Firefox3.1/StatusMeetings/2008-07-08

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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

• Platform Status
  • Acid3
  • Performance
  • Image Decoding
    • SVG as image is in danger of slipping
  • SVG
  • Video
  • Mac
  • SMIL
  • Worker Threads
  • Storage (sdwilsh)
    • Async work just about done. Just need one more review.
      • bug 435995 (templated nsIVariant to use with sqlite) - needs review from dbaron (or someone who knows templates well)
      • bug 435994 (part of async api) - has all reviews
      • bug 429986 (hooks all async api together) - has all reviews
    • SQLite 3.5.9 backed out for bug 442949. We are now at 3.5.4.2 again.
  • offline storage
    • rest of spec - all major patches up and waiting for review
    • local storage

• Firefox Status
  • proposed feature list
  • Awesomebar
    • show keywords (bug 392143) - in review
    • edit middle (bug 407888) - in review
    • restrict match (bug 395161) - has review
  • Places
    • reducing fsyncs (bug 442967) - sdwilsh testing different approaches
      • nothing good yet performance wise, but a few options still exists.
      • working with sqlite folks to get perf improvements into sqlite that will help us (3.6.0 will have some wins)
    • transaction manager perf improvements (bug 432706) - in review
    • tag autocomplete (bug 415960) - needs UX analysis
    • bulk tagging/editing (bug 412002) - needs work
    • quick tagging UI (bug 434946) - deprioritized, needs UX analysis
  • Install/Update
  • Tab Find
    • ctr-tab (bug 395980) - waiting for review (connor) and UX feedback (jennifer)
    • all tabs (bug 436304) - blocked by ctrl-tab

Schedule Update (existing draft, not final)

• ship in 4Q/08 or 1Q/09
• first alpha in july
  • platform in good shape SVG fonts, SVG as image only things at risk
• first beta in august

Localization

L10n builds drafted by bsmedberg, see bug 434289 and MozillaTest.

Repository structure still not settled, see thread in .l10n.

Build

• still need to get release automation working properly on hg. Now at risk for 14july date.

Round table

• on release day, having "check-for-updates" for a FF3.0 user do a major update up to FF3.1.
  • note: *not* doing automatic major update for all users, only those that explicitly select check-for-updates. This improves the experience for existing FF user who wants to be on latest, yet is forced to manually download & install.