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

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