AMO 4.0.2 – Status: Pending Code Freeze/Release

• Verified 6 bugs
• Worked with Wil Clouser on a test plan for revising our Add to Firefox detection mechanism.
• Schedule
  • Code-Freeze: 11:59 PM Oct, 13th
  • Release: Oct. 16.

Fx 2.0.0.18 & Fx 3.0.4/Gecko 1.8.1.18 & 1.9.0.4 – Status: In Triage

• No Report
• Schedule

• Code freeze: October 24th @ 11:59 PM PDT
• Builds start: October 28th
• QA starts: October 29th
• Release to beta channel: November 5th
• Final Release: November 12th

• New features (planned/in progress)
• Major items of interest this week:
• About to land nanojit2. Edwin Smith from Adobe is helping Graydon Hoare iron out issues so we can land their nanojit. A BIG thanks to Adobe for all their collaborative efforts here! For lots of technical details see the bug.
  • Will get us closer to JIT’ing regex in the future.
  • Will enable more perf wins specifically related to tracing.
• mrbkap is working on optimistic script loading
  • For slow networks, this gives solid perf improvements with numbers being report as about a 19% win.
  • This is very important for mobile networks which are high-latency.
• The team is testing Beta1. Running smoke tests, BFTs, bug fix verifications, etc. Blocker found: bug 459156 –  :zhCN beta 1 builds show different search plugins per OS filed. A respin of zhCN only will be made on 3 platforms. Found 10 other new bugs.
• Feature testing:
  • Worker Threads – Waiting for API to be solidified before adding more tests [adam]
  • Acid3 – Started to write Test plan [tomcat]
  • Got review comments on border radius patch [ctalbert]
  • Got Review on CSS Transforms patch, need to address those comments [ctalbert]
  • Completed analysis on XHR. See test plan [ctalbert]
  • Ran Private Browsing Tryserver builds [marcia]
  • Added litmus test cases for location bar [stephend]
• Progressing with Global 500 TopSite Testing for leaks, assertions and crashed [tomcat]
• Litmus- Hand corrected 15 test cases. Worked with coop to fix bug 454248. That fixed 45 unclear test case!
• 80 1.9.1 blockers
  • 1 Blocking 1.9.1 P1s
  • 35 Blocking 1.9.1 P2s
  • 37 Blocking 1.9.1 P3s
  • 7 Blocking 1.9.1 Other priority (Need to fix the priorities here!)
• 284 wanted bugs

  • ?? P1s. These are bugs we feel would really, really make a good release if we had a solid handful completed.
  • ?? P2s. These are medium complexity bugs/changes that are nice to have.
  • ?? P3s. The lowest priority bugs for this release. These are the ones that we will definitely take, but the others take priority.

• currently evaluating content for revised schedule
• Schedule

  • Beta 1 Schedule

    • en-US string freeze is Thursday, Sept 26th at 11:59pm PDT
    • code freeze is Tuesday, Sept 30th at 11:59pm PDT
    • hand-off to builds: Tuesday, October 7th
    • release: October 14th
      
  • Beta 2 Schedule
    • en-US string freeze is Thursday, October 30th at 11:59pm PDT
    • code freeze is Tuesday, November 4th at 11:59pm PDT
    • front end beta 2 plan to be published for review & comment later tonight or tomorrow: private browsing, awesomebar improvements, plugin installation improvements

TBird 2.0.0.18 -Status: Unknown

• No Report
• Schedule

  • Code freeze: TBD
  • Builds start: TBD
  • QA starts: TBD
  • Release to beta channel: TBD
  • Final Release: TBD

TBird 3.0a3 (Shredder) – Status: Pending Release

• Moved back into ‘Alpha’ builds
• Relabeled b1 to a3, because not enough user-changing stuff had landed
• a3 currently in the release canal (build 3) – 28 locales!
• thanks from the Tb folks to dbaron for fixing the moz-border-image bug, and to smichaud for fixing 426932.
• expect more UI changes soon (tabs, search)
• **we could really use some XUL/JS folks to help with UI work! **
• Updated Master Release Schedule
• Small number of blockers still remain
• Beta Testing to begin this week
• Current Schedule
  • String Freeze: September 16th
  • Code Freeze: September 23rd
  • Builds start: September 26th
  • QA starts: TBD
  • Release to beta channel: TBD
  • Final Release: October 14th