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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 x92 Conf# 8600 (US/International)
  • +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 8600 (Canada)
  • +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8600 (US Toll Free)
  • http://air.mozilla.com/ to watch and listen
  • join irc.mozilla.org #staffmeeting for backchannel

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WeeklyUpdate Live: You can watch the weekly meetings live at Air Mozilla You can also view previous meetings from the "on-demand" button on the Air Mozilla player. Meetings will be posted for on-demand consumption shortly after the meeting conclusion.

Friends of the Tree 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

Firefox 3.1

TB 3

Mobile

Fennec User Experience Alpha released. w00t!

Great video walkthrough by Madhava.

Lots of great blog posts

Neutral to positive reviews

IT

  • Hg timeout issues bug 460054 - Hg frontend is now being served out of read only servers. Issues with builds timing out are now resolved.

Release Engineering

QA

Firefox 2.0.0.x/3.0.x

  • Finished triaging most of the wanted+ list. [ss]

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 [tracy]
    • Addons: test plan is 70% complete; awaiting feature completion in beta 2. [tchung]
    • Video and audio tag: Created a dozen testcases in litmus [tchung]
    • Multiple backgrounds: writing reftests for this [mw22]
    • Private Browsing: Test Plan is 75% complete. Continuing to test tryserver builds as feature has not landed. [marcia]
  • Running with JIT enabled and was able to reproduce a crash on cars.com [marcia, stephend]
  • Lots of bug fix verifications

Webdev testing

test Dev

  • Code Coverage: preliminary C/C++ coverage is 34% coverage when just starting the browser, visiting a few sites, going to AMO, and then shutting down. We get 50% coverage when running all the automated mochitests. Next steps are to run any other unittest tests (reftests, xpcshell, or any others not in the unittest framework) and setup the instrumentation to measure JS coverage.

Security

Marketing/PR

PR

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

Labs

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

L10n

Foundation Updates

Roundtable

Other Business

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