WeeklyUpdates/2008-03-24

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm Pacific time (20:00 UTC until November 2, 2008)
• 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

Development Updates

Gecko 1.9

• P1s remaining to ship Beta 5: 8
  • 7 have patches (in some form).
  • 19 P1s closed in last 7 days.
• 136 P2s, 26 closed in last 7 days.

IT

• Datacenter outage - Outage report
  • Bugzilla patches delayed due to outage - this week

QA

Firefox 3 [QA lead-tchung]

• Coming up on Beta 5 this week
• Feature testing:
  • Places: started on bookmark tests. Investigated mochitest for bug 405924. Aided Al and Tracy with verifying some deep API level bugs
  • Protocol Handling: Worked on bug triage. Investigated a mochitest for bug 420401
• Minotaur runs for automatically testing L10n related preferences and config values were completed. This is on Windows and Mac. Linux o not planned at this time and is not really needed since the values tested are platform independent. Requested machines allow for fully automated testing of builds.
• Tracked down a couple crashers:
  • a crash for asa. Bug 424158 - Google Pack Crash Firefox 3 Beta 4 on the Google Pack Site @0x26dd378 [tomcat]
  • Run into a Topcrash on Mac and found a way to reproduce it. Bug 423669 - AntiVir Current Virus Definition Extension Crash Firefox Debug Build
• Leak testing: Now up to 200 bugs found since the Project started!! Filed 23 new Leak Bugs last week. See blog entry.

Javascript testing [bc]

• Filed bug 424636 on a JavaScript regression.
• Starting to do more 64 bit testing. Ran Jesse's jsFunFuzz under Valgrind and filed bug 424555 on an invalid read in 64 bit Linux.

Community

• Working with Dave Humphery to setup a test workshop this summer. See posts in m.d.quality [ctalbert, timr]

Marketing/PR

Support

Events

T-shirt contest

Evangelism

• Community Participation Stats update
• Sethb update on Community Surveys
• MFinkle getting up to speed on mobile work
  • Begin work on building XR apps on n8x0
  • Begin adding extension related work into fennec browser
• Handled some late-compat changes to mozIJSSubScriptLoader
  • End result was good for extension developers (thnx to bz and jst)
  • If any other late-compat changes happen, consider CC'ing MFinkle or JResig on bug

Foundation Updates

• Grants and related activities
  • Frank got paperwork done for another new grant, to be announced later.

• CAs and related issues
  • Frank gave final approval to the applications from GeoTrust (bug 407168) and thawte (bug 407163) and filed bugs against NSS/PSM for the changes.

• Public communications and related issues
  • David worked on various items related to the Mozilla 10th anniversary celebrations.

• Upcoming events and conferences
  • Zak will be speaking at the Go Open conference April 8 and 9, 2008, in Oslo, the Leadership by (Open) Innovation in the Telecom, IT and Media Industries conference April 24 in Munich, and other events later in 2008.
  • Frank is planning to attend the Freedom to Connect conference March 31 and April 1, 2008 in Silver Spring MD, and (if possible) the Berkman@10 conference May 15-16 in Boston MA.
  • Frank will be out for a few days the week of April 7 to handle a family medical issue.

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