Javascript Bug
      • 1 General Bug
    • Special thanks to tmyoung and jono for finding 4 more Labs bugs on the day

• Upcoming Testday: Web Site Testing this Friday (6/19)
• Fx3.5rc1 Testing
  • 24 Bugs] (Thanks fx-team)
• Fx3.5rc2 Testing
  • On-going. Smoketest and spot checks. Full functional tests are being done in parallel.

Release Engineering

• FF3.0.11: did partner repacks and also xulrunner as part of release automation :-)
• TB2.0.0.22: had problem with checksums on updates, caused a delay with beta last Fri/Mon.
• FF3.5rcN: we're keeping up! :-)
• still on track to offer manual major update on FF3.5 release day

Add-Ons

• Compatibility at 80%, next 15% will take extra work but we will try
• Extend Firefox Contest Launched

Partners

Evangelism

• 35 days is up and running
• Nothing else other than that

Marketing/PR

• wrapping up press section of Mozilla.com, logo updates and videos on mozilla.com this week. Will do the screenshots after RC1.
• Videos:
  • converting all final videos for upload to the website: Beltzner's what's new in 3.5, Firefox 3.5 overview (refresh), thank you videos (with new logo), Blizzard's demo on Javascript performance
  • finishing production on: long version of thank you video and "why are you excited about 3.5"
• PR
  • Bay Area press meetings continue today, tomorrow. Heading to Seattle on Friday.
  • Press release, FAQ, Reviewers Guide localization underway.

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