WeeklyUpdates/2007-09-10

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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

Friends of the Tree

Shawn Wilsher nominated Edward Lee for his huge number of patches for the download manager this past week to fix a number of UI bugs and some issues with cross session resumable downloads.

Development Updates

TB 3

• No updates for this week.

Gecko 1.9

• M8 Freeze Continuing, likely through the end of the week.
• Current plan is to close the tree later this week to allow front end features to land in slots.
• We are in Threat Level Red, meaning only the drivers listed on the tinderbox page can plus approval requests.
• If you get an approval, you can land as long as the tree is open.

Firefox 3

New feature work

• Places
  • Unified search in location bar
    • search on full URL, title and tags
  • Saved search support (bookmarks and history)

• Addons
  • Enforcing secure extension updates
  • McCoy

• Protocol Handling
  • Building on feed handling (web/local handlers)
    • Test webapp for calendaring being set up to test
  • New Applications tab in preferences
    • Will hook into app selector on Windows in M9

Upcoming Work (M9)

• Places Organizer
  • [mockups]

TBC

Build

• Firefox 1.5.0.12 -> Firefox 2.0.0.6 major update
• waiting for "go" on gecko19a8 release
• cf, coop, bhearsum going on/returning from vacation

QA

See [[MozillaQualityAssurance:Home_Page#Team_Project_List|Project list]

Test Execution

• Firefox 2.0.0.6; Major update testing from 1.5.0.12. See spreadsheet for details[abillings]
• Firefox 2.0.0.7: Lots of triage with Dveditz [abillings, juanb]
• Firefox 3:
  • Engaged in Focused Testing on Trunk builds.[abillings]
  • Ad hoc testing and bug fix verification for Places.

Test Development

• Firefox 3: Places [abillings, tracy]

Community:

• Firefox 3 Download Manager test day was held last Friday, Sept 7th.

Marketing/PR

• Operation Firefox update
• revised First Run page is now live
• Events:
  • Mozilla 24:
    • How can you help?
      • Blog and spread the word. Details are here
      • Attend the Stanford event (9/15, 11 a.m. - 8 p.m.):
        • Register
      • Submit themes, post banners, etc.: Get Involved
      • Help day of -- email Mary if you interested.
  • Software Freedom Day:
    • Supporting various conferences & celebrations
• Spread Firefox 2.0 - working on adding content to the staging site this week. We hope to have a beta version available within 10 days.

Developer Relations

• Firefox 3 documentation progress continues, with new material on Download Manager including example code, among other choice items.

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

• Kubla has been updated. Check it out and give feedback please. kthx
• Rock Your Firefox 0.4 launched last week with new homepage and automatic add-on detection
  • So far, over 2000 add-ons have been automatically detected and favorited
  • Friday we sent out a message to the 21,000 members of our sponsored Facebook group, resulting in a peak of 250 new users per hour (we only got to 60 per hour when we launched)
  • 4700 people to date have tried out the app

Foundation Updates

(Since there was no meeting last week, this update combines items from the weeks ending August 31 and September 7.)

• Grants and related activities
  • The Mozilla Foundation is funding a project to implement server-side features in Apache and OpenSSL to complement future Firefox enhancements to check the validity of SSL certificates using OCSP. For more information see Gerv's post on OCSP stapling.
  • The Mozilla Foundation is co-sponsoring the Foundations of Open Media Software developer workshop to be held in January in Melbourne Australia.
  • Peter Jaros completed the intermediate milestone on his project to improve scriptability of Camino with AppleScript (a project the Mozilla Foundation is co-sponsoring with the Camino project).
  • Jörg Dotzki finished his Foundation-funded project to create a Firefox extension to simulate how web pages appear to color-blind individuals, and submitted it to addons.mozilla.org.

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