Firefox3/StatusMeetings/2007-12-04

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Firefox 3/Gecko 1.9 Meeting Details

• Tuesdays - Firefox 3 - 11:00am Pacific, 2:00pm Eastern, 19:00 UTC
• Mozilla Building S - Central Area
• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x91 Conf# 217 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 217 (US)
• irc.mozilla.org #granparadiso for backchannel

Schedule & Tree Rules

• beta 2
  • Freeze is tonight (Dec 4th)
  • 7 P1 bugs on the front end
  • new checkin rules
  • prioritize the blockers, new milestone definitions

Gecko Blockers and Noms charts:

• Blockers
• Stacked Blockers
• Noms
• Stacked Noms

Gecko Priority Level charts:

• Blockers by Priority
• Blockers by Priority-stacked

Work in progress

Firefox 3

• Web-based protocol handling (PH team)
  • Fx3/1.9: all blockers (15, down from 21)
  • Beta 2: P1/P2 blockers (4, down from 9)

• Places (Places team)
  • Beta 2: 24 blockers (4 P1, down from 12)

Platform

• 13 Bugs remaining. We'll go over them.

Security Reviews

• Design Review Proposal
• Still needed
  • Microformats (mkaply)
  • ContentEditable (peterv)
  • Malware Protection (dcamp)
  • Distribution/Customization (thunder)

• Completed
  • Password Manager (done)
  • Offline Apps (done)
  • Web Content Handlers (done)
  • Add-Ons (rob_strong) (done)
  • Places (dietrich) (review doc, done)
  • Cross-domain XMLHttpRequest - Done.

QA Status/Topics

• bug 397723 - Proto OSX theme.
  • Q. Are there plans to break this bug up into separate bugs for tracking issues? Concern is this bug is tracking tons of changes and nitpicky designs could get lost.

• Beta2 Test Schedule
• Beta 2 TestPlan
  • Areas Covered:
  • Smoketests
  • BFTs
  • M10 and past focused Tests
  • Top Extensions
  • Minor Updates (beta1 -> beta 2)
  • Memory Leak Testing (handled by Tomcat on debug builds)
  • Accessibility
  • P1 L10N spotchecks (b2 locale list)
  • M10 bug verifications
  • Beta 2 Testday
• Tracking b2 fixed bugs to verify. Bug query [Core|Firefox]
  • 83 core bugs to verify
  • 38 firefox bugs to verify
• Built up a betatesters alias for pre-announcements for those interested in helping with web regressions (ajax, layout, CSS, etc). Wikified. (marcia, jay to work with Shaver's team)
• Tracking page for b2 relnote issues here.
• Testday this week focus on Beta 2 Testing. All firefox developers, please attend irc #testday on friday between 7am - 5pm PST.