WeeklyUpdates/2006-09-11

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm PDT (20:00 UTC)
• Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
• +1 866 432 7917 (US toll free)
• +1 334 309 0297 (International)
• join irc.mozilla.org #staffmeeting for attendance taking

Development Updates

Fx/TB 1.5.0.7

• Had to respin for another SSL security bug over the weekend, currenty at rc6 (a new record!).
• Focused testing the next couple of days, followed by update testing.
• Planning on simultaneous ship of FF + TB on Thursday, 9/14
• Updated schedule and more info at http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox:1.5.0.7:Community

Fx 2.0

• RC1/Final code lockdown is this week
  • driving queries available on Mozilla 1.8 Tinderbox page
  • majority of blockers are gecko181, documentation, l10n related, or server-side redirects
  • Radiant Core, mconnor, sspitzer, gavin, pamg, pkasting and others have been working hard to update the new theme with feedback from community
  • down to 7 theme blocking bugs (from 20-30 this time last week!)
• always-updated schedule available on the Firefox 2 Wiki

Build

• Stage migration: stage.m.o infrastructure will be moving around this week. There will be scheduled downtime on Thursday, but contrib-build uploading and Friday nightlies may be affected. Details about this migration will be posted later today.

QA

• Testing Projects
  • FFx/TBird 1507
    • RC5 testing last week
    • RC6 was just spun.
    • Hoping to complete on both FFx and Tbird by Wednesday evening for Thursday release.
  • FF2
    • Preparing for FF2 RC1 testing. Building tools to automate the trademark verification particularly in for search engines, search strings, bookmarks, RSS feeds and feed readers.
    • Marcia added a test matrix for Profile testing
  • Davel helped with AUS2 Test planning and automation using Python and FitNesse -- also see this example (morgamic)

• Tools and Infrastructure
  • Chris Cooper rearranged the L10n build machines
  • Continuing to improve litmus - added the ability to change result status after submission
  • Turned on "make check" on trunk tinderboxes - many problems with invalid tests configured. Turned it back off
  • Tracy got Eggplant working for Linux

• Community Activities
  • Bug day last Tues. This Tuesday we are moving to region specific time frames.
  • 1507 TBird community test day last Fri. 3 major contributors. 236 tests were run. Results.

IT Updates

• Stage move
• Maintenance window Tuesday
  • Mozilla.com mail relay migration
  • DMO move
  • Intranet move (perf increase)

Product Management and Marketing Updates

Marketing

• We are focused on building out web content and design updates for the mozilla.com site for Firefox 2, as well as building the content and layout for the new in-product web pages.

• We are also preparing for the press tour for Firefox 2, and creating the content to support the tour.

Community

Community Giving progress - (Seth and Asa)

• contacting individuals for specific requests
• met with Frank and Gerv to discuss Foundation's Grants program and Community Giving program.
• actual giving to start this week.

Community research (Asa)

• developing some early metrics around the size of the Mozilla community and the contributions coming from different teams (both individual contributors and participating organizations.)

Hiring (Asa)

• having interviewed several candidates over the last two months, we're very close to making an offer to one for the position of Community Coordinator.

Developer Relations

• Nutch/Search development continues.
• Doc support for Fx2 is estimated to be 95% complete.
• developer.mozilla.org has been added to the Urchin stats system, and IT has provided all the data for all of 2006. Still need to add js code to the MDC skins.
• Newsgroup summarization service is ready to launch -- waiting to see if Seneca students step forward to take on some of this work.
• Further work with Seneca re: possible student projects related to MDC.
• MDC Logo/Visual Design -- still waiting on initial proposals from RC. Visual refresh is pushed to Q4.
• Dria spent most of last week in TO in meetings, and will be in Seattle/MV next week for "An Event Apart" one-day conference and more meetings.
• DevRel team did not have a team meeting last week so there are no further details at this time.

• shaver & vlad present at first "Open Source Software Development With Mozilla" class at Seneca College
  • you'll be seeing people asking various questions, in #seneca and elsewhere

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

• AUS
  • Wrote acceptance tests for AUS in Python using PyFit as a test harness, committed them to mozilla/webtools/aus/tests
  • Worked on XML verification and regression testing for partner fallback logic (1.5.0.7 timeframe) and metadata bug (2.0 timeframe)
• AMO
  • Mocks mostly done
  • Migration tests being written to ensure coverage for v1/v2->v3
  • Met with Pascal about l10n concerns last week
  • work on developer submission form progressing nicely (thanks to Justin Scott)
  • ramping up public page development, staging in the next couple of weeks
• Firefox Party tool review this week (see mozilla/webtools/partytool)
• mozilla.com l10n
  • Brief meeting about khan prototype, will continue to develop requirements.