WeeklyUpdates/2009-03-02

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm Pacific time (21:00 UTC until March 8, 2009)
• Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
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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.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x

• Firefox 3.0.7
  • Shipping this Wednesday, March 4
• Firefox 3.0.8
  • Code freeze is March 17 at 11:59pm
  • Release in mid-April
• Thunderbird 2.0.0.21
  • Fixes in sync with Firefox 3.0.7
  • Code complete yesterday
  • Off to build
  • Aiming for mid-March release

Gecko 1.9.1

• FIXME Bugs still blocking beta 3. There are a few difficult bugs to work through--all are correctness issues or performance regressions that we cannot allow to be introduced. So, we're fixing them, and solid progress is being made. Overall, stability is good.
• Other areas are looking pretty good to wrap up blockers soon:
  • FIXME final blocker bugs left in content.
  • FIXME GFX final blockers.
  • FIXME Layout final blockers.
  • FIXME SVG final blockers.
  • JS with FIXME blockers (last week: 49).
• Component leads are checking nom queues daily. FIXME noms are in the queue right now.
• For weekly engineering meeting notes and other info see the Platform page.
• Interesting queries related to Gecko 1.9.1
• FIXME 1.9.1 blockers (last week: 108).
  • FIXME Blocking 1.9.1 P1s (last week: 10)
  • FIXME Blocking 1.9.1 P2s (last week: 84).
  • FIXME Blocking 1.9.1 P3s (last week: 5)
  • FIXME Blocking 1.9.1 w/ no priority. (last week: 9)

Mobile

[Weekly Meeting]

Release Engineering

• Unit tests on try server! Linux only right now, win32 and mac coming soon Thanks to Lukas Blakk

• FF 3.0.7 pushed to beta channel

• New graph server being tested at http://graphs-new.mozilla.org

• Talos regression detection sending alerts to dev.tree-management

QA

Test Execution

• Please Welcome Aakash Desai and Krupa Raj to the QA team!
• Fx3.0.7 shipped to beta
• 119 1.9.1 branch bugs verified last week
• QA at CEbit this week

Test Development

• Worked on SpiderMonkey 1.8.0 release. Waiting on a couple of bugs to land before cutting the tag and posting the tarball
• CSS Transforms tests landed with many thanks to dholbert for his help
• The first attempt at QAC notifications has landed
• Testing Fennec Maemo Beta 1, it's looking good
• Mozmill 1.1 is almost ready to go: remaining blockers

Marketing/PR

General

PR

• Mitchell interviewed by German newspaper FAZ

Events

Support

• Next Monday, March 9th at 10 AM PDT, we'll have a special SUMO community meeting where all SUMO contributors are encouraged to call in
  • Opportunity to provide direct feedback or ask any questions about SUMO, help planning the upcoming Support Firefox Day, and much more
  • If you're a SUMO community member, please call in!
  • Read more in the blog post: Contributors open meeting March 9th 10 AM PDT

Metrics

• Market Share
  • Firefox continued to gain market share in February. Check out the full report from Net Applications.

• Abandon Installer Survey
  • We're planning to implement a way for Firefox users to leave feedback (if interested) when canceling out of the Fx installer.
  • Introductory blog posts: Does Installing Firefox Make a Person Feel Happy or Sad? and Improving the Experience of Installing Firefox

Evangelism

• Mozilla Developer Center
  • Mostly minor changes to documentation this past week.
  • Evaluation and discussion about the impending Lyons release of Deki is ongoing. We hope to upgrade to this a few weeks after it ships, which should be in about a month.

Add-ons

• Compatibility update
  • FIXME of add-ons compatible with Fx3.1

Webdev

• SUMO 0.9 went live on Thursday.
• and also the Crash Reporter Reskin shipped

L10n

• Fennec is now on the l10n dashboard for localizers to see the status of their builds.
• Axel continues to work with RelEng on l10n build related issues
  • A blog post on triggering l10n builds.

For other updates, please read the recent posts from our team members' blogs:

• Seth's blog.
• Axel's blog.
• Stas's blog.