WeeklyUpdates/2007-08-06

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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 1.5.0.13/2.0.0.6

• Firefox 2.0.0.6 was released Monday night (7/30)
• Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 was released Wednesday evening (8/1)
• Triage for 2.0.0.7 starts this week. Schedule hasn't been discussed yet.
• Triage for Thunderbird 1.5.0.13 on-going.
• Thunderbird major update 1.5.0.12->2.0.0.6 is next in line for release.
  • Testing is happening this week.

TB 3

• Hunspell has now landed on the trunk, improving the spell checking experience. Thanks to RyanVM and Németh László.
• Thunderbird can now read from the Mac OS X system address book! Thanks to everyone who helped work on this, especially peterv and a.peyser.

Gecko 1.9

• Gran Paradiso Alpha 7 Released
• M8 Code Freeze: Sept 5. (Approx 355 blockers remain with 99 of those targeted for M8).

IT

• Maintenance this week
  • Pageload server migration, try #3
  • Kernel updates
  • wiki.m.o migration and upgrade
  • LDAP maintenance
• Created Hg accounts for all CVS contributors from the past year
• Facebook app launched; more migrations to php5 cluster
• Continued breakpad support and maintenance
• MPT cage expansion (pics to come)

Build

• IT-scheduled maintenance downtime on Tuesday evening; this will close the tree, due to imaging the performance testing machines.
• We should see builds from the new Win32 reference platform this week; they will be in the experimental directory on ftp. Preed will post in m.d.planning with the location.
• A number of people have pinged us about Firefox 1.5.0.12 major update prompts that take them to 2.0.0.4, and then jumping to 2.0.0.6. This is expected behavior; publishing a new version of major update requires a Build/QA process, which we're tracking in bug 388586. For now, people can get to 2.0.0.6 via 1.5.0.12 -> 2.0.0.4 -> 2.0.0.6.
• We're currently working on getting Thunderbird major update and Thunderbird 1.5.0.13 scheduled, specifically which one we work on first.
• Nick (aka cf) will be in Mountain View this week.

QA

Test Execution

• Tested and released FFx and TB 2.0.0.6 last Monday and Wednesday respectively. [juanb, whole test execution team!]
• Firefox 3 A7 testing: tested new features (places, content handling, etc) and run the regression tests. [tchung, abillings, marcia, tracy, others]
• Tested and released the Rock your Firefox/Facebook [stephend]
• Started major update testing for Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 [juanb, tomcat]

Test Development

• Caught up on adding new JavaScript tests to the test library. [bc]
• Added to the FFx 3 Mac OS Test Plan: printing functionlity on the Mac that is not present on Windows that will necessitate additional test cases [marcia]
• Wrote test cases for Places bugs in FFx 3 [tracy]

Test Tools

• Completed an early version of the Litmus testing extension. Check it out and give us feedback. But keep in mind this is for alpha testing only!! [ben_h, zach]
• Minotaur: Improved how it works with partner builds and tested it with google and ebay. Met with Axel and Nick on L10N build integration. [clint]

Community

• Bugday on Tues Aug 1st. [tomcat, others]
• Testday on Fri, Aug 3rd. Over 600 test cases run! See results [ashughes, tomcat, marcia, jay, mw22]
• Recruited two Window-eyes beta testers (A11y) as Minefield/WE quick reaction testers [tkeenan]
• Getting involved with the Campus Reps program. See the flyers!

Misc

• Accessibility (A11y): Gained access to the Jaws 9 private beta list. Constructed template for Xul and Gecko platform test plans. Created accessibility test groups under Litmus. [tkeenan]

Marketing/PR

• Firefox support knowledge base alpha is live. Check it out and give us feedback.
• Moving forward with work on retention plan.
• Mozilla Store launch week of 8/13.
• PR push on behalf of Rock Your Firefox this week.
• PR update on Black Hat.

Developer Relations

• Firefox 3 documentation work is ongoing, with Places and FUEL being the current works-in-progress.
• Planning work is in progress on migrating MDC to the php5 cluster to improve performance and reliability.
• Simon Willison is at work on an update to our core JavaScript reference, integrating post JavaScript 1.5 material directly into the core of the documentation. New material includes:
  • A new chapter on closures
  • A new chapter on XML processing with E4X
  • Extensions to the chapters on functions and variables to include new JavaScript 1.7 features such as let.
  • More is in the works.
• Work on a JS Speed Test Suite is progressing nicely - more tests are being rolled in, better results created.
• Made two releases available for the MAR xulapp. A third release is planned for today which includes a major bugfix.
• WebRunner work is progressing. Try to release 0.7 this week:
  • Support for webapp scripting (think greasemonkey-scripts for a webapp)
  • Support for adding simple webapp-specific UI - (toolbars and menus)
  • Support for simple desktop integration - (nsIAlertsService for popuping up a message when new mail arrives)
  • Profiles (*.webapp) files are now ZIP/JAR files so they can package more webapp resources (scripts, icons, menus and toolbars)

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

• AMO
  • New mocks are finalized, in design phase
  • Add-on help for Sun java console
  • Security fixes for AMO and PFS
• Bouncer updates during Tuesday's maint. window
  • Performance patch to implement memcache usage
  • bug 390201 - UI to show mirror uptake
  • bug 390199 - Flag for products to be checked immediately (for newer releases)
• Breakpad/Socorro
  • Weekly meeting minutes
  • New issues filed for UI and reporting
• Wil and I got some OSCON blog love -- woot!
• Rock Your Firefox (add-ons Facebook app) launched Thursday
  • We currently have about 650 users - pretty graphs as of yesterday
  • No major bugs have been reported, so we'll be increasing PR this week
  • Many people have suggested that we have a way to detect currently installed add-ons to add as favorites, so we'll be working on that for a future version.

Foundation Updates

Note: This update includes material from the previous week as well.

• Executive director search
  • The search committee had its first meeting; for more information see the meeting notes.

• Grants and related activities
  • As part of our efforts to improve the accessibility of Firefox and the web, particularly on free and open source platforms, the Foundation will be funding improvements to the GNOME AT-SPI accessibility API on Linux and enhancements to the Orca screen reader for Linux. Also, Eitan Isaacson completed his Foundation-funded work on the Accerciser accessibility test tool for GNOME /Linux. Last but definitely not least, Aaron Leventhal was one of five winners of the 2007 Google/O'Reilly Open Source Awards, for his work on Mozilla and Firefox accessibility.

• IP/legal issues
  • Frank Hecker is responding to licensing-related questions to the Foundation while Gerv Markham is on vacation.

• Web sites
  • David Boswell has created a Foundation page on wiki.mozilla.org for Foundation-related work in progress, links to staff blogs, etc.

• Other
  • Along with Mitchell, David, Frank, and Zak Greant participated in the Internet as a Public Good symposium at Harvard. Thanks go to Zak for his work in getting the symposium organized!
  • Gerv is on vacation until later this month.

For more information see the individual status reports from David, Frank, Gerv, and Zak.