Releases/Firefox 5/RC Signoffs
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This page will track declaring the latest mozilla-beta build as a release candidate.
Please note that issues found in the final moments of the beta period may still require us to rebuild before release
Contents
Focus Areas
Stability
Current Status
- 400k users on b5
- b6 just went out today
- About 1.5 million users across all 5.0 beta builds
- Nothing too be worried about, but not sure audience is big enough
- There aren't any bugs we know we have to fix
Outstanding Issues/Concerns
- Haven't processed beta 6 feedback yet
- Concerns about audience size
Add-ons
Current Status
- AVG will be ready
- McAfee will be ready
- Symantec hopes they will be ready, the binary compat change in b2(3?) caught them by surprise
- They have a build that works on 4 and 5
- Skype hopes to be ready
- Yahoo will be ready
- Done outreach to the top 35 add-ons (w/ binary components) that are not on AMO
- Most part response will be that they will be ready
- AMO is at 78% of 95% of add-ons
- Most of the outstanding AMO add-ons are binary
- Cooliris was blocked on a bug that was fixed
Outstanding Issues/Concerns
- Biggest concern is security vendors
- Symantec doesn't have an ETA yet
- Have not got a response from some folks
- Large one is the Google toolbar
- They are aware of it, got ack
- Large one is the Google toolbar
- Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant has high users and isn't compatible
- Shouldn't impact users too much materially
- Concern that users will see the compat warning anyway and not update
- Kev will talk to Garmin
- Jorge will talk to Shaver to talk to MS
- Jorge will try to get in contact with the FoxTab developer
- Support is concerned about Conduit
- Jorge has contact info, he will contact w/ Cww
- Support is concerned about not having enough data/visibility
- Not as concerned as of a couple weeks ago
Security
Current Status
- Looks good
- Concerned about bug 664009
Outstanding Issues
- Concerned about bug 664009, will be disclosed between Firefox 5 and 6
- We decided to rebuild for this
Localization
Current Status
- Getting close to resolving what we are going to call all 86 builds
- We've been triaging all the "beta" locales trying to get that list down
- Think we're in very good shape
Outstanding Issues/Concerns
- None
Build Mechanics
Current Status
- bhearsum has been setting up the releases/mozilla-release repo
- A number of hours of being done
- Even if it wasn't done, we could do some manual hackery off of releases/mozilla-beta
Outstanding Issues/Concerns
- Need to know if we should throttle or not
- Ideally we know before the build off of releases/mozilla-release
Web Content
Current Status
- Almost complete, expecting everything to be done on Friday
Outstanding Issues/Concerns
- Release notes aren't finished yet
- A few pages may not be completely localized
- Nothing that would stop a release
Mobile Engineering
- bug 664114 - Context Menu doesn't resize properly when switching the window orientation
- Reported on 6/14