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Firefox 4 Beta 7

• as per the dev planning thread, could be shipped either off the GECKO20b7pre_20101006_RELBRANCH or default tags of mozilla-central. We'll discuss that in today's exciting roundtable.
• Of the remaining blockers:
  • bug 595243 and bug 595743 are getting JSD/Firebug working with compartments; waiting for more complete patch from Sayrer/Gal?
  • bug 606585 was just added recently, needs a patch
  • bug 604641 looks like it will be resolved with additional merges from TraceMonkey in order to get the JetPack SDK working with compartments bug 604523 and bug 604523
  • bug 604756 and bug 604996 fix high frequency stability issues with compartments; both have patches which are being evaluated/tested
  • bug 598600 is ready but doesn't apply to the relbranch
  • bug 606726 is tracking API changes which need to land on the relbranch
  • bug 603300 and bug 596087 just need to land

Blocker Report

A handy list of Firefox 4 triage queries is available. You can also see a graph of our blocker rates:

• Beta 7: 11 blockers
• Beta: 470 blockers
• Final: 399 blockers
  • TOTAL: 869 blockers
  • nominations: 207 nominations
  • ready to land: 10 blockers ready

Firefox Development

(from our goals):

Firefox

• [AT RISK] Finish Firefox 4
  • 160 Firefox/Toolkit blockers

• [ON TRACK] API-Complete Jetpack
  • Joint with Jetpack team
  • Currently working towards feature-complete beta SDK

• [ON TRACK] Stand up basic Firefox with Electrolysis
  • Joint with Platform
  • UI may not be functional, should launch and open a web page.
  • Project tracking page

Developer Tools

• [NEW] Finish Firefox 4 developer tools
  • 15 blocking developer tools bugs

• [NEW] Ensure that Firefox 4 ships with a compatible version of Firebug

• [NEW] Publish a roadmap for integrated developer tools in Firefox, including console, inspection, and js debugging

• [NEW] Develop long term plan for Skywriter maintenance/support

Platform

• Goals: Real list found here. Quick overview:
  • [ON TRACK] Finish Firefox 4 blockers.
  • [ON TRACK] Support Firefox Team to stand up a browser on Electrolysis.

Roundtable

• [beltzner] Should we ship beta 7 off mozilla-central default or the b7 relbranch created on October 6th?
  • since October 6th, over 300 blockers and over 500 non-blockers have landed on mozilla-central
  • we have not had nightly testing on the b7 relbranch, and the compartments work has never been on that branch
  • prior to the compartments landing, QA had declared the b7 relbranch content to be stable