WeeklyUpdates/2008-07-07

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm Pacific time (20:00 UTC until November 2, 2008)
• 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 backchannel

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

Development Updates

IT

• working with build on unit test issues
• build-out of new mini farm
• kernel updates/rhel 5 updates coming this week
• mrz and oremj out this week - IT response may not be as fast

QA

Firefox/Thunderbird 2.0.0.x [ss, abillings, juanb, hali]

• Firefox 2.0.0.15 - Completed final release testing and shipped on Tuesday, July 1st!
• Started testing Firefox 2.0.0.16. See test plan

Firefox 3.0.1 [ss, tchung, marcia, juanb, hali]

• Created the Test Plan [tchung]
• Received builds on July 2 and started bug fix verification, smoketests, BFTs, L10n spot checks, and update testing. Results.
• Expect to release to Beta on Thurs July 10th

Firefox 3.0/3.1

• Feedback monitoring: Worked with contact at ebay to help resolve bug 441779. Escalated Yahoo Mail issue that was causing lots of issues: {bug|443280}}. This was a high visibility issue that was hitting lots of users suddenly. [marcia, tomcat]
• Developed fix for bug 442659 having to do with ARIA menus. [marcoz]
• Verified landing of bug 439566. With this, screen readers using IAccessible2 or ATK now have access to all CSS display properties (except for display: none, which we don't provide accessible objects for at all). [marcoz]
• bug 442862 and bug 442648 landed, giving us a set of tests for HTML and XUL textboxes and textareas. [marcoz]

WebDev Testing

• AMO: Continued developing Selenium-based search test suite. Wrote documentation on creating/executing Selenium IDE scripts via Selenium RC
• SUMO: Verified 12 FIXED bugs
• General: Verified 39 bug fixes

Test development and automation

• Gristmill: Made progress with Windows events handling, observer, and JSBridge. Working on a library called ChromeLib.js to be used to manage windows and tabs via fuel/xpcom interfaces in MozMill. Developing initial proof of concept scripts [mikeal, adam, ctalbert, hali]
• Test Coverage analysis. Completed first hack at extracting the distribution of tests in the source tree. [martijn]
• Minotaur/L10n: Some progress automating the testing of preferences for locales, not that Build has automated the building of locales and hand-off to testing processes. [ctalbert]
• Mobile: progress on geo-location testing and running mochitest suites on fennec. [harthur, ctalbert]
• Sisyphus JS test framework: Fixed bug 443154 (do not require js tests to be on path) and bug 443156 (generalize std::bad_alloc -> out of memory post processing) [bc]

Community

• QMO Redesign- Research on Drupal AHAH (form AJAX feature), extended QMO Bugzilla module and outlined a more flexible version [paulc]
• Working on Intro to QA BOF for OSCON [tchung, tony, ctalbert]
• Provided patch for bug 441991 which, in conjunction with bug 443037, will allow the Calendar team to do some better ARIA magic with Calendar once they move to Gecko 1.9.1. [marcoz]
• Spent a lot of time testing the WebVisum extension, writing a review on it, and in general getting this very promising extension off the ground. This extension is probably going to be as important to visually impaired users as Firebug is for web developers. Also completed leak testing of this extension and found some serious leaks. [marcoz, tomcat]
• No test day last week. We are switching to holding these every two weeks until 3.1 milestone releases.

Marketing/PR

PR

• Second round of Download Day coverage
• The Better Browser: Firefox 3 article in print and online in Time Magazine
• Paul Kim interviewed about integrated marketing for ZDNet blog
• Asa interviewed for InformationWeek article
• Positive news cycle around Window's security metrics blog post
• Study says Firefox users are most likely to be using up-to-date browser
• Kansas City Star reports on Firefox 3 add-ons

Events

Download Day

Spread Firefox Affiliates Program

Metrics

• no updates

L10n

• Builds we are working on launching (as betas) for 3.0.x: Assamese, Bengali, Estonian, Esperanto, Galician, Hindi, Icelandic, Kannada, Kinyarwanda, Latvian, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Thai
  • Shout out to all the localizers behind these builds who are working towards launch (in same order): Amitakhya, Runa, Sander, Eduardo, Suso, Rajesh, Christjian, Shankar, Stephen, Raivis, Joyce, Sandeep & Prithi, Basanta, Isriya

Foundation Updates

• Foundation future
  • Frank did two posts related to the ongoing conversation about future Mozilla and Mozilla Foundation strategy.

• Grants and related expenditures
  • Peter Jaros completed work on his Camino scriptability project (a 2007 grant); for more information see bugs 390072 (preliminary support), 385989 (windows and tabs), and 390846 (bookmarks).
  • Frank received and is reviewing two new accessibility-related grant applications.

• CAs and related issues
  • Frank started the first public comment period for EV-related requests from GlobalSign.

• Conferences
  • Zak continued preparing for the FOSSCoach event at OSCON.

• Website
  • David continued work on updating www.mozilla.org site.

• Other
  • Gerv continued work on projects from last week, including tracking Google Summer of Code work for Mozilla-related projects, updating the public suffix list, working toward the proposed Bugzilla reorganization, review of a new proposal for site security policies, a proposal for replacing the Despot system, and various other things. David continued work on brochure project.

• Upcoming activities
  • David, Gerv, and Zak will be attending OSCON (July 21-25 in Portland OR) and the Firefox Summit (July 29-31 in Whistler BC). Frank will be attending the Firefox Summit but not OSCON.

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

Internship update

We have the following interns for today's internship presentations:

• Clare (Firefox)
• Hasham (QA)
• Juliana (Marketing)
• Dan S. (Web Dev)
• Brian (Web Dev)
• Maria (Labs)
• Eric (Platform)