Firefox3.1/StatusMeetings/2008-08-19

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Firefox 3.1 Meeting Details

• Tuesdays – Firefox 3 – 11:00am Pacific, 2:00pm Eastern, 18:00 UTC
• Mozilla Building S
• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x91 Conf# 8605 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8605 (US)
• irc.mozilla.org #shiretoko for backchannel

(See Platform#Meeting_Notes for Gecko 1.9.1 progress)

Firefox 2.0.0.17 / 3.0.2

• major update happening before this release
• new code freeze is Tuesday, August 26th
  • more information on releases tracking page
  • triage queries on Firefox 3.0 tinderbox and Mozilla 1.8 tinderbox

Firefox 3.1

• Testing user base counts (measured in ADU pings)
  • 3.1a1 ~ 5500
  • 3.1a2pre ~ 5500

• New in a1 -> a2
  • windowing reparenting
  • aero glass
  • moz-border image
  • worker threads (partial)
  • cms support (landed, off)
  • video / audio support
  • java plugin (LiveConnect) on OSX is now enabled

• Feature status
• see feature list

• Alpha 2 Schedule
  • code freeze August 19th (today)
  • mconnor started into blocking triage on firefox3.1 stuff

• Beta 1 Schedule
  • code freeze Sept 9th

Localization

• Conclusion of a newsgroup thread about how we will be collecting changesets for mercurial l10n repositories. http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.planning/msg/40446de9e6e4a14c
• localizers starting to check into hg
  • MDC is read only, so can’t update docs (will do so temporarily on wiki.mo)
  • need builds to localizers can check effects of their work

QA

• MU fx 2->3 is going well
  • Test signoff, scheduled for signoff tomorrow
  • Localization billboard still blocking
  • For ETAs, please ping ss
• Firefox 3.1 TestPlan
• Feature Testplans developed for:
  • Ctrl-tab
  • Awesome bar
  • Addon Update
  • Downloadable Fonts
  • Audio/Video decoder
  • Memory Leaks
• Firefox 3.1 alpha 2 Release Test Plan
  • Dates?

Build

• priority is major update
  • can restrict major update on a per locale basis
  • can restrict major update based on source operating systems
    • Firefox 3 doesn’t support OSX 10.3, Win 95, Win 98, Win ME
• alpha 2
• 2.0.0.17/3.0.2

Roundtable

• bug 448616 – no symbols for 3.1 builds; seems to be a XCode problem, being worked
• bug 433710 – graph server doesn’t show memleaks; patch awaiting review – done
• bug 445611 – need tryservers that run tests
• if you need icons produced please tell faaborg