WeeklyUpdates/2007-07-09

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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 1.5.0.13/2.0.0.5

• Code Freeze: This Friday 7/13
  • Please land approved patches ASAP!
  • Continue triaging bugs that need patches
    • A lot of bugs with no Trunk bake time or recent traction will be pushed out
    • We will help prioritize blockers for devs that have a lot of bugs assigned (jst, mrbkap, sicking, bz, dvedtiz)
• QA starting bug verifications on 2.0.0.5pre builds
• Still targeting 7/31 for release date (to avoid conflict with FF3b1 milestone)

TB 3

• Thunderbird trunk builds will be moving to Breakpad this week and we'll be removing talkback. Thanks to Ted Mielczarek, bsmedberg, aravind and coop for their help in making this possible.

Gecko 1.9

• Continued Blocker focus.
• Wrapping goals up by the end of Tuesday (See: Platform Q3 Goals )
• Announce updated schedule and the related discussion.

IT

• Build VM performance issues
  • Migration needed to a new LUN - planning for Tuesday
  • should significantly improve performance
• Mozilla-eu migrated to San Jose
• Pageload server re-write work continues

Build

• There will be a 12-hour outage window on Tuesday to move the most critical VMs around on the Netapp to help solve some performance problems. It will start at 10 am.
• Planning this week to deploy the new linux ref platform, which is based on CentOS 5.0; Win32 ref platform bump is up next.
• We'll be handing off the community build tinderboxen tomorrow during tomorrow evening's outage window.

Marketing/PR

• OSCON:
  • Last call for travel!
  • Please help get the word out for office hours and our community party

Community

• Wednesday, July 11th at 12 noon in Bldg. K: JT, Asa & Seth B will present a re-cap of South American Trip & Global community engagement, marketing, localization, etc. See http://jtbatson.blogspot.com/ for highlights! Webcast will be Available
• Wednesday, July 11th at 2 PM: Air Mozilla returns. Asa hosting a community meeting with guest Mitchell Baker. Details here.

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

• AMO
  • Facebook app planned for launch by end of July
  • Load testing for supporting Facebook app this and next week
  • Working with IT on planning release and deployment
  • Download and update ping stats will be made available for developers
  • Add-ons not compatible with Firefox 2 will be "sandboxed" today (about 800)
• Breakpad
  • Breakpad hackathon this week
• Mozilla Support
  • Worked with JT and choffman to pick groupware
  • We'll be working with TikiWiki and its community to produce a beta Mozilla Support knowledgebase
• mozilla-europe.org & mozilla-world.org
  • On new hardware