ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO)
- NYC meet-up a success
- Collections, Phase II goes live Thursday – collection ratings, collection stats, add-on recommendations — check it out on preview (also, public stats dashboard)
- Add-on Developer Hub mock-ups posted
- Coming Up for AMO!
FIREFOX
- Firefox Front End Work
- review our list of active projects and this quarter’s goals
- as well, our team is blogging progress reports on Planet Mozilla which is hopefully helpful; eventually we’ll have a better way to do this roundup, but for now:
- Dietrich would like to talk to you about progress we’ve enjoyed on startup performance, as would Drew
- Boriss needs your input on animating the Firefox UI
- Curtis has an update on nicer 404 error pages
- Felipe excites and amazes with a demonstration of multitouch UI in webpages
- Blair is working on a bunch of things, such as alerting users about outdated plugins, getting Taskfox review-ready, and looking at JetPack integration
- Dave is thinking about how to let users know when other software has installed Add-ons in their Firefox, which is important
- Dao has some information to share about work towards integrating Personas into Firefox
- 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
- builds started today
- targeting early-mid September release
- Firefox 3.0.15
- schedule, queries available on the wiki
- targeting mid-late October release
- code freeze is September 22 at 11:59pm
- Firefox 3.5.3
- builds started today
- targeting early-mid September release
- Firefox 3.5.4
- schedule, queries available on the wiki
- targeting mid-late October release
- code freeze is September 22 at 11:59pm
- Firefox 3.6
- next milestone: Firefox 3.6 Beta 1
- still working through triage, waiting on some l10n estimates in order to get a timeline fleshed out, looking at mid-to-late September for a beta
- 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
- Gecko 1.9.2
- No updates. See Development notes for specific dev items.
THUNDERBIRD
- Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 / Gecko 1.8.1.23
- shipped last week
- tracking an issue with some mail servers which don’t work properly over SSL (bug 511921)
- TBird 3.0b3 (Shredder)
- No Report
- TBird 3.0b4 (Shredder) (see Standard8’s blog post for more info)
- Slushy Code Freeze: Monday 7th Sept 23:59 PDT.
- Full String Freeze: Wed 9th Sept 23:59 PDT.
- Code Freeze: Friday 11th Sept 23:59 PDT.
- l10n Complete: Monday 14th Sept 23:59 PDT.
- Release builds start: Tues 15th Sept.
- TBird 3.0RC1 (Shredder)
- Final l10n String Freeze: Tuesday 29th Sept 23:59 PST
- Approvals/Blockers only: from Tuesday 6th October 23:59 PST
- Aiming to start RC1 builds on: 3rd Nov.
- Subsequent RCs as necessary.
