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

• builds available
• QA is testing release candidate
• might have to respin to pick up bug 510583 (migration issue)

Firefox 3.0.15 / Firefox 3.5.4

• schedule on the wiki
• targeting mid-late October release

Firefox 3.0.13 -> 3.5.2 Major Update Offer

• about 15m new users on 3.5.x in the last two weeks
• 3.5.x usages comprises ~35% of Firefox users now

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 1.0x

• Maemo Beta 3 shipped last week
• Windows Mobile Alpha 3 later this week
• Maemo Beta 4 in approximately 3 weeks
  • looking to do a slushy string freeze shortly
  • need to co-ordinate the /toolkit string freeze with Firefox 3.6 and other /toolkit contributors

Support

• Top 3.5 issue over past week is lost bookmarks after updating. bug 510583
• Crash article sprint is Sept 3rd. Please CC me on any crash bugs you want documented.

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  • also looking at protecting users with out of date plugins, see our current ideas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)

Localization

State of the onion:

• product
  • Firefox 3.5 with 11 beta languages
  • Firefox 3.6 at 60 strings to 1.9.1 right now
  • 1.9.2 at 16 green, 27 not yet migrated. Outreach going for a week, 4 done by me
  • Thunderbird 3b4 with 150+ strings cf b3 in Sept
  • Fennec with 250 strings on top of toolkit 1.9.2, most locales way better. Search, bookmarks, packaging not on track.
  • weave coming in, with probably less than the current 200 strings
• web
  • lots, but probably different community
• amo
  • dito
• sumo
  • probably some work for fennec, updates for fx 3.6

Shipping Fennec in particular:

• string freeze for fennec b4?
  • should be two weekends, thu - tue the following week
  • including toolkit 1.9.2
• packaging of fennec l10n for maemo needs owner (bug 490482)
• testable builds for maemo, packaging, upload etc. see above
• release infra for l10n maemo?

3.5 to 3.6, minor update? how to deal with locales?

QA

• 3.6 QA - Ongoing feature testing brainstorming sessions
  • Last week we went through the multitouch feature
  • This week Aeropeek
• Testdays:
  • Last: (Fennec)
    • Had a max of 39 in the testday channel at its peak
    • 111 Litmus test cases run
    • 24 Bugs Filed with 1 blocker, 2 critical and 4 major bugs in the queue
    • Verified 196 Resolved Fennec Bugs!
    • Toptester: KenS with 51 litmus testcases run
    • Top Bugfinder: kbrosnan with 4 bugs filed
    • Major contributors outside mozQA: kbrosnan, wope, mfinkle, bcombee, fabrice, tmyoung, adric, mekic, Ken, gaby2300
  • 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
    • 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
• Tegra:
  • Software update now functional in nightly builds.
  • Currently PFS causes Fx to crash
  • Investigating leaks on shutdown
  • Automation:
    • Some automation running and failures are being reported
    • Remote reftests strategy is showing promise
    • Hardware problems preventing ctalbert from running mochitests

Release Engineering

• l10n nightly updates on m-c, 192
  • Not doing on 191 until we sort out bottleneck.
  • delays in en-US nightly updates
• super fast 3.5.3 builds; from "go" to handoff of signed win32 builds in same day
• 3.0.14->3.5.3 MU offer will be for manual CheckForUpdates only (again).

Add-Ons

• 5.0.9 launch tomorrow
  • Bandwagon Phase II
  • Public stats dashboard
  • Enhanced validation suite
• Developer.AMO in 5.1
• SWilsher presenting to platform & Fx teams on reviewing add-ons
• Add-ons Meetups
  • Miami - Sept 15
  • Chicago - Sept 29
• Review queue burndown this weekend

Web Dev

• morgamic & co rocked bug 512483 to get some Flash checking in for 3.5.3

Evangelism

• Don't forget to mark your bugs with the dev-doc-needed keyword if they may impact developer documentation.
• Deep into our gap analysis now - looking for interviews
• Starting to get more feedback from developers - need to figure out the forum for getting that feedback in.

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: Website/Sprints/PluginProblem#Plug-In_Problem
  • Bugs: 512787, 391433

• Firefox Update Education Page
  • Firefox Update Content Mozilla.com Optimization
  • 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.
  • Bugs: 512756, 509137, 512764, 512768