Firefox3.1/StatusMeetings/2008-07-15

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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

  • Alpha 1 Status
    • Targeted for Alpha 1
      • worker threads (under review)
      • offline storage / local storage (under review)
      • downloadable fonts (kinda maybe)
      • native JSON (under review)
      • WHATWG <canvas> text API
      • Awesomebar improvements (need review gavin, shepherding)
      • border image (under review)
      • media queries (under review)
      • bulk tagging
      • ctrl-tab
    • Not gonna make it for Alpha 1
      • Cross Site XHR (spec issues, yay)
      • SMIL
      • <video> decoders
      • SVG image decoding
      • query selectors (under review, spec issues?)
  • Platform Update
    • Storage (sdwilsh)
      • Landed asynchronous API on Friday. See this blog post for details.
      • SQLite 3.6.0 comes out this week
  • Front end update
    • Awesomebar (mardak, others)
    • Places
      • tag autocomplete (bug 415960, dietrich) - needs UX analysis
      • bulk tagging/editing (bug 412002, dietrich) - new patch imminent
      • reducing fsyncs (bug 442967, sdwilsh) - inconclusive and complex, probably not in 3.1 timeframe (See Places:FsyncApproach for details).
      • transaction manager perf improvements (bug 432706, marco) - needs review dietrich
  • currently on OSX there is no way to get Java working
    • nothing new from Sun for Firefox 3.1 timeframe
    • risk profile is that nobody owns OJI/knows that code
    • for 3.0 we enabled OJI
    • action item: jst to file bug to reenable

Localization

where are we on l10n repository structure? 
one repo per locale, settled on today's call
build 
changes somewhere between :bs and releng

progress mostly around bug 434289 and bug 434878

QA

  • need to ensure test plans for new features are being filed
  • QA Fx3.1 Testplan in progress.
    • Working on correlating Fx3.1 features to QA owners.
  • Alpha 1 testing will consist of smoketests and high level spotchecks. En-US only.

Build

  • progress on build automation?
    • not yet started. Worst case, will do manually which is slower.

Round table