WeeklyUpdates/2007-07-23

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm Pacific time (20:00 UTC until November 4, 2007)
• Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
• +1 650 903 0800 x91 Conf# 8600 (US/International)
• +1 416 848 3114 x91 Conf# 8600 (Canada)
• +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8600 (US Toll Free)
• join irc.mozilla.org #staffmeeting for attendance taking and backchannel

note: all participants are muted automatically; if you want to talk, press *1 to un-mute yourself

Development Updates

TB 3

• We're working on final approval for switching our spell check engine to hunspell for Firefox and Thunderbird. Please let us know if you have any concerns.
• We're spending a lot of time looking at memory leaks right now and could use extra help tracking some leaks down (using the XPCOM_MEM_LEAK_LOG environment variable). Especially with the compose window. Please see David or Scott if you are interested in helping out.

Gecko 1.9

• M7 Gecko Feature Freeze July 25th.
• Major New Features:
  • Anti-Malware
  • Finalized Offline APIs
  • Secure Wrappers

Firefox 3

Feature work for M7:

• Larry (identity UI) should land by freeze

• new location bar display

• Protocol/content handling
  • protocol handling new dialog should make M7
  • content-handling is not going to make Fx3

• Password manager
  • Numerous regression fixes
  • non-modal save password prototype together, hopefully will land by freeze

• Places

Build

• Community build machines have been handed over to the community; big thanks to Coop for working on this for the last few weeks.
• Win32 reference platform work has been pushed back due to the Fx 2.0.0.5/2.0.0.6 firedrills; 1.9a7 will not ship on the new ref platform.

QA

Test Exectuion

• Completed FFX 2.0.0.5 and TBird 2.0.0.5 security releases [juan, tomcat, tracy, al, others]
• Smoke testing FF3 nightlies

Test Development

• FF3
  • Worked on CSS RefTests to help regression testing for bug 315920. Should complete and submit RefTests this week. [ctalbert]

Tools and Autoamtion

• Talos Performance Project
  • Collecting Trunk baselines. Had trouble getting new pageset running on old trunk builds. Switched qm-pxp02 to old page set, baseline currently being collected. We currently have baseline data for windows trunk from april 2006 - october 2006 woo! [alice]
  • Talos found a performance regression! A visible leap in the tp loadtime numbers was found, regression window was determined, patch was pinpointed and backed out and tp numbers were seen to improve
  • Macport reviewed and landed in cvs. [zach, alice]
• Graph server [alice]
  • The graph server on graphs-stage is now using mysql. Worked with oremj to get the push done. [alice]
  • dump to csv checked in and pushed to production
• Minotaur preference automated testing tool: Removed all external libraries, Uploaded new patch. Begun discussions about implementing Minotaur in the partner build process. [ctalbert]

Marketing/PR

• OSCON:
  • Community party: Grab some flyers before you go and spread the word. Any community members want to join? Let us know.
  • New "Get involved with Mozilla" BoF scheduled
  • Booth folks still needed

• Black Hat:
  • Community meet & greet party scheduled -- Pajama Party with Mozilla: Wednesday, August 1, 11 p.m. - 2 a.m. at the Royal 55 room at Ceaser's Palace.

Developer Relations

• Headed to OSCON (shaver, mfinkle, jresig and fligtar)
• WebRunner experimentation continues
  • Adding spellcheck suggestions and password support
  • Better external link detection
  • Creating an extension to manage webapps from Firefox
  • Exploring the use of Firefox3 as a runtime for WebRunner
• Demo round-up: Compiling a list of demos we'd like to have:
  • Showcase Firefox3 features
  • "Web of the future" features

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

• Before next release
  • AUS force=1 testing and deployment
  • Bouncer pconnect usage to pool mysql connections
  • Bouncer memcache implementation
• New AMO mockups up, but no comments yet

Foundation Updates

Note that Frank is traveling to Portland today for OSCON and won't be participating in the weekly call.

• Grants and related activities
  • Henri Sivonen completed another milestone in his Mozilla Foundation-funded HTML5 conformance checker project.

• IP/legal issues
  • Frank and Gerv did some internal licensing-related stuff.

• Other
  • Frank was on vacation and traveling a good part of the week.
  • Zak has been working to help get the Internet as a Public Good symposium organized.
  • David has been working on various tasks related to donations to the Mozilla Foundation.
  • Gerv attended the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS).

For more information see the individual status reports from David, Frank, Gerv, and Zak.