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)
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• 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 (regression bug 364297)
  • 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

Firefox 3

• Password Manager landed on trunk (verify!)
• Alpha 5 scheduled for end of May
• Current Firefox team status

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
• Round one of ESX migrations done - rest to resume after the release
• Bouncer2 (almost done) and AUS2 (still in planning) migration to San Jose

QA

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

• Test Execution
  • 1.5.0.12/2.0.0.4 RC testing [juanb, marcia, many others]
  • 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
  • Fx3 feature area test breakdown posted on Google Spreadsheets. This is a tracking spreadsheet for the status of new features and QA team development for those features. This will be published later this week. [tchung]

• Tools and Infrastructure
  • Did troubleshooting on an intermittent crash on Win2003, apparently, caused by some funny thread conversion code only on windows2003. This is turning
  • 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]

Marketing

• Firefox 3 - message development underway.

• Enduser Support - First two feedback sessions complete. The final open forum discussion is this Tuesday at 10 am. The team will be presenting their plan of action on Thursday, and will have two open feedback sessions (2pm on Thursday and 10 am next Tuesday). More details here: http://samuelsidler.com

• Event process and calendar up on SFX now. First triage call this Friday to discuss events pipeline.
  Process: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/27553
  Calendar: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/27511

• Approval on OSCON plan, will roll out plan/timeline shortly to folks.

• Official MoCo Blog: Design and name selection still in process. See http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/27485 for more info.

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