WeeklyUpdates/2007-05-14

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm Pacific time (20:00 UTC until November 4, 2007)
• Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
• +1 650 903 0800 x91 Conf# 8600 (US/International)
• +1 416 848 3114 x91 Conf# 8600 (Canada)
• +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8600 (US Toll Free)
• [Use *1 to mute yourself]
• join irc.mozilla.org #staffmeeting for attendance taking

Use "*1" (including the star) to mute yourself, if desired, to keep phone noise down.

Development Updates

Fx/TB 1.5.0.12/2.0.0.4

• Fx and Tb 1.5.0.12rc2 testing is nearly completed. Need to test Tb 1.5.0.12 updates.
• Fx 2.0.0.4 will require another respin (to RC3):
  • When you upgrade CJKT builds from 2.0.0.2/2.0.0.3 to 2.0.0.4rc2 the default search engine is changed
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380429
  • Respinning on Monday
  • Beta release will be affected. Final release date might be pushed by a few days.

TB 3

• We're looking for volunteers to help with the 2007 Mailnews Code Roundup in preparation for moving mailnews to use frozen linkage.
• Upcoming mailnews platform improvements .

Gecko 1.9

Last Week:

• GFX: Landed textrun API changes, fixed bugs with justification and font resizing, more border rendering fixes. Linux perf reviews done.
• Layout: textrun-cache patch landed.
• Build Tools: Breakpad/mac landed.
• Cycle Collector Activities: dbaron, peterv, graydon, and sicking met last week. A patch was landed by sicking which showed significan performance improvement. Still more work to do. See: Cycle Collector Status
• Cocoa Migration: Blocker Bashathon: 8 Blockers Eliminated last week, 35 remaining. GO! GO! GO!

This Week:

• GFX: Regressions from Borders, Cairo update.
• Layout: reflow regressions, more intl bugs.
• Yet Another Cycle Collector Meeting this Friday @ 11:30AM PDT.
• Continuing Cocoa Migration Blocker Bashathon: Meeting this Wednesday @ 3pm PDT

IT

• AMO in .nl - rolled out, but demand was too high, so failed back. Shipping faster hardware out
• Performance machines up and running - doing OS installs
• Working on spam filters for mozilla.org/.com
• Breakpad & Hg setup - access granted to users

QA

First two interns arrived: ispiked/Adam Guthrie and ashughes/Anthony Hughes

• Test Execution
  • bug 357583 is fixed. Did some fuzz testing accessibility stuff, there is still 1 bug (probably) that I need to minimize and file. [mw22]

• test Development

• Tools and Infrastructure
  • Changed Spidering scripts to use new -uri command line argument [bc]
  • Litmus: Completed first pass at a script for Tracy for submitting eggplant results to Litmus. Fixed trusted_only search regression

and Litmus::XML errors that were preventing result submission via web services. [coop]

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

• AMO
  • sunbird add-ons are now browsable
  • Supporting 17+2 languages on the site
  • graph of new users

Roundtable

• Mitchell's blog post and ongoing discussion about XULRunner and the Mozilla platform