WeeklyUpdates/2007-02-26

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm PST (21:00 UTC)
• Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
• +1 866 879 4799 (pin 369) Conf# 8600 (US Toll Free)
• +1 650 903 0800 x91 Conf# 8600 (US/International)
• [Use *1 to mute yourself]
• join irc.mozilla.org #staffmeeting for attendance taking

Development Updates

Fx/TB 1.5.0.10 + Fx 2.0.0.2

• Firefox 1.5.0.10 and 2.0.0.2 released on Friday 2/23
  • An amazing job by everyone involved to push through a long, difficult road to get this release out.
  • Some 2.0.0.1 users will fail software update due to read-only file issues from 2.0.0.1, but we need fix an issue asap that is preventing many other users from updating to 2.0.0.2. Plan is to serve complete.mars so users with modified builds can successfully run software update (is currently failing with partial.mars)

• Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 scheduled for release on Thursday 3/1
  • QA is finishing up testing and bug verification this week

• Partner builds update
  • Firefox 1.5.0.10 partner updates almost ready - eta: Tue 2/27
  • New Kodak 2.0.0.1 build almost ready - eta: Thur 3/1
  • Firefox 2.0.0.2 partner builds and updates are on hold until we resolve the issue with migration and default start pages.

• Major Update update
  • Due to schedule slippage with 2.0.0.2, we need to decide on the best time to serve the major update. Mid/late March might be our earliest target.
  • QA had previously tested 1.5.0.9 -> 2.0.0.1, but will need to retest for 1.5.0.10 -> 2.0.0.2 and verify that things work well on Vista.

TB 2.0

• Extending the Thunderbird 2 Deadline one week to 03/06 for Vista Integration, spotlight search integration and several bugs identified by Mozilla Japan.

Firefox 3

• Weekly Meetings are now scheduled - participation welcomed. Next week's meeting info.
• Revised Product Plan and requirements document published

Other

• Sunbird/Lightning 0.3.1 maintenance release to handle US (and elsewhere) Daylight Savings Time changes shipped on 2/19.

IT

• Remora performance testing
• 1.5.0.10/2.0.0.2 release

Build

• In addition to the releases we're working on...
• Still working with IT on off-hours Tinderbox support; hopefully we'll have more to announce on that next week.
• Coop and IT have been working hard on getting more Macs for Community builds; we're working through the authentication issues to ensure those machines have access to the resources they'll need. We're likely to need some Tinderbox changes, so if you're a SeaMonkey, Lighting/Sunbird, and/or Thunderbird tinderbox hacker, and you can help us with these changes, the prize will be your very own Macs. See bug 371816 for details.
• In March, we'll be focusing on build automation work; we're tracking this work in bug 355309. If any of those bugs sound interesting, or you're interested in helping out, check out the bug, or mosey into #build.

QA

• Test Execution
  • Mostly involved in FFx 1.5.0.10 and 2.0.0.2 release and...
  • Special partner testing

• Test Infrastructure
  • Buildbot test infrastruction
    • Moved buildbox result to main tinderbox page
    • The new testing infrastructure cased a tree closure due to a test failures. It works!

Product Management and Marketing Updates

Marketing

• Continuing launch prep work for Thunderbird 2.
• Getting ready for two events in March: South by Southwest Interactive Festival and Etech.

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

• Load testing showed great improvements
  • improved l10n queries that were killing the database
  • added memcache to speed things up even more
  • results ultimately showed improvement from 7 load -> .4 load for 100 requests/s
• Working with community to test public and developer pages
  • Bugs resolved
  • Bugs reported
• This week working on database re-migration and widespread user testing
• AMO Schedule
  • Re-migrate current db and lock down v1/v2 database to be read-only
  • Start a week of beta testing on 03/01
  • Bug triage for "final" deployment on 03/08
  • Deployment set for 03/15, to allow time for general fixes from beta testing

Foundation Updates

See the report on Mozilla Foundation activities for the week ending February 23, 2007.