Firefox/Planning/2009-10-07

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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 Firefox Releases

Firefox 3.0.15 / Firefox 3.5.4

Firefox 3.0.14 -> 3.5.3 Major Update Offer

• we delayed this, possibly until the next minor update is published
• the concern is that there are several plugins known to crash with Firefox 3.5, and we want to work with those vendors to fix those issues before doing another round of upgrades

Namoroka

• 28 P1 blockers left before beta
  • only 7 are OPEN on mozilla-central or tracemonkey (rest are FIXED or resolved on mozilla-central or tracemonkey)
• revised beta 1 schedule
  • October 7th, 11:59pm PDT: Code freeze on mozilla-1.9.2, all P1 blockers landed
  • October 8th: Beta 1 build 1 stared (assuming trees are green)
  • October 9th to 15th: QA testing
  • October 15th, 5pm PDT: Beta 1 launched

Fennec 1.0x

• beta 4 shipped on Monday
• beta 5 status?

Support

• Top issues in the paste few days are both resolved!
  • Users confused by antivirus warnings from AVG (Thanks Tomcat!) bug 520895
  • Facebook doing constant redirects and not letting users log in (fixed by Facebook). bug 519834

Product Development

as always, you can read the development meeting notes as well, but here are the big items:

• plugin update referrals landed on branch and trunk
• work to reduce Places overhead landed on branch and trunk
• about:memory (see bug 515354) is approved to land on branch
• personas now works with www.getpersonas.com
• landed a huge QCMS perf win from Steve Snyder in bug 512865 (trunk only)
• got a big Mac Ts win from deferred font initialization in bug 517045
• Landed animation of CSS properties with SMIL/SVG Animation
• Landed doubly-linked frame lists
• WOFF landed for 3.6
• now building on Windows 7 SDK
• landed Aero Peek and other Windows 7 features, but they're causing a Ts regression so need to investigate and might back them out

QA

• Fx3.6 QA - testplans, bugs, staffing up for release work
  • Beta 1 Testplan
  • See 3.6 Testplan section for overall Feature % completion.
  • Calling for Windows 7 and Vista nightly testers to dogfood builds now generated against Windows 7 SDK. See QMO blog post
• Fennec (cross posting from mobile meeting notes)
  • successful [testday] last Friday
    • 30 bugs filed, 114 bugs verified
  • working on windows mobile/ce automation (Big thanks to clint, joel, and blassey for their creative and hard work)
    • test-agent via ip that blassey wrote
    • initial runs of mochitest and xpcshell
  • dougt - found 4 causes of chrome mochitest failures. Most due to preferences/css changes fennec has (or assumption on tests of how firefox does things).
  • dougt - will look at content failures endofweek / next week.
• Tegra
  • Newer Mobinnova OS image delivered and installed
  • Many bugs fixed, no blocking beta issues.
  • This week: mochitests on mobinnova, followed by reftests

Roundtable

• a word on these notes, from the fine folks at MozEU'09 [beltzner]