WeeklyUpdates/2007-10-15

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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 backchannel

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

Friends of the Tree

Alex Polvi nominated Andy Edmonds, "for his exceptional advice about implementing an instrumented browser. With his help we have taken the project to a whole new level that will better help Mozilla and the community at large."

Development Updates

Build

• bug 394069 migration & enhancement of stage.m.o/ftp.m.o; changing role accounts
• FF2.0.0.8
• TB2.0.0.8 as soon as FF2008 is done (fear of last minute respins)

QA

Test Execution:

• FFx 2.0.0.8 - tested the RC2 re-spin. This included platform, bug fix verification, update, TopSite and Addon Testing today [juan, tomcat, timr]

Test Development

• FFx 3
  • Created Litmus Testcases for Security/Privacy [tomcat]
  • Created Debug Build Testplan [tomcat]
  • Developing automated L10n smoketests for for Firefox 2 (bug 398552) and Firefox 3 (bug 398553) using Eggplant. DE and DA are done. [tomcat]

Tools and Infrastructure

• Talos/Performance tools - Working on the Talos try server. The buildbot part if mostly working. Working on getting baselines for Mac and Linux. Added Twinopen (Txul) to talos slaves. Working on getting Talos running for Vista.
• Litmus: Landed i18n patch )bug 320156) - This was the big one. We can now add testcases (and accept results/comments) in any language we want. Fixed 6 other bugs. Now there are less than 30 open Litmus bugs (27), most of which are RFEs. [coop]

Community

• A special Seneca test day was held on Tues Oct 9th. This was lead by Anthony Hughes, an Intern from last summer. Helped setup basic community docs for this. [tomcat]
• Our regular Testday was held on Friday, Oct 12th. The topic was accessibility! Community members marcoZ and aaronlev were very active. [timk, tomcat]
• Next test day is on Fri, Oct 19th. The focus will be on FFx3 feature, Places.
• Met with Emily Chen and Alfred Peng from Sun China. They integrate and test FFx with Solaris and work with the Solaris and Java open source projects. We talked about several topics. They have a University outreach program where they have ~100 "ambassadors" in ~50 universities. These are mostly in China, but a few are in other countries, including the US. They have about 400 Solaris related test cases in their instance of Litmus. We talked about what works and doesn't work with test days, bug days and building the community support for testing.[timr, jay]

Coop and Robcee are off to FSOSS next week.

Evangelism

• Started pulling together the promotion and message around JavaScript 2, in earnest.
• Firefox 3 documentation continues to move along swimmingly.
• Working with IT on getting a development server built for beginning work on the next wave of improvements to the MDC site.

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

• Q4 planning/goals
• Bouncer byte-range check patch completed
• Prototype for AMO API should be up this week
• Worked with marketing on new 2.0.0.8 whatsnew pages (398765)
• QA doing an awesome job on kubla

Foundation Updates

• Grants and related activities
  • Steve Lee posted a report on the current status of the Jambu project being funded by the Foundation.

• CAs and related issues
  • Frank Hecker is taking over CA-related tasks from Gerv Markham, and is now the default assignee on CA-related bugs.
  • Frank filed bug 399214 to start work on updating the Mozilla CA Certificate Policy to address Extended Validation (EV) certificates. (See also the discussion in m.d.t.crypto.)

• Other
  • Zak Greant attended and represented the Foundation at the OpenMind 2007 and MindTrek 2007 conferences.
  • David Boswell attended the Legal Summit for Software Freedom.

• Upcoming activities
  • Frank will be in Washington DC Friday evening October 19 to attend a G3Ict event.
  • Frank will be in Toronto on October 25 and 26 to attend the Seneca College Free Software and Open Source Symposium (FSOSS 2007).

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