WeeklyUpdates/2009-03-09

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm Pacific time (20:00 UTC until November 1, 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

TIME CHANGE NOTICE: Daylight Saving Time (DST) began last Sunday. Meeting time until November 1, 2009 will be 20:00 UTC.

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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

IT

• Managed 3.0.7 release
  • Had network capacity issues, brief summary
  • Call out to mirrors - we need help!
• Moved mozilla.org behind Postini for spam filtering

Release Engineering

• major update discussions in dev.planning or here: [1] [2] [3] [4]
  • fake major update coming to QA this week for FF3.0.7 -> FF3.1b3
• new parallel l10n repacks used in FF3.1b3.
  • linux: reduced from ~1h15m -> 20mins
  • mac: reduced from 1hr -> 20mins
  • win32: reduced from ~6hrs -> 1hr
  • big tip of the hat to Armen, Axel and Coop for this.
  • more details soon.
• Rebranding from FF3.1->FF3.5 in next week/so.
• New Talos mac regression in Ts over weekend - see dev.tree-management for details.
• Mothballing dm-pageload01 - details in bug 433595

QA

Test Execution

Test Development

Marketing/PR

General

• Next Community Marketing call is this Wednesday, March 11th, at 10am PDT. Dial-in Info: +1.650.903.0800, followed by 92# and then 7391#. Or you can use our toll-free number: +1.800.707.2533, followed by 369# and then 7391#. For those that can't make the call or want to participate online, join us in #marketing on irc.mozilla.org.

PR

Events

• SxSW, March 13 - 17, 2009, Austin, Texas: Brendan Eich & Arun Rangnathan participating in browser panel again on March 16th and John Resig speaking on JS libraries on March 14th. Labs holding a get together on March 16th at 4:30 pm at the Moonshine Grill.
• NTEN Conference, April 26 - 28, 2009, San Francisco: They are looking for volunteers:
  • Day of Service, Sunday, April 26th: Two opportunities:
    • Strategy consults, 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.: Organizations are looking for everything from technology help to marketing and fundraising tips. Sign ups here.
    • Help install wireless networks at St. Anthony's in SF's Tenderloin district or on Treasure Island. Sign ups here.

Evangelism

• Documentation
  • Firefox 3.1 references have (mostly, at least) been updated to 3.5 in the developer documentation.
  • New article: Manipulating video using canvas, based on Paul's awesome demo.
  • Firefox 3.5 documentation touching-up is ongoing, but the docs are essentially complete.
  • Testing and evaluation of Mindtouch Deki "Lyons" is ongoing; we hope to upgrade MDC to this new release of the wiki software in April.
  • MDC skin tweaks are in progress to improve discoverability of certain features.