WeeklyUpdates/2008-12-01

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Meeting Details

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

IT

• Dealing with Netscaler performance issues
  • Mostly affecting addons.mozilla.org, versioncheck.addons.mozilla.org, services.addons.mozilla.org
  • Working on shifting traffic to different load balancers

QA

Firefox 2.0.0.1x/3.0.x

• Released Major Update Beta last Monday. This is the update from 2.0.0.18 -> 3.0.4.
• Triaging bugs and testing Firefox 2.0.0.18/3.0.5
• Crash stats - Found a new topcrash in 1.9.0.5 that got fixed [ss]

Firefox 3.1

• Started testing Beta 2. Re-spinning for bug 467124.
• A11y:
  • Tested several A11y patches locally [marcoz]
  • Fixed failing mochitests and submitted a patch [marcoz]

Web Dev testing [stephend]

• Began testing SUMO search
• Nearly finished with Community Store testing. Having trouble with IE 6 / 7 when uploading designs

Misc

• Working on the QA story for 2009 to help keep growing and improving
• Code coverage: Found that ~5% of the files in the code base has had a bug fix since the HG inception.

Marketing/PR

PR

• Fired Up Over a Hot Browser article in IBD
• /crawling_back_to_firefox.html Crawling Back to Firefox in PC World
• John Lilly quoted in Net Applications report for WW market share, covered inFortune

Events

• NorthWestMozDev held this weekend!
• Foss Camp, Dec. 5 - 6, 2008, Mountain View: Dave Camp, Chris Blizzard and Al Billings attending. Please sign up if you wish to attend.
• Add-on Con, Dec. 11, 2008, Mountain View:
  • Hosting open house for local and visiting add-on developers on Dec. 10th at 6 p.m. at Mozilla HQ.
  • Complete list of Mozilla's activities. **Please let Mary know if you wish to attend asap.

Mozilla Community Store

• Coming soon! Some details here: http://musingt.com/?p=36

Support

• No updates

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

• SUMO 0.7.3 going out Tuesday

Foundation Updates

• David Boswell has updated the Mozilla Manifesto page to include localized versions. Now the site has the Manifesto in 14 languages, at least half of which are brand new.
  • http://www.mozilla.org/about/manifesto

• David and Asa have floated the idea of having Mitchell do a 2 min video explaining the Manifesto. We might also invite others to submit their own clips about 'what Mozilla means to me'. We're interested in feedback on this idea.

• Moving ahead with a grant to support Firebug accessibility work by the Paciello Group. This will allow blind developers to use Firebug more effectively. Also will include user/developer documentation to complement Firebug accessibility enhancements enhancements.

• Mark and Zak attended the MozDev Northwest event in Victoria, BC this past weekend. It was a good opportunity to get further input on 2010 goal and generally share ideas.
  • http://zak.greant.com/nwmozdev08-roundup

• Mark talked about the Mozilla experience at the City of Toronto's internal Web 2.0 Summit.
  • http://commonspace.wordpress.com/2008/11/27/city-thinks-like-the-web/