Firefox3.1/StatusMeetings/2008-08-05
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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# 217 (US/INTL)
- 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 217 (US)
- irc.mozilla.org #shiretoko for backchannel
(See Platform#Meeting_Notes for Gecko 1.9.1 progress)
Firefox 3.1
- Alpha 1 shipped on Monday, July 28th
- see the release notes for more details
- if you had a feature that landed in Alpha 1, please, like mardak’s post about awesomebar improvements
- beltzner to get bugs filed that will let us see user counts for alpha
- Status of items that didn’t make Alpha 1
- offline storage / local storage – try to get it in this week/next week
- downloadable fonts – mostly works, some hacky bits, big issue will be clean
- native JSON – going well, not at risk
- media queries – landed!
- Password Manager to mozStorage – nailed down, working on tests, not at risk
- New in nightlies
- <video> using Ogg
- media queries
- Items identified as At Risk / Long Poles
- worker threads – potential risk, still looking hard
- SVG image decoding – CUT
- bulk tagging (bug 412002) – some add-on uplift available
- add-on updating – waiting for rob on review, needs testing
- private browsing mode – at severe risk
- front end polish work – unscoped, underresourced, at risk
- prism uplift – at risk
- color management profile on by default – Making progress – will determine if libpr0n threading is necessary by the end of wed
- Places performance work
- Fsync: Shawn, notes, orig bug: bug 421482, places bug: bug 449086
- Batch passivity (Shawn, Dietrich, bug 432706)
- Bookmark deletes are slow (Marco, bug 418643)
- Incremental queries (Dietrich, bug )
- default theme cleanup/revisions
- Security reviews
- beltzner to whip
- Beta 1 Schedule
- proposed code freeze August 19th, string freeze August 15th
- 20 blockers for 3.1/1.9.1
- 89 blocking nominations
- ongoing 2.0.0.x / 3.0.x work to consider
- joduinn unsure that we can get the l10n-infra requirements done in time
- issue1: aaravind needs to set up l10n repos (he’s on vacation this week)
- issue2: cvs files from old l10n repos need to be migrated & verified
- snapshot? manual? axel and john disagreed
- issue3: need to test / try to see if automation works
- issue4: localizer tutorial on mercurial
- no eta on how long issues2/3/4 will take
- beltzner, joduinn and pike to take this offline
Localization
- one repo per locale that overlays all mozilla projects
- see above, potential long pole for Beta 1
- will likely import a snapshot from CVS, losing blame history (significantly easier)
QA
- Firefox 3.1 TestPlan
- Pairing QA resources to features
- Feature Areas needing more information (dev, spec):
- add-on updating – waiting for rob on review, needs testing
- private browsing mode – needs resource, at risk
- front end polish work – unscoped, underresourced, at risk
- QA resources will be light in August
Build
- FF3.1b1 will be done manually.
- no updates from alpha -> beta
Roundtable
- bug 448616 – we have no symbols for nightlies
- bug 433710 – graph server still isn’t looking at memory leak configurations