Mozilla Project Weekly: August 10, 2009

ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO)

• NYC Meetup on August 18th
• Extend Firefox 3.5 contest – Contest Site
• Add-on Verification Suite is on AMO

FIREFOX

• Firefox 3.0.13 -> 3.5.2 major update
  • planning to “push” a major update to users of Firefox 3.0.13
  • haven’t determined schedule yet, but either this week or next
• Firefox 3.0.14
  • code freeze tomorrow
  • targeting early September release
• Firefox 3.5.3
  • code freeze tomorrow
  • targeting early September release
• Firefox 3.6
  • Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 shipped on Friday, August 7th
  • updated the plan to reflect what we’ve talked about for the past two months
  • next milestone: Firefox 3.6 Beta 1
  • plan on branching mozilla-1.9.2 from mozilla-central later this week

GECKO

• Gecko 1.9.2
  • I know he’s been with us for a while, but now he’s officially with us full-time. Please welcome David Bolter, working on accessibility in Toronto!
  • Last week, at SIGGRAPH 2009, Khronos gave more details on the WebGL initiative.
    • Mozilla’s leading the Khronos working group, with Arun Ranganathan being the working group’s chair.
    • A lot of this work is based on Vladimir Vukicevic’s work on Canvas3D; Mozilla’s implementation of Web3D is based on canvas3d, with the work needed to update it to the new standard being done by Mark Steele.
    • Both Apple and Google have implementations of Web3D as well. Google showed their implementation at the Khronos OpenGL BoF at SIGGRAPH last week. Great response from the audience.
    • Our basic assumption is that JavaScript is fast enough, and in Mozilla’s case, that’s thanks to the Tracemonkey folks.

THUNDERBIRD

• Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 / Gecko 1.8.1.23
  • making progress on release
  • build is green!
  • please test the nightlies thoroughly

• TBird 3.0b3 (Shredder)
  • MoMo all-hands this week
  • Hoping to nail TB3b4 schedule this week. Watch this space for updates.

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