WeeklyUpdates/2009-03-09
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Meeting Details
- 1:00pm Pacific time (20:00 UTC until November 1, 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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Development Updates
Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x
Gecko 1.9.1
Firefox 3.1
TB 3
Mobile
IT
- Managed 3.0.7 release
- Had network capacity issues, brief summary
- Call out to mirrors - we need help!
- Moved mozilla.org behind Postini for spam filtering
Release Engineering
- major update discussions in dev.planning or here: [1] [2] [3] [4]
- fake major update coming to QA this week for FF3.0.7 -> FF3.1b3
- new parallel l10n repacks used in FF3.1b3.
- linux: reduced from ~1h15m -> 20mins
- mac: reduced from 1hr -> 20mins
- win32: reduced from ~6hrs -> 1hr
- big tip of the hat to Armen, Axel and Coop for this.
- more details soon.
- Rebranding from FF3.1->FF3.5 in next week/so.
- New Talos mac regression in Ts over weekend - see dev.tree-management for details.
- Mothballing dm-pageload01 - details in bug 433595
QA
Test Execution
Test Development
Security
Marketing/PR
General
PR
Events
Support
Metrics
Evangelism
- Documentation
- Firefox 3.1 references have (mostly, at least) been updated to 3.5 in the developer documentation.
- New article: Manipulating video using canvas, based on Paul's awesome demo.
- Firefox 3.5 documentation touching-up is ongoing, but the docs are essentially complete.
- Testing and evaluation of Mindtouch Deki "Lyons" is ongoing; we hope to upgrade MDC to this new release of the wiki software in April.
- MDC skin tweaks are in progress to improve discoverability of certain features.