WeeklyUpdates/2007-09-17

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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)
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Development Updates

Fx 2.0.0.7

• Shipped Fx 1.5.0.12 - 2.0.0.6 Major Updates Wed (9/12)
  • Stats TBD
• A problem was reported last week which required a fire drill release, Fx 2007
  • The problem is described here:
    • http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2007/09/12/quicktime-to-firefox-issue/
  • Fixed and tested over the weekend, and updates were pushed to beta users.
  • We are releasing Firefox 2007 as soon as today, Monday (9/17).

IT

• Stage work continues, migration starting this week. We'll announce any downtime.
• Taking over support of QA buildbot/talos machines. We'll have a formal announcement and wiki page, but file bugs just as you normally would against robcee, but assign them to IT/server-ops.
• This round of kernel updates are (finally) done.

QA

Test Execution

• FFx 2.0.0.06 Major Update testing. This is the update from 1.5.0.12 -> 2.0.0.6. Ran CJKT Major Update tests. Created Extended Tests for Major Update in Litmus and ran them. Updated 1.5.0.x -> 2.0.0.x Major Update test plan. [abillings, tomcat, others]
• FFx 2.0.0.7 firedrill release. Created a new test plan for 2.0.0.7 firedrill release. Ran Smoketests for Linux for new 2.0.0.7 release. Ran live update tests for Beta channel for new 2.0.0.7 release. [abillings, others]
• FFx 2.0.0.8 (was 2.0.0.7) triage [abillings, juanb)
• FFx 3. Continued tiger team testing. Lots of M8 testing, including regressed and verified FF3 Places bugs. [abillings, many others]
• Tested funnelcake [tracy]

Community

• FFx 3 Places testday occurred on Friday, Sept 14th.

Marketing/PR

• Events:
  • Mozilla 24 was a success with over 150 people at the Stanford event.
    • Share your feedback here

Evangelism

• Mozilla24 was a huge success, thanks to everyone who participated, and especially to everyone who worked tirelessly behind the scenes to make it possible!
• Firefox 3 developer docs are becoming terrifyingly close to complete, should be all good by the time we hit beta. Find things that are missing from the list, and help developers get the most out of all the hard work that is going into Gecko 1.9 and Firefox 3!

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

• Breakpad staging updated, push to prod today/tomorrow
• Set up live chat test for Mozilla Support
• Working on scalability for support app w/ community
• Java Console extension issues resolved
• AUS patch for m8/m9
• first crack @ plugin check, trying to wrap up before 2.0.0.7
• /extensions and /themes are gone off the FTP rsync -- old AMO files were migrated to /addons. Deleting the old dir saved 2.6G off the rsync.
• Laura Thomson starting, morgamic on-site week of 24th