Firefox3.1/StatusMeetings/2008-10-29

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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) <-- note new extension: x92 instead of x91!
• 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 2.0.0.x / 3.0.x

• Firefox 2.0.0.18 & 3.0.4
  • Firefox 3.0.4 is code frozen and handed off to build
  • Firefox 2.0.0.18 just had last patch checked in
  • After appropriate green cycles, we'll give the go to build
  • Unclear if scheduled release date is still possible.
• Thunderbird 2.0.0.18
  • Schedule is on the wiki
  • Any problems with this schedule?
• Firefox 2.0.0.19 & 3.0.5
  • Proposed schedules are on the wiki
  • Please email me if you have any problems/questions with the schedule
  • We'll be giving QA a longer period this release, which means a quick code freeze
  • Code freeze is scheduled for Monday, November 17, at 11:59pm
• Major update
  • Not clear when we're doing the next major update. Should know more next week (or after the round table!).

Support

Weekly common issues

• No new mysterious install error this week
• 434403 is now covered in this KB article
• QA input needed: Turner media plugin

Firefox 3.1

Beta 1

• about 100k users
• probably want to get about twice that for beta 2

Beta 2

• Plan for Beta 2
  • en-US string freeze is Thursday, October 30th at 11:59pm PDT
  • code freeze is Tuesday, November 4th at 11:59pm PDT
  • need to start thinking about how we want to highlight and present beta 2 to users
  • release roadmap

QA

• Q: why is some work landing into hg without a bug number? (eg. enabling JIT)
• Our top critical tracking issues blocking Beta 2 test development:
  • (Stephend) bug 450314 - use a special tag to block results from the awesomebar
    • Requested Blocking flag. Needs tests
  • (Marcia) bug 411929 - Private Browsing UI
    • Word is this will be land by thursday. Has been priortized.
  • (Marcia) bug 248970 - (PrivateBrowsing) Private Browsing mode (global toggle for saving/caching everything)
    • Requested Blocking flag. Needs tests and patch review.
  • (Marcia) bug 436304 - Implement "All Tabs" panel with previews
    • Requested blocking flag. Blocking litmus tests, need UI
  • (Marcia) bug 347930 - Tab strip should be a toolbar instead
    • Requested blocking flag. Blocking litmus tests, need UI
• Fx3.1 Feature testing progress spreadsheet
  • Testplan completion %: 80% (last week: 67%)
  • Estimated testcases: 743 (last week: 444)
  • Testcase completion %: 46% (last week: 29%)
    • Targeted % by Beta 2 ship: Testplans 100% | Testcases 50%
    • Targeted % by RC1 ship: Testplans 100% | Testcases 90%
• As always, Feature Testplans and progress here.
• Private browsing testday pushed to 11/7 (marcia)

Evangelism

• Sheppy has been cranking on docs
  • Video + Audio docs continue
  • All interfaces that were documented in Firefox 3.0 are now updated for 3.1
  • Updated storage documentation (including async execution)

• Add-ons status
  • Rey is doing a blog post every week
  • Paul started this week (yay!) and his first task is to help Rey with add-ons changes for 3.1 and act as a tech evang for XUL

• Demo sites for 3.1
  • Video conference this week - talking to Wikipedia guys about <video>
  • Some more meetings next week
  • Need to talk to the zimbra folks as well

Roundtable

• Firefox 2 end of life discussion (see discussion in dev.planning)
• Priority on polish (see discussion in dev.apps.firefox)