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Please send FotT nominations to [mailto:asa@mozilla.org 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.
Please send FotT nominations to [mailto:asa@mozilla.org 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.


= User Stories =
= Development Updates =
== Use case: install ==


'''As a user, I can tap install on a marketplace page and an APK is downloaded to my device so that my phone's native package installer can install the app.'''
== Branch work: Firefox 2.0.0.19 / 3.0.5 / Major Update ==
* '''Firefox [[Releases/Firefox_2.0.0.19|2.0.0.19]] / [[Releases/Firefox_3.0.5|3.0.5]]'''
** On track for release tomorrow
** Last planned Firefox 2 release
** Phishing Protection is off in Firefox 2.0.0.19
** Changed messaging all around to note this
* '''[[Releases/Thunderbird_2.0.0.19|Thunderbird 2.0.0.19]]'''
** Schedule on the wiki
** Currently planning release for early January
** Beta release later this week
* '''[[Releases/Firefox_3.0.6|Firefox 3.0.6]]'''
** Scheduling release for early February
** Code freeze date is January 6
* '''[[Releases/Firefox 2.0.0.19 MU | Firefox 2.0.0.19 -> 3.0.5 Major Update]]'''
** Currently scheduled for early January after Thunderbird 2.0.0.19
** Will be dependent on localization of the new major update text


We will be modifying the implementation of the mozApps.install() and
== Gecko 1.9.1 ==
mozApps.installPackage() APIs on Android. On webapp install, Fennec
* It's all Beta 3, yo. Planned code freeze is Jan 13.
will  download an APK which is generated from the manifest URL which
* For weekly engineering meeting notes and other info see the [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform Platform page].
is  passed to the apk-builder.
* [http://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/1.9.1 Interesting queries related to Gecko 1.9.1]
* [http://tinyurl.com/3jsumu 155 1.9.1 blockers].
** [http://tinyurl.com/4ombdf 28 Blocking 1.9.1 P1s]
** [http://tinyurl.com/4lt8ah 50 Blocking 1.9.1 P2s]
** [http://tinyurl.com/5x59y5 26 Blocking 1.9.1 P3s]
** [http://tinyurl.com/47df5d 51 Blocking 1.9.1 w/ no priority.]


In this manner, we are able to avoid changing any marketplace code,
== Firefox 3.1 ==
and support third-party webapp marketplaces.[at the very least, with
'''[[Releases/Firefox_3.1b3|Firefox 3.1 Beta 3]]'''
this method we avoid the marketplace trying to detect whether the
* proposed schedule as follows:
phone is android or not -BillW]
** Dec 31 - string freeze
** Jan 13 - code freeze
** Jan 19 - QA start
** Jan 26 - ship to users
** will re-evaluate in early January, hope to be able to accelerate
** if you have counter proposals or problems, please come to tomorrow's [[Platform#Meeting_Notes|development meeting]].


* '''note:''' string freeze is end of 2008
* workin' on Beta 3 ([http://people.mozilla.org/~beltzner/triage.html triage queries])
** [http://tinyurl.com/5n2gdg Firefox 3.1 Nominations]
** [http://tinyurl.com/5vuco5 Firefox 3.1 Blockers]
** [http://tinyurl.com/5uc5nk Firefox 3.1 Blockers that need 1.9.1 landing]
** [http://tinyurl.com/5d5qwm Firefox 3.1 - easy polish bugs we're looking to take]
** [http://tinyurl.com/6delb6 Firefox 3.1 - hard polish bugs we're looking to take]


=== Implementation of the apk-builder ===
== TB 3 ==
* Thunderbird 3.0 beta 1 has [http://ascher.ca/blog/2008/12/09/thunderbird-3-beta-1-a-platform-for-innovation-shapes-up/ shipped]
* Beta 2 work and planning is underway


It is intended that apk-builder use Android's standard toolchain.
== Mobile ==


The apk-builder accepts a URL to a JSON document, that could be a
* Planning A2 release this week
webapp  manifest or mini-manifest. It should detect the difference
* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Notes/15-Dec-2008 Weekly update]
between a  packaged app and hosted app and act accordingly.
* Kicked off [http://www.christiansejersen.com/blog/2008/12/10/fennec-mobile-firefox-for-symbian/ Symbian port] for Fennec, you can follow progress [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Symbian here]


The apk-builder constructs an Android project from a template and
== IT ==
data  in the webapp manifest, including icons, string translations,
* Wrapped up Zeus ZXTM AMO performance tests
permissions, and web activities.
** a couple lingering log issues
* Upgraded bouncer/download.mozilla.org database server


Both webapps and Android have very similar concepts. There is some
== Release Engineering ==
impedance mismatch, though this is not particularly relevant for the
* [http://oduinn.com/2008/12/15/nokias-nokias-everywhere/ Aki's work on mobile and talos]
scope of this project.
* Enabling a11y tests last week were backed out; we *think* we've got it; will try again this week.
* Backup your machine! (Thanks to Justin and Sean for their help!)


The exception to this is around [https://developer.android.com/tools/publishing/app-signing.html APK signing].
== QA ==
Android apps are expected to be signed by the developer, regardless of whether they
seek any special permissions. The same signature is used to  sign
successive versions of the same APK, otherwise the update will not
be allowed to continue.


For packaged webapps, the package.zip and mini-manifest files will be included in the APK.
QA had a great Work On-Site week last week!


Once the apk-builder has created an Android project, it can build it
'''Web Dev testing, Metrics, Accessibility, Localization'''
with ant, javac and the rest of the Android toolchain.


By design, the Android project's template contains no Java code. All code
* WebDev testing:
is contained in a [https://developer.android.com/tools/projects/index.html#LibraryProjects library-project].
** SUMO- Verified [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&classification=Other&product=support.mozilla.com&target_milestone=0.8&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=VERIFIED&resolution=FIXED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailqa_contact2=1&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=2008-12-07&chfieldto=2008-12-14&chfield=bug_status&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&known_name=sumo0.8fixed&query_based_on=sumo0.8fixed&field0-0-0=bug_status&type0-0-0=changedby&value0-0-0=stephen.donner%40gmail.com 9 bugs] for the 0.8 milestone. Continued testing search for [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Support/SUMOdev_Meeting_Notepad#Next_release 0.8]
Both, especially the library project, are being actively developed
** Community Store, v2.0 - Tested and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&classification=Other&product=Websites&component=communitystore.mozilla.org&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=VERIFIED&resolution=FIXED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=exact&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailqa_contact2=1&emailtype2=exact&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=2008-12-07&chfieldto=2008-12-14&chfield=bug_status&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=bug_status&type0-0-0=changedby&value0-0-0=stephen.donner%40gmail.com verified the 9 fixes] thus far
in  parallel to the apk-builder.
**Funnelcake 04-  [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=468179 Tested and shipped on Sunday night]
** Tested QMO2
** IT - Spent some time testing AMO in production with the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467502 Zeus load-balancer]
** Mozilla.com - Verified [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&classification=Other&product=Websites&component=www.mozilla.com&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=VERIFIED&resolution=FIXED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=exact&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailqa_contact2=1&emailtype2=exact&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=2008-12-07&chfieldto=2008-12-14&chfield=bug_status&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=bug_status&type0-0-0=changedby&value0-0-0=stephen.donner%40gmail.com&field0-1-0=short_desc&type0-1-0=notsubstring&value0-1-0=redesign 6 Mozilla.com bugs]
* Accessibility:
** Created patch to properly expose search textboxes in the 3.1 a11y code. See {{bug|469367}}.
** Investigating accessibility framework support in [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9018 MozMill].
** Working on a mochitest file for {{bug|469367}} to test the accessibility attributes generated by the ARIA markup newly introduced in the search textbox's XBL widget.
* Metrics
** ~5% percent of the files in the source tree have 10 or more bug fixes. max number of bug fixes in a file is 69 since the m-c tree opened.  Some of these have zero or low coverage
** Worked with rsayre to do an updated coverage run with all the mochitest, chrome, browser, reftest, xpcshell, and bc's JS tests.  The results will include details down to line coverage.  The run will be against m-c trunk.
** Focusing a small project on the JS engine files.  There are 50 main files but only 8 are very active.  bc, mnandigama, together with the JS team, will be looking at how to boost the coverage of some of the active files:
  FILENAME        FULLPATH             CODECOV% BUGSFIXED
  jstracer.cpp    /js/src/jstracer.cpp  75.4 46
  jsobj.cpp      /js/src/jsobj.cpp          64.7 21
  jsapi.cpp      /js/src/jsapi.cpp          55.1 16
  jsinterp.cpp    /js/src/jsinterp.cpp  71.4 15
  jscntxt.h      /js/src/jscntxt.h          100 14
  jsparse.cpp    /js/src/jsparse.cpp  62.5 10
  jsarray.cpp    /js/src/jsarray.cpp  70.2 10
  jsopcode.cpp    /js/src/jsopcode.cpp  41.1 10


It is desirable that the project template and library code be taken
'''Test Development'''
live from a code repository so that changes are easy to incorporate
* General
in to the workflow.
** Attempted to land A11y tests again
** Filed several [http://tinyurl.com/5e6qvd crash bugs].
** Created the [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_3.0.5/RRRT RRRT Pages for Firefox 3.0.5]
** Worked on reducing crashes, SVG in CSS (SVG clip path etc), CSS Border Radius, and Audio/Video tests
** Improved automation of code coverage scripts, removing manual steps
** Started a "QAC Redesign" Effort with a great team of Brian King, Zach Lipton, and Heather Arthur.  The first [https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Ctalbert/QAC_Discussion meeting notes] are available.
* Mozmill
** New Mozmill point release due out this week - you'll need to re-download from AMO, no update service
** Continued Progress toward 1.0 at the end of the month
* Fennec
** Created a Log Viewer for [http://people.mozilla.com/~jmaher/mochitest.htm Fennec Test Results]
** Investigated many of the Mochitest failures on Fennec, and found that most are due to the fact that SynthesizeKey does not work without focus -> {{Bug|455891}} and {{bug|465216}}
* JS/Sisyphus/Leaks
** Improved automation on Sisyphus and Memory Leak testing
** Worked on the JS Reftest framework, should land this week
** About to start the 1,000,000 top site test, looking for JS regressions and memory leaks.


== Use case: update ==
'''Test Execution'''
* General
** The new [http://quality.mozilla.org QMO] coming this week!
** Triaged about 40 QMO2 bugs
** [https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/TDAI/Inventory:notes Litmus redesign] session last week. (working with TestDev)


'''As a user, I can have my phone check for updates and have my phone download them so that I may keep my webapps safely up-to-date.'''
* Project Status
** Shipped [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_3.1b2 Fx3.1b2] to world last monday (12/8)
** Shipped Fx3.0.4 & [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_2.0.0.19 Fx2.0.0.19] to beta last wednesday (12/10)
** Plans to ship [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_3.0.5 Fx3.0.5] & [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_2.0.0.19 Fx2.0.0.19] to world this tuesday (12/16)
** Plans to ship [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Thunderbird_2.0.0.19 Tb2.0.0.19] to beta this thursday (12/18)
** Fx3.1 feature tracking [http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pnyCb4cp33faqpi709iEhcA&hl=en spreadsheet]
*** Testplan completion: 89%
*** Testcase completion: 73%
*** Feature status
**** HTML 5 Drag and Drop, 100%, 2 (litmus), 100%, N/A (554 cases already done by
**** Media Queries, 100%, 202 (reftests), 100%, N/
**** Element Traversal, 100%, 60 (mochitest), 100%, N/A (finished and turned on 142 from
**** Script Defer, 100%, 0, 100%, N/A (dev had created 2 tests already)
**** Blocklist /Software Updates Testing, 100%


The synthesized APK is relatively lightweight. For hosted apps,
== Security ==
Gecko  can manage updating appcache and resources generated at
runtime.  Updating anything used to build the APK should trigger a
rebuild of the APK itself. In practice, this means the APK should be
rebuilt anytime  the webapp manifest changes. From a computation
point of view, the  detection of change in the manifest and the
rebuilding of the APK would  be sensibly done on the server.


For packaged apps, any change of the app should trigger a rebuild,
* Participated in the W3C "Security for Access to Device APIs from the Web" workshop
however, we are working with the assumption that a release of the
app is  needed, and a change in the mini-manifest will be triggered.


Android apps have a hard requirement that the versionCode, a non
== Marketing/PR ==
user facing integer representation of the version string, be
positively increasing.


The same android signing key should be used to sign the updated APK
'''PR'''
as was used to sign the previous version of the APK.
* eWeek [http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/Top-10-News-Stories-of-the-Year/ Top 10 News Stories of the Year]
* Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 covered in [http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081208-first-look-firefox-3-1-beta-2-now-with-private-browsing.html Ars Technica], [http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9123098&intsrc=hm_ts_head ComputerWorld], [http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/browsers/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212300270&subSection=News InformationWeek], [http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Mozilla-Boosts-Stealth-Speed-in-New-Firefox-Beta-65433.html?wlc=1229370646 TechNewsWorld] and [http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/12/firefox-31-beta.html WIRED]
* Mozilla and Racepoint Group UK won Best Technology and Consumer Electronics PR Campaign for Mozilla Firefox 3 launch at the [http://www.excellence-awards.eu/ European Excellence Awards 2008]
* Firefox add-on featured in [http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/a_firefox_add-on_for_app_addic.php ReadWriteWeb]
* Firefox wins ReadWriteWeb [http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_10_consumer_apps_2008.php Top 10 Consumer Web Apps of 2008]
* Firefox included in BusinessWeek's [http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/12/1210_best_worst_tech/10.htm Best Tech Products of 2008]


'''Events'''
* Last weekend, the second European Mozilla Add-ons Workshop took place in Madrid. 50 people attended the event. Paul Rouget gave a presentation about how to create an Add-on for Tuenti, the biggest Spanish social network. Hopefully, people from Spain will take ownership of the project and drive it forward.
* Add-on-Con: Collecting [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-on_con#Add-on-Con_Feedback feedback].


== Use case: developer's own keys ==
'''Quarterly Survey'''
* Quarterly Survey will be released tomorrow in ten locales.
* Attached to the 3.0.5 "What's new page" and its our first time hosting the survey on surveygizmo.com.
* Thanks to Pascal/Sam/Stephen Donner/Wil for all their hard work.


'''As a developer, I can use my own key to sign my Android APK, so I can use the key elsewhere.'''


Changing keys for an already published APK is impossible.
'''Impact Mozilla'''
* Voting site is now live!
* Please take some time to carefully consider all ten finalists before [http://impactmozilla.com/vote/ casting your vote]
* Voting closes Wednesday at Noon pacific time


For a large proportion of developers, a randomly generated APK
== Support ==
signing key will be sufficient.
* Chris and David have been reaching out to European localizers to get a better understanding about what's working well and what needs improvement on SUMO. Based on the gathered feedback, the two top issues are:
** Site performance -- site is still too slow
** Localization priorities are unclear -- hard to know what to work on first, and the status of the localization
** [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Support/l10n:Feedback Complete feedback]
* SUMO 0.8 to be released on Thursday
** New search engine
** CSAT for Live Chat
** Chris will blog about the release this week


However, a few will want to be able to use their own. During app
== Metrics ==
submission, if the app is to be on Android, they should have the
* Funnelcake
opportunity to upload their own key.
** Funnelcake shipped last night and will run for a 24-hour period today
** Thanks to Kev and the build, QA, web dev and IT teams for making this happen
** We still owe everyone a blog of metrics post regarding the findings from last month's funnelcake


== Use case: pre-submission development ==
== Evangelism ==


'''As a developer I would like to be able to test my APK without submitting it to the marketplace.'''
* Asa is evaluating and documenting Theora streaming options for Air Mozilla, launch day activities, and general video streaming going forward. Asa will also be assisting with two Air Mozilla streamed events this week, (Mitchell on Tuesday and Li Gong on Wednesday) and working with Mozilla Online to get some of the Firefox Flicks videos updated and translated for use in the Mozilla China market.
* Firefox 3.1 documentation work continues; the last major known area of documentation to be tackled is now underway: offline resources.  There's still plenty of other stuff to do, but the individual documentation items are generally smaller bites.
* Demos page: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3.1/Demos - please help by adding!


It is assumed that the Android toolchain is rather cumbersome and
== Labs ==
not  interesting enough for the webapp developer to actually set it
*Labs Night this week - Thursday 12/18, 6pm-9pm in Bldg K. Join us for updates on Labs projects, open discussion, and pizza. RSVP [http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1436111/?ps=5 here].
up  successfully.


The apk-builder should accept a POST of the webapp manifest and
== Webdev, Add-ons, AMO ==
resources needed for the webapp, and return an APK. A command line
or  option in the app manager will be used to send the POST.


The APK should not be publishable on an APK app-store, e.g. signed
'''AMO'''
with a [https://developer.android.com/tools/publishing/app-signing.html#debugmode debug key],
* [http://osunick.com/ Nick Nguyen] and [http://blog.fligtar.com/ Justin Scott] have joined the Add-ons team.  Nick will be leading the Add-ons product, and Justin will be continuing his work with IT, webdev and marketing to release new and exciting add-ons projects.
icon marked with "IN TEST".
* Add-on Con was a huge success -- thanks to Mary Colvig for putting this together, and thank you to everyone who helped with booth duty!
* [http://tinyurl.com/AMO-404-fixed AMO 4.0.4] was pushed on Thursday, Dec 11 -- special thanks to Frederic Wenzel, who fixed 20 bugs in this release
* AMO 4.0.5 [http://tinyurl.com/69hply open bugs] & [http://tinyurl.com/62dhds fixed bugs] - '''Freeze - Dec 22'''
* Unfortunately, AMO logs were affected by a change in load balancing hardware in {{bug|467502}} -- add-ons statistics were affected and IT is working to resolve the issue


This use of the apk-builder should be invoked by the developer from
'''Socorro (crash reporting)'''
the command line or App Manager.
* Socorro repartitioning is bocked by replication {{bug|469220}} and {{bug|469215}} -- Lars' work there is done and ready to roll out, but we want to make sure we have proper backups before we repartition, because a failed migration would be catastrophic and require a complete restore.
* Austin King has been blazing away on [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411424 mean time between failure (MTBF)] and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411358 URL reports], and we hope to roll these out this week.
* Neil has been working on hi-fidelity mocks based on his [http://blog.mozilla.com/webdev/2008/12/04/socorro-wireframes/ Socorro wireframes] from last week


In coming releases, we would like the developer to be able to
'''SUMO (Mozilla Support)'''
construct an APK without calling out to a server, either from the
* In the final throes of [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&classification=Other&product=support.mozilla.com&component=Chat&component=Forum&component=General&component=Knowledge+Base+Articles&component=Knowledge+Base+Software&component=Localization&target_milestone=0.8&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&;emailreporter2=1&emailqa_contact2=1&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit SUMO 0.8], to be released Thursday night
command line or App Manager.
* [http://bugs.locamotion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=626 tiki2po] landed in the [http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/toolkit/index translate toolkit]; will enable SUMO L10n in Verbatim


== Use case: post-submission review ==
'''Webdev Projects'''
* If you haven't checked out the [http://communitystore.mozilla.org/ community store], you should! :)
* [http://feeds.stage.mozilla.com/ The Lizard Feeder] is staged, and Les is working on its beta launch this week.
* Django was merged onto the Pootle trunk last week!
* Mmmmm.... Funnelcake....


* '''As a reviewer I can run the APK on my Android phone. '''
== L10n ==
* '''As a developer I can run the same APK as the reviewer.'''
* Moving 5 languages out of beta for Firefox 3.0.5
 
** bn-IN, Bengali
The APK should not be publishable on an APK app-store, e.g. signed
** eo, Esperanto
with a [https://developer.android.com/tools/publishing/app-signing.html#debugmode debug key],
** gl, Galician
icon marked with "IN REVIEW".
** hi-IN, Hindi
 
** lv, Latvian
== Use case: post-review acceptance ==
*  Launched the L10n Testing Survey. If you are a localizer, [http://surveys.mozilla.org/?id=18 please take it].
 
*  Pascalc has lead the 2.0.0.19 --> 3.0.5 update
'''As a developer, I can download the APK that will be installed on user's devices, so I can distribute it myself.'''
* Silme brownbag with Adrian Kalla this Thursday, December 18.  Please contact [mailto:akalla@mozilla.com Adrian Kalla] if you have any questions.
 
Once the webapp is ready for publishing, the developer should
receive (as part of an existing email?), a link to the APK.
 
= Reference =
 
* [https://github.com/jhugman/synth-apks Code for working prototype]
* [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1fzlE7ARpgtw17U1qsIZxqpUcS2DNniFOCJWzF2Id5Mw/edit#slide=id.p18 Slides from air.mo presentation Oct 28]


= Foundation Updates =
= Foundation Updates =

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Development Updates

Branch work: Firefox 2.0.0.19 / 3.0.5 / Major Update

  • Firefox 2.0.0.19 / 3.0.5
    • On track for release tomorrow
    • Last planned Firefox 2 release
    • Phishing Protection is off in Firefox 2.0.0.19
    • Changed messaging all around to note this
  • Thunderbird 2.0.0.19
    • Schedule on the wiki
    • Currently planning release for early January
    • Beta release later this week
  • Firefox 3.0.6
    • Scheduling release for early February
    • Code freeze date is January 6
  • Firefox 2.0.0.19 -> 3.0.5 Major Update
    • Currently scheduled for early January after Thunderbird 2.0.0.19
    • Will be dependent on localization of the new major update text

Gecko 1.9.1

Firefox 3.1

Firefox 3.1 Beta 3

  • proposed schedule as follows:
    • Dec 31 - string freeze
    • Jan 13 - code freeze
    • Jan 19 - QA start
    • Jan 26 - ship to users
    • will re-evaluate in early January, hope to be able to accelerate
    • if you have counter proposals or problems, please come to tomorrow's development meeting.

TB 3

  • Thunderbird 3.0 beta 1 has shipped
  • Beta 2 work and planning is underway

Mobile

IT

  • Wrapped up Zeus ZXTM AMO performance tests
    • a couple lingering log issues
  • Upgraded bouncer/download.mozilla.org database server

Release Engineering

  • Aki's work on mobile and talos
  • Enabling a11y tests last week were backed out; we *think* we've got it; will try again this week.
  • Backup your machine! (Thanks to Justin and Sean for their help!)

QA

QA had a great Work On-Site week last week!

Web Dev testing, Metrics, Accessibility, Localization

  • WebDev testing:
  • Accessibility:
    • Created patch to properly expose search textboxes in the 3.1 a11y code. See bug 469367.
    • Investigating accessibility framework support in MozMill.
    • Working on a mochitest file for bug 469367 to test the accessibility attributes generated by the ARIA markup newly introduced in the search textbox's XBL widget.
  • Metrics
    • ~5% percent of the files in the source tree have 10 or more bug fixes. max number of bug fixes in a file is 69 since the m-c tree opened. Some of these have zero or low coverage
    • Worked with rsayre to do an updated coverage run with all the mochitest, chrome, browser, reftest, xpcshell, and bc's JS tests. The results will include details down to line coverage. The run will be against m-c trunk.
    • Focusing a small project on the JS engine files. There are 50 main files but only 8 are very active. bc, mnandigama, together with the JS team, will be looking at how to boost the coverage of some of the active files:
 FILENAME      	  FULLPATH	             CODECOV%	BUGSFIXED
 jstracer.cpp  	  /js/src/jstracer.cpp   	75.4	46
 jsobj.cpp     	  /js/src/jsobj.cpp   	        64.7	21
 jsapi.cpp     	  /js/src/jsapi.cpp   	        55.1	16
 jsinterp.cpp  	  /js/src/jsinterp.cpp   	71.4	15
 jscntxt.h     	  /js/src/jscntxt.h   	        100	14
 jsparse.cpp  	  /js/src/jsparse.cpp   	62.5	10
 jsarray.cpp   	  /js/src/jsarray.cpp   	70.2	10
 jsopcode.cpp  	  /js/src/jsopcode.cpp   	41.1	10

Test Development

  • General
    • Attempted to land A11y tests again
    • Filed several crash bugs.
    • Created the RRRT Pages for Firefox 3.0.5
    • Worked on reducing crashes, SVG in CSS (SVG clip path etc), CSS Border Radius, and Audio/Video tests
    • Improved automation of code coverage scripts, removing manual steps
    • Started a "QAC Redesign" Effort with a great team of Brian King, Zach Lipton, and Heather Arthur. The first meeting notes are available.
  • Mozmill
    • New Mozmill point release due out this week - you'll need to re-download from AMO, no update service
    • Continued Progress toward 1.0 at the end of the month
  • Fennec
    • Created a Log Viewer for Fennec Test Results
    • Investigated many of the Mochitest failures on Fennec, and found that most are due to the fact that SynthesizeKey does not work without focus -> bug 455891 and bug 465216
  • JS/Sisyphus/Leaks
    • Improved automation on Sisyphus and Memory Leak testing
    • Worked on the JS Reftest framework, should land this week
    • About to start the 1,000,000 top site test, looking for JS regressions and memory leaks.

Test Execution

  • General
    • The new QMO coming this week!
    • Triaged about 40 QMO2 bugs
    • Litmus redesign session last week. (working with TestDev)
  • Project Status
    • Shipped Fx3.1b2 to world last monday (12/8)
    • Shipped Fx3.0.4 & Fx2.0.0.19 to beta last wednesday (12/10)
    • Plans to ship Fx3.0.5 & Fx2.0.0.19 to world this tuesday (12/16)
    • Plans to ship Tb2.0.0.19 to beta this thursday (12/18)
    • Fx3.1 feature tracking spreadsheet
      • Testplan completion: 89%
      • Testcase completion: 73%
      • Feature status
        • HTML 5 Drag and Drop, 100%, 2 (litmus), 100%, N/A (554 cases already done by
        • Media Queries, 100%, 202 (reftests), 100%, N/
        • Element Traversal, 100%, 60 (mochitest), 100%, N/A (finished and turned on 142 from
        • Script Defer, 100%, 0, 100%, N/A (dev had created 2 tests already)
        • Blocklist /Software Updates Testing, 100%

Security

  • Participated in the W3C "Security for Access to Device APIs from the Web" workshop

Marketing/PR

PR

Events

  • Last weekend, the second European Mozilla Add-ons Workshop took place in Madrid. 50 people attended the event. Paul Rouget gave a presentation about how to create an Add-on for Tuenti, the biggest Spanish social network. Hopefully, people from Spain will take ownership of the project and drive it forward.
  • Add-on-Con: Collecting feedback.

Quarterly Survey

  • Quarterly Survey will be released tomorrow in ten locales.
  • Attached to the 3.0.5 "What's new page" and its our first time hosting the survey on surveygizmo.com.
  • Thanks to Pascal/Sam/Stephen Donner/Wil for all their hard work.


Impact Mozilla

  • Voting site is now live!
  • Please take some time to carefully consider all ten finalists before casting your vote
  • Voting closes Wednesday at Noon pacific time

Support

  • Chris and David have been reaching out to European localizers to get a better understanding about what's working well and what needs improvement on SUMO. Based on the gathered feedback, the two top issues are:
    • Site performance -- site is still too slow
    • Localization priorities are unclear -- hard to know what to work on first, and the status of the localization
    • Complete feedback
  • SUMO 0.8 to be released on Thursday
    • New search engine
    • CSAT for Live Chat
    • Chris will blog about the release this week

Metrics

  • Funnelcake
    • Funnelcake shipped last night and will run for a 24-hour period today
    • Thanks to Kev and the build, QA, web dev and IT teams for making this happen
    • We still owe everyone a blog of metrics post regarding the findings from last month's funnelcake

Evangelism

  • Asa is evaluating and documenting Theora streaming options for Air Mozilla, launch day activities, and general video streaming going forward. Asa will also be assisting with two Air Mozilla streamed events this week, (Mitchell on Tuesday and Li Gong on Wednesday) and working with Mozilla Online to get some of the Firefox Flicks videos updated and translated for use in the Mozilla China market.
  • Firefox 3.1 documentation work continues; the last major known area of documentation to be tackled is now underway: offline resources. There's still plenty of other stuff to do, but the individual documentation items are generally smaller bites.
  • Demos page: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3.1/Demos - please help by adding!

Labs

  • Labs Night this week - Thursday 12/18, 6pm-9pm in Bldg K. Join us for updates on Labs projects, open discussion, and pizza. RSVP here.

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

AMO

  • Nick Nguyen and Justin Scott have joined the Add-ons team. Nick will be leading the Add-ons product, and Justin will be continuing his work with IT, webdev and marketing to release new and exciting add-ons projects.
  • Add-on Con was a huge success -- thanks to Mary Colvig for putting this together, and thank you to everyone who helped with booth duty!
  • AMO 4.0.4 was pushed on Thursday, Dec 11 -- special thanks to Frederic Wenzel, who fixed 20 bugs in this release
  • AMO 4.0.5 open bugs & fixed bugs - Freeze - Dec 22
  • Unfortunately, AMO logs were affected by a change in load balancing hardware in bug 467502 -- add-ons statistics were affected and IT is working to resolve the issue

Socorro (crash reporting)

  • Socorro repartitioning is bocked by replication bug 469220 and bug 469215 -- Lars' work there is done and ready to roll out, but we want to make sure we have proper backups before we repartition, because a failed migration would be catastrophic and require a complete restore.
  • Austin King has been blazing away on mean time between failure (MTBF) and URL reports, and we hope to roll these out this week.
  • Neil has been working on hi-fidelity mocks based on his Socorro wireframes from last week

SUMO (Mozilla Support)

Webdev Projects

  • If you haven't checked out the community store, you should! :)
  • The Lizard Feeder is staged, and Les is working on its beta launch this week.
  • Django was merged onto the Pootle trunk last week!
  • Mmmmm.... Funnelcake....

L10n

  • Moving 5 languages out of beta for Firefox 3.0.5
    • bn-IN, Bengali
    • eo, Esperanto
    • gl, Galician
    • hi-IN, Hindi
    • lv, Latvian
  • Launched the L10n Testing Survey. If you are a localizer, please take it.
  • Pascalc has lead the 2.0.0.19 --> 3.0.5 update
  • Silme brownbag with Adrian Kalla this Thursday, December 18. Please contact Adrian Kalla if you have any questions.

Foundation Updates

Roundtable

Other Business

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