WeeklyUpdates/2007-04-23

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm Pacific time (20:00 UTC until November 4, 2007)
• Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
• +1 650 903 0800 x91 Conf# 8600 (US/International)
• +1 416 848 3114 x91 Conf# 8600 (Canada)
• +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8600 (US Toll Free)
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Development Updates

Fx/TB 1.5.0.12/2.0.0.4

• Release pushed out due to the number of open blockers, 39.

• Code freeze date was supposed to be 4/20, but will be extended for the same reason (some time this week).

TB 2.0

• Thunderbird 2 was released last Wednesday!
• Closing in on one million downloads of Thunderbird 2 since the launch.
• Thanks to everyone who helped with the final push including Nick, Marcia, Mary, Carsten, Rob Helmer, Preed, Reed, morgamic, clouserw, Justin and Steven Garrity!

Other

• Bugzilla has a booth in the DotOrg pavilion at MySQLConf this week. Stop by and visit if you're attending the conference. We're also short-staffed at the booth due to travel issues, if you're familiar with Bugzilla and can help us out, talk to Dave Miller. We have two exhibit hall passes available still.

IT

• Quiet week - app cluster issues largely resolved, no Nagios alerts!
• QA performance testing Mac OSX machines, online.
• CVS memory upgrade/fix completed.
• Build VMWare infrastructure - working on a migration plan with Build, targetting May 4.

QA

• Test Execution
  • Completed final testing and release of Thunderbird 2 [marcia, juanb, jay, timr, others]
  • 15012/2004 Bug triage [juanb]

• Test Development
  • new tp/ts running consistently and reporting to graphs.mozilla.org [alice]
  • Cleaning up litmus test cases for FFx2/FFx3 [marcia, tracy]
  • Developing I10n/Partner automated parameter verification tools. l10n search plugin verification test now checking up to rank 6. Working on hooking the search engine verifier, code named Minotaur, in to the buildbot testing infrastructure. [alice]
  • Improving/fixed issues with time zones, daylight savings time in the JavaScript Test Library [bc]

• Test Infrastructure
  • Litmus: Landed all Litmus test run code during maintenance window Tuesday night. Worked on admin tutorial. Discussed with QA team about when/how to clone Fx2.0 testcases in advance of Fx3. Fixed: bug 370212: add links to allow admin users to jump into test runs in progress and bug 377230: get staging server setup
  • Talkback: Fixed sql injection [[bug|323990}} in Talkback query tool. Still working on performance issues due to security fix. Fixed broken queries regression bug 377846

• Community
  • Continued work on QMO: Finished creative brief outlines for QMO logo and website, passed on to John Slater for finding designers to work on logo (website to follow). Wrote up QMO Planning doc to track work for alphas and beta release. Hope to have basic site configured and ready for alpha in the next couple of weeks (blog, stories, calendar for test/bug days... other features pushed out for future development).

Product Management and Marketing Updates

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

morgamic at 1pm vet appt, clouserw will talk.

AMO

• WMP support for PFS is out
• lots of bug fixes, will be pushed to production this week

Build Automation

• Moved Bouncer class into its own step
• Finishing up DB queries and downloadables insertion

Breakpad

• Checked in draft schema and talked to DBA
• load testing w/ partitioning this week

Team

• Q1/Q2 goals discussions