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

• Catherine Brady writes in with two nominations:
  • "I'm nominating Alex Buchanan for building the awesome trademark infringement reporting tool. He worked hard and I think it looks great."
  • "Tomcat as a friend of the tree for his invaluable help in reviewing and analyzing the code on sites we're investigating for potential infringement. His work has helped us to obtain successful results in several enforcement actions."

• Carsten Book has several nominations:
  • "Jane Finette for an stellar job in organizing Mozilla's first appearance at the CeBIT!"
  • "Kai Engert for helping us at the CeBIT booth Saturday and Sunday !!!"
  • "our Community, we got thousands of visitors from our community and great feedback and questions for all areas in Mozilla, so a great feeling for me to be involved !"

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

• Confer 2009, Rajagiri College of Engineering & Mountain View, March 12, 2009: Chofmann is hosting a presentation on Air Mozilla at 5:30 p.m. PDT about Mozilla and open source.
• 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.