WeeklyUpdates/2008-11-03

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm Pacific time (21:00 UTC until March 8, 2009)
• 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)
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• http://air.mozilla.com/ to watch and listen
• join irc.mozilla.org #staffmeeting for backchannel

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TIME CHANGE NOTICE: Daylight Saving Time (DST) ended last Sunday. Meeting time until March 8, 2009 will be 21:00 UTC.

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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 and 3.0.4
  • Code froze last Wednesday, a few days late
  • Builds for both releases were available Friday afternoon
  • Scheduled release date was November 12; actual release date a moving target dependent on the QA cycle
• Major Update
  • Planning a major update after release
  • Aiming for ~2 weeks after release; some fudging might be needed due to the Thanksgiving holiday (mmm, chocolate...)
• Thunderbird 2.0.0.18
  • Currently scheduled for November 19
  • Highly dependent on Firefox
  • Aiming for about a week after Firefox 2.0.0.18
• Firefox 2.0.0.19 and 3.0.5
  • Schedules are on the wiki
  • Code freeze is for November 17 at 11:59pm PST
  • Using new short release, long QA cycle
  • Blocker owners were emailed last night

Firefox 3.1

• mozilla-central will be freezing this Tuesday, November 4th at 11:59pm PDT for Firefox 3.1 Beta 2
• we are expecting to hold a "slushy freeze" until Thursday or Friday; nightly testers, your focus on the Wednesday and Thursday nightly builds will be appreciated!
• last opportunity for beta 2 string changes is November 6th at 11:59 pm PDT
• we expect en-US Beta 2 builds to start appearing next Monday, l10n builds on Tuesday
• after Beta 2 the focus of the front end team will be bugfixes & polish fixes

TB 3

• Thunderbird Tinderboxen now have bloat and leak tests (Thanks Standard8 & gozer)!
• Intermediate beta 1 landings in progress.
• Beta 1 dates:
  • string freeze: Thursday, November 13
  • code freeze Tuesday November 18.
• davida offering free bottle of liquor for whoever gets Chromebug working in Tb

Marketing/PR

PR

• FF 3.1 beta 2 expected
• Firefox 2 and Mike Beltzner announced at finalists in the 2008 ISDA International Design Excellence Awards in the Interactive Product Experiences category

Events

Q3 Survey Results

Impact Mozilla

• Over 300 submissions received - wow!
• Great participation among MBA student groups and Mozilla community members
• We'll be announcing the ten finalists tomorrow
• Stay tuned at the Impact blog

Community Store - Coming Soon!

Metrics

• Huge Milestone -- 20% worldwide market share became official. Read more. Congratulations to all!
• Continued share growth in an increasingly competitive environment is great to see.

Evangelism

• Documentation for Firefox 3.1 continues
  • Storage API reference documentation updated
  • New how-to article: Executing a statement asynchronously
  • All modified interfaces that are already documented have been updated for Firefox 3.1
• MDC upgraded to MindTouch Deki 8.08.1a to fix regressions
• Had a good meeting with the CTO of MindTouch to discuss enhancements to Deki we'd like to see in their next release

Foundation Updates

• The Mozilla Foundation team met in Mountain View October 28-30 to plan for the upcoming year, and also did a Foundation brown-bag presentation for people in the Mountain View office. (We plan to post video of this later.)
• Mark Surman attended and blogged about MozCamp EU.