WeeklyUpdates/2008-11-10

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm Pacific time (21:00 UTC until March 8, 2009)
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Friends of the Tree

• Clint Talbert writes in nominating Aaron Train for his recent efforts on automated tests for the private browsing feature, and for stepping up to expand the audio/video tag test coverage.

• Mark Finkle nominated Dave Townsend as a Friend of the Tree saying "Dave has created a very useful tool to compare IDL interfaces changes (adds, removes & modifications) between branches of our codebase. The tool is proving quite useful to the Evangelism group - helping to update documentation and notify extension developers of upcoming changes in Firefox 3.1"

• Marcia Knous wants to recognize whimboo (Henrik Skupin) who started testing the Ctrl Tab Preview and filed some great bug including: bug 463285, bug 463287, bug 463292, and bug 463296.

• Laura Thompson nominated morgamic (Mike Morgan,) for making a huge dent in the AMO bug mountain

• Joe Drew writes in with this, "I nominate Ehsan Akhgari for his tireless 10 months(!) of work on the Private Browsing feature of Firefox 3.1, which culminated in it finally landing before the Beta 2 freeze. This is a huge feature, and he deserves our recognition for implementing it."

Please send FotT nominations to asa@mozilla.org. This is a great opportunity for the community to recognize those who go above and beyond, so please tell me when you see that happening. Thanks.

Development Updates

Branch work: Firefox 2.0.0.18 / 3.0.4 / 2.0.0.19 / 3.0.5 / Major Update / Thunderbird 2.0.0.18

• Firefox 2.0.0.18 / 3.0.4
  • Beta released last Wednesday
  • Watching for feedback
  • Expected release date of this Wednesday, November 12
• Thunderbird 2.0.0.18
  • Builds started last week
  • Aiming for beta this Wednesday, November 12
• Firefox 2.0.0.18 -> 3.0.4 major update
  • Aiming for release in a couple of weeks
  • No official set date yet
• Firefox 2.0.0.19 / 3.0.5
  • Code freeze is one week from today, Monday, November 17 at 11:59pm
  • Aiming for release on December 16
  • End of life for Firefox 2.0.0.x

Gecko 1.9.1

• For weekly engineering meeting notes and other info see the Platform page.
• Interesting queries related to Gecko 1.9.1
• 98 1.9.1 blockers.
  • 5 Blocking 1.9.1 P1s
  • 26 Blocking 1.9.1 P2s
  • 29 Blocking 1.9.1 P3s

QA

Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 - Created the [[Thunderbird:2.0.0.18:Test_Plan|Test Plan] and started Smoketest and BFT testing [abillings]

Firefox 2.0.0.18/3.0.4

• Finished BFT, L10n, and Updated testing. Release the Beta on Tues Nov 5th. [abillings, juanb, tracy, tchung, jhaher]
• Verified bug fixes for 1.9.0.4 and 1.8.1.18 releases (including Thunderbird) [abillings]

Firefox 3.1

• Feature testing:
  • Completed 60% of the worker threads test development [admc]
  • Added 22 JS related test cases [bc]
  • XHR - Worked on including header checking in the XHR test scheme that Jonas already wrote. [ctalbert]
  • Have new patch for CSS Transform tests [ctalbert]
• Leak testing: Filed 19 new Memory Leaks for Topsites [tomcat]

Mobile testing

• Completed test cases for post Alpha 1 builds [abillings]
• Started getting mochitests running in buildbot [jmaher]
• investigated XPCshell tests to get them running for fennec [jmaher]

Test Automation

• Sent out a RC of MozMill for user testing. This required a good size rewrite of the UI file functionality and work flow for creating and editing tests in the MozMill extension. [admc, mikeal]

Community

• QMO2 - We rolled back QMO2 to put QMO pack onto production. QMO2 is now available alongside QMO at. There were some issues with the update scripts, joining the site, etc. We are looking at ways to have the contractor do some additional cleanup or have parts done in-house. Completed a traige of all the open bugs. [jay, tomcat]
• Recruited Aaron (from Seneca) to do some work on audio/video tests
• Been watching as Jonathan Kew gets ready to work on font-face and pick that up from where Akira left it.
• Set up a meet-up between Adam and Mikeal with the Mozilla Messaging crew to talk about Mozmill use in Thunderbird. [ctalbert]
• Followed up with the Brazilian tester Paula that was here to help her find a place to get started helping with testing, she'll probably get started translating QAC since she wanted to do translation stuff first.

Marketing/PR

Impact Mozilla

• Ten finalists announced last week. We're providing some coaching as we move towards their Dec. 5th deadline.

PR

• Mobile
  • Ars Technica on Fennec extentions

• Firefox
  • Firefox market share >20%

Events

• Green Festival, San Francisco, Nov. 14 - 16: Mozilla will have passes for 200 people. Please sign up to help!
• Nonprofit Software Development Summit, Nov. 17 - 19, Oakland, CA: Please check it out if you are local!
• Mashup Camp, Mountain View, Nov. 17 - 19: Dave Camp is participating in a session on persistence.
• FOSSCamp, Mountain View, Dec. 5 - 6: Organized by Ubuntu folks. Please check it out if you are local!

Spread Firefox

• Home page redesign under way. First designs are in.

Welcome to the team from Mozilla Europe

Support

• Reminder: Support Firefox Day Friday next week (November 21)
  • Focus on localization, getting localizers together (both people that have been contributing to SUMO in the past, and people that are interested in learning more about SUMO)
  • Session about Mozilla 2010 goals
  • We need help! [1]

Evangelism

• Documentation for Firefox 3.1 progressing nicely
  • DOM worker docs are underway
  • More updates to Geolocation and Audio/Video docs
• Asa Dotzler will be delivering a talk, "The Internet as a Global Commons" at the Green Festival this Sunday at noon.

Foundation Updates

• Lots of folks under the weather this past week.
• As part of her Foundation-funded work on HTML video accessibility, Silvia Pfeiffer published a video accessibility requirements document and a review of existing video accessibility data formats. (If you'd like to participate in or keep up with this work, considering subscribing to the Ogg accessibility mailing list.)
• David published a blog post on recent updates to the www.mozilla.org web site.
• Mark posted followup reflections on his blog post concerning engaging a broader public about the 2010 goals.