WeeklyUpdates/2007-08-06

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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

Fx/TB 1.5.0.13/2.0.0.6

• Firefox 2.0.0.6 was released Monday night (7/30)
• Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 was released Wednesday evening (8/1)
• Triage for 2.0.0.7 starts this week. Schedule hasn't been discussed yet.
• Thunderbird major update 1.5.0.12->2.0.0.6 is next in line for release.
  • Testing is happening this week.

TB 3

• Hunspell has now landed on the trunk, improving the spell checking experience. Thanks to RyanVM and Németh László.
• Thunderbird can now read from the Mac OS X system address book! Thanks to everyone who helped work on this, especially peterv and a.peyser.

Gecko 1.9

• Gran Paradiso Alpha 7 Released
• M8 Code Freeze: Sept 5. (Approx 355 blockers remain with 99 of those targeted for M8).

IT

• Maintenance this week
  • Pageload server migration, try #3
  • Kernel updates
  • wiki.m.o migration and upgrade
  • LDAP maintenance
• Facebook app launched, more migrations to php5 cluster
• Continued breakpad support and maintenance
• MPT cage expansion (pics to come)

Build

• Win32 ref platform
• Fx MU to 2.0.0.6
• Thunderbird MU/1.5.0.13
• Nick/cf in town

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

• AMO
  • New mocks are finalized, in design phase
• Bouncer updates during Tuesday's maint. window
  • Performance patch to implement memcache usage
  • bug 390201 - UI to show mirror uptake
  • bug 390199 - Flag for products to be checked immediately (for newer releases)
• Breakpad/Socorro
  • Weekly meeting minutes
  • New issues filed for UI and reporting
• Wil and I got some OSCON blog love -- woot!
• Rock Your Firefox (add-ons Facebook app) launched Thursday
  • We currently have about 650 users - pretty graphs as of yesterday
  • No major bugs have been reported, so we'll be increasing PR this week
  • Many people have suggested that we have a way to detect currently installed add-ons to add as favorites, so we'll be working on that for a future version.

Foundation Updates

Note: This update includes material from the previous week as well.

• Executive director search
  • The search committee had its first meeting; for more information see the meeting notes.

• Grants and related activities
  • As part of our efforts to improve the accessibility of Firefox and the web, particularly on free and open source platforms, the Foundation will be funding improvements to the GNOME AT-SPI accessibility API on Linux and enhancements to the Orca screen reader for Linux. Also, Eitan Isaacson completed his Foundation-funded work on the Accerciser accessibility test tool for GNOME /Linux. Last but definitely not least, Aaron Leventhal was one of five winners of the 2007 Google/O'Reilly Open Source Awards, for his work on Mozilla and Firefox accessibility.

• IP/legal issues
  • Frank Hecker is responding to licensing-related questions to the Foundation while Gerv Markham is on vacation.

• Web sites
  • David Boswell has created a Foundation page on wiki.mozilla.org for Foundation-related work in progress, links to staff blogs, etc.

• Other
  • Along with Mitchell, David, Frank, and Zak Greant participated in the Internet as a Public Good symposium at Harvard. Thanks go to Zak for his work in getting the symposium organized!
  • Gerv is on vacation until later this month.

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