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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)
  • +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 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

Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x

  • Firefox 3.0.8
    • On Wednesday, a critical vulnerability was posted to a public vulnerability list
    • Release Drivers determined this was something we needed to fix, sooner than April 14 (the targeted release day of 3.0.8)
    • Firefox 3.0.8 because a firedrill release, taking only two fixes (for the XSLT vuln and the CanSecWest vuln)
    • We shipped on Friday afternoon, around 3:45pm officially
  • Firefox 3.0.9
    • The release formerly known as Firefox 3.0.8 has now been rebranded Firefox 3.0.9
    • Any fixes you were counting on to be released in Firefox 3.0.8 are now in Firefox 3.0.9
    • A revised schedule was posted to the wiki link above, comments appreciated
    • Aiming for April 21 release (a week later than scheduled)
  • Firefox 3.0.10
    • Proposed schedule on wiki
    • Targeting mid-May release
  • Final major update for Firefox 2.0.0.x
    • Looking at issuing a final major update for Firefox 2.0.0.20
    • Planning for shortly after 3.0.9
    • More details this week

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 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 435788 (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 - to be discussed at tomorrow's meeting
    • release week of April 13th

TB 3

Mobile

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.

Release Engineering

  • Shipped Firefox 3.0.8. Big thanks to Ben and Nick for fast turn around!

QA

Test Execution

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

Web Dev Testing, Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Communty

Test Development

  • Finalized Maemkit - ran tests on Windows and checked in.
  • Uploaded first batch of results for Greener Tinderbox effort.
  • Worked on Q2 Goals
  • Mikeal speaking at PyCon

Security

  • Firefox 3.0.8 fixed two Critical vulnerabilities, one of which was released publicly.
  • Mozilla sent 7 people to CanSecWest 2009 which yielded one of the two bugs fixed in 3.0.8.

Marketing/PR

General

PR

Events

Support

Metrics

  • Shipped Funnelcake07 last Thursday
  • Shipped a modified version of Firefox last week with a different installer
    • A single day test allowing users (en-US*Windows) to leave feedback when canceling out of installing Firefox
    • More than 5,000 people hit the feedback form
    • 350 responses
    • The most common comment from users?
    • Series of blog posts with published findings planned for this week
    • Eventual outcome/impact? we hope to make changes to the Firefox user experience based on these findings

Evangelism

  • No updates this week.

Labs

Developer Tools

  • Joe Walker and Kevin Dangoor are in town and will give the status update!
  • Joe Walker has been working on collaboration and will discuss his work
  • Kevin Dangoor has been working on VCS integration and will discuss his work
  • Web 2.0 Expo:
    • Giving a talk on developer tools and Bespin
    • We have an "Open" meetup after our talk, please come check it out and tool Web tools!
  • We will be releasing Thunderhead and previewing the Open Web Tools Directory
  • Bespin community is alive as usual, of note Roberto created an iPhone preview plugin

Add-ons

  • 3.1b3 compatibility up to 65% of total usage (+5%)
  • Total 3.1.* compatibility up to 84%, working to close gap on b3 compatibility
    • Starting with beta 4, 3.5.* version will be available on AMO.
  • Continuing to work on improving AMO editor throughput, currently around 700 reviews/month, goal is to double this by end of Q2 and reduce review time.
  • Meeting with MoMo this week to talk about improving AMO story for Thunderbird with better editor support and more frequent updates of recommended lists for TB.

Webdev

  • SUMO 1.0 going out tomorrow night (l10n optimization)
  • SUMO to be moved to dedicated database hardware
  • New Socorro hardware is coming in, will be migrating to that this Thursday. Will give us 64-bit, double the RAM and more cores, which should speed up crash report queries significantly.
  • Personas site launch tomorrow

L10n

  • No updates, everyone's hard at work localizing Firefox 3.5 beta 4

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.

Roundtable

Other Business

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