ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO)
AMO 4.0.5 – Status: In Process
- open bugs & fixed bugs
- Freeze – Dec 22nd
FIREFOX
Fx 2.0.0.20 -> 3.0.5 Major Update – Status: Pending Release
- Went to beta users last Monday
- Localizers are currently working to get the new banner translated (36 done, 8 remain!)
- Final release date a moving target, but aiming for late this week or early next
Fx 3.0.6 – Status: Pending Code Freeze
- Code freeze is moved out to Wednesday, January 7 (at 11:59pm)
- Does not move out final ship date of February 3
- Currently 19 approved patches that need landing. Please land your patches.
- Schedule (Estimated)
- Tree opens: December 5
- Code freeze: January 7 11:59pm
- QA (Part 1) starts: January 7, 2009
- Builds start: January 19, 2009
- QA (Part 2) starts: January 20, 2009
- Release to beta channel: January 27, 2009
- Final Release: February 3, 2009
Fx 3.1b3 (Shiretoko) – Status: Pending Code Freeze
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Dec 31Jan 1 – string freeze has come and gone - Jan 13 – code freeze
- Jan 19 – QA start
- Jan 26 – ship to users
- workin’ on Beta 3 (triage queries)
- New faces on the Firefox team – please say “hi” on IRC!
- David Dahl (ddahl) – from ILM, author of the rCache add-on for Firefox and the Clarify Python wrapper for Tesseract OCR
- Drew Willcoxon (adw) – from Stanford and University of Georgia, author of the Extend Firefox 3 winning TagSifter add-on, as well as several other projects (see his web page)
- proposed schedule as follows:
- Dec 31 – string freeze
- Jan 13 – code freeze
- Jan 19 – QA start
- Jan 26 – ship to users
- if you have counter proposals or problems, please come to tomorrow’s development meeting.
GECKO
Gecko 1.9.1
- New to the Platform Team:
- David Bolter, working out of the Toronto office, a new accessibility engineer.
- Jason Duell, Content Team, reporting to Johnny Stenback, networking code. YAY!
- Nicholas Nethercote, Javascript Team, reporting to Robert Sayre, core Valgrind hacker.
- 38 Bugs blocking beta 3, down one from before holidays!
- Beta 3 code freeze is Jan 13.
- For weekly engineering meeting notes and other info see the Platform page.
- Interesting queries related to Gecko 1.9.1
- 153 1.9.1 blockers
THUNDERBIRD
TBird 2.0.0.19 -Status: Released
- Went live last Tuesday thanks to some holiday work by QA and build
- Moving Thunderbird 2.0.0.x to 2-month releases (every 8 weeks or so)
- Will likely be supported until six months after Thunderbird 3 release
TBird 3.0b2 (Shredder) – Status: In Process
- Beta 2 work and planning is underway
- Schedule (will re-evaluate in early January, hope to be able to accelerate:)
- String Freeze: December 31st
- Code freeze: January 13th
- Builds start: TBD
- QA starts: January 19th
- Release to beta channel: TBD
- Final Release: January 26th
Complete Meeting Notes
