WeeklyUpdates/2008-02-11

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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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Development Updates

Fx 2.0.0.12 / Fx 2.0.0.13 / TB 2.0.0.12

We shipped Firefox 2.0.0.12 to critical acclaim on Thursday afternoon. We'll be having a post-mortem this afternoon for those that wish to attend.

A planning meeting for Firefox 2.0.0.13 happened on Friday. Details of the proposed schedule are on the wiki.

Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 will head to QA next week.

IT

• Bugzilla fixes pushed
  • Send mail in the background after confirming to the user instead of waiting for the mail to be sent while the user waits (related to bug 284184 - local backport)
  • Fix for a regression from our last upgrade involving mid-air collision detection (bug 413258/415490)
  • Fix for a problem with the OpenSearch plugin (bug 411844)
  • Allow searching for '---' in versions and milestones (bug 362436)
  • Fix for Subject lines in emails being improperly line-broken and erratically spaced (bug 411544)
  • Add a References header to notification mails to assist with threading in mail clients (bug 376453)
  • more coming...
• China hardware fixed, going live (again) on Tuesday
• Working with perf team to help support/improve Talos
• Vlad's new graph server pushed (http://graphs.mozilla.org/g2/)
• Working with build to plan and procure hardware for Moz2
• 2.0.0.12 release

QA

FFx 2.0.0.12

• Performed beta testing, bug fix verifications, locale testing, update testing, and live bits testing. Found a show stopper bug in the French locale: bug 415292. [abillings, ss, stephen, tracy, juanb]
• Released on February 7th!

FFx 3

• Lots of B3 testing: Smoke tests, BFTs, feature focused testing, top sites, update snippets, L10n spot checks, and bug fix verifications. [All]
• Started Leak Testing using the Full Functional Test suite (FFT) for Mac 10.5. Windows and Linux will follow. Found 6 new bugs in FX3 during this run so far. Places was leak free!! [tomcat]
• Worked on bug 384226-Places Complex Queries - developing automated test cases. [clint]
• Created test cases for location bar. See: 5174, 5173, 5172, 5171, 5170, 5169, 5167. [stephend]
• Verified 54 FIXED trunk Firefox 3 / Remora bugs [stephend]
• Hosted a very successful test day [tomcat and others]

Web Dev testing

• Filed 32 bugs, mostly against Remora v3.2 [stephend]
• Supported for AMO Team with Leak testing [tomcat]

Community

• Setup a place for community automation projects, including SVN access. See bug 414696 [ctalbert]
• More work on QA Extension (QAX): Checked in patch for improving QAX install wizard bug 415822. Officially changed the name to "Mozilla QA Companion". Fixed QMO discoverability bug. See bug 393440. Logged/updated last couple blocker bugs: bug 415849, bug 393348. Whew! [jay]

Marketing/PR

PR

Support

• Currently testing ability to localize the entire app [1]
• SUMO milestone 0.5 (l10n) to be completed on February 25th
• SUMO milestone 0.6 (in-product help) should be completed on March 7th
• In-product content for Firefox 3 is up to date and ready for review

Events

• GNUnify '08: Contributor Anant Narayanan organized a Mozilla Hackfest with over 60 students and gave a Mozilla Prism talk. Check out early pix.
• Techkriti: Pictures from Myk Melez's add-ons talk here.

Website

Metrics

• At 42% of 95% extension compatibility goal
• AMO Review queue
  • 85 pending addon reviews
  • 37 addons pending updates
  • 59 nominated addons
• published results of an ad spend experiment
• Candidate revisions to the Mozilla privacy policy appears in mozilla.announce and governance newsgroups. Any discussions or questions there please.

Evangelism

• Documentation work for Firefox 3 continues; as far as we can tell, the big stuff is generally done, with mostly touch up work going on now.
• Also working on hiding the temporarily-disabled breadcrumbs cruft.
• MFinkle prepares for FOSDEM
  • Main talk on Prism/Firefox3
  • Mozilla developer room session on "Updating Extensions for FF3"
• Planning work on new/updated tools for extension developers
• Asa worked on press/blog coverage roundup re: addition of Beta 4 (to be published at new FTR blog today,) more Firefox 3 FTR FAQ work, and press interviews related to 10 yr anniversary.

Mozilla Labs

Projects

• Prism
  • New release shortly
  • More desktop integration features
  • Use Prism as a way to start discussions around creating desktop-enabling features in a web-safe manner

Extend Firefox 2

• Extend Firefox
  • Announcing winners late today
  • Planning under way for launch of Extend Firefox 3 on March 3