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 = Friends of the Tree [[Image:Tree.gif|Friends of the Tree]] =
+Mike Morgan writes in "I nominate Nelson Ko, who works on SUMO.  He has been key in getting SUMO localized and has worked hard to make sure his changes get absorbed by the TikiWiki community."
 = Development Updates =
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 == IT ==
-* Buildbot, Talos and Tinderbox tier one support comes through IT, please file tickets at [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=mozilla.org&format=itrequest here]
+* Buildbot, Talos, and Tinderbox tier one support comes through IT, please file tickets at [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=mozilla.org&format=itrequest here]
 * Brought up to mirrors hosted by ISC - both are in releases.mozilla.org and bouncer, currently pushing over 300mb/s of download traffic - thanks to ISC!
 == Build ==
+* FF2.0.0.12 out on beta
+* FF3.0beta3 - waiting for a "go"
+* tinderbox perf tests being migrated, see [http://oduinn.com/2008/02/04/housekeeping-moving-performance-tests-from-tinderbox-to-talos/ blog] for details.
+* bug triage - p1/p2/p3
 == QA ==
-Firefox 2.0.0.12 [Project Lead - SS, QA Lead - abillings]
+Firefox 2.0.0.12 [Project Lead - ss, QA Lead - abillings]
-* Completed the general testing for this release.  This included bug verification, smoke testing, locale testing and update testing.  We are awaiting the beta test to complete to move on to the live testing.  Several people worked the weekend to get this beta out.
+* Completed the general testing for this release.  This included bug verification, smoke testing, locale testing and update testing.  We are awaiting the beta test to complete to move on to the live testing.  Several people worked the weekend to get this beta out. [abillings, ss, stephend, juanb, tracy, jay]
 * See the [Firefox:2.0.0.12:Test_Plan|Test Plan]
+* Prepared and sent an email to the betatesters list concerning the availability of Firefox 2.0.0.12 RC1. Some focused testing of FF 2.0.0.12 candidate on Leopard. See [[Firefox:2.0.0.12:Test_Plan:Smoketests#Spot_Check_Mac_10.5_.28marcia.29|results]]. [marcia]
-Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 [Project Lead -ss]
+Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 [Project Lead - ss]
 * In the planning stages for this release.  See: [[Releases/Thunderbird_2.0.0.12|Rough Plan]]
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 **  Created a [[QA/Firefox3/TestPlan/Breakpad|testplan for Breakpad]] [ss]
 ** On the A11y front, progress was made getting Firefox 3 nightlies to a good state for beta 3. [marcoz] This included:
-*** Places ({{bug|415105}}, {{bug|400703}},  {{bug|415439}}, {{bug|393509}}, {{bug|287743}}, {{bug|407359}}, {{bug|413844}}
+*** Places - {{bug|415105}}, {{bug|400703}},  {{bug|415439}}, {{bug|393509}}, {{bug|287743}}, {{bug|407359}}, {{bug|413844}}
-*** and Chatzilla areas. {{bug|404881}}, {{bug|414656}}, {{bug|414387}}
+*** and Chatzilla - {{bug|404881}}, {{bug|414656}}, {{bug|414387}}
 ** Focused testing around video podcast and podcast feeds. Discovered some differences between how we are reporting podcast and video feeds. Spoke with myk melez about this and he asked me to create a list [marcia]
+* Leak testing.  Filed [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=exact&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailqa_contact2=1&emailtype2=exact&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=415487%2C+415486%2C+415481%2C+415222%2C+414808%2C+415122%2C+413903%2C+414311%2C+414922%2C+414805%2C+414745%2C+414658%2C+414514+&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0= 13 more leak bugs]. Working with Development to test a patch for bug 414808 ###!!! ASSERTION: Oops! You' re asking for a weak reference to an object that doesn't support that.: ' factoryPtr' [tomcat]
 Misc
+* Added QAX features (checked in [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397573 big patch]) [jay].  This was for:
+** Window resizing
+** Redesigned Litmus tab UI for better usability
+** Improved Bugzilla tab UI
 * Gathered requirements for QA automation tool the QA Tools team.  We are doing preliminary investigation about a XUL level test tool to help same testing time and test UI elements more frequently. [tchung and test execution team]
 * Held a brownbag A11y presentation on Wednesday of the work week, which got quite a crowd. I showed how pages are generally rendered for a11y, and also showed differences in interaction with pages (Forms Mode on Windows versus direct interaction on Linux). I also showed how one can verify HTML and XUL accessibility from within the Firefox 3 DOM Inspector. Received quite a number of follow-up questions after the session. [marcoz]
+* Tested TED USB key Firefox build; ran smoke tests in Litmus for Mac OS X and Windows XP/Vista [jay, stephend]
+* VM Maintenance continued. Finished work on x64 virtual machines in QA lab. Updated all Linux virtual machines. [abillings]
 === Test Development and Tools ===
+* unittest
+** clobber support and documentation
+*** {{bug|393413}} [[Build:ClobberingATinderbox|Clobbering a Tinderbox]]
+** unittest staging environment
+* perf
+** pushed sunspider tests to staging
+** changed format of the tinderbox waterfall
+** leak testing
+* test development
+** Windows VMs reporting JavaScript test results to MozillaTest.
+** improvements to the QA extension
+*** {{bug|413760}}, {{bug|397573}}
 == Security ==
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 '''Support'''
+* Lots of work on the 0.5 "l10n" milestone by Nelson Ko [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398352] [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398353] [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398354] [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398356] [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398357]
 '''Events'''
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 * [http://people.mozilla.com/~polvi/threedom/status.html At 41% of 95% extension compatibility goal]
 * AMO Review queue
-** 27 pending addon reviews
+** 2 pending addon reviews
 ** 41 addons pending updates
 ** 67 nominated addons
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 * [https://labs.mozilla.com/forum/index.php/topic,507.0.html released a minor version update] to the forums that adds fifteen localizations, fixes a variety of bugs, and adds persona preview;
 * working on a major version update that supports dynamic personas.
+'''Extend Firefox 2'''
+* [http://labs.mozilla.com/contests/extendfirefox/ Extend Firefox]
+** Notifying winners today
+** Announcing winners this week
+** Hoping to launch Extend Firefox 3 in mid-February.
 == Webdev, Add-ons, AMO ==
 * Breakpad scaling for Fx3
+* What the?!?!! [http://blog.mozilla.com/metrics/2008/01/30/600000000-add-on-downloads/ 600,000,000 add-on downloads]!
 * AMO reskin work, locking down for l10n this week
 * AMO API was released last week to nightly testers, fixing bugs this week
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 * AUS3 migration script, should be done this week -- ran into a [http://wiki.mozilla.org/AUS:v3#A_Couple_Problems couple of issues] last week that we're resolving
 * PHP5 migration for non-AMO apps
+* morgamic isn't very good at ping pong
 = Foundation Updates =
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 = Other Business =
+[[Category:Weekly Updates]]
+[[Category:Meeting Notes]]