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WeeklyUpdates/2007-07-23

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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)
  • join irc.mozilla.org #staffmeeting for attendance taking and backchannel

note: all participants are muted automatically; if you want to talk, press *1 to un-mute yourself

In Attendance

Development Updates

Fx/TB 1.5.0.13/2.0.0.5

  • Firefox 2.0.0.5 was released Tuesday (7/17) night.
  • Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 was released Thursday (7/19) night.
  • Fx/Tb 1.5.0.13/2.0.0.6
    • Meeting today @3pm, Building K to discuss scope and scheduling.

TB 3

  • We're working on final approval for switching our spell check engine to hunspell for Firefox and Thunderbird. Please let us know if you have any concerns.
  • We're spending a lot of time looking at memory leaks right now and could use extra help tracking some leaks down (using the XPCOM_MEM_LEAK_LOG environment variable). Especially with the compose window. Please see David or Scott if you are interested in helping out.

Gecko 1.9

  • M7 Gecko Feature Freeze July 25th.
  • Major New Features:
    • Anti-Malware
    • Finalized Offline APIs
    • Secure Wrappers

Firefox 3

  • Larry (identity UI) should land by freeze
  • new location bar display
  • Protocol/content handling
    • protocol handling new dialog should make M7
    • content-handling is not going to make Fx3
  • Password manager
    • Numerous regression fixes
    • non-modal save password prototype together, hopefully will land by freeze
  • Places
    • Sync working with http auth/webdav
    • Heavy focus on UI work, likely to miss M7
  • Download Manager
    • Mockups done, UI overhaul in progress, may make M7 (gated by protocol handling work)
  • Addons
    • More work on securing updates
    • Plugin blocklisting waiting on review
  • Malware protection

IT

  • Support 2.0.0.5 release
    • Bouncer and AUS2 updates to come
  • More VM support for build team
  • Performance support/enhancements
    • Graph server work
  • 2.0.0.6 support
  • Most of the team is out at OSCON this week

Build

  • Community build machines have been handed over to the community; big thanks to Coop for working on this for the last few weeks.\
  • Quick reminder: the _RELBRANCHes are currently being used for Firefox and Thunderbird releases only; please check with preed before using them.
  • Win32 reference platform work has been pushed back due to the Fx 2.0.0.5/2.0.0.6 firedrills; 1.9a7 will not ship on the new ref platform.
  • Preed and Rhelmer at OSCON this week; stop by and say "Hi!" :-)

QA

Test Exectuion

  • Completed FFX 2.0.0.5 and TBird 2.0.0.5 security releases [juan, tomcat, tracy, al, others]
  • Smoke testing FF3 nightlies

Test Development

  • FF3
    • Worked on CSS RefTests to help regression testing for bug 315920. Should complete and submit RefTests this week. [ctalbert]
    • Places: Verified 20 bugs fixes. Wrote 5 test cases from those bugs [tracy]

Tools and Automation

  • Talos Performance Project
    • Collecting Trunk baselines. Had trouble getting new pageset running on old trunk builds. Switched qm-pxp02 to old page set, baseline currently being collected. We currently have baseline data for windows trunk from april 2006 - october 2006 woo! [alice, robcee]
    • Talos found a performance regression! A visible leap in the tp loadtime numbers was found, regression window was determined, patch was pinpointed and backed out and tp numbers were seen to improve
    • Macport reviewed and landed in cvs. [zach, alice]
  • Graph server [alice]
    • The graph server on graphs-stage is now using mysql. Worked with oremj to get the push done. [alice]
    • dump to csv checked in and pushed to production
  • Minotaur preference automated testing tool: Removed all external libraries, Uploaded new patch. Begun discussions about implementing Minotaur in the partner build process. [ctalbert]
  • QA Extension: Lots of work on the notification interface, including a testing server instance, added all the fields to the front-end UI and polished, hooked up notification preferences, and more. Added hooks to Litmus to query tests and groups for the extension's Litmus pane. Reviewed and landed ben_h's first patch [ben_h, zach]

Community

  • There was a test day on Friday, July 20th. Almost 800 test cases were executed. See report

Security

Marketing/PR

  • Black Hat:
    • Community meet & greet party scheduled -- Pajama Party with Mozilla: Wednesday, August 1, 11 p.m. - 2 a.m. at the Royal 55 room at Ceaser's Palace.

Community

Mozilla Labs

Developer Relations

  • Headed to OSCON (shaver, mfinkle, jresig and fligtar)
  • WebRunner experimentation continues
    • Adding spellcheck suggestions and password support
    • Better external link detection
    • Creating an extension to manage webapps from Firefox
    • Exploring the use of Firefox3 as a runtime for WebRunner
  • Demo round-up: Compiling a list of demos we'd like to have:
    • Showcase Firefox3 features
    • "Web of the future" features

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

Foundation Updates

Foundation Updates

Note that Frank is traveling to Portland today for OSCON and won't be participating in the weekly call.

  • Grants and related activities
  • IP/legal issues
    • Frank and Gerv did some internal licensing-related stuff.

For more information see the individual status reports from David, Frank, Gerv, and Zak.

Roundtable

Other Business

  • Interns victorious in both basketball and dodgeball games last week.
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