WeeklyUpdates/2007-06-11

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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/TB 1.5.0.12/2.0.0.4

• Major Updates Fx 15012->2004 offered to beta users last week
  • On schedule to release major updates on 6/21 (Thu)
• Shipping Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 this Thursday (6/14)

IT

• Netapp outage
  • Caused 4 tinderboxen to be offline for Friday
  • Was a bug in the shelf firmware - resolved
• Ramping up for major release
  • Excess mirror capacity online
  • Adding capacity to addons cluster
  • Load tests this week
  • Considering time-throttling major updates if needed
• Pageload server migrated
• VMWare migrations are resuming - downtime to be announced
• Breakpad
  • production collectors are up and collecting
  • continuing to debug issues with developers
• AMO in .nl
  • Loadbalancers have been upgraded, to be put back in service this week

Build

• There was a Netapp outage on Friday; IT resoled the issue with NTAP, but there will be a short tree-closure and outage sometimes this week to tweak a couple of Netapp settings; hopefully we'll do it on Tuesday; if not, it'll be Thursday.
• The outage is a good opportunity to point out the (semi-new) Build:Outage_Policy; it outlines some new procedures that we intend to follow in planned outages so there won't be scramble to close the tree. I'll be updating the policy to include the differences for unplanned outages (which we largely followed on Friday).
• IT will be working on some VMware migrations/upgrades/backups this week, so there may be tree-closures related to that; watch planet.m.o and/or IT's blog for outage announcements.
• preed will be on the East Coast for the next couple of weeks, working on Fx3 build stuffs. He'll be in Toronto from Wednesday to Sunday and New York City the week after.
• preed will also be presenting at the New York Linux Users' Group June meeting on "Releasing Open Source Software at Scale: Keeping Firefox Running on Millions of Desktops."
• Build bug triage continues. Please file bugs for anything you expect us to be doing. If you feel something is taking too long, please email us with the bug#.

QA

Welcome Tim Keenan - Accessibility Test Engineer/Evangalist

Test Execution

• Firefox 3: The team is busy planning FFx3 testing, creating test cases and testing Alpha 3 [tchung and many others]
• Testing Thunderbid 2.0.0.4: See bug fix verification results. [juan, tomcat, marcia, others]
• Major update testing: Pushed major updates for 1.5.0.12 -> 2.0.0.4 to beta testers. [juan, jay, tomcat, others]

Test Development

• Developing test plans and cases for growl, search, tabbed browsing, and visual refresh

Tools and Infrastructure

• Buildbot
  • Checked in buildbot test farm configuration
  • Reviewed and checked in a new MochiKit suite bug 379506. Broke Linux, fixed Linux, turned Linux orange removed MochiKit suite. blogged here
• Landed a patch for interactive running of unit-tests bug 382682
• Litmus
  • Completed development and testing of user permission groups [zach]
  • Made good progress on the Reset forgotten password feature. Wrote email sending background. DB backend work, UI, authentication code [zach]
  • Helped Tracy get Test::Litmus::Reporter installed on his machine for submitting Eggplant results to Litmus [zach]
• Talos
  • Did backend for the mac port. Customized platform-specific system calls to work on mac. Got startup time tests (ts) working. Page load tests are working and reporting page load times, but not yet reporting memory and CPU usage. Investigated irregularities in the startup time test results. Talked to bsmedberg and narrowed the cause down to Extension Manager. [zach]
• Working on test environments. This includes the operating system along with profiles that will be captured in VMs for more consistent and pre-meditated testing of configurations. [marcia, jay, others]
• Breakpad: Started defining new crash reports with (topcrash by build, crashes by release) [ispiked, jay]

Community

• A FFx3 A5 test day was held on Fri
• QMO: Finalized 2 options for the QMO logos

Security

• Last week's vulnerabilities still under investigation
  
• Results of this analysis will determine schedule for 2.0.0.5
  
• Window in Boston for the rest of the week meeting with analysts
  
• Discussing process, security strategy, and security check-up
  

Marketing/PR

• Support - Top priorities: Staffing, vendor selection, prototyping knowledge base and search (all in progress). More detailed blog post to come this week.
• International - Timeline and first steps for international marketing efforts posted.
• Mozilla Store - redesign has been approved, implementation has started.
• Welcome Ken Kovash, new analytics manager.
• Welcome to OutCast Communications, our new US PR agency.

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

• moz-eu-cms
  • All blockers are closed.
• AMO
  • Fixed ratings

Foundation Updates

For Mozilla Foundation activities for the week ending June 8, 2007 please see the status reports from Frank, Gerv, and Zak.