Firefox 2 Beta 1 Status
Howdy Everyone,
As of this writing the JS 1.7 has landed. The only remaining issues are the branding changes (BonEcho->Firefox 2) and the pref pane cleanup. Hopefully these will land tonight - should land no later than early tomorrow.
Once the last check-in clears our time line is as follows:
Tag and build from tag ~4 hrs
QA team to run BFTs and tests on newer feature areas ~2 days
Repeat as necessary if we need to take regression fixes
Pull and build l10n trees ~4hrs (can happen in parallel with QA)
Once we have a candidate in hand it takes ~24 hours to stage everything (allowing time for mirror sync, etc) before we can publicize it as live.
Since our window for testing changes before beta 1 is small we’ll only be accepting patches that truly block the beta - i.e.:
* Major regressions in new functionality
* Anything that prevents wide scale testing of the beta
If you have anything you think fits this category please nominate it for blocking (blocking‑firefox2?) or 1.8.1 (blocking1.8.1?) and set the target milestone to “Firefox 2 beta1″
There are a long list of blocking bugs which are suitable for inclusion in beta2. We’ll start approving and landing them once the tree is clear from beta1.
We’ll continue to do triage sessions daily/twice daily as needed. Dialin/IRC are same as Bon Echo meetings (866-216-2181/#bonecho). Pop into IRC anytime if you have questions.
Best,
Schrep
P.S. Thanks to Beltzner for great notes from today’s status meeting:
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox2/StatusMeetings/2006-07-06
in case you want more details.