WeeklyUpdates/2007-12-10

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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

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

Development Updates

IT

• More kernel updates (in progress, some done on Thursday, some this week)
• Gear is in China, mrz is enroute to do physical setup
• PHP5 app migration, ongoing for the next few weeks
• Addons stats - working to help solidify the back end data warehouse for addons dashboard
• Bugzilla
  • upgrade complete, moving to the cluster tomorrow.
  • working on http://wiki.mozilla.org/Bugzilla_Fixup

QA

FFx 3

• Accessibility [ Marcoz]:
  • Worked with Seth Spitzer and Aaron Leventhal on getting correct content in the new AutoComplete popup bug 406355. All except for one screen reader can now handle the AutoComplete in beta 2.
  • After community member/Orca developer Scott haeger pointed out a problem with documents no longer being exposed, filed bug 406595 and pinpointed regression range. Aaron Leventhal and David Bolter got the bug fixed, reviewed, and the fix approved and checked in within a few hours, so only the Dec 3 nightly build had been affected by this total breackage.

JS Test Automation

• JavaScript tests now running on jstest01 for shell and browser while reporting accurate fixes and regressions. See Sisyphus colums at the left on MozillaTest tinderbox Added a number of expressions, extension and regression tests. [bc, robcee]

Community

• Hosted Firefox 3 Beta Places/Download Manager/Location Bar Testday [tomcat]
• Re-designing Minefield/Gran Paradiso products/firstrun pages to encourage more community testing. Waiting for feedback from belzner or madhava. Will use feedback to get started on a mockup for QA review (ETA 12/18 IF I get feedback from UE team; if not, will need to push out another week to 12/25) [jay]
• Finalizing betatesters mailing list posts. This will help get more focused testing on FFx 3 beta releases. [marcia, jay]
• Received lots of feedback from visually impaired Firefox 2.0.x users providing valuable feedback to the usability of pages. Most of the comments are already addressed in Firefox 3, and as soon as beta 2 comes out, they will be able to test them. Some people expressed an explicit interest to test the 3.0 betas. Others will be waiting for the release, but will undoubtedly watch feedback coming from those who will be testing. [marcoz]

Evangelism

• New Mobile FAQ is up with a lot of help from the Mobile team. Should help people understand more of what we're doing around Mobile. Roadmap is soon to follow.
• Tons of new interface reference documents courtesy of the busy students at Seneca.
• Editing on Firefox 3 documentation is ongoing.

Mozilla Labs

• Extend Firefox
  • 45 entries to date, contest ends Dec. 31, 2007
  • Wednesday 12/12 - 2:00pm PST - Meeting to discuss review process of incoming extensions. Dial in: +1 650-215-1282, extension 91, conference ID 267; 800-707-2533, password 369, conference ID 267
  • Technical session schedule posted on the Extend Firefox site - next session is an IRC chat with Michael Wu this Thursday 12/13 at 2pmPST on #extdev.
  • Testing Extend Firefox entries - volunteers needed to test contest entries! Let Rhian know if you are willing to spend a couple of hours testing incoming extension contest entries.

• Personas
  • Site design by Nobox completed, site staged. Thanks to fligtar for his help getting this site up.
  • Hope to launch live Personas site by next week.