WeeklyUpdates/2007-11-19

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm Pacific time (21:00 UTC until March 9, 2008)
• 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 backchannel

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Friends of the Tree

Jeff Walden brings us five nominations this week. The first is Jonathan Watt, for his work on a security bug that , according to Jeff, "had an insanely huge number of tests in it, certainly more, I think, than even the most test-happy reviewer would have demanded.  :-)" Next, Jeff suggests we recognize Daniel Holbert, "because his patches seem to invariably include reftests (and when they don't, it's likely the next bugmail in the thread is the reftests for the patch)." Third, Jeff points out that Simon Montagu is also doing great work submitting patches along with appropriate reftests. Fourth, "bz, the same. And also just because he's bz and therefore needs no reason.  :-)" And finally, "Masatoshi Kimura, because when I recently asked for an automated test for a patch he wrote [for bug 381412], the test showed up only six hours later."

Development Updates

Marketing/PR

Support

• Revised milestones (not yet updated in Bugzilla):
  • 0.2 - Make Knowledge Base (KB) contribution process not suck (early December)
  • 0.3 - Forums (mid-December)
  • 0.4 - Live Chat (late December)
  • 0.5 - l10n of KB (January)
• Nelson Ko of TikiWiki working 20-30 hrs/week on SUMO starting today. Should speed up the development progress significantly
• Video contest pushed back to Q1 2008 (focus for Q4 2007 is on milestones 0.2 through 0.4)

Mozilla.com

• Agency selected for Mozilla.com redesign (to coincide with launch of Firefox 3)...work has begun.
• In the meantime, we'll be updating the homepage to better support the points outlined in the Firefox messaging document [1].

Metrics

• spectator collector running
• funnelcake02 ran on the 8th

Foundation Updates

Since there was no Mozilla call last Monday, this update includes items from the past two weeks.

• Grants and related activities
  • The Mozilla Foundation made a grant to the Perl Foundation to support Perl 6 and Parrot development.
  • We're funding some work by Eitan Isaacson to follow up from his project to migrate the Orca screen reader for Linux to the pyatspi library, including in particular improving the performance of Orca with Firefox. This project also includes work covered by GNOME bugs 448848, 446277, and 491862.
  • We're also funding Codethink Ltd to do a study to evaluate the feasibility of porting the GNOME AT-SPI accessibility interface from ORBit to D-Bus, in order to ensure that the accessibility infrastructure used by Firefox on Linux is as up to date as possible.
  • Dojo 1.0 was released with lots of accessibility-related enhancements, including those developed by the University of Toronto Adaptive Technology Resource Centre with funding from the Mozilla Foundation; for more information see the final report on the project.
  • Scott Haeger completed milestone 3 on his work to implement rich document browsing in Orca with Firefox.
  • Frank wrote a blog post about Seneca and open source education.

• CAs and related issues
  • Frank published version 1.1 of the Mozilla CA certificate policy.
  • Frank worked on the SwissSign and TÜRKTRUST applications, announced his intent to approve SwissSign for inclusion, and started a public comment period on this issue.

For more information see the status reports from David, Frank, Gerv, and Zak as they're posted.

Upcoming activities

• Frank will be in Mountain View for the December 12 Mozilla Foundation board meeting.