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== Fx/TB 1.5.0.13/2.0.0.5 == | == Fx/TB 1.5.0.13/2.0.0.5 == | ||
* Code Freeze: This Friday 7/13 | |||
** Please land approved patches ASAP! | |||
** Continue triaging bugs that need patches | |||
*** A lot of bugs with no Trunk bake time or recent traction will be pushed out | |||
*** We will help prioritize blockers for devs that have a lot of bugs assigned (jst, mrbkap, sicking, bz, dvedtiz) | |||
* QA starting bug verifications on 2.0.0.5pre builds | |||
* Still targeting 7/31 for release date (to avoid conflict with FF3b1 milestone) | |||
== TB 3 == | == TB 3 == | ||
* Thunderbird trunk builds will be moving to Breakpad this week and we'll be removing talkback. Thanks to Ted Mielczarek, bsmedberg, aravind and coop for their help in making this possible. | |||
== Gecko 1.9 == | == Gecko 1.9 == | ||
* Continued Blocker focus. | |||
* Wrapping goals up by the end of Tuesday (See: [http://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/2007-Q3-Goals Platform Q3 Goals] ) | |||
* [http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3/Schedule Announce updated schedule] and the [http://tinyurl.com/29e63o related discussion]. | |||
== Firefox 3 == | == Firefox 3 == | ||
* Alpha 6 Released ([http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/3.0a6/releasenotes/ release notes]) | |||
* Lots of UI work in progress: | |||
** protocol handling | |||
** malware UI (landed) | |||
** plugins in the addons manager | |||
** download manager | |||
** Places UI for adding tags and bookmarks | |||
== IT == | == IT == | ||
* Build VM performance issues | |||
** Migration needed to a new LUN - planning for Tuesday | |||
** should significantly improve performance | |||
* Mozilla-eu migrated to San Jose | |||
* Pageload server re-write work continues | |||
* Breakpad infra production ready | |||
== Build == | == Build == | ||
* There will be a 12-hour outage window on Tuesday to move the most critical VMs around on the Netapp to help solve some performance problems. It will start at 10 am. | |||
* Planning this week to deploy the new linux ref platform, which is based on CentOS 5.0; Win32 ref platform refresh is up next. | |||
* We'll be handing off the community build tinderboxen tomorrow during tomorrow evening's outage window. | |||
== QA == | == QA == | ||
* Firefox 3 | |||
** Continue test planning and test case generation | |||
** Testing Firefox 3 Alpha 6 | |||
* Firefox 2.0.0.5 | |||
** Start bug verifications | |||
** Identify critical areas for focused testing | |||
* New Hires | |||
** Stephend, full-time | |||
** Ben, intern | |||
== Security == | == Security == | ||
== Marketing/PR == | == Marketing/PR == | ||
* OSCON: | |||
**Last call for travel! | |||
**Please help get the word out for [http://wiki.mozilla.org/Conferences:oscon07/ office hours] and our [http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/27794/ community party] | |||
* Firefox eBay Edition launched for UK/DE/FR last Wednesday, July 4. Details [http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/press/mozilla-2007-07-04.html here]. | |||
* Open source solution Tikiwiki.org has been selected as the prototype for the support.mozilla.com system. We are excited to have the tikiwiki community involved in improving Firefox Support. | |||
== Community == | == Community == | ||
*Wednesday, July 11th at 12 noon in Bldg. K: JT, Asa & Seth B will present a re-cap of South American Trip & Global community engagement, marketing, localization, etc. See http://jtbatson.blogspot.com/ for highlights! Webcast will be Available | |||
*Wednesday, July 11th at 2 PM: Air Mozilla returns. Asa working with Marcia, Jay, Zach Lipton, pkim and producer Rainer Cvillink to host a community meeting with guest Mitchell Baker. Details [http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/27885 here]. | |||
*Seth and Chofmann are going to India to do community building. You can read about the schedule of events on [http://blog.mozilla.com/seth/2007/07/06/namaste-india/ Seth's Blog]. | |||
== Mozilla Labs == | == Mozilla Labs == | ||
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== Webdev, Add-ons, AMO == | == Webdev, Add-ons, AMO == | ||
* AMO | |||
** Download and update ping stats will be made available for developers | |||
** Add-ons not compatible with Firefox 2 will be "sandboxed" today (about 800) | |||
** Continuing UE refresh | |||
* Breakpad | |||
** Breakpad hackathon this week | |||
** Load testing breakpad servers on production hardware | |||
* Mozilla Support | |||
** Worked with JT and choffman to pick groupware | |||
** We'll be working with TikiWiki and its community to produce a beta Mozilla Support knowledgebase | |||
* mozilla-europe.org & mozilla-world.org | |||
** On new hardware | |||
= Foundation Updates = | = Foundation Updates = | ||
* Grants | |||
** Steve Lee completed phase 2 of his [http://www.oatsoft.org/trac/jambu Jambu] project to enable Firefox to work with alternative input devices; for more information see his [http://eduspaces.net/stevelee/weblog/178944.html report]; he'll now be starting phase 3 of this work. | |||
** Aaron Leventhal submitted two new accessibility-related grant proposals for our consideration. | |||
* Legal | |||
** We've officially submitted an application for trademark registration of the Camino logo. Thanks go to Smokey Ardisson and Samuel Sidler for tracking down some additional information needed for the application. | |||
* Miscellaneous | |||
** Frank spoke at the [http://www.nfb.org/nfb/NFB_computer_science.asp National Federation of the Blind in Computer Science] meeting in Atlanta GA, about the nature and importance of open source, our Mozilla and Firefox accessibility efforts, and how open source might affect the assistive technology industry. | |||
** David is continuing to work on helping out with the www.mozilla.org web site and tracking of Mozilla Foundation donations. | |||
For more information see the individual status reports: | |||
* [http://davidwboswell.wordpress.com/2007/07/09/status-update/ David Boswell] | |||
* [http://zak.greant.com/ Zak Greant] | |||
* [http://hecker.org/mozilla/foundation-activities-2007-07-06 Frank Hecker] | |||
* [http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/ Gerv Markham] | |||
= Roundtable = | = Roundtable = | ||
= Other Business = | = Other Business = | ||
* Flock 0.9.0 will be released tomorrow. | |||
** Based off of Fx 2.0.0.4 | |||
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