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WeeklyUpdates/2009-03-02

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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)
  • sip:weeklystatus@mozilla.com from generic SIP clients
  • http://air.mozilla.com/ to watch and listen
  • join irc.mozilla.org #staffmeeting for backchannel

note: all participants are muted automatically; if you want to talk, press *1 to un-mute yourself

TIME CHANGE NOTICE: Daylight Saving Time (DST) begins this Sunday. New meeting time next week will be 20:00 UTC.

WeeklyUpdate Live: You can watch the weekly meetings live at Air Mozilla

Friends of the Tree 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 3.0.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x

  • Firefox 3.0.7
    • Shipping this Wednesday, March 4
  • Firefox 3.0.8
    • Code freeze is March 17 at 11:59pm
    • Release in mid-April
  • Thunderbird 2.0.0.21
    • Fixes in sync with Firefox 3.0.7
    • Code complete yesterday
    • Off to build
    • Aiming for mid-March release

Gecko 1.9.1

Firefox 3.1

TB 3

Mobile

[Weekly Meeting]

IT

Release Engineering

  • Unit tests on try server! Linux only right now, win32 and mac coming soon Thanks to Lukas Blakk
  • FF 3.0.7 pushed to beta channel
  • Talos regression detection sending alerts to dev.tree-management
  • TB 2.0.0.21 starting today

QA

Test Execution

  • Please Welcome Aakash Desai and Krupa Raj to the QA team!
  • Fx3.0.7 shipped to beta
  • TB 2.0.0.21 testing begins this week
  • 119 1.9.1 branch bugs verified last week
  • QA at CEbit this week [tomcat, timr]

Test Development

  • Worked on SpiderMonkey 1.8.0 release. Waiting on a couple of bugs to land before cutting the tag and posting the tarball
  • CSS Transforms tests landed with many thanks to dholbert for his help
  • The first attempt at QAC notifications has landed
  • Testing Fennec Maemo Beta 1, it's looking good
  • Mozmill 1.1 is almost ready to go: remaining blockers

Security

Marketing/PR

General

  • Mozilla.com website optimization testing:
    • Running an A/B test on the Firefox download page sometime in March
    • Goal is to try and improve visit to Firefox download conversion.
    • Dynamic content based on visitor's browser (browser sniffing)
    • More details soon at http://giantspatula.com.
  • Social Actions "Change the Web Challenge" is kicking off a series of online chats. Join Zak Greant & Suneel Gupta to tomorrow to discuss the Mozilla platform and social change at 11 a.m. PST (Mar. 3rd). RSVP & details here here.
  • Next Community Marketing call is this Wednesday, March 11th, at 10am PST. Dial-in Info: +1.650.903.0800, followed by 92# and then 7391#. Or you can use our toll-free number: +1.800.707.2533, followed by 369# and then 7391#. For those that can't make the call or want to participate online, join us in #marketing on irc.mozilla.org.

PR

  • Mitchell interviewed by German newspaper FAZ

Events

  • CeBIT, Mar. 3 - 8, 2009, Hannover, Germany: Chris Hofmann, Jane Finette, Tim Riley, Tomcat and Kai Engert attending on Mozilla's behalf. Chris and Tim are both speaking.

Support

  • Next Monday, March 9th at 10 AM PDT, we'll have a special SUMO community meeting where all SUMO contributors are encouraged to call in
    • Opportunity to provide direct feedback or ask any questions about SUMO, help planning the upcoming Support Firefox Day, and much more
    • If you're a SUMO community member, please call in!
    • Read more in the blog post: Contributors open meeting March 9th 10 AM PDT

Metrics

  • Market Share
    • Firefox continued to gain market share in February. Check out the full report from Net Applications.

Evangelism

  • Mozilla Developer Center
    • Mostly minor changes to documentation this past week.
    • Evaluation and discussion about the impending Lyons release of Deki is ongoing. We hope to upgrade to this a few weeks after it ships, which should be in about a month.

Labs

Developer Tools

Add-ons

  • Compatibility update
    • FIXME of add-ons compatible with Fx3.1

Webdev

L10n

  • Fennec is now on the l10n dashboard for localizers to see the status of their builds.
  • Axel continues to work with RelEng on l10n build related issues

For other updates, please read the recent posts from our team members' blogs:

Foundation Updates

  • The Mozilla Education planet is now live and accepting additions of blogs for people involved with education and Mozilla.
  • David worked on the www.mozilla.org redesign project, including working with Mark, Sam and fantasai on a "big picture" document and other wiki planning pages, and blogging about other sites to look to as good examples.
  • We've started the public comment period for a CA request from ComSign (bug 420705).
  • Frank and Armen Zambrano-Gasparnian of Seneca College will be attending the Integrating FOSS into the Undergraduate Computing Curriculum symposium March 4 in Chattanooga TN on behalf of the Mozilla project. Frank will be appearing on a panel and Armen will be doing video interviews with symposium participants.
  • David will be hosting a brown bag session on the www.mozilla.org redesign on March 12 at 1pm Pacific time.

Roundtable

Other Business

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