Firefox/Planning/2009-08-26

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Firefox/Gecko Delivery Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am Pacific, 2:00pm Eastern, 18:00 UTC
• Mozilla Square Conference Room
• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 8605 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8605 (US)
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
• (the developer meeting takes place on Tuesdays)

Upcoming Firefox Releases

Firefox 3.0.14 / Firefox 3.5.3

Firefox 3.0.15 / Firefox 3.5.4

Firefox 3.0.13 -> 3.5.2 Major Update Offer

Namaroka

• 14,000 ADUs on Alpha 1
• 6,000 ADUs on Namaroka nightlies
• proposed schedule
  • September 14 - string freeze
  • September 21 - beta 1 code freeze
  • September 29 - beta 1 delivery
  • October 12 - rc1 code freeze
  • October 20 - rc1 delivery
  • early November - final release

Fennec 1.0b3

Product Development

• for Namoroka/mozilla-1.9.2:
  • looks like it will be possible to integrate Personas for Firefox 3.6
  • also looking at protecting users with out of date plugins, see our current ideas
  • also looking at Ts and Tsnap priorities
• for future/mozilla-central:
  • last call for comments on the multitouch JS API prototype work (see proposed DOM events)
  • CSS Transitions close to landing (dbaron)
  • just merged a bunch of things, should be perf wins and Google Docs regression fixes

(for more information, see the developers' meeting notes from yesterday)

QA

• 3.6 QA - Ongoing feature testing brainstorming sessions
  • Last week we went through the multitouch feature
  • This week Aeropeek
• Testdays:
  • Last:
    • Toptester: KenS with 51 litmus testcases run
    • Top Bugfinder: kbrosnan with 4 bugs filed
    • Had a max of 39 in the testday channel at its peak
    • Major contributors outside mozQA: kbrosnan, wope, mfinkle, bcombee, fabrice, tmyoung, adric, mekic, Ken, gaby2300
    • Verified 196 Resolved Fennec Bugs!
    • 24 Bugs Filed with 1 blocker, 2 critical and 4 major bugs in the queue
    • 111 Litmus test cases run
  • Next: Fx3.5 Session Store using the QA Companion - Sept 4
• Fennec:
  • Last week:
    • Maemo Beta3 is out the door
    • Windows Mobile Alpha3 should be out by end of week
    • Very successful Fennec testday last Friday
    • massive bug cleanup (verified 250+ bugs so far, making sweep of open bugs as well)
  • this/Next week:
    • updating litmus testcases to match latest UI
    • more bug cleanup
    • update test plan
    • update QMO project
    • logcompare tool to track new unittest failures
    • update talos tpan/tzoom

Evangelism

• Don't forget to mark your bugs with the dev-doc-needed keyword if they may impact developer documentation.

Marketing/PR

• Plug-in Detector Page
  • Received PSDs of the final design yesterday.
  • Web Dev hacking on back end and page implementation for 9/30
  • See schedule here:https://wiki.mozilla.org/Website/Sprints/PluginProblem#Plug-In_Problem
• Firefox Update Education Page
  • Silver Orange has files and is implementing page.
  • Hope to have page live for 9/8
    • Both pages will be promoted on Mozilla.Org for Internet Health Day.