Mozilla Project Weekly: August 17, 2009

blog post from Fligtar on Add-on usage went out last week.
5.0.9 code freeze this week
- Bandwagon Phase II (stats and recommendations)
- Contributions update (now on category pages and front page)

Firefox 3.0.13 -> 3.5.2 major update
- major update was on the wire since 3.5.2 shipped (users had to “check for updates”)
- “unthrottled” the offer on Thursday
- Firefox 3.0.13 users will now receive an offer to update automatically
Firefox 3.0.14
- code frozen
- qa is testing
- on track for early/mid September release
Firefox 3.5.3
- code frozen
- qa is testing
- on track for early/mid September release
Firefox 3.6
- all future milestones will be built off the new mozilla-1.9.2 branch
- next milestone: Firefox 3.6 Beta 1
- working through triage now, hope to have a beta -> final schedule by the end of the week
- goals are startup time, responsiveness, Windows 7 readiness and polish
- stretch goals include things like determining if Personas can be included as well as some changes to how the updater works to include plugin updates

Gecko 1.9.2
- Two new members of the Platform team today:
  - Joel Reymont joins us as a contractor who is focusing on Mac performance, with first task of focusing on Mac start-up perf. Word is, Joel lives and works on a boat of the coast of Spain.
  - Ben Hsieh joins us today, a General Platform engineer reporting to me (Damon). Ben is a recent Stanford CS grad.

TBird 3.0b3 (Shredder)
- Serious bug cutting underway
- Target dates for 3.0b4 and 3.0RC1 will be posted shortly
- Mozilla Messaging team had productive on-site in Vancouver last week