WeeklyUpdates/2007-08-13

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm Pacific time (20:00 UTC until November 4, 2007)
• Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
• +1 650 903 0800 x91 Conf# 8600 (US/International)
• +1 416 848 3114 x91 Conf# 8600 (Canada)
• +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8600 (US Toll Free)
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Development Updates

Fx/TB 1.5.0.13/2.0.0.7

• Tbird 1.5.0.13 code freeze on 8/9
• Tbird Major Updates pushed to beta 8/13
  • We are hoping to release major updates later this week
• Triage 2.0.0.7 is on-going

TB 3

• No updates for this week.

Gecko 1.9

• Nothing but blockers.

IT

• Continuing to set up talos/performance Mac Minis
• More server/kernel upgrades this week (continuing from last week)

Build

• We're going to switch to nightlies from the new reference platform this week, probably on Wednesday; the new nightlies are available on FTP.

Marketing/PR

• SUMO -- next round of knowledge base articles is up for writing/editing. Join the growing community to help.
• Mozilla24 event coming September 15-16.
• Welcome Alix Franquet to the marketing team!

Community

• SpreadFirefox 2.0 -- Currently working with RainCity and Mozilla folks on the launch of SFx 2.0. If we get infrastructure up today or tomorrow, we can have the staging site up for a first review at the end of the week, we hope to release a version for widespread testing on 8/27. - Asa

• Surfaced t-shirt and community swag issue for certain locales. We're going to prototype a solution that might allow us to bring certain Mozilla Store items to locations where it was previously cost prohibitive. - Asa

• Surfaced a need from communities wanting to build local advocacy sites and proposed a solution that would expand the current l10n shared server infra or create a new one for hosting local advocacy communities. - Asa

• India activities continue at speed - Seth

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

• AMO
  • New designs are being worked on
  • Cleaning up plugin space -- security and reestablishing vendor relations
  • Will work with Polvi on improving plugin user experience on firstrun/update pages
• SUMO
  • Took a look at TW internals
• Bouncer
  • Patches from last week will go in Tuesday
  • We spent a couple of days last week testing -- load tests and writing unit tests to verify new DBI class that internally caches things w/ memcached
• mozilla Europe
  • Fixed download link bug (permanent best-case fix) -- hope to push this week sans testing
• Set up drupal install w/ civicrm for evaluation
• Breakpad
  • Hope to get LDAP auth, bug # admin page this week
  • Dashboard w/ delta rankings
  • Meeting minutes

Foundation Updates

• IP/legal issues
  • Frank Hecker responded to licensing-related questions to the Foundation while Gerv Markham is on vacation
  • Frank contacted a company about putting proper MPL, etc., notifications in the EULA and other material for their Mozilla-based product.

• Grants and related activities.
  • The Mozilla Foundation will be a sponsor of the 2008 W4A conference (renewing our sponsorship from this year).
  • Henri Sivonen completed another milestone on his Foundation-funded conformance checker work.

• Web sites
  • David Boswell worked more on revising the Foundation section of www.mozilla.org.

• Other
  • Zak Greant worked on tying up loose ends from the Internet as a Public Good Symposium.
  • Gerv was on vacation.

For more information see the individual status reports from David, Frank, Gerv, and Zak.