Firefox3.5/StatusMeetings/2009-05-20

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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)
• 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 3.0.x Releases

Firefox 3.0.11

• QA has builds and is testing
• on track for shipping in early June
• might change release date by a day or two to accommodate mirrors

Firefox 3.0.12

• aiming for mid-July release

Support

• 3.5 forum threads: May 10–May 16, 33 threads
• Nothing new to report. Top issue is still sqlite issues. No new issues.

Engineering

Firefox 3.5/Gecko 1.9.1 Development Update

• see yesterday's platform meeting notes as well
• at 36 blockers without fixes for final ship

Beta 4

Firefox 3.5 RC

Firefox.next/Gecko 1.9.2 Planning

• there's a variety of planning documents and discussions; some of these may be altered due to the outcome of the work week!
• see also the plan for a team to investigate separating content processes recently posted by bsmedberg
  • Firefox (Namoroka): draft plan | discussion
  • Gecko - Content: draft plan | discussion
  • Gecko - Layout: draft plan | discussion
  • Gecko - JavaScript: draft plan | discussion
  • Gecko - Graphics: draft plan | discussion

Localization

Upcoming l10n changes

• geolocation UI strings (3-4 changes)
  • bug 491732, bug 491739 and bug 488574 all done
• site-specific search bug 482229 (is this l10n?)
• video a11y changes bug 490287, bug 489549 are done
• video keyboard access bug bug 486899

• Status is:
  • xx are fully localized
  • xx missing 6 strings (so, geolocation changes)
  • x missing 146 strings (post b3 changes)

QA

• Fx3.5 RC1 Testplan being finalized. ETA code freeze is 5/21, with a target of 7-10 days of testing
  • Video performance and Controls, Geolocation, Session Restore, Tabbed Browsing, Drag and drop functionality, Clear history/ private browsing/ forget this site, topsites layout and performance, windows 7 adhoc testing. Please suggest any other broad regression areas here.
• bug 483058 - Fx3.0->3.5 Major Update dialog testing across all platforms and 3.5 locales (juanb, abillings)
• Bug Verifications last week
  • 85 1.9.1+Trunk bugs verified (core/firefox/toolkit)
  • 60 1.9.1 bugs verified
  • Bug verifications stayed about the same as last week
• Upcoming Testdays
  • AMO Testday this friday.
  • Firefox 3.5 RC1 Testday on friday 5/29
• QA Meetup Results
  • The reftest demo (done by Clint Talbert) drew about a dozen folks into the office, some returnees from last event. See the full writeup in the link.
• Website Compatibility Testing Project
  • We are always looking for volunteers to test their banking institution (especially internationally) Please register and contribute your results.
  • Chofmann brought to my attention that webmail sites may need some extra testing. There's been reports of crashing on hotmail and yahoo mail

Release Engineering

• FF3.0.11 went from "go" to handoff of all builds to QA in one (long) day yesterday.
  • includes doing partner builds automatically too! :-)
• spike in load; 2.5 times jobs incoming yesterday vs previous days.

Add-Ons

• Huge AMO redesign coming first week of June
• Add-ons meetup on 5/26
  • Will be broadcast on air.mozilla
  • Over 40 RSVP's from add-on developers
  • List of sessions
• Extend Firefox 3.5 contest starts on 6/15
• Compat still around 60% for 3.5.*, 83% compatible with some version of 3.5.

Evangelism

• Documentation continues to go through final revisions; down to about 5 dev-doc-needed items that apply to Firefox 3.5.
• 35 Days - Going to do a schedule this week: Evangelism/Firefox3.5/35Days
• Upgrade the web stuff
  • WP developer - contract in place and signed, have a meeting tomorrow
  • MT developer - still going, early, might not make it
• Wordpress 2.8 - http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7262#comment:36
  • Still looks like an issue on their end, but still want to help
• Perf numbers
  • Generally do much better or the same in the uncached case with 1.9.1
  • Lots of changes in cached behavior - some faster and some slower
  • No consistent story

Marketing/PR

• mozilla.com
  • Firefox3.5/WebsitePlan
  • bottom line is that most pages are finished..."Under the Hood" is the big lagger right now (but is moving along).
  • have started a weekly meeting with WebDev, QA & IT to check in on status and make sure everything is on track.
• Fastest Firefox
  • still sorting through technical details on the upload page, but getting very close
  • l10n at risk
  • goal is to have everything finished and ready for launch by EOW
• Videos
  • 1st draft of thank you video is ready, final will be available on May 22
  • What's new in 3.5 is in production, available on May 22
• Community engagement
  • Campus Reps workshop for Firefox 3.5 launch complete. Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/jaypatel/firefox-35-launch-workshop-campus-reps
  • Video workshop complete. Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/afranq/video-workshop-may20
• Search engine marketing
  • 3.5 specific campaign updates on track for launch (new copy, keywords, geos)
• PR
  • Press tour - scheduling meetings
  • Reviewer's guide content complete.
  • Drafting press release
  • Drafting public FAQ

Roundtable

• let us know what you think of these meetings in an anonymous survey!