Firefox/Planning/2009-11-18

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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 Product Releases

Firefox

Firefox 3.0.16 / Firefox 3.5.6

• on target for mid-December
• planning to start builds at the tail end of November
• will have schedules for 3.0.17 / 3.5.7 soon

Firefox 3.6 Beta

• shipped the beta 3 update last night, Nov 17th
• currently over 350,000 ADUs (+100,000 w/w)

Firefox 3.6 RC

• code freeze target is now November 19th
• release target is November 26th - 30th (depending on holiday coverage)

Fennec 1.0x Maemo RC

• string freeze at noon
• still on course for dec 1st code freeze for rc

Fennec 1.0x WinMo Alpha

• still on course for dec 1st code freeze for a4

Support

• common issues

Product Development

Firefox 3.6 / mozilla-1.9.2

• all teams now focusing on remaining blockers and nominations
• probably not going to block on bug 518506 which is an increase in flickering when scrolling Java in Linux - opinions?

future / mozilla-central

• jrmuizel is working on a scrolling performance pageset. If you have any pages that you know scroll slowly, please add them to bug 527728
• tree downtime this weekend for power outage, shouldn't affect RC timeline

• more detail in the full notes online

QA

• Fx 3.6
  • 3.6Beta(revision3) sign-off, WinCE later this afternoon.
  • Testday - l10n general QA on 3.6 - Friday, Nov 20
  • Betatesters list announcements to attract more participation.
• Fennec:
  • Recap of last week's testday - panning and zoom
    • Next Fennec-related Testday will be on 12/4 on Weave Beta
  • Mostly winmo related work, stabilized code for xpcshell and talos ts running on device
  • Next is mochitest and reftest
• Tegra:
  • Smoketested Firefox 3.6 Beta 3 build. Working on update testing today.
  • Continued testing of nightly builds
  • Bug verification

Release Engineering

• 3.6b3 linux/mac/win32 shipped late yesterday (sorry)
• 3.6b3 wince shipping today
• 650 Castro power outage (re)scheduled for this coming Saturday (November 21st).

Add-ons

• Add-on Compatibility Reporter emails sent last night - blog post
  • 25,000 Firefox 3.6 reports on 2,000 add-ons
  • 1262 3.6-incompatible add-ons
    • 24 add-ons with compatibility problems
    • 105 add-ons that probably work fine
    • 321 add-ons with mixed reports
    • 830 without enough reports
  • 445 compatible add-ons
  • 321 add-ons not listed on AMO
• Currently at 51%
• AMO 5.3 launched Thursday. examples of self-hosted add-on and pledge drive
• Currently working on AMO 5.4 with release channel support and enhanced localization
• Jorge blogged about the state of our queues

Evangelism

• Ongoing work on docs (File API's next) and demos for 3.6
• Web developer survey closed with 5000+ responses, 30% traffic from beta pages

Marketing/PR

• Plugin Check
  • 1.5 million pv since launch; avg of 43K page views for November
  • Austin King is working on building dynamic buttons--tracking bug: 528280
    • Will be hosted at the bottom of the Plugin Check page
    • Hoping to get this done before Thanksgiving break.