WeeklyUpdates/2008-04-14

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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

Friends of the Tree

Schrep nominated Put Kai as Friend of the Tree this week. "He's been super responsive on some last minute bugs." says Schrep.

Daniel Holbert nominated Michal Novotny (michal@allpeers.com), who "braved some particularly scary layout code to both fix and make a regression test for bug 421710."

Development Updates

Fx 2.0.0.14 / TB 2.0.0.14

Aiming to ship Firefox 2.0.0.14 tomorrow afternoon. Planning to meet this week to determine when we'll ship Thunderbird 2.0.0.14.

Gecko 1.9

• 56 Blockers remaining for RC
  • Content: 11 (8 w/ patches)
  • GFX: 9 (5 w/ Patches)
  • JS: 6 (5 w/ Patches)
  • Layout: 10 (8 w/ Patches)
  • Platform: 8 (7 w/ Patches)
  • General: 6 (2 w/ Patches)
• Still 3 unowned blockers.
• Approximately 40 have patches of some sort.
• Blockers closed in last seven days by platform team: 37
• Blockers created in last seven days: 18

Mobile

No update this week

IT

• Firefox 2.0.0.13/14 releases
• Dekiwiki setup - working to test
• SUMO load testing
• MXR upgraded - working through fallout issues

Release Engineering

• FF2.0.0.14 shipping tomorrow
• getting ready for FF3.0rc1
  • discussion on dev.planning about 3.0 release candidate naming strategy.
• TB2.0.0.13 officially abandoned
• TB2.0.0.14 being scheduled

Marketing/PR

PR

• Two security articles in USA Today - one in print and the other on a blog post
• NYT article: When Tech Innovation Has a Social Mission and then up on /. as well
• Window interviewed by Mario Armstrong on NPR - (archived broadcast not posted yet)
• And just for fun, two Firefox logo links from Neatorama - one in space and one on a bus in India

Events

Mozilla.com

Support

• SUMO Day last Friday was a success
  • More than three times the number of modified articles in the Knowledge Base
  • Lots of new people in the #sumo channel
  • Great feedback collected
  • sethb wrote a blog post about his experience with Mozilla Live Chat!
• English (en-US) Firefox 3 documentation "done"
  • Localizers should be able to update their translations on one fell swoop
  • Documentation for how to translate pages [1]

Search Engine Marketing

Evangelism

• Continuing to carefully monitor bugs to find and deal with last-minute documentation revisions for Firefox 3.
• We now have a schedule for the MDC Deki Wiki transition: Migrating to Deki.
• sethb and asa continue to look at and create metrics measuring community contribution to FF3.
• sethb and djst are working on reaching out to Mozilla's support community. look for some creative ways to get involved
• sethb and deb are working with Stas (community member in Poland) on ways to gather feedback on the Mozilla newsletter
• blizzard went to both the Linux Collaboration Summit and LugRadio Live and did presentations at both. Took part in many discussions around GNOME Mobile and told our mobile story in lots of different contexts.
• jresig got Dromaeo released early, by Digg. Oops.