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:
    • P1: 4
    • P2: 83
    • P3: 1
    • Other: 9
  • Team blocker numbers:
    • Layout: 12
    • Content: 20
    • GFX: 10
    • JS: 19

 

THUNDERBIRD

• TBird 3.0RC1 (Shredder)
  • 3.0rc1 still has 22 blockers
  • RC1 build tomorrow seems unlikely; more news on tomorrow’s Tb3 call

 

Complete Meeting Notes