Platform/2010-08-03

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Notices / Schedule

Previous release post-mortems

• Firefox 3.6.7/8: 2010-08-03 @ 1:00 pm PST, duration 45 mins
• Firefox 3.6.4/6: 2010-08-10 @ 1:00 pm PST, duration 1 hour

Firefox (Supported Branches)

• Schedules for Firefox 3.6.9/3.5.12 are posted
  • Code freeze is currently scheduled for Thursday August 12 @ 11:59 pm PST

Firefox (Beta)

• missed code freeze for Firefox 4 Beta 3 due to leaks in Firefox Sync
  • 23 blockers changed from beta3+ to another milestone after July 30 - this isn't a sustainable pattern
  • * the complete changelist for this beta

Blocker Report

Firefox 3.6.9

• There are 24 open blockers (+2 w/w)
  • Code freeze is currently scheduled for Thursday August 12 @ 11:59 pm PST
  • Let's try to not get them all in on the last day. I'll be bugging people furiously this week and the start of next

Firefox 3.5.12

• There are 14 open blockers (+1 w/w)
• Code freeze is tied to 3.6.9

Firefox 4 Beta

• a handy list of triage queries is available for all!
  • Beta 3: 34 blockers
  • Beta N: 204 blockers
  • Final: 222 blockers (462 total)
  • nominations: 462 nominations (248 OPEN)

Firefox Development

(from our goals):

• [ON TRACK] Feature complete Firefox 4
  • [DONE] Switch to Tab
  • [DONE] App Tabs - Scope for 4.0 reduced (non-global), near feature complete.
  • [DONE] Extension Manager - Bug list is converging, still a lot of work to do.
  • [DONE] Web Console
  • [ON TRACK] Notification UI - Geo and EM notifications done, http auth next.
  • [ON TRACK] New Theme - Windows and Mac good, Linux catching up now
  • [DONE] TabCandy Panorama
  • [AT RISK] Silent updates on Windows
  • [DROPPED] Inspector
  • [DROPPED] Account Manager - WIP patches posted, but we can't contain the review load and code risk.

• [AT RISK] Dirty profile startup within 20% of clean profile startup (modulo extensions, plugins; on windows)
  • Current status: Lots of data has been collected and analyzed, but no solid conclusions have shaken out.
  • Details page
  • Shawn has an updated blog post. Read it for more info.
  • Bugs on file that help:
    • Excessive cookie i/o bug bug 572223 (fixed)
    • Session Restore negatively impacts startup time based on the number of tabs loaded bug 582005
    • Suboptimal SQLite page size bug 416330 (fixed)
    • Provide a global VACUUM component bug 541373

Windows 7 Test Status

• Only bugs bug 562955 and bug 581734 are left
  • No activities on them

Roundtable

• Supported Hardware & OS list for Firefox 4 (beltzner)
  • many questions from OSX, JS and build teams about this
  • beltzner gathering data about usage in bug 582848 as well as from secondary sources
  • current proposals are:
    • drop OSX 10.4 (ease of coding, speedups from using better APIs)
    • drop PPC (no OOPP support planned, no JM support planned)
    • maintain W2K (no impact to coding schedule, not a lot of additional work)
    • add OSX 64-bit (OOPP support planned, major speedup increase)
    • do not add Windows 64-bit (no OOPP support planned)