WeeklyUpdates/2008-01-07

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm Pacific time (21:00 UTC until March 9, 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

Fx 2.0.0.12 / TB 2.0.0.12

Firefox 2.0.0.12 is scheduled to release on February 5, 2008.

Currently, the TB 2.0.0.12 release is unscheduled but will occur after Firefox 2.0.0.12, possibly in late February.

There is a final Major Update for TB 1.5.0.14 being planned for late February. Once this occurs, all work on TB 1.5.x will be concluded.

Gecko 1.9

• Beta 3 is next on our hit list.
  • 15 P1s
  • 123 P2s
  • 189 P3s
• Reminder: Next proposed freeze is on Jan 22.

Firefox 3

• 24 P1s left, top priority for beta 3 freeze
• Freeze is January 22nd
• L10n roadmap plan proposal later this week
• First full week back, please take stock of currently assigned P1/P2 bugs and get a rough idea of how much work is left.

IT

• All build VMs migrated to shared storage and vmware upgrade
• All production machines in bcfg2 (configuration management)
• Bugzilla up in .nl, testing for performance
• Denmark office coming up this week

Build

• tree closure tomorrow (8jan08, 8am-11am EST) to upgrade win32 ref platform on trunk. The curious can rubberneck in bug 402848. This is needed to solve the long-running vista icon problem bug 340976 and an annoying ssh timeout problem bug 398113.
• closing down & mothballing 1.8.0 machines
• "fake" major update from FF2.0.0.12 -> FF3.0beta2, see details in bug 394046.
• moving nightlies to use same systems as release production:
  • related topic of build-always vs build-on-checkin

QA

Firefox 3

• Tested Places Gecko, OS Integ, pw mgr, sec/privacy, encryption, and search, download mgr features and Verified fixes for B3 blocking bugs [abillings, tomcat, stephend]
• Setup new Eggplant machine for automated GUI testing [abillings]
• On-going leak testing [tomcat]
• Created a set of 3 profiles on Windows, Mac and Linux for trunk testing. Two of the profiles are in the QA directory on fs under "Profiles" [marcia]
• Investigating a number of accessibility bugs: bug 407359, bug from Orca team - bug 409439, bug from NVDA team-bug 410604

Firefox 2.0.0.x

• Added 5 more locales to the Eggplant Automated L10n Smoketest Suite (over 200 Images) [tomcat]

WebDev testing [stephend]

• Tested "Fight Against Boredom]" campaign pages along with the new Get Involved page.
• Will be testing Remora

Community

• Planned out test days for the next three weeks. Download Manager Testday is this Friday, Jan 11th!!
• Rewrapped up the QMO redesign plans and ready to work on the information architecture and visual design for the site (Phase 1) this week. [jay]
• Pushed out on-line QA Community participation survey. So far 50 surveys were returned and 200 people viewed the survey. [jay]
• On two German-speaking mailing lists having to do with general computer-related topics, We are receiving quite a number of inquiries regarding Thunderbird use from an accessibility standpoint. [marco]

Marketing/PR

• Events:
  • FOSDEM: planning underway.
  • GNUnify: Mozilla contributor Anant Narayanan submitting a Mozilla-focused talk and hosting a hack session.
  • Techkriti: Our campus rep, Shashank Chintalagiri, is hosting a Firefox add-ons competition called MyFox

Mozilla Labs

• Extend Firefox
  • Contest closed - ended up with over 100 entries!
  • Thanks to all who are helping with extension testing, let Rhian know if you are still interested - could definitely use some additional reviewers.
  • Hoping to announce winners at the end of January and launch Extend Firefox 3 in February.

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

• AMO - work continues on 3.2 milestone
• Breakpad downtime tomorrow night to create a new partition and do some garbage collection on old reports
• Helped a bit with extendfirefox
• Review of fab app