NOTE: The US and many other countries ended Daylight Savings Time early Sunday morning and returned to Standard Time. So now the Update meeting with be at 19:00 UTC (the “new” 11am PST) Monday.
ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO)
- Thanks for coming to last week’s meetup, about 40 people showed up and a good time was had by all
- Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 was launched last week along with the new Add-on Compatibility Reporter
- 3600 active users
- 363 reports of incompatible add-ons, 857 reports of compatible ones
- Currently about 54% of usage is compatible with some version of Fx 3.6 but only 39% are marked as compatible with 3.6b1 and above.
FIREFOX
- Firefox 3.0.15 / Firefox 3.5.4
- shipped last Tuesday!
- 3.5.4 stability issues caught after push…
- Firefox 3.5.5
- scheduling a short-cycle release
- developers jumped on creating fixes and had them ready by Friday evening (yay!)
- hoping to start builds today or tomorrow
- Firefox 3.0.16 / Firefox 3.5.6
- code freeze is November 10 at 11:59pm
- please work on your blockers
- targeting mid-December release
- Namoroka (Firefox 3.6)
- Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 shipped on Friday, check out the plea for feedback or release notes.
- Nightly and beta users are encouraged to help us by reporting add-on compatibility
- zpao’s “session restore optimization” patch landed on trunk, should be moving to branch shortly
- main development focus is on Firefox 3.6 Blockers
- last week at the development and delivery meetings we decided to issue frequent updates to Firefox 3.6 Beta users on that update channel; aiming for the first update to be this week with:
- DLL component directory lockdown and blacklisting patch (see bug 524904 and bug 519357
- syntax changes for CSS gradients
- some questions were raised about the schedule for Firefox 3.6:
- code freeze for RC is targeted at November 18th
- RC release estimated for late November
- final release estimated for early-to-mid December
- Firefox 3.7
- No Report
GECKO
- Gecko 1.9.2
- Fun times in CrashKill meetings:
- dbaron has a patch in bug 521750 that will potentially fix 5-15% of crashes due to thread badness + cycle collector. This is going into release as soon as possible.
- Other crash patches, from newer bugs: Font crash on startup: bug 524462, and a gif encoder crash: bug 525326
- Will be talking about metrics and tools in today’s meeting, along with individual bugs.
- Blockers:
- Team blocker numbers:
- Fun times in CrashKill meetings:
THUNDERBIRD
- TBird 3.0RC1 (Shredder)
- 3.0rc1 still has 22 blockers
- RC1 build tomorrow seems unlikely; more news on tomorrow’s Tb3 call
