WeeklyUpdates/2009-01-05

« previous week | index | next week »

Meeting Details

• 1:00pm Pacific time (21:00 UTC until March 8, 2009)
• Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
• +1 650 903 0800 x92 Conf# 8600 (US/International)
• +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 8600 (Canada)
• +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8600 (US Toll Free)
• sip:weeklystatus@mozilla.com from generic SIP clients
• http://air.mozilla.com/ to watch and listen
• join irc.mozilla.org #staffmeeting for backchannel

note: all participants are muted automatically; if you want to talk, press *1 to un-mute yourself

WeeklyUpdate Live: You can watch the weekly meetings live at Air Mozilla You can also view previous meetings from the "on-demand" button on the Air Mozilla player. Meetings will be posted for on-demand consumption shortly after the meeting conclusion.

Friends of the Tree

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 3.0.6 / Major Update

• Thunderbird 2.0.0.19
  • Went live last Tuesday thanks to some holiday work by QA and build
  • Moving Thunderbird 2.0.0.x to 2-month releases (every 8 weeks or so)
  • Will likely be supported until six months after Thunderbird 3 release
• Firefox 2.0.0.20 -> 3.0.5 Major Update
  • Went to beta users last Monday
  • Localizers are currently working to get the new banner translated (36 done, 8 remain!)
  • Final release date a moving target, but aiming for late this week or early next
• Firefox 3.0.6
  • Code freeze is moved out to Wednesday, January 7 (at 11:59pm)
  • Does not move out final ship date of February 3
  • Currently 20 approved patches that need landing. Please land your patches.

Gecko 1.9.1

• New to the Platform Team:
  • David Bolter, working out of the Toronto office, a new accessibility engineer.
  • Jason Duell, Content Team, reporting to Johnny Stenback, networking code. YAY!
  • Nicholas Nethercote, Javascript Team, reporting to Robert Sayre, core Valgrind hacker.
• 38 Bugs blocking beta 3, down one from before holidays!
• Beta 3 code freeze is Jan 13.
• For weekly engineering meeting notes and other info see the Platform page.
• Interesting queries related to Gecko 1.9.1
• 153 1.9.1 blockers.
  • 38 Blocking 1.9.1 P1s
  • 67 Blocking 1.9.1 P2s
  • 24 Blocking 1.9.1 P3s
  • 24 Blocking 1.9.1 w/ no priority.

Firefox 3.1

Firefox 3.1 Beta 3

• Dec 31 Jan 1 - string freeze has come and gone
• Jan 13 - code freeze
• Jan 19 - QA start
• Jan 26 - ship to users

• workin' on Beta 3 (triage queries)
  • Firefox 3.1 Nominations
  • Firefox 3.1 Blockers
  • Fixed Firefox 3.1 Blockers that need 1.9.1 landing
  • Firefox 3.1 - easy polish bugs we're looking to take
  • Firefox 3.1 - hard polish bugs we're looking to take

• New faces on the Firefox team - please say "hi" on IRC!
  • David Dahl (ddahl) - from ILM, author of the rCache add-on for Firefox and the Clarify Python wrapper for Tesseract OCR
  • Drew Willcoxon (adw) - from Stanford and University of Georgia, author of the Extend Firefox 3 winning TagSifter add-on, as well as several other projects (see his web page)

QA

Welcome Marco Zehe and Henrik Skupin as new employees!

Test Execution

• Welcome Henrik Skupin (aka Whimboo) to the QA Execution Team!
• Major Update of Fx2.0.0.20 -> Fx3.0.5 shipped on 12/29 (al, juan)
• Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 shipped early on 12/30 (al, juan)

Web Dev Testing, Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Crash Reports

• Tomcat attended the 25th Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin. See his report.
• Code Coverage metrics: Working on ways to drill down and to visualize the coverage.

Test Development

• Continuing to execute JavaScript tests with focus on mozilla-central (1.9.2), mozilla-1.9.1 (1.9.1) and tracemonkey (1.9.2) repositories while attempting to keep up to date with the most recent failures
• Continued development to support Sisyphus|Javascript testing against 1.9.2 - work tracked in bug 472144 and should land today.
• New Patches for CSS Transform and CSS Border-Radius tests
• Mozmill 1.0 release should be this week - still in find/fix cycle
• Investigated all reftest and mochitest failures on Fennec and filed bugs for them.
• Finding, minimizing and diagnosing crash and memory leaks: bug 471416, bug 471458, bug 471543, bug 471598 etc.
• Analyzed results from the 100,000 Topsite Test: ~ 70,000 Sites done so far with about 16,000 abnormal exits (for example: fatal assertions, crashes, etc); currently running a verification test for these abnormal results.
• Started a 100,000 top site run for the 1.9.0 branch. After it completes, plan to do a 35,000 site run continuously against that branch to help catch any future regressions.

Marketing/PR

PR

• Firefox add-ons on the homepage on CNET's download.com
• John Lilly interviewed in the LA Times
• Johnathan Nightingale quoted in BusinessWeek.com’s “Tech Beat”
• Ubiquity update covered in InternetNews and NewsFactor

Webdev

• Socorro launched 2 new reports
  • MTBF - example Thunderbird development
  • Top Crashers by URL example FF 3.0.5

Foundation Updates

• It was a generally slow week, with some folks on vacation.
• Mark produced some initial notes on a possible Mozilla Foundation education program.
• David did updates to the Projects and History pages on www.mozilla.org (to add Fennec as a project, note Adobe Acrobat and Kirix Strata as applications using Mozilla technologies, and address comments raised in bug 471494).
• Frank continued participating in the public discussion about Comodo and Certstar.
• The new Mozilla shirt is now available in the International Store.
• And last but certainly not least, there's a new member of the Boswell family.