Mozilla Project Weekly Status: November 10th

ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO)

AMO 4.0.3 – Status: Pending Code Freeze/Release

  • Code freeze:  November 10th
  • Expected Release: November 13th

FIREFOX/GECKO

Fx 2.0.0.18 & Fx 3.0.4/Gecko 1.8.1.18 & 1.9.0.4 – Pending Release

  • Beta Released on Wednesday, November 5th.
  • Watching for feedback
  • QA: Finished BFT, L10n, and Updated testing. Release the Beta on Tues Nov 5th. [abillings, juanb, tracy, tchung, jhaher]
  • QA: Verified bug fixes for 1.9.0.4 and 1.8.1.18 releases (including Thunderbird) [abillings]
  • Expected release date of this Wednesday, November 12
  • Schedule

    • Code freeze: October 28th @ 11:59 PM PDT
    • Builds start: October 31st
    • QA starts: November 3rd
    • Release to beta channel: November 5th
    • Final Release: November 12th
Fx 2.0.0.19 & Fx 3.0.5/Gecko 1.8.1.19 & 1.9.0.5 – Pending Code Freeze

  • Code freeze Monday, November 17 at 11:59pm
  • Aiming for release on December 16
  • End of life for Firefox 2.0.0.x
  • Schedule (Estimated)

    • Tree opens: November 3
    • Code freeze: November 17 11:59pm
    • QA starts: November 18
    • Thanksgiving holiday: November 27 & 28
    • Builds start: December 1
    • Release to beta channel: December 9
    • Final Release: December 16

Fx 3.1b2 (Shiretoko)/Gecko 1.9.1b2 – Status: Pending Code Freeze

  • For weekly engineering meeting notes and other info see the Platform page.
  • Interesting queries related to Gecko 1.9.1
  • 98 1.9.1 blockers.
  • Resolved most of Tracking 3.1 beta 2 open issues [tchung]
  • Feature testing:

    • Completed 60% of the worker threads test development [admc]
    • Added 22 JS related test cases [bc]
    • XHR – Worked on including header checking in the XHR test scheme that Jonas already wrote. [ctalbert]
    • Have new patch for CSS Transform tests [ctalbert]
    • Ctrl-Tab – Exploratory testing and tst cleanup [marcia]
    • Private Browsing – Exploratory testing and tst cleanup [marcia]
    • Addons Updates – progress with test plan and test cases. Completed an additional 60% of the test cases.
    • WhatWg Canvas – completed the test plan
  • Leak testing: Filed 19 new Memory Leaks for Topsites [tomcat]
  • Provided native language es-MX localization feedback [juanb]
  • Schedule
    • String freeze: October 30th @ 11:59 PM PDT
    • Code freeze: November 4th @ 11:59 PM PDT
    • Builds start: November 10th
    • QA starts: TBA
    • Release to beta channel: TBA
    • Final Release: November 21st

SUNBIRD/LIGHTNING

No Report

THUNDERBIRD

TBird 2.0.0.18 – Pending Beta Release

  • Highly dependent on Firefox 2.0.0.18
  • Builds started last week
  • Aiming for beta Wednesday, November 12
  • Schedule

    • Code freeze: October 2th
    • Builds start: November 3rd
    • QA starts: November 5th
    • Release to beta channel: November 12th
    • Final Release: November 19th

TBird 3.0b1 (Shredder) – Status: In Process

  • No Report
  • Schedule

    • String Freeze: November 14th @ 23:59 Pacific.
    • Code freeze: November 18th @ 23:59 Pacific.
    • Builds start: TBD
    • QA starts: TBD
    • Release to beta channel: TBD
    • Final Release: TBD

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