WeeklyUpdates/2007-08-20
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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)
- join irc.mozilla.org #staffmeeting for attendance taking and backchannel
note: all participants are muted automatically; if you want to talk, press *1 to un-mute yourself
In Attendance
Development Updates
Fx/TB 1.5.0.13/2.0.0.7
TB 3
Gecko 1.9
- No major news. Continuing to resolve regressions from items that landed on our M7 feature complete release.
- Thank you interns: Rob Arnold, Eli Friedman, Waldo, Biesi, and mrbkap (yes, he's still an intern :-D )
Firefox 3
Bit of a slow week last week due to MoCo all hands and travel.
- Plugin management (mwu, carryover from last week)
- Plugin blocklisting (mwu)
- New Downloads Manager UI (sdwilsh, carryover from last week, number of bugfixes)
- New Bookmarking UI with starring and tagging (mano)
Upcoming (close to landing)
- Vista Parental controls
- Post-submit pwmgr prompt (infobar, not modal)
- Unified history/bookmarks search for location bar autocomplete
- Web apps as protocol handlers
Big thanks to MoCo summer interns: Christine Yen, Steve Won, Michael Wu and Shawn Wilsher
- Plugin Management
- Longstanding request/need
- Support disabling/uninstalling all plugins
- Blocklisting of vulnerable plugin versions (top vector of attack against Firefox users)
- Windows/Linux shutdown handling
- Better shutdown handling/experience (single save session/quit dialog)
- Avoids dataloss and/or confusing dialogs on next startup
- Places
- UI prototyping/implementation help
- Fixing core front end bugs
- Protocol handling front end
- Still in progress, but major step forward
- Download manager rewrite
- Backend rewrite to move to SQLite, improve API for extension authors
- Frontend redesign to support ease of use, searching
- SQLite improvements
- Move to current SQLite, performance improvements and bugfixes
- Use our i18n support in place of ICU
IT
Build
- TB 1.5.0.12->2.0.0.6 major update shipped last week
- TB 1.5.0.13 being QA'd, plan to ship this week if all goes well
- Win32 Nightlies have been switched to the new reference platform.
- no symbols for nightlies, see bug 384624 for details.
- Bug triage
QA
Mostly attended the On-Site
Test Execution
- Completed final release testing for Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 -> 2.0.0.6 Major Update
- Tested the new download page from David Rolnitzky
- Tested Thunderbird 1.5.0.13 RC1
- Held a special planning session on Monday as part of the on-site
Test Tools and Infrastructure
Community
- Held a Thunderbird 1.5.0.13 Testday on Friday
Security
Marketing/PR
- New Firefox download and first run pages are going live this week.
- Announced SUMO leadership team.