WeeklyUpdates/2007-10-22

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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

Development Updates

Gecko 1.9

• 14 Beta Blockers Remaining. 10 have patches!
• We'll continue the freeze until all beta blockers have been resolved.
• Reminder: You don't need approval to land a beta blocker.
• Reminder: All approvals that have yet to land will be reset tonite at 11:59PM PDT. Please see this page for tree policy and links to discussion on this event.

QA

Test execution

• Extension Performance Testing. Tested ten most top extensions. Mostly looking for memory leaks. All looked god except fotofox and glubble. This was a manual test. In the future we will look at automating the process.

• phpcalendar service: Created and checked in a calendar service that people can use for protocol handing tests. [ctalbert]
• Looking into Windmill and selenium for improved MoCo web site testing. [stephend, ctalbert]

Marketing/PR

• Mozilla & Firefox messaging documents released
• Operation Firefox contest is going live today

• Sumo (support.mozilla.com)
  • Discussions on how to implement formal feedback loops [1]
  • Upgrading TikiWiki tomorrow
  • Completing milestone 0.1 this week.

• Events:
  • She's Geeky, Mountain View, 10/22 - 10/23. Helping support conference.
  • Ajax Experience, Boston, 10/24 - 10/26
  • FSOSS, Seneca College, Toronto, 10/25 - 10/26
  • Open Source Asia Summit, Hong Kong, 11/26 - 11/30. Li Gong keynoting, as is Zak Greant and TC Liou (Mozilla Taiwan)
  • 6th GNU & Linux Festival, 11/15 - 11/17, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Chofmann speaking & looking to do a community meet up.
  • FOSS.in, Bangalore, 12/4 - 12/8: Call for submissions closed. More details on our participation on the forum.

• Sumo (support.mozilla.com):
  • Not yet ready to link to Sumo from current help page (http://www.mozilla.com/support/firefox/). Waiting for WebDev.
  • Working on page templates and design (see weekly SUMO meeting minutes for more info).

Evangelism

Events

• Ajax Experience
  • John Resig has 5 presentations / panels
  • Mark Finkle will be at booth (with Mary and others)
• FSOSS
  • Mark Finkle has a workshop on WebRunner