Firefox3.1/StatusMeetings/2008-11-26

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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 Major Update
  • major update beta shipped last week
  • aiming for major update final on Tuesday, December 2
• Thunderbird 2.0.0.18
  • shipped, yay!
• Firefox 2.0.0.19 and 3.0.5
  • Now frozen but investigating one regression
  • Aiming for release in mid December after long QA period
  • Phishing Protection (uses SafeBrowsing v1 protocol) will be disabled in this version
  • Aiming for builds to start on Monday or Tuesday at the latest

Support

Weekly common issues

• Locked/corrupted places.sqlite is still common, also seeing a couple corrupted cookies.sqlite

3.0.4

• New 3.0.4 issues (tracking on RRRT page):
• Follow-up from last week's 3.0.4 issues (see [Releases/FirefoxRRRT_3.0.4|3.0.4 RRRT page):
  • more crashes (may be related to memory usage, or that could be a red herring?)
  • OSX: bug 459531
  • Windows: crash on 0x00 may be AVG8 bug 446224, Backdoor.Ulrbot.C rose a lot of places in the topcrashes list after 3.0.4 came out bug 434403.
    • Crashes
  • Firewall blocks connectivity (Norton mostly)
  • Firefox 3.0.4 uses 100% of the CPU while idle bug 464864
  • Unsolved memory leak in windows: bug 457234?

2.0.0.18

• Follow-up from last week's 2.0.0.18 issues:
  • Gmail loads in basic mode: large forum thread {bug 464796. Forcing https is a solution that I got working with someone in Live Chat.
    • Only one new report of this, may have been fixed on gmail's side

Firefox 3.1

Development

(see development meeting notes)

Beta 2

• builds are now available and being tested
• QA timing still being worked out, new release schedule pending
• hoping for Dec 5th, no promises yet!

Branching Post Beta 2

• landing backlog of patches now
• periodically syncing to mozilla-1.9.1
• branch will become the active development repo for Firefox 3.1 work as of Monday, and trunk (mozilla-central) will re-open to non-blockers

Beta 3

• Beta 3 proposal (see dev.planning thread)
  • re-triage deadline Dec 4th using
    • blocker/P1 = must be fixed for next beta
    • blocker/P2 = must be fixed for release
  • deliver new blocker numbers and estimates
  • propose a schedule based on those roll ups
  • limited string change
  • no new features
  • no add-on compatibility changes
    • with exception of tab drag and drop
• developers accepted proposal

Support

Support Firefox Day is Friday!

Localization

• about:rights backport moving OK, down to zero regressed locales.
• 3.1b2 relbranch push went with less noise this time around
• branch repos gonna be exciting new lesson to teach
  • most apps gonna focus on 1.9.1, just fennec is not?
  • dashboard not up for 3.1 branch yet, waiting for pushlog update
• dashboard at 240 builds, 3.2 and fennec coming up. Might hit the limits of the current design.

QA

• QA is currently testing b2. Results here
  • signoff target late next week
• No other new updates