WeeklyUpdates/2009-02-23

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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)
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• +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8600 (US Toll Free)
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Friends of the Tree

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.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x

• Firefox 3.0.7
  • Beta this Wednesday afternoon
  • Release next Wednesday at 3pm if all goes well
• Firefox 3.0.8
  • Code freeze is March 17 at 11:59pm
  • Release in mid-April
• Thunderbird 2.0.0.21
  • Code freeze this Friday
  • Fixes in sync with Firefox 3.0.7
  • Aiming to release in mid-March

Gecko 1.9.1

• 10 Bugs still blocking beta 3. There are a few difficult bugs to work through--all are correctness issues or performance regressions that we cannot allow to be introduced. So, we're fixing them, and solid progress is being made. Overall, stability is good.
• Other areas are looking pretty good to wrap up blockers soon:
  • 20 final blocker bugs left in content.
  • 4 GFX final blockers.
  • 6 Layout final blockers.
  • 2 SVG final blockers.
  • JS with 49 blockers (down from 53 last week).
• Component leads are checking nom queues daily. 21 noms are in the queue right now.
• For weekly engineering meeting notes and other info see the Platform page.
• Interesting queries related to Gecko 1.9.1
• 108 1.9.1 blockers (down from 125).
  • 10 Blocking 1.9.1 P1s
  • 84 Blocking 1.9.1 P2s (down from 98).
  • 5 Blocking 1.9.1 P3s
  • 9 Blocking 1.9.1 w/ no priority.

Firefox 3.1

• Front-end blockers looking good: only ~20 blockers without patches remaining, only two of which are complicated
• Polish bugs are continuing to get fixed; would love more help and community contributions on them
• Moving into early planning and scoping for next version this week, should have something to report next week on that. Initial steps will be looking for wins on performance and code cleanup, as well as feature work that dropped out of Firefox 3.1
• Beta 3 is getting close, update at tomorrow's development meeting

TB 3

• 3.0b2
  • Code frozen
  • Tomorrow's build will be the first release candidate for 3.0b2
  • comm-central is open for 3.0b3 checkins
  • More details about 3.0b3 plan available shortly

Release Engineering

• Last week's Design Lunch.
  • followup discussions in mozilla.dev.tree-planning
  • will be another in a few weeks time.

QA

Test Execution

Test Development

• Landed many fixes for Sisyphus and Javascript tests
• Planning to release SpiderMonkey 1.8.0 this week - bug 428420
• Tomcat will be at CeBIT next week
• Changed QA Companion to use native JSON for a huge performance improvement (about 50% perf improvement judging from stop-watching it - Thanks Heather!)
• Integrated XPCShell into Maemkit TUnit test suite for maemo mobile.
• Beginning investigations into the "Random Orange" problem.

Marketing/PR

General

• Social Actions "Change the Web Challenge" announced today. Submissions for add-ons and Web apps due on April 3rd. Winners announced on April 28th!

• Community Marketing Guide: It's coming to a computer near you on Wednesday, Feb. 25th. It's a comphrensive resource guide on marketing for Mozilla. Please provide feedback!

• Next Community Marketing call is this Wednesday, Feb. 25th, at 10am PST / 6pm UTC. Dial-in Info: +1.650.903.0800, followed by 92# and then 7391#. Or you can use our toll-free number: +1.800.707.2533, followed by 369# and then 7391#. For those that can't make the call or want to participate online, join us in #marketing on irc.mozilla.org. Agenda will be posted late today.

PR

• Mitchell honored as a Winner of The Anita Borg Institute’s 2009 Women of Vision Award
• Firefox 3.1 timing in the news
• Mozilla teams up with Social Actions for its Change the Web Challenge
• Developer Tools Lab releases Bespin and coverage appears
• Mitchell talks with CNET's Matt Asay about Mozilla's involvement with the EC
• Mozilla comments on the EEF's fight to open wireless devices to all third-party software

Events

• Future of Web Apps

Support

• Mockup of new SUMO Localization Dashboard. Goal is:
  • To provide a clear overview and status of the l10n work on SUMO
  • To make the l10n work on SUMO feel less daunting by making it obvious where to start
  • To answer the question: “which article is the most important to translate next?”
  • To establish a baseline of what we define as a healthy status of a locale, so we can make sure we provide help where it’s needed the most.
• Working on some SUMO start page optimizations to ensure that more users are getting the help they need.
  • See also the blog post Not everyone wants to search

Metrics

• Lots of new insights published:
  • 84,000,000 reasons to reexamine the Firefox Getting Started page.
  • How do Firefox users interact with Mozilla's most popular product/web page? (heat map included)
  • How do Firefox users use Firefox support?

Evangelism

• Documentation
  • Firefox 3.1 documentation essentially complete
  • All but 6 Firefox-related dev-doc-needed bugs fixed; the rest are mostly 3.2 related issues
  • New documents: nsIStreamListener, nsITraceableChannel, Building Necko standalone, Same-origin policy for file: URIs

Labs

• Labs Night this Thursday, 6-9pm in bldg. K. We are excited to welcome Edwin Khodabakchian, developer of Feedly, a Firefox extension which weaves twitter and Google Reader into a magazine like experience.

Add-ons

• 5.0.2 release last week: Fixed bugs
  • Updated developer dashboards
  • Extension permalinks (now developers can link directly to the latest version of an add-on)
  • Enhanced stats tracking of logged-in vs logged-out users

• Compatibility update
  • 79% of add-ons compatible with Fx3.1
  • Email to developers went out a little over a week ago, response has been positive but many are waiting for b3 before putting significant work into compatibility
• AMO Mascot/Logo by Sean Martell

Webdev

• SUMO 0.9 will go out this week
• Active work on the Prior Art project continues between the webdev and legal teams.
• Lots of incremental progress on other projects.

Foundation Updates

• We're planning a "Open|Web|Content|Education" online course for educators.
• The education.mozilla.org site is now live (as a redirect to the Mozilla Education wiki page).