Mozilla Project Weekly Status: May 11, 2009

New blog template, thanks to morgamic, Sean Martell, and the kubrick folks
New policy around “no surprises” posted to blog
New category pages and simple user profiles
New developer agreement
3.5.* now active in AMO, sending out email today or tomorrow to extension developers, currently around 52% are compatible with 3.5.* and higher
5.0.6 release totally focused on reskin and Bandwagon, will ship May 28
AMO Presentation now up on Slideshare, will blog this week.
Welcome Chris Howse AMO Design Intern!

Firefox 3.0.11
- schedule coming later this week
- likely a 6-week release to account for early-July holidays
Firefox 3.0.12
- schedule coming later this week
- likely a 6-week release to account for early-July holidays

Firefox 3.5
- 14 blockers left for final release, only two or three of which are complicated
- as mentioned at the platform meeting last week we’re aiming to be done with all front-end blockers by next week in order to hit a late-week code freeze on or before the 22nd.
- this schedule will enable an early June release date for the Firefox 3.5 release candidate – getting exciting!

Firefox 3.6
- reminder to review and add your comments/feedback on the discussion page or in the dev-apps-firefox thread

In the news: We’re working on process separation in Gecko with a primary goal of improving overall responsiveness on multi-processor machines. Check out the dev.platform thread for details.
Blocker Status:
- 10 final blocker bugs left in content. (13 last week)
- 5 GFX final blockers. (Last week: 6)
- 5 Layout final blockers. Two w/ patch. (Two weeks ago: 5)
- JS with 18 blockers. (Last week: 15)
22 noms needing triage.
For weekly engineering meeting notes and other info see the Platform page.
57 total 1.9.1 blockers (two weeks ago: 58).

TBird 3.0b3 (Shredder) – Status: In Progres
- 3.0b3 is waiting on the landing of GloDa-based search functionality (bug 474701
- After that landing, we’ll draft a new schedule for the remainder of beta3