WeeklyUpdates/2009-04-06

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm Pacific time (20:00 UTC until November 1, 2009)
• Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
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Development Updates

Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x

• Firefox 3.0.9
  • Handed off to build today
  • On track for release on April 21
• Firefox 3.0.10
  • Opening tree this Tuesday for approved checkins
  • Please work on your blockers

Gecko 1.9.1

• Beta 4 progress: JS has 11 bugs blocking the last planned beta, and five of those 11 have patches or has a potential fix. At this rate we should be able to hit the new freeze date (next bullet). Overall, there are 24 remaining JS blockers.
• Code freeze for beta 4 is now Wednesday April 15th.
• I mentioned this last week, but it's still happening and it's important that people participate: We're in the middle of planning new features and work items for future releases.
  • Each team has created a list and prioritized possible major work items for the next release.
  • There's several ongoing dev.planning discussions of the work lists for each of the groups. Links to threads: Javascript, GFX, Layout, and Content.
  • For overall Platform planning, see this wiki page.
  • Next steps are to discuss the overall plan for what the next Gecko release will look like, not just features, but duration and timing.
• Blocker Status:
  • 12 final blocker bugs left in content. (9 last time)
  • 3 GFX final blockers. (Last week: 4)
  • 10 Layout final blockers. Six have patches. (Last week: 11)
  • 2 SVG final blockers.
  • JS with 24 blockers. (Last week: 37)
• Triage needed. 22 (I updated this number this time!) noms are in the queue right now.
• For weekly engineering meeting notes and other info see the Platform page.
• 70 total 1.9.1 blockers (last week: 88).

TB 3

• 3.0b3 work continues

IT

• Lots of database work
  • SUMO moved to separate cluster
  • Added slaves to AMO/Bugzilla/Bouncer
  • Built second "b" level cluster, moved databases around
• Upcoming hardware (going online this week)
  • Xserve for SeaMonkey (bug 464325) & AMO (bug 483018)
  • Four new ESX hosts for RelEng

QA

Test Execution

• Mozmill 1.1 Testday on 4/10
• QA Meetup in Mountain View on Wed, 4/22
  • If you can attend, please add yourself to the Participants list!
• Bug Verifications last week
  • 107 1.9.1+Trunk bugs verified (core/firefox/toolkit)
  • 69 1.9.1 bugs verified

Web Dev Testing, Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community

• Marcia delivered a keynote speech entitled "Mozilla: Under the Hood" to 150 attendees at the ICST 2009 International Conference
• Tomcat is leading an idea to host more meetups in Germany

Test Development

• Completed Windows Mobile testplan
• Working on testing interruptible reflow
• Added bunches of crashtests for old security bugs to be sure they don't regress

Marketing/PR

General

• Quarterly Survey Update
  • Ran the survey with 3.07 release with more than 15K responses.
  • The "Customer Satisfaction Rating" came in at 82%
  • Took a deeper look at all of the results for the past few quarters and we are concerned about the validity of our findings.
    • We feel like most of the respondents are long-term Firefox users, which means that our pool of respondents is probably more biased, which makes us question the accuracy of our numbers.
    • We are talking with consultants to see how we can improve our methodology and findings
    • Read more here:http://livetolaugh85.blogspot.com/2009/03/q1-2009-survey-results.html
    • And here: http://livetolaugh85.blogspot.com/2009/03/looking-at-q1-2009-survey-results-time.html
• All.html Redesign test and results
  • Tested four designs (including the 'old' design to see which design improved user experience and downloads the most
  • Winner was All-3.html (tweaked version of the 'old page')
    • Improved downloads by .89%
    • Improved UE by 8%
    • Already implemented the change, so All-3.html is now the 'new' All.html page.
    • Plans to continue tweaking and testing the page are in the works.
    • Read more here:http://livetolaugh85.blogspot.com/2009/04/results-of-allhtml-test.html

PR

• Mozilla launches new designs for Personas
• Firefox market share continues to rise
• CNET looks at Fennec at CTIA
• LA Times on Ubiquity
• Firefox.next in the news
• Linux Link Web Radio discusses Ogg Theora and HTML 5 video in Firefox 3.5

Events

Support

• No updates this week.

Evangelism

• No updates this week.

L10n

• No updates worth announcing to everyone
• Slow, continuous work by localizers on Firefox 3.5 beta 4
  • Updates to each locale are on the dashboard.