WeeklyUpdates/2008-12-22

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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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Friends of the Tree

• Alix writes in to nominate "Bruno Magrani, Koichi Kameda, and Ronaldo Lemos at FGV for their hard work in organizing and moderating Mozilla's first LAN House workshop in Rio, Brazil last week.

• Simon Montague nominated Serge Gautherie, Robert O'Callahan, and Vladimir Vukicevic for making reftesting faster and friendlier.

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

• 39 Bugs blocking beta 3, 24 of those have patches.
• Beta 3 code freeze is Jan 13.
• For weekly engineering meeting notes and other info see the Platform page.
• Interesting queries related to Gecko 1.9.1
• 167 1.9.1 blockers.
  • 39 Blocking 1.9.1 P1s
  • 65 Blocking 1.9.1 P2s
  • 26 Blocking 1.9.1 P3s
  • 37 Blocking 1.9.1 w/ no priority.

Mobile

Two bugs remaining before A2 release.

QA

Test Execution

• Shipped Fx2.0.0.19 & Fx3.0.5 on 12/16
• Then shipped a quick Fx2.0.0.20 in < 1 1/2 days
  • Testplan results
  • Fx3.1 feature tracking spreadsheet
    • Testplan completion: 89%
    • Testcase completion: 73%

Marketing/PR

PR

• John Lilly reflects on the competition in ComputerWorld
• Firefox 3 honored in “Best Browser Peoples Choice Award” in Crunch Gear
• Firefox security updates released: CNEt, CRN, Ars Technica
• Firefox 2.0.0.20 released: PCWorld, PC Mag, InternetNews

Events

Impact Mozilla

Other

• Firefox for the Holidays on Sfx
• New video page live on mozilla.com
• Round 2 of the Firefox in your country survey open until Dec 26th. Round 1 results.
• LAN House workshop took place last week in Rio, Brazil

Foundation Updates

• David created a draft survey for the Powered by Mozilla program; for more information see David's blog post.
• Mark worked on the 2009 Foundation budget and related tasks.
• Eitan Isaacson completed his Foundation-funded project to create a test framework for non-interactive inspection of the accessibility APIs provided by web browsers; among other things, this allows comparison of Firefox's accessibility support with that of IE, Safari, Opera, etc. For more information see Eitan's blog post and related progress reports, as well as his slide presentation.
• Frank started public discussion for the CA inclusion request from S-TRUST.