Firefox3.1/StatusMeetings/2008-08-12

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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# 8605 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8605 (US)
• irc.mozilla.org #shiretoko for backchannel

(See Platform#Meeting_Notes for Gecko 1.9.1 progress)

Firefox 2.0.0.17 / 3.0.2

• • code freeze is Friday, Aug 15th
  • simultaneous release
  • 3.0.2 will be the version which we eventually offer as a major update
  • more information on releases tracking page
    • triage queries on Firefox 3.0 tinderbox and Mozilla 1.8 tinderbox

Firefox 3.1

• Testing user base counts (measured in ADU pings)
  • 3.1a1 ~ 5500
  • 3.1a2pre ~ 5500

• New in nightlies
  • bz's tab reparenting (drag and drop between windows)

• Feature status
  • see feature list
  • Potential Risk for 19th
    • bulk tagging: not making it
    • tag autocomplete: not making it
    • awesomebar privacy: not even spec'd
    • places perf
      • fsync: great progress, but not going to make it
        • most of the core changes complete and reviewed (sdwilsh)
        • much query optimization still needs to be done (marco, analysis)
        • need baseline and delta testing for UI (dietrich)
        • contacting portable apps and linux people for testing
    • enhanced compatibility checking during upgrades
    • Better default controls for video
    • SSL error pages improvements
    • downloadable fonts (linux isn't there, security issues, etc)
    • parts of worker threads
    • CSS transforms
    • offline caching
    • offline transition
    • SMIL (bug 216462)

• several items feel like another alpha would help

• Alpha 2 Schedule
  • code freeze August 19th, string freeze August 15th
  • beltzner very lax on triage, will fix over next 48 hours
  • l10n-infra now ready

Localization

• repositories set up
• are the localizers checking in with hg?
• axel to have an answer on tagging/signoff mechanism by Friday

QA

• Firefox 3.1 TestPlan
  • QA/dev feature assignments complete
  • Work on Feature Testplans have begun
  • Looking for a 1.5 - 2 week window for testing features against the beta
• QA resources will be light in August
• MU testing will take about a week (juanb)
  • Fixed MU bugs will also need verifying in 2.0.0.17

Build

• FF3.1b1 will be done manually.
  • no updates from alpha -> beta
• still working out L10n and release automation; see discussions in dev.planning
• RelEng group will be thin end of August

Roundtable

• bug 448616 - no symbols for 3.1 builds; seems to be a XCode problem, being worked
• bug 433710 - graph server doesn't show memleaks; patch awaiting review