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'''PR'''
*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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'''Events'''

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 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

Firefox 3.1

TB 3

Mobile

  • Mobile work week in Mtn. View
  • Introduction of team members

IT

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

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

L10n

Foundation Updates

Roundtable

  • Mobile Team Introductions

Other Business