WeeklyUpdates/2006-12-04

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm PST (21:00 UTC)
• Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
• +1 866 879 4799 (pin 369) Conf# 8600 (US Toll Free)
• +1 650 903 0800 x91 Conf# 8600 (US/International)
• [Use *1 to mute yourself]
• join irc.mozilla.org #staffmeeting for attendance taking

Development Updates

Fx/TB 1.5.0.9 + Fx 2.0.0.1

• Waiting for 2 more fixes to land
  • Bug 353553 - Firefox crashes on certain png images used in the css cursor property [@ ntdll.dll + 0x11e58] [@ JS_ArenaAllocate]
  • Bug 360493 - Cross-Site Forms + Password Manager = Security Failure
• RC1 builds will be started this afternoon and will be available for QA tomorrow.
• New build automation will be used for this release, so we might run into a few snags, but the Build team is prepared to handle any issues.
• Tentative release date still set for Thursday, December 14.

TB 2.0

• Code and String freeze for beta 1 was met last night at midnight. The build team has kicked off the build release process for the beta.

Gecko 1.9

• Respinning 1.9a1 for a crasher fix that snuck in with a late patch -- should be good to go other than that
• Bug 362554 has the release notes for 1.9a1 -- if there is anything that someone thinks *must* be in there, please send mail to beltzner immediately after this meeting. Otherwise, they're mostly done.

IT

• Bouncer 2 migration - 2.0.0.1 auto updates
• Bugzilla staging and migration
  • bugzilla-stage.mozilla.org
  • Migrating on 12/26 (tentative)
• AMS colo going live next week

Product Management and Marketing Updates

Marketing

• Firefox Flicks to air on TV within the next 2 weeks in San Francisco and Boston. 60+ names were submitted by community members last week on a first-come, first-serve basis to appear at the end of each ad. The TV schedule will be made available soon via FirefoxFlicks and SpreadFirefox.

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

• mozilla europe is staged
• AMO deployment schedule set. See our meeting notes from last week for more details
  • Dec 5th - Static content freeze for l10n.
  • Dec 18th - Alpha (public preview)
    • complete policy draft
    • navigation complete, can click through everything
    • install interaction
    • basic forum conversation-create, etc.
    • l10n finalized
  • Jan 16th - Beta (public, user-facing plus developer/admin tools).
• First phase of Bouncer2 deployment set for Dec. 11th. See Deployment Page for details.

Foundation Updates

See the report on Mozilla Foundation activities for the week ending December 1, 2006.