Firefox:1.5.0.7:Community

Overall Schedule

Development:

• Nominations Deadline: Tuesday, August 15th
• Approval Request Slush: Tuesday, August 22nd
• Code Freeze (Checkin Deadline): Monday, August 28th
• First Candidates Available: Week of August 28th - September 1st
• Tentative Ship Dates: TBD - shortly after Firefox 2.0 release

QA:

• Bug Verifications: Ongoing starting Monday, August 14th
• Smoketests: Tuesday, August 29th
• BFTs: Tuesday, August 29th - Thursday, August 31st
• Post to the QA blog for Community Testing: Friday, September 1st
• RC1/Community Testing and Test Day: Friday, September 1st
• Focus/Exploratory Testing: Ongoing starting Tuesday, August 29th
• l10n + Update Testing: TBD - shorlty after Firefox 2.0 release

Release:

• Candidate Builds:
• Release Tagging:
• l10n Packaging:
• Update Patches/CJK Repackaging:
• Notify Partners and Distributors of final RC:
• Prep Security Notes and Notify Security Group:
• Release Signing:
• Release Prep and Ship:

General Info & Status

• Tinderbox Page - For latest build status, bug queries, and checkins.

Firefox 1.5.0.7 Test Plan <-- MoCo QA tasks and results are here.

• includes the General Firefox 1.5.0.x Test Plan

In order to get more coverage on fixes going in for Firefox 1.5.0.7, we need the community to help test the latest RC candidates or nightly "-firefox1.5.0.7" branch builds while looking at the current list of fixed1.8.0.7 bugs (excluding XForms bugs). Here are a few ways to help:

• Universal Binary testing on MacOS X
  • As we transition to shipping UB builds to Mac users, we need the community to help test these latest builds to make sure Firefox AND Thunderbird works across a number of configurations on both PPC and IntelMac machines.
• BFTs & Regression Testing: Running through a set of BFTs on Litmus is the best way to test basic functionality and explore various areas for regressions.
• Extensions & Themes Testing: Install and use some of your favorite extensions and themes. Try a few new ones from addons.mozilla.org to make sure everything works as expected.

Community testing and feedback will be managed through the QA Blog and the Newsgroup, so keep an eye out for posts and discussions there!

l10n Tasks

As builds become available for various locales, we need localizers to run them through their usual smoketests/BFTs. Once tested and verified, they can sign off on the build for their locale in the table below.

In order for this to work, we need localizers signed up for this work ASAP. Given the schedule and the dates we currently have for various stages of the release cycle, I hope most of them can make time to do this for 1.5.0.7.

Links to official list of released locals:

• Firefox Locales
• Thunderbird Locales

P1 Locales

• da
• de
• es-ES
• fi
• fr
• it
• ja-JP-mac (mac primarily)
• ja
• nl
• pl
• zh-CN
• zh-TW