WeeklyUpdates/2008-04-28

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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

• 26 Blockers remaining for RC
  • Content: 7 (6 w/ patches)
  • GFX: 10 (7 w/ Patches)
  • JS: 3 (3 w/ Patches)
  • Layout: 3 (3 w/ Patches)
  • Platform: 3 (3 w/ Patches)
  • General: 2 (2 w/ Patches)
• Still 1 unowned blockers.
• Approximately 8 have patches of some sort.
• Blockers closed in last seven days by platform team: 15
• Blockers created in last seven days: 15

Marketing/PR

PR

• Many articles about Mitchell's keynote at Web 2.0 Expo
• Two BBC articles resulting from an in-person meeting with Mitchell at Web 2.0 Expo: linked here and here
• Tech Review Q&A after in-person meeting with Mitchell at Web 2.0 Expo

Mozilla.com redesign

Support

• Next SUMO day to be held on Friday May 23
• Main focus will be on helping other users in forum and Live Chat
• More details coming up soon

Evangelism

• Work is now underway on a reorganization and cleanup of the Places docs, as well as to get the gaps filled in there.
• Skinning work continues to go well; hoping to see a first pass at a working skin within the next few days.

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

• AMO 3.4.1 release planned for this Thursday - compatibility ranges for add-ons are returning, separating out themes into their own categories, lots of other fixes - Full bug list
• Started a new process for managing featured and recommended add-ons