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Firefox 3.1 Meeting Minutes: 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

  • 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.

Marketing/PR

Roundtable

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