Firefox3.5/StatusMeetings/2009-05-13

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Firefox Product Delivery Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - Firefox 3 - 11:00am Pacific, 2:00pm Eastern, 18:00 UTC
• Mozilla Building S
• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 8605 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8605 (US)
• irc.mozilla.org #shiretoko for backchannel

NOTE: See Platform#Meeting_Notes for development meeting notes

Firefox 3.0.x Releases

Firefox 3.0.11

• was Firefox 3.0.10, has the same fixes (plus a couple)
• QA is testing, will start builds next week
• on track for early June ship

Firefox 3.0.12

• schedule coming this week
• probably a mid-July release

Support

• Firefox crashing updates:
  • Much fewer (from ~ 35/300 sampled to just 23) this week! Yay.
  • Seeing almost no _PR_MD_SEND, don't know why.
  • New crash: crashing on gmail or when leaving gmail/google sites. Probably: bug 489970
    • Also saw at least one crash that is different: [1] [2] (fix here was clean install... contact zzxc if you want to help troubleshoot/dig deeper, we have some of the user's files to test with)
• 3.5 Forum threads No new issues.
• Can we use screenshots from b4 in documentation or should we hold off til RC?
• Clear Recent History and Privacy pane docs are now updated for 3.5

Engineering

Firefox 3.5/Gecko 1.9.1 Development Update

• see yesterday's platform meeting notes as well
• at 66 blockers without fixes for final ship

Beta 4

• 650k+ ADUs
• interestingly, 150k+ ADUs on 3.1b3 - do we know why?

Firefox 3.5 RC

• goal is to code freeze late in the week of the 18th
  • build will need 1 day to OSX/Linux builds, another day for w32 & updates
  • QA needs 7 business days

Firefox.next/Gecko 1.9.2 Planning

• there's a variety of planning documents and discussions; some of these may be altered due to the outcome of the work week!
• see also the plan for a team to investigate separating content processes recently posted by bsmedberg
  • Firefox (Namoroka): draft plan | discussion
  • Gecko - Content: draft plan | discussion
  • Gecko - Layout: draft plan | discussion
  • Gecko - JavaScript: draft plan | discussion
  • Gecko - Graphics: draft plan | discussion

Localization

Upcoming l10n changes

• geolocation UI strings (3-4 changes)
  • bug 491732, bug 491739 and bug 488574 all done
• site-specific search bug 482229
• video a11y changes bug 490287, bug 489549
• if you know of any others, tells us now!

• Status is:
  • 21 are fully localized
  • 49 missing 6 strings (so, geolocation changes)
  • 2 missing 146 strings (post b3 changes)

QA

• Bug Verifications last week
  • 98 1.9.1+Trunk bugs verified (core/firefox/toolkit)
  • 65 1.9.1 bugs verified
  • Bug verifications have picked up momentum again and doubled since last week
• QA Meetup Tonight
  • Purpose: Clint Talbert, QA Testdev lead, will be performing reftest demos tonight @7:00pm in Building K!
  • If you can attend, please add yourself to the Participants list!
• Firebug Testday
  • Litmus results from last Friday's Firebug testday
  • 16 bugs filed, 1 invalid, 8 fixed shortly after (thanks, tmyoung and jhillacre)
• Website Compatibility Testing Project
  • We are still looking for volunteers to test their banking institution. Please register and contribute your results.

Release Engineering

• Firmware upgrade last night went really well, let us know if you see any problems.
• Did another fake major update in the lead up to FF3.5 release with major update offer on release day.

Add-Ons

• 58% compatibility
• 3.5b4 compatibility mailer was sent out

Evangelism

• 35 Days - Lots of people signed up now: Evangelism/Firefox3.5/35Days
• Upgrade the web stuff is coming together
  • WP developer - just waiting on contract stuff
  • MT developer - gen is chasing down and have someone set up
• Wordpress 2.8 - http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7262#comment:36
  • Not closed for offline support but looks like it's an issue on their end
• Perf numbers - still not closed here - working with pat and clint on issues

Marketing/PR

• Site updates continuing, nearing completion overall. Status here: Firefox3.5/WebsitePlan

• "What's new" and "Thank you" videos currently in production, should be ready by May 22nd

• Developing SEM campaign for launch, and evaluating other online marketing opportunities

• Fastest Firefox campaign:
  • Basic landing pages are ready
  • Upload page is in QA (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=492562)
  • After these pages are all out of QA, some minor coordination will be needed to tie them all together and get them ready for launch but we'll basically be set.
  • Will launch this campaign 3 weeks before the 3.5 launch

• Community marketing workshops continue in runup to launch
  • Social media workshop Thursday @ 9 a.m. PDT/16:00 UTC - Details
  • 636 Campus reps registered as of 5/12 with workshop on Thursday @ 10 a.m. PDT/17:00 UTC - Details
  • Community PR workshop this Friday @ 9am PDT/16:00 UTC - Details

• 3.5 PR activities underway
  • Press tour - spokesfolk notified, dates confirmed, now scheduling meetings
  • Updating reviewer's guide
  • Drafting press release
  • Drafting public FAQ
  • Press deck