WeeklyUpdates/2009-03-30

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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)
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Friends of the Tree

• Chris Cooper writes in "I'm nominating Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie) for his relentless work to improve build failure reporting in tinderbox, often in the face of very slow review turnaround."

Development Updates

Gecko 1.9.1

• Beta 4 progress: Up a few bugs for JS at 37, up overall at 88 from 76.
• At the fix rates we're seeing now, we're going try to make a decision in tomorrow's development meeting on the code freeze deadline of April 6.
• We're in the middle of planning new features and work items for future releases. Everyone is encouraged to participate.
  • Each team has created a list and prioritized when possible major work items for the next release.
  • There's several ongoing dev.planning discussions of the work lists for each of the groups. Links to threads: Javascript, GFX, Layout, and Content.
  • For overall Platform planning, see this wiki page.
  • Next steps are to discuss the overall plan for what the next Gecko release will look like, not just features, but duration and timing.
• Blocker Status:
  • 9 final blocker bugs left in content. (14 last time)
  • 4 GFX final blockers. (Last week: 1)
  • 11 Layout final blockers. Six have patches. (Last week: 11)
  • 3 SVG final blockers.
  • JS with 37 blockers. Looks like about 16 of those bugs require a beta vector; however, only four of the 16 have patches. (Last week: 33)
• Triage needed. 27 noms are in the queue right now.
• For weekly engineering meeting notes and other info see the Platform page.
• 76 total 1.9.1 blockers (last week: 86).

Firefox 3.5

Firefox Front End Work

• 11 blockers left, only 1 of which is complicated, 7 are just waiting to land
• some likely UI opportunistic updates for Beta 4
  • updated privacy preferences pane bug 462041 (needs review)
  • updated clear recent history dialog bug 480169 (needs patch)
  • refactoring Places DB for performance bug 476297 (landed)
  • restoring only visible tabs first upon session restore bug 480148 (needs landing)
  • updates/fixes to PFS so plugin installers can be executed bug 430853 (dependency fixed)
  • new tab experience - under evaluation, but requires string changes

Beta 3

• really solid, starting to gather feedback (seems positive)
• already > 500,000 users

Firefox 3.5 Beta 4

• this will be the first release with the new version number
• current schedule:
  • string freeze was Thursday at 11:59pm PDT
  • code freeze Monday April 6th
  • release week of April 13th

IT

• Special thanks Mozilla Mirrors for their help with 3.0.8 on a Friday afternoon!
• Signed up for Skype SIP Beta program
• Turning up Internap FCP tomorrow night.
  • Will help better utilize bandwidth links out of the San Jose datacenter
  • Will help optimize for performance (brown-outs)
  • Has been in "advise mode" over the weekend
• Finally got the 2 10GE cross-connects linking the 16th & 14th datacenter floors together! Should see a flurry of new machines come online in the next week or so.

QA

Test Execution

• Shipped Fx 3.0.8
• FFTs pass against beta 3. (Windows 91%, Mac 63%, Linux 83%)
  • Issues found

Web Dev Testing, Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Communty

• Community: Tomcat talked a the MAOW workshop (Mozilla Add-Ons Workshop) in Berlin. He also joined the OpenOffice Meetup in Munich.
• WebDev - tested the Personas website redesign.

Test Development

• Finalized Maemkit - ran tests on Windows and checked in.

Marketing/PR

General

PR

• ReadWriteWeb's Richard MacManus visits Mozilla Labs
• Damon Sicore talks about the browser wars on TechVi
• Khronos Group announces initiative with Mozilla
• Firefox 3.0.8 released

Events

Foundation Updates

• www.mozilla.org redesign continued with release and feedback on round 2 concepts. Thanks for great feedback.
  • Over the next 10 days, we'll be working with Happy Cog on a third round design that incorporates what we've heard.
  • Overall planning pages related to the update of www.mozilla.org updated. These offer a good way to track what's going on.
• We're now advertising Mozilla volunteer opportunities using VolunteerMatch.
  • At this stage, we're looking for people to help w/ content, design and sysadmin on www.mozilla.org. If you know potential volunteers, send them our way.
• The joint Mozilla / Creative Commons open education course starts this Thursday.
  • Online course modelled after the recent Mozilla Labs Design Challenge.
  • Quick summary here and here
• We discussed systems for doing online presentation at our weekly Mozilla Education call. The short version: WebEx works now, Dimdim is coming on strong, but we need to think about how to do this using open media and no Flash.
• Bonus post: interview w/ David Ascher about future opportunities for Mozilla in the messaging space. We're hoping to get some conversation moving on this topic.