WeeklyUpdates/2007-08-20

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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)
• join irc.mozilla.org #staffmeeting for attendance taking and backchannel

note: all participants are muted automatically; if you want to talk, press *1 to un-mute yourself

Development Updates

TB 3

• Thanks to everyone who helped with the Thunderbird major update release last week including community testers who participated in the test day, and Nick, Juan, Carsten, Anthony, Marcia, Jay, Al and the rest of the QA team.

Gecko 1.9

• No major news. Continuing to resolve regressions from items that landed on our M7 feature complete release.
• Thank you interns: Rob Arnold, Eli Friedman, Waldo, Biesi, and mrbkap (yes, he's still an intern :-D )

Firefox 3

Bit of a slow week last week due to MoCo all hands and travel.

• Plugin management (mwu, carryover from last week)
• Plugin blocklisting (mwu)
• New Downloads Manager UI (sdwilsh, carryover from last week, number of bugfixes)
• New Bookmarking UI with starring and tagging (mano)

Upcoming (close to landing)

• Vista Parental controls
• Post-submit pwmgr prompt (infobar, not modal)
• Unified history/bookmarks search for location bar autocomplete
• Web apps as protocol handlers

Big thanks to MoCo summer interns: Christine Yen, Steve Won, Michael Wu and Shawn Wilsher

• Plugin Management
  • Longstanding request/need
  • Support disabling/uninstalling all plugins
  • Blocklisting of vulnerable plugin versions (top vector of attack against Firefox users)

• Windows/Linux shutdown handling
  • Better shutdown handling/experience (single save session/quit dialog)
  • Avoids dataloss and/or confusing dialogs on next startup

• Places
  • UI prototyping/implementation help
  • Fixing core front end bugs

• Protocol handling front end
  • Still in progress, but major step forward

• Download manager rewrite
  • Backend rewrite to move to SQLite, improve API for extension authors
  • Frontend redesign to support ease of use, searching

• SQLite improvements
  • Move to current SQLite, performance improvements and bugfixes
  • Use our i18n support in place of ICU

Build

• TB 1.5.0.12->2.0.0.6 major update shipped last week
• TB 1.5.0.13 being QA'd, plan to ship this week if all goes well
• Win32 Nightlies have been switched to the new reference platform.
  • no symbols for nightlies, see bug 384624 for details.
• Bug triage

QA

Mostly attended the On-Site

Test Execution

• Completed final release testing for Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 -> 2.0.0.6 Major Update
• Tested the new download page from David Rolnitzky
• Tested Thunderbird 1.5.0.13 RC1
• Held a special planning session on Monday as part of the on-site

Test Tools and Infrastructure

Community

• Held a Thunderbird 1.5.0.13 Testday on Friday

Marketing/PR

• New Firefox download and first run pages are going live this week.
• Announced SUMO leadership team.
• Events:
  • [www.mozilla24.com/en-US Mozilla 24] - Help spread the word
  • Calling all Mozilla speakers
  • Vote for South by Southwest 2008 panels