WeeklyUpdates/2008-10-20
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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)
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Friends of the Tree 
Please send FotT nominations to asa@mozilla.org. This is a great opportunity for the community to recognize those who go above and beyond, so please tell me when you see that happening. Thanks.
Development Updates
Branch work: Firefox 2.0.0.18 / 3.0.4
- Code freeze for 2.0.0.18/3.0.4 is *this Friday*, though we're pushing to get most checkins in by tomorrow.
- Release scheduled for November 12
Gecko 1.9.1
- Just working on Beta 2.
- For weekly engineering meeting notes and other info see the Platform page.
- Interesting queries related to Gecko 1.9.1
- 78 1.9.1 blockers.
- 1 Blocking 1.9.1 P1s
- 36 Blocking 1.9.1 P2s
- 34 Blocking 1.9.1 P3s
- 7 Blocking 1.9.1 Other priority (Need to fix the priorities here!)
- Looks like we need to do some triage as well, noms: 205 overall, 16 GFX, 22 Content, 14 JS, 26 Layout.
- 284 wanted bugs (also up) NOTE: Work on blockers, not wanted bugs, if you can!
Firefox 3.1
TB 3
Mobile
Fennec User Experience Alpha released. w00t!
Great video walkthrough by Madhava.
Neutral to positive reviews
IT
- Hg timeout issues bug 460054
Release Engineering
QA
Firefox 3.1
- Beta 1 release testing: Update testing and released on Tuesday!
- Feature testing
- Places: 20% of test cases done. Waiting on tag auto-complete work to land
- Addons: test plan is 70% complete; awaiting feature completion in beta 2.
- Video and audio tag: Created a dozen testcases in litmus
- Lots of bug fix verifications
Webdev testing
Security
Marketing/PR
PR
- Fennec Alpha 1 released. Coverage and reviews in tech and mobile publications including RCR Wireless, Lifehacker, Ars Technica, CNet, InternetNews
- Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 released Tuesday. Coverage highlights include: BetaNews, ComputerWorld, PC Magazine, Ars Technica
Events Europe:
- Open Source World Conference, Malaga, Spain, Oct. 20 - 21: Tristan keynoting.
- Web 2.0 Berlin, Oct 21 - 23: John Lilly is keynoting.
- Moz Camp, Barcelona, Spain, Oct. 25 - 26
- Mozilla Labs EU Innovation Tour: Aza Raskin & Dan Mills will be in Europe from Oct 20-26 for both press meetings and labs meetups.
- Internet CEE Conference, Warsaw, Poland Oct 28: Seth Bindernagel will hold a session on the Importance of Localization in Open Source
U.S. and more:
- Phreak, Velore, India: Hosting remote presentation on Labs with Jono DiCarlo tonight at 7:00 p.m. in Building K.
- FSOSS, Oct. 24 - 24, Seneca College, Toronto - Several Mozilla speakers!
- Nonprofit Software Development Summit, Nov. 17 - 19, Oakland, CA: Please check it out if you are local!
- Green Festival, San Francisco, Nov. 14 - 16: Mozilla will have passes for 200 people. Please let Mary or Julie know if you want to attend.
- FOSSCamp, Mountain View, Dec. 5 - 6: Organized by Ubuntu folks. Please check it out if you are local!
- Next events triage will be held on October 22nd, 2008 at 10am PDT. 650-903-0800, ext 91, id 248
Impact Mozilla
- Initial submission deadline closes this Friday, 10/24.
- We're currently receiving about 10 submissions each day
- The marketing team will be sorting through the proposed strategies/ideas next week
Support
Plans for next Support Firefox Day (Friday, November 21):
- Main topic of SFD: Localizing SUMO
- Secondary topic: Mozilla 2010 Goals
- We're planning to have a 3-hour event in 3 different timeslots (Asia, Europe and the Americas)
- Sessions:
- Localizing SUMO: Getting started and translating your first article. (cww)
- Keeping your translations and locale up to date: finding out when things change and working with your locale to complete translation. (cilias)
- Mozilla 2010 goals (djst+Mitchell leading intro?). A roundtable/open discussion on 2010 goals for Mozilla.
Metrics
Evangelism
- New Firefox 3.1 documentation this week:
- MozAfterPaint DOM event
- NodeIterators
- @font-face
- XMLHttpRequest reference
- Using XMLHttpRequest
- XMLHttpRequest progress events are documented as well: nsIDOMProgressEvent, nsIXMLHttpRequestEventTarget, and nsIXMLHttpRequestUpload
- Tracking changes to the video element implementation; documentation updates forthcoming this week.
- Continuing to work on Firefox 3.1 documentation updates for the forseeable future.