ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO)
- AMO 5.0.3 shipped last week, blog post going out today describing changes
- Editor notification for add-on changes
- Improved dashboard with week-over-week display
- “Share This” links
- and other features
- Planned 3.5 migration
- 3.1b4 will get converted to 3.5b4 on 3/17
- 3.2a1 will get converted to 3.6a1 on 3/1
- Sam Sidler coordinating
- 5.0.4 release will update compatibility dashboard to consider 3.1 and 3.5 to be the same version.
- Compatibility
- 3.1* compatibility still around 80%
- 3.1b3 compatibility up to 55% which is a 30% increase from last week.
FIREFOX
- Firefox 3.0.8
- Code freeze is tomorrow night at 11:59pm
- Please work on your blockers
- Aiming for mid-April release
- Fx 3.5b43 (Shiretoko) – Status: Pending String Freeze
- 11 blockers left, only 1 of which is complicated
- Good progress on code sprints for items that may be taken on the Firefox 3.1 branch, but will be taken on trunk:
- fixing PFS so that it can be used to install plugins again
- refactoring Places DB for performance improvements
- restoring only visible tabs first upon session restore
- string freeze this Thursday at 11:59pm PDT
- code freeze Monday April 6th
- release week of April 13th
- Firefox 3.5 Beta 3
- released last Thursday
- already at 250,000 users
- Firefox 3.5 Beta 4
- Reversioning to 3.5
- project plan starts today!
- 5 hour downtime planned for tomorrow at 7am
- tagged and built early last week (one respin required)
- QA underway and on schedule
- on target for a release of this Thursday afternoon
GECKO
- Gecko 1.9.1
- Beta 4 progress solid. JS bugs are getting closed out faster now. Everyone on the JS team seems to be pulling together to get these issues closed out. A few awesome highlights:
- Graydon Hoare bug 482263 – Avoid re-entering recorder while deep aborting, r=mrbkap (Also known as the TM: “Assertion failure: x->oprnd2() == lirbuf->sp || x->oprnd2() == gp_ins, at ../jstracer.cpp bug. I LOVE trying to read those kinds-o-bugs).
- Jim Blandy bug 480132 – SpiderMonkey clones too many blocks into the heap
- Jason Orendorff bug 480147 – TM: “Assertion failure: cx->bailExit” with string.replace and type instability. r=gal.
- Other areas are looking pretty good to wrap up blockers soon:
- 14 final blocker bugs left in content.
- 3 GFX final blockers.
- 7 Layout final blockers. (Last week: 6)
- 2 SVG final blockers.
- JS with 40 blockers. (Last week: 42)
- Triage needed. 47 noms are in the queue right now.
- For weekly engineering meeting notes and other info see the Platform page.
- 89 total 1.9.1 blockers (last week: 86).
- Beta 4 progress solid. JS bugs are getting closed out faster now. Everyone on the JS team seems to be pulling together to get these issues closed out. A few awesome highlights:
THUNDERBIRD
- Thunderbird 2.0.0.21
- Shipping on Wednesday
- Fixes in sync with Firefox 3.0.7
- TBird 3.0b3 (Shredder) – Status: In Progress
- Auto-update of users of older 3.0 alphas and betas to 3.0beta2 should be live soon (bug 482962)
- 3.0b3 in progress; planning updates soon
- Enabling Spotlight search using about:config on OS X nightly builds should now work again (bug 290057)
