WeeklyUpdates/2009-02-02

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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)
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Friends of the Tree

• Mike Shaver nominates markus stange as a Friend of the Tree "for his awesome tinderbox+pushlog page"

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 3.0.6 / 3.0.7

• Firefox 3.0.6
  • Shipping tomorrow, February 3
  • Follow various comments, post-release, on the RRRT page
• Firefox 3.0.7
  • Code freeze is tomorrow, February 3 at 11:59pm PST
  • Please land your approved patches ASAP
  • Will do another round of approvals in an hour or two
  • On track for shipping in early March

Gecko 1.9.1

• 14 Bugs blocking beta 3. Breakdown:
  • 13 Javascript bugs.
  • One GFX
• In general, we've trimmed down the blocker lists, although there's still more work to do. We may be able to trim off some of the 8 P3s.
• For weekly engineering meeting notes and other info see the Platform page.
• Interesting queries related to Gecko 1.9.1
• 112 1.9.1 blockers.
  • 14 Blocking 1.9.1 P1s
  • 84 Blocking 1.9.1 P2s
  • 8 Blocking 1.9.1 P3s
  • 6 Blocking 1.9.1 w/ no priority.

Mobile

• Working toward a Fennec M1 release this week
  • Not an Alpha! Just a checkpoint milestone for stability and performance
  • Core WinMo platform team is in MV this week to get M1 wrapped
  • Targeting the HTC Touch Pro
• Symbian port is making headway
  • Build issues delayed work last week
  • NSPR patch being updated
  • Bugs/patches for XPCOM, JS and maybe Widget coming this week
• Talos finds a regression!
• Localizers are filing bugs

Weekly meeting notes

IT

• Wrapped up core2 (bug 473084) IOS upgrade lastnight
  • minimal outage issues, kudos to dmoore & the team
  • talos buildbot issues & single homed mac minis had the majority of issues
  • upgrade unblocks redundant ACE load balancer setup and additional Netscaler -> ACE/Zeus transitions
• ACE/Zeus ZXTM Cluster updates
  • moved versioncheck.addons.mozilla.org & fxfeeds.mozilla.org behind the production Cisco ACE/Zeus ZXTM cluster.
  • planning on moving services.addons.mozilla.org and load testing addons.mozilla.org to ACE/Zeus cluster
• bugzilla.mozilla.org upgrading to Bugzilla 3.2.1, today

Release Engineering

• Talos unthrottled on Win32, linux bug 468680. Mac was never throttled.
  • unthrottling uncovered some extra variance, which has also been fixed.
• FF3.0.6 tomorrow
• FF3.1b3 waiting for "go"

QA

Test Execution

• Team verified 69 FIXED trunk and 1.9.1branch bugs in the last week
• Hit Zero unvetted results for 3.1 in Litmus Tests cleanup
• Ship Firefox 3.0.6 this week
• Major Update testing for Firefox 3.0.6 to 3.1 Beta 3 this week (trial run)
• Mozmill Testcases Tracking sheet

Web Dev Testing, Accessibility, Community, Metrics

• Tomcat will be presenting An overview of Mozilla QA at FOSDEM, Brussels, Belgium this weekend.
• Accessibility:
  • Fixed bugs and landed this patches for bug 458871, bug 472311 and bug 469367.
  • Planning for CSUN 2009 - March 16-21 in Los Angeles
• Metrics
  • With the additional of the crash tests, we are up top 60% coverage for C++!
  • Looking at project metrics for SG and Regression bugs
  • Analyzing L10N QA and Testing Survey responses to generate metrics
• Web Dev testing: Tested SUMO 0.8.1, AMO 5.0.1 for release, Spread Firefox, and worked on mozilla.com improvements: all.html and Dynamic content

Test Development

• Completed first version of maemkit-chunked scripts for automated mobile testing
• Started work on including xpcshell xpcshell in those scripts
• Had a very productive design review for the Mozmill UI on Thursday, thanks for the feedback
• JS Testing Issue: Filed bug 476457 (duped to bug 476349). This is causing major problems for verifications as 20-40 tests crash due to this non JavaScript regression.
• Continuing work on Firefox 3.1 test development - bug 475078, bug 474616, bug 474016, bug 451322, bug 466905, bug 470739, bug 471635, etc
• Heather Arthur continues to singlehandedly refactor and redesign the QA Companion extension - bug 4738769, bug 475036, bug 474858 etc.
• Blogged about 100000 top site testing

Security

No updates.

Marketing/PR

PR

• Mark Surman interviewed in the Globe and Mail
• Mozilla Labs Design Challenge coverage in WIRED and Softpedia
• Take a tour of Mozilla Fennec Alpha
• Mozilla Foundation grant to Wikimedia covered in The New York Times, Ars Technica, PC World and WIRED
• Mozilla comments on Adobe's possible quest for World Record in the Wall Street Journal
• IE slips, Mozilla gains market share

Events

• OSCON CFP is closing tomorrow. Please let Mary & Nicole know if you plan on submitting a talk.
• EduCamp, Feb. 6, 2009, Brussels: Mark Surman and others participating in EduCamp, a pre-FOSDEM event for people making the link the learning potential of free and open source development and colleges, universities and higher education.
• Fosdem, Feb. 7 - 8, 2009, Brussels: Mark Surman is keynoting and we're hosting a Mozilla room and stand as we've done in the past. This year we're also hosting a Marketing Cafe.
• MozCampDelhi, Feb. 10, 2009, New Delhi, India: Campus Rep Mohak Prince has organized a Mozilla Day that Arun and Seth will participate in.
• Techkriti, Feb. 12 - 14, Kanpur, India: Sethb & Arun will be participating in FOSSkriti there.
• GNUnify, Feb. 13 - 14, Pune, India: Sethb & Arun will be conducting a Mozilla workshop.
• SCALE, Feb. 20 - 22, Los Angeles: Chris Blizzard accepted to speak.
• SxSW, March 13 - 17, Austin, Texas: Brendan & Arun have been accepted for the annual browser panel. We're hosting a Mozilla Open Web Lab meetup on March 16th in the afternoon.

Support

• SUMO now has a twitter feed -- Read blog post by Cheng Wang
• Working hard to update the Knowledge Base for Firefox 3.1 -- Effort led by Chris Ilias

Metrics

• A lot of new analysis published last week at blog of metrics
  • Web Analytics -- we were acknowledged as one of the fastest growing sites in 2008.
  • Web Analytics -- examined the most popular pages at www.mozilla.com.
  • Funnelcake -- breakdown of download experience by OS and by browser.
  • Funnelcake -- looking at multiple Funnelcake cohorts, considered our current retention rates and how they've varied across time.

Add-ons

• Thanks for coming to the Brown Bag, slides on slideshare
• 5.0.1 pushed
• AMO 5.0.2 development started on friday

Webdev

• AMO 5.0.1 pushed
• AMO 5.0.2 open bugs & fixed bugs - February 13 freeze - February 19 push
• Socorro partitioning delayed -- next attempt Thursday, Feb 5