Firefox3.1/StatusMeetings/2008-08-12
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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
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- code freeze is Friday, Aug 15th
- simultaneous release
- 3.0.2 will be the version which we eventually offer as a major update
- 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 nightlies
- bz’s tab reparenting (drag and drop between windows)
- Feature status
- see feature list
- Potential Risk for 19th
- bulk tagging
- awesomebar improvements
- perf / fsync
- enhanced compatibility checking during upgrades
- Better default controls for video
- SSL error pages improvements
- downloadable fonts (linux isn’t there, security issues, etc)
- parts of worker threads
- CSS transforms
- offline caching
- offline transition
- SMIL (bug 216462)
- several items feel like another alpha would help
- Alpha 2 Schedule
- code freeze August 19th, string freeze August 15th
- beltzner very lax on triage, will fix over next 48 hours
- l10n-infra now ready
Localization
- repositories set up
- are the localizers checking in with hg?
- axel to have an answer on tagging/signoff mechanism by Friday
QA
- Firefox 3.1 TestPlan
- QA/dev feature assignments complete
- Work on Feature Testplans have begun
- Looking for a 1.5 – 2 week window for testing features against the beta
- QA resources will be light in August
- MU testing will take about a week (juanb)
- Fixed MU bugs will also need verifying in 2.0.0.17
Build
- FF3.1b1 will be done manually.
- no updates from alpha -> beta
- still working out L10n and release automation; see discussions in dev.planning
- RelEng group will be thin end of August
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