WeeklyUpdates/2008-11-24

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm Pacific time (21:00 UTC until March 8, 2009)
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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

Gecko 1.9.1

• Last beta 2 blocker fixed.
• Looking forward to the Great Triage of December '08.
• For weekly engineering meeting notes and other info see the Platform page.
• Interesting queries related to Gecko 1.9.1
• 196 1.9.1 blockers.
  • 10 Blocking 1.9.1 P1s
  • 50 Blocking 1.9.1 P2s
  • 36 Blocking 1.9.1 P3s
  • 100 Blocking 1.9.1 w/ no priority.

Mobile

• Working towards M10.
• New UI concepts in the works. Feedback appreciated.

IT

• Updated border1/border2
  • Pushed through backlog of Any2 peering requests, including MSFT/AS8075 (!)
  • Any2 accounts for most of Mozilla's Asia-Pacific traffic.
• Pushed out Bugzilla upgrade bug 464713

Release Engineering

• New mozilla-1.9.1 line available. See blogpost diagram and Firefox 3.1 tinderbox page

QA

Frifox 3.0.x/2.0.0.c and Thunderbird 2.0.0.x

• Tested major update Firefox 2.0.0.18->3.0.4 [juanb]
• tested Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 final release - Beta channel tests and udpate tests. [juanb]

Firefox 3.1

• Feature testing:
  • Worker Threads: Spent time working on the DOM Worker Threads MozMill tests. It turns out that they decided not to change the spec at all [admc]
  • Got Tomcat up and running the JavaScript tests for mozilla-central and tracemonkey. [bc]
  • Updated the audio/video testplan to reflect the existing tests and the tests that are already written [ctalbert]
  • CSS: Verified that the new approach in bug 459148 will allow us to actually reftest border-radius properly. Started refactoring those tests accordingly. [ctalbert]
  • element traversal and media query tests: Made progress on these. Working on how to autoamte these. ~50 additional test cases added to Media Queries. ~10 additional test cases for Media Queries. [jmaher, ctalbert]
• HTML 5 Drag and Drop: Added 10 more test cases [jmaher]

Mobile

• Worked on getting Reftests and crashtests to run on the device. [ctalbert, jmaher]
• Worked on larger question of getting the proper tests onto the device without a build tree. [ctalbert]
• Cleaned up [Litmus] test cases for BFT's [jmaher]
• See the cool status table of getting tests running for fennec. 50 tasks (10 per major harness)!

Test Automation

• Mozmill:
  • Working on the recorder for MozMill RC1B2, fixing issues with the logging output etc.[admc]
  • Recruited people to help test recorder functionality [ctalbert]
  • investigated the <editor> xul tag [ctalbert, others]

Community

• Fixed a number of QA Companion bugs: bug 463121, bug 453897, bug 423508, and bug 459313 [clint]
• Opened up the [[QA/TDAI/SyncUp|Test Dev team weekly meeting] to community members. [ctalbert]
• Finished the landing pages for Toronto Dev Day Presentations, All the presentation slides are there. David Humphrey is almost ready to upload video to them.

Misc

• RRRT mail list was setup and an announcement went out. A lot of new people are willing to help the this!
  • RRRT has been investigating a Facebook issue that came in via Mitchell. It appears to be a Facebook temporary server issue, we were not able to reproduce the problem.

Marketing/PR

PR

• Brendan Eich interviewed for CNet's CIO Sessions
• Fashion Your Firefox unveiled last week in NYC. Coverage highlights include CNet, ComputerWorld, WSJ blog and Wired. Check out Above the Fold for more details
• TechWorld looks at SUMO and Mozilla "Sweden"
• 2007 audit posted to Mitchell's blog

Events

• FOSS.in, Nov. 25 - 29, Mountain View: Anant Narayanan is giving a talk on Mozilla Labs.
• Foss Camp, Dec. 5 - 6, 2008, Mountain View: Dave Camp, Chris Blizzard and Al Billings attending.
• Add-on Con, Dec. 11, 2008, Mountain View: Mozilla and partners participating as speakers. We're also fleshing out a casual open house for Dec. 10th. Please let Mary know if you are attending Add-on Con asap.

Logos

Support

• Support Firefox Day was a success
  • Great SUMO teamwork
  • Special thanks to Cheng for hosting the majority of the events
  • Also thanks to Mitchell for participating in the Mozilla goals 2010 session and to Asa for technical Air Mozilla support!
  • Collected 2010 thoughts published on the wiki

L10n

• In the process of backporting all translations of about:rights so that translations can be included in Firefox 3.0.5
• L10n-drivers team met with mfinkle and Madhava today to discuss the localization plan for Fennec
• Translate Toolkit submitted their 6 month summary reporting on progress they have made since Mozilla grant to them this past summer. Highlights include
  • Integration with Hg
  • Launching their offline editor Virtaal, allowing localizers to work on translations
  • Merging Verbatim work by clouserw and dschafer into their trunk
  • Migrate to Django, new web platform that should make developer contributions in the future a bit easier