WeeklyUpdates/2007-07-02

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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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Development Updates

Firefox 3

• Wrapped up Alpha 6:
  • Updated SQLite
  • Improved cookie performance
  • Support for site-specific preferences
  • Miscellaneous fixes and UI improvements to the Add-ons manager, download manager, bookmarks and history.
• Work on Beta 1 is commencing:
  • Places UI changes
  • Bookmarks sync
  • Content-handling
  • Identity UI

IT

• Major update
  • Went well - continues at a rate of ~13 updates/sec, topped out at a rate of 30 updates/sec
  • just under 3 million major updates
  • no negative impact on infrastructure
• Downloads Graph

Build

• Talkback has been removed from all nightly trunk builds, replaced by breakpad; breakpad is also shipping in all 1.9a6 builds.
• We'll be updating linux nightly builds to the new reference platform this week; bug 384035 tracks the work.
• Build team is now triaging bugs on two week cycles; we're doing a triage tomorrow, which begins the next cycle. We'll be posting more details shortly about what priorities mean and how we're using them.

Marketing/PR

• OSCON:
  • Book your travel!
  • Sign up for booth duty

Foundation Updates

Note that Frank is traveling on Monday, July 2, during the weekly call, and won't be able to participate.

• Grants
  • We'll be funding a project to enhance the NVDA open source screen reader for Windows to better support Firefox. WebAIM has officially completed its project to produce revised XUL accessibility guidelines and create a XUL accessibility evaluation tool. Henri Sivonen completed the third milestone on his current HTML5 conformance checker project.
• Legal
  • We're going to be pursuing formal trademark registration for the Camino logo.
• Miscellaneous
  • Gerv is continuing evaluation of CAs for inclusion in Mozilla products, and has two candidates (A-Trust and Entrust) for approval.
  • Gerv continued work on a bugzilla.mozilla.org Product/Component reorganisation plan; discussion is occurring in mozilla.dev.planning.
  • David is continuing to get up to speed; in the short term he's looking at helping out with the www.mozilla.org web site and tracking of Mozilla Foundation donations.

For more information see the individual status reports:

• David Boswell
• Zak Greant
• Frank Hecker
• Gerv Markham