Firefox3.1/StatusMeetings/2008-10-01
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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 x91 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 2.0.0.x / 3.0.x
2.0.0.17 / 3.0.2 / 3.0.3:
- Shipped 2.0.0.17 & 3.0.2 last Tuesday
- A bug was found after shipping that affected the password manager
- Determined we needed to firedrill for the aforementioned bug
- Shipped 3.0.3 on Friday
2.0.0.18 / 3.0.4:
- Currently doing triage
- Target release date is November 12 (See Releases)
- Also tracking a couple bugs on both branches to see if we need to move the release up by a couple weeks; should know more by the end of the week.
Support
- common issues
- New this week:
- Possible new malware attack, doubled pages is the most common symptom
- Slowness in downloading/rendering pages may be LinkedIn extension, may need some QA
- Norton Firewall blocking EVERYTHING after Firefox update
- Threatfire3
- Preliminary data from KB metrics is up now
- Stats on the 3.0.2 password manager bug: at least 500 people found the KB page on this topic so thanks to everyone in the RRRT for helping us get it up so fast.
Firefox 3.1
Beta 1
- code freeze last night
- still tracking several regressions:
- still need to land:
- native JSON bug 408838
- external references bug 433616
- once done with Beta 1, we’ll keep the tree frozen for sdwilsh
Beta 2
- continuing to evaluate content for revised schedule, should have decisions by end of this week
- string freeze is Thursday, October 30th at 11:59pm
- code freeze is Tuesday, November 4th at 11:59pm
Support
- list of changes so far
- Please keep using user-doc-needed or add stuff to that page so we can start writing/updating articles.
Localization
- 35 lanuages for Firefox 3.1 Beta 1
- Release specific dashboard is available.
- Sign-off thread on google groups with given stamps worked good, no green locales missing opt-in.
- Dropping tinderboxens due to long cycle time make collecting tinderstatus impossible, ignore that info on the dashboard.
QA
- Shipped Fx3.0.3 to beta and release channels last friday
- Drafting up the Beta 1 Testplan. No ETA yet.
- Began automating smoketests for Fx3.1 litmus tests in javascript
- Gristmill API Beta landed last week (thanks to ctalbert, adamc, mikeal)
- Gristmill Tutorial here.
- More progress on testcase and testplan development for:
- CSS Transform tests have a patch in
- CSS Border Radius
- XSS-XHR test review done
- SVG as image and Media Queries
- Video Seeking feature for use in Video tests
- Search text widget work (mostly mochitests)
- Private Browsing
- CSS Multiple backgrounds
- Nightly bug verifications and nominating beta1 blockers
Release Engineering
- FF3.1b1
- slower then usual security release, en-US available before l10n
- scheduling
- 3.1b2
- 2.0.0.18 / 3.0.4
- another FF2->FF3.0 major update?
- plans/discussions on branching FF3.1, so mozilla-central becomes FF3.next?
- when is post mortum on 2.0.0.17/3.0.2/3.0.3?
Evangelism
- Documentation is well underway, but lots to do still. Please make sure that your developer-facing changes are listed on the Firefox 3.1 for developers page; if it’s not there, there is no plan to write about it!
- Add-ons for Firefox 3.1 – who can help with documenting that? Mark is on mobile, kind of hard. Another person via Mike?
- 3.0.2 regression – rey is on it.