WeeklyUpdates/2009-03-23

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm Pacific time (20:00 UTC until November 1, 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

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Development Updates

Gecko 1.9.1

• Beta 4 progress: Down to 33 JS blockers per below. Note that several of these are actually fixed and are in the process of being marked as so.
• Other areas are looking pretty good to wrap up blockers soon:
  • 9 final blocker bugs left in content. (14 last time)
  • 1 GFX final blockers. (Last week: 3)
  • 7 Layout final blockers. (Last week: 7)
  • 3 SVG final blockers.
  • JS with 33 blockers. (Last week: 40)
• Triage needed. 27 noms are in the queue right now.
• For weekly engineering meeting notes and other info see the Platform page.
• 76 total 1.9.1 blockers (last week: 86).

Firefox 3.5

Reversioning to 3.5

• we have reversioned!
• any problems, please file bugs and cc Sam Sidler (:ss)

Firefox Front End Work

• 11 blockers left, only 1 of which is complicated, several are just waiting to land
• some possible UI opportunistic updates for Beta 4
  • updated privacy preferences pane
  • updates clear recent history dialog
  • refactoring Places DB for performance
  • restoring only visible tabs first upon session restore
  • updates/fixes to PFS so plugin installers can be executed
  • new tab UI

Beta 3

• really solid, starting to gather feedback (seems positive)
• already > 400,000 users

Firefox 3.5 Beta 4

• this will be the first release with the new version number
• current schedule:
  • string freeze was Thursday at 11:59pm PDT
  • code freeze Monday April 6th
  • release week of April 13th

Release Engineering

• More slaves for try talos
• Talos and try talos won't skip builds due to ftp scraping problems any more bug 463005, bug 457885
  • We can also now run talos on an arbitrary build. We're trying to determine the best way to expose this ability.
• Build slaves now reboot in a working state. bug 472517

QA

Test Execution

• Shipped Fennec B1 on 3/18!
• Shipped TB 2.0.0.21 on 3/18!
• Completed major update testrun pass of 3.0 -> 3.1b3 (test environment only)
• Running Full Functional Test (FFTs) pass against beta 3. (Windows 49%, Mac 62%, Linux 40%)
  • Issues found

Web Dev Testing

• Tested download.html changes
• Lot of work on both Get Personas and Spread Firefox
• Tested SUMO 1.0 (now 0.9.5) and 1.1 releases

Test Development

• Released an updated (in progress) version of QAC that works with current nightlies. Check out the blazing new speed with native JSON support (yes we know the tabs are broken on some OS's - we're updating it next).
• Updated Maemkit to work with the standard --enable-test release builds so that it can be moved easily to Tinderbox (among other bugs)
• Completed refactoring of JSBridge and MozRunner to make them easier to use for embedding in other projects (and also solving some Mozmill bugs in the process)

Marketing/PR

General

• Next Community Marketing call is this Wednesday, March 25th, at 10am PDT. 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.

PR

• Mozilla included in IE8 press. Highlights in USA Today, Seattle Times, ComputerWorld and PC Magazine
• Fennec 1.0 beta 1 released
• SxSW Browser Wars panel in BBC and PC Magazine
• Mozilla call to action buttons praised

Events

• Mozilla Labs Meetup, March 26, 2008, Mountain View, CA: Come meet the Labs team at 6 p.m. at Mozilla HQ.
• Mozilla Labs Cafe, March 27, 2008, Paris, France: Come learn more about Labs!
• MAOW, March 28, 2008, Berlin: The Mozilla Add-ons Workshop is coming to Berlin. Sessions will be mainly in German with some English. More info.
• NTEN Conference, April 26 - 28, 2009, San Francisco: They are looking for volunteers:
  • Day of Service, Sunday, April 26th: Two opportunities:
    • Strategy consults, 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.: Organizations are looking for everything from technology help to marketing and fundraising tips. Sign ups here.
    • Help install wireless networks at St. Anthony's in SF's Tenderloin district or on Treasure Island. Sign ups here.

Evangelism

• Mozilla Developer Center
  • Work is underway on some scripting to help reorganize our content to make it easier to work with.
  • Planning is underway to begin work on writing tools to automatically generate documentation for interfaces not already documented. The actual coding for this should start in early April.

• Had our first weekly meeting - notes are up here: Evangelism/StatusMeetings/2009-03-19

Labs

• Labs Night this Thursday, 3/26 6-9pm in K. More info on the Labs blog.

L10n

• With changes from FF 3.1 beta 3 and FF 3.5 beta 4, there are about 145 strings to translate. Strings are frozen and localizers should start the translation ASAP. Check the l10n dashboard please.
  • Important things to remember
  • Code freeze is scheduled for Monday, April 6, 2009.
  • Bug 482229 amends the region.properties file. To the localizers, please do not check in changes until getting word from Stas and l10n-drivers about changes.
  • Bug 462041 discusses changes in the UI strings to the preferences pane.
• We created a community@localization.bugs as a "user" to watch in Bugzilla so localizers who want to follow all possible changes that surface in bugs can do so by watching this email address.
  • The intent of this account is to bring interested localizers together with our developers who are seeking input on how to make a patch work for l10n prior to landing it.

Foundation Updates

• David continued work on the www.mozilla.org redesign project:
  • had www.mozilla.org planning meeting focused on content and posted notes
  • worked on content planning and project list for contributors
  • posted more blog entries
• Frank attended the CSUN conference in Los Angeles and had a number of fruitful discussions on web accessibility with Mozilla folks and others. Thanks go to David Bolter, Mick Curran, Eitan Isaacson, Aaron Leventhal, Jamie Teh, and Marco Zehe for their help in staffing the Mozilla booth.
• Based on Kathleen Wilson's recommendation, Frank approved the CA request from Certigna, but postponed consideration of enabling the trust bit for code signing (bug 393166).
• Mark was in Vancouver all week and helped the Mozilla Messaging folks move to their new office.
• David helped Simon post the Calendar donation page and blogged about it