WeeklyUpdates/2008-10-27

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm Pacific time (20:00 UTC until November 2, 2008)
• Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
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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 / Thunderbird 2.0.0.18

• Firefox 2.0.0.18 / 3.0.4 mostly froze over the weekend.
• Need to take one or two more patches
• Slipping hand off to build by a day or two (aiming for one day)
• Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 proposed schedule on the wiki. Highly dependent on Firefox 2.0.0.18.
• Also, a proposed schedule for Firefox 2.0.0.19 and 3.0.5 (before the end of the year) is being worked on.

Gecko 1.9.1

• Hot item for Beta 2: Turning on Tracemonkey. Remaining Items:
  • TM: for-in loops skip every other value in certain cases: bug 458851
  • TM: Support script timeouts in compiled code: bug 450000
  • TM: Multiple trees per entry point: bug 450833
  • There are more issues than the above remaining, but these are gotta-haves.
• Other items remaining for final:
  • Still working through remaining issues for Downloadable Fonts.
  • Several crash bugs remaining on the blocker list
  • Most other blocking issues are regressions and nasty one off bug fixes.
• For weekly engineering meeting notes and other info see the Platform page.
• Interesting queries related to Gecko 1.9.1
• 85 1.9.1 blockers.
  • 9 Blocking 1.9.1 P1s
  • 33 Blocking 1.9.1 P2s
  • 35 Blocking 1.9.1 P3s

IT

• MDC (developer.mozilla.org) was moved completely behind SSL

QA

Firefox 2.0.0.x, 3.0.x [abillings]

• Created test plans for 3.0.4 and [[Firefox:2.0.0.18:Test_Plan|2.0.0.18]
• Verifying bug fixes for these releases

Firefox 3.1

• Feature Testing
  • Worker Threads: Contacted bent@mozilla.com. Updating the test plan. assing mochi tests. Needs mozmill tests. [adam]

• Filed another 11 Leak Bugs last week from the Top Site Run (Global 500), apparently regressions on 1.9.1

Mobile

• Ad-hoc testing on post-Alpha 1 Fennec builds [abillings]
• Getting Sisysphus working on Fennec [bc, jmaher]

Test Automation

• Working on the modal dialog problems people have been running into in Mozmill. [adam]

Community

• Lead a QA track for in the Mozilla EU Camp in Barcelona, Spain Oct 325-26. Presentations on Memory Leak testing, General QA activities, L10n QA activities, etc. [marcia, ctalbert, tomcat, martijn]

Security

• Metrics document in review
• Bug backlog reduction plan

Marketing/PR

PR

Events Europe:

• Moz Camp, Barcelona, Spain, Oct. 25 - 26 - Huge success. See Jane's blog.
• 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:

• MexicoWeb 2.0, Cancun, Mexico, Nov. 3 - 4: Chofmann and John Resig attending with Mozilla Mexico community
• 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 sign up to help!
• Mashup Camp, Mountain View, Nov. 17 - 19: Dave Camp is participating in a session on persistence.
• FOSSCamp, Mountain View, Dec. 5 - 6: Organized by Ubuntu folks. Please check it out if you are local!

Q3 Survey Results

• More than 30K responses from people in more than 30 countries
• 89% Customer Satisfaction rating
• Will release the next version of the survey, with some changes, in late November/early December
• Complete post at http://livetolaugh85.blogspot.com/search/label/mozilla

Impact Mozilla

Community Store - Coming Soon!

Evangelism

• Blizzard @ NSF/tools event
• Documentation work for Firefox 3.1 continues with this past week spent mostly on further updates to the audio and video element documentation, as well as some work on Storage API changes.
• MDC was updated to Deki 8.08.1 last week. There is a regression that broke the RSS feeds; MindTouch is fixing this and we should be pulling an update within the next couple of days.
• Deb is away from Oct 31 - Nov 18. Chris Blizzard will be taking over about:mozilla newsletter duties during that time.

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

• Lars starts today full-time. Lars has been contracting with us for 3 years, and will continue his work on Socorro. He will also be wielding his Python skills to improve Sentry and Verbatim.
• SUMO 0.7.1 now in production.
• Austin wrote a post discussing the latest changes to Socorro (see the updated status page and list view
• Lars and Aravind are working on testing the filesystem changes -- currently priority job scans take 5-15 minutes, the filesystem changes will get us back to 30s-1m. Will post an update later this week with testing results.
• Les Orchard provided an updated version of his lizardfeeder that is worth taking a look at -- we'll release this in production once we find a home for it
• AMO
  • Meeting notes from last week
  • Brian King gave a presentation at EU MozCamp that was well received
  • We are wrapping up and QA-ing the first iteration of bandwagon
  • AMO 4.0.3 starts today, code freeze is Nov. 10th
  • Kicked off 3.1 compatibility push last week -- see 3.1b1 stats

Foundation Updates

Highlights

• The evening before FSOSS 2008 we hosted a "friends of Mozilla" reception in the Toronto office for about forty open source project leaders and academics.
• Mark participated in the Mozilla 2010 goals session at MozCamp Europe; notes are under each of the five headings of the goals section of the 2010 goals wiki page.
• Mark and David blogged about moving our part of the 2010 goals discussion ahead; we invite and welcome contributions from others.
• Zak created a draft wiki page for the Mozilla 2010 goals conversation.

Program activities

• Education
  • Mark and Frank participated in the teaching open source track at the FSOSS 2008 conference at Seneca College; see also Mark's blog post on the sessions.

Public communications and community outreach

• Powered by Mozilla
  • David did a blog post on the over 150 applications built using Mozilla technologies.
• www.mozilla.org
  • David continued work on updating the Roles and Responsibilities page.
  • David documented the process of moderating mail sent to the webmaster address.

Upcoming activities

• We have a Mozilla Foundation staff retreat planned for late October (October 28-30, Mountain View).
• Zak will deliver the opening keynote for the AFUP (French PHP User Group) Forum PHP conference (December 8, Paris)

Roundtable

• Layout team introductions for AirMozilla video