Firefox 3 Beta 5 schedule
At today’s Firefox 3 / Gecko 1.9 meeting the development team decided that a fifth beta milestone would be required based on the number of blockers remaining. This additional beta will ensure that changes which may affect website compatibility and changes which affect the user experience will get exposure to a wider audience for feedback and regression testing.
The following development deadlines were set for Firefox 3 Beta 5:
- String freeze will be on Friday, March 7th, 11:59pm PST
- Code freeze will be on Tuesday, March 18th, 11:59pm PST
Developers should note that this will be the final milestone for string changes and so any changes to strings should be put up for review as soon as possible in order to meet the string freeze deadline this Friday. Please contact a member of the User Experience team if you need help with wording.
All P1 blockers are to be fixed for Firefox 3 Beta 5. For the next two weeks the tree will remain under “blocker rules”, but developers should check the tree status before checking in a patch. After code freeze, we expect a shorter baking period before handing off to the Build and QA teams for release.
The Mozilla Developer Calendar has been updated to reflect these new development deadlines.