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*BBC News profiles Mitchell Baker in [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7762144.stm "Valley Girls"] | |||
* Dion and Ben on the cover of SD Times for their new role at Mozilla | |||
* Mozilla Community Store [http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/press/mozilla-2008-12-03.html announced]. Coverage in [http://www.lifehacker.com.au/tips/2008/12/05/opensource_tshirts_available_at_the_new_mozilla_community_store-2.html Lifehacker] and [http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/04/firefox-goes-threadless-with-crowdsourced-t-shirt-store/ TechCrunch] | |||
* Firefox 3.1 beta 2 [http://www.download.com/8301-2007_4-10114050-12.html sneak] [http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/12/what-to-expect.html peaks] | |||
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Revision as of 20:27, 8 December 2008
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Meeting Details
- 1:00pm Pacific time (21:00 UTC until March 8, 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
WeeklyUpdate Live: You can watch the weekly meetings live at Air Mozilla You can also view previous meetings from the "on-demand" button on the Air Mozilla player. Meetings will be posted for on-demand consumption shortly after the meeting conclusion.
Friends of the Tree 
- MrZ writes in nominating Jeremy Orem and Stephen Donner. Jeremy for quick ramp up in learning new Zeus load balancer, he was able to move two production sites over before mid-week. And Stephend for QA testing support for websites behind Zeus, most notably AMO.
- Ted wrote in to nominate Arpad Borsos and Phil Ringnalda as friends of the tree. They have both filed and fixed a number of bugs for cleaning up old and unused parts of the build system. This kind of code janitor work may be a thankless task, but it helps keep our codebase from accumulating extra junk and makes it more accessible to everyone who has to work on it.
- Clint writes in to nominate Aaron Train (aaronMT) for his tireless work on audio/video tests last week. Aaron's one of Dave Humphrey's Seneca students who took on audio/video testing after completing his project on private browsing. He's been doing a great job trying to figure out these components and invent ways to bend mochitests to test them.
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
Branch work: Firefox 2.0.0.19 / 3.0.5 / Major Update
Gecko 1.9.1
- Focusing on Beta 3 now.
- Some progress made on re-triage and prioritization, but we have more work to do (i.e., still have a lot of noms to sort through, but we've reduced the queue by 50%).
- For weekly engineering meeting notes and other info see the Platform page.
- Interesting queries related to Gecko 1.9.1
- 171 1.9.1 blockers.
Firefox 3.1
TB 3
Mobile
- Mobile work week in Mtn. View
- Introduction of team members
IT
- Derek Moore starts, will be handling all things Networking & more.
- Turned up Zeus ZXTM load balancers & moved some production sites
- versioncheck.addons.mozilla.org
- fxfeeds.mozilla.org
- Planning on performance testing addons.mozilla.org this week behind Zeus
Release Engineering
QA
Firefox 2.0.0.x and 3.0.x
- Completed final testing and released major Update from 2.0.0.18 t0 3.0.4 on Thursday [abillings]
- Ran smoketests and BFTs along with bug fix verifications for 2.0.0.19 and 3.0.4. Verified Debug Build needed Bugs for 1.8.1.19 and 3.0.5. [abillings, tomcat, juanb]
Firefox 3.1
- Testing Beta 2 - [tchung, jmaher]
- Feature testing
- Run JS tests. Checked more tests into mozilla-central [bc]
- CSS - Got new patches ready for CSS Transforms [ctalbert
- Continued top site Topsite and Leak testing. Found 10 new Memory Leak Bugs! [tomcat]
Mobile (See Mobile/Fennec_Automation tracking table)
- Finished setting up Windows Mobile build [jmaher]
- Investigated mochitests that are failing on fennec
- Finished cleaning up documents to run tests on fennec/nokia
Community
- QAC - Checked in Reviewed Patches [ctalbert]
Security
Marketing/PR
PR
- BBC News profiles Mitchell Baker in "Valley Girls"
- Dion and Ben on the cover of SD Times for their new role at Mozilla
- Mozilla Community Store announced. Coverage in Lifehacker and TechCrunch
- Firefox 3.1 beta 2 sneak peaks
Events
Mozilla Community Store
Impact Mozilla
- Friday was the deadline for our ten finalists. All submitted their plans on time; the last two arriving at 11:59pm.
- The public vote to determine the winner will start later today. More details to come...
Support
- SUMO 0.7.3 was released last week giving us better forum performance metrics (blog post coming up shortly about the new features; in the meantime, take a look at the 0.7.2 features blog post written by Chris Ilias)
- Working on start page improvements to increase the number of people that find help for their problems (see blog post)
- Coming up soon: about:sumo newsletter! Community member myles7897 has accepted the task of pulling it together. Expect to read more about this soon...
Metrics
Optimization Testing
- The first ever multivariate optimization test at mozilla.com wrapped up last week. Check out the full results and analysis.
- One key finding -- there's ample opportunity for us to substantially improve the website experience for millions of new Firefox users each year
Evangelism
Labs
- development builds of personas are periodically available; see the forum post for more details
Webdev, Add-ons, AMO
- Add-on Con is this Thursday!
- AMO 4.0.4 open bugs & fixed bugs - Freeze - Dec 8
- Neil wrote a post about Socorro design -- we are looking for feedback, so check it out
- Community store launched
L10n
Foundation Updates
- We now have Albanian, Dutch, Greek and Korean versions of the Mozilla Manifesto.
- David posted meeting notes from the www.mozilla.org planning meeting on December 4.
- Silvia Pfeiffer completed two milestones in her Foundation-funded video accessibility project, including publication of a comprehensive list of open source software and other resources related to video accessibility and a new draft specification for using textual information with Ogg video and audio.
- We're now in the public discussion period for the CA inclusion request from SECOM Trust.
- Mark created a wiki template outlining a possible format for MozCamp+ events.
- Mark talked about the Mozilla experience at the City of Toronto's internal Web 2.0 Summit (week before last).
Roundtable
- Mobile Team Introductions