WeeklyUpdates/2008-03-03

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Meeting Details

  • 1:00pm Pacific time (21:00 UTC until March 9, 2008)
  • Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
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  • +1 416 848 3114 x91 Conf# 8600 (Canada)
  • +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8600 (US Toll Free)
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TIME CHANGE NOTICE: Daylight Saving Time (DST) begins this Sunday. New meeting time next week will be 20:00 UTC.

Friends of the Tree Friends of the Tree

  • Alex and Alix want us to recognize Jamey Boje and Paul Booker for their late-night last-minute work on the banner for 500M downloads and for help in getting the site ready for this milestone.
  • Archaeopteryx, another amo-editor said "I want to nominate Oliver Saier and Mel Reyes for managing each more than 5000 add-on updates at https://addons.mozilla.org since they have joined."

Development Updates

Fx 2.0.0.13 / TB 2.0.0.12

Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 shipped last Tuesday to a fully captivated audience. We held a post-mortem on Friday and discussed a number of issues. Notes are on the wiki [soon].

Still on schedule to freeze 1.8.1.13 this Friday at 11:59pm. If you have patches that have been approved, please land them as soon as possible so QA can start testing and verifying. If you own a blocker and don't think you'll have time to finish it, please let us know.

I also want to highlight a post from Boris Zbarsky on dev-planning. Getting branch blockers fixed is something we've been struggling with for several releases now. If anyone has ideas on how to improve this situation, please reply to Boris's post.

TB 3

Gecko 1.9

Firefox 3

  • Awesomebar
    • Real multi-word searching
    • Adaptive learning
  • Download Manager
    • Much improved search, multi-word, match on all data available
  • Visual Refresh
    • New Mac rev
    • Separate Vista and XP themes for Windows users
    • More Linux (as always!)
  • Still coming soon (landed and backed out)
    • Save Link As.. filename fixes
    • JSON backup (Ts hit)
  • 114 hard blockers left, working on load balancing and driving number down this week, Places is the current "winner" but they have lots of help.

IT

  • Bouncer migrated to php5, aus tonight
  • blog.mozilla.com to be gslb'd for china users
  • unionfs stable, working to migrate stage next few weeks
  • thunderbird release
  • migrating our mozilla.com/org dns to new dyndns platform, coming this week
  • new .nl mirror - true.nl

Build & Test Infrastructure

  • starting beta4 builds
  • stage migration - forewarning of switchover in next 7-10 days
  • longer build times on win32 - PGO performance gains - bug 418865.
    • linux and mac coming after beta4
    • any ideas/help to speed things up? bug 420320
  • bug triage
    • p1, p2, p3
  • Test Infrastructure

QA

Firefox 3.0

  • Beta 4 test plan is done.
  • Developed test cases for download manager and location bar. [stephend]
  • Places: Submitted first set of QA automated tests for history. See bug 384226. Awaiting review by Dietrich. Continuing to work on the last two needed for history tests.
  • Completed 75% plugin blocklist testing. Bugs found: bug 419552, bug 419582
  • Top crash analysis [ss]
  • Leak Testing.
    • Ran Windows FFT for leak testing. Filed 18 new Leak Bugs last week. Up to 78 bugs!
    • Sent out the Leak Testing How-To doc to AMO Editors with a request for Feedback
    • Triaged with Beltzner the leak bugs
  • Investigating and creating test cases for a number of crashes and assertions [mw22]
  • Locale testing: 226 tests ran across non en-US locales by localization teams in the last two weeks using the Fx3 localizer test suite. Report. No significant failures.
  • MarcoZ and ArronLev meet in Germany and worked on patching and testing a number of accessibility bugs. This includes [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=418812 bug 418812 patched by marcoz.
  • JSE: Verified 28 JavaScript Engine bugs, added tests for 4 bugs. Worked on the Dell 02 64 bit Virtual Machines. They were created with too small disks. I downloaded and recreated a 64bit Centos 5 virtual machine. Additional setup work is still needed. [bc]
  • Completed the top 500 site scan for moz-binding and reported the results [bc]

Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 - Released last Tuesday. QA completed update tests and live testing.

Firefox 2.0.0.13 - bug triage and patch wrangling [ss, abillings]

WebDev Testing [stephend]

Accessibility [marcoz]

  • Automated A11y test project: started implementing first interface Mochitest in bug 418368. Currently in review comment fixing mode, and waiting for bug 419786 to land for completeness. Bernd, a Layout module peer, landed Mochitests for tables from bug 415730.
  • Community: Attended the "Interessengemeinschaft Sehgeschädigter Computerbenutzer" (ISCB) main member gathering event last weekend, giving a Firefox presentation on both Windows using JAWS and NVDA, and Linux using ORCA. Stirred quite some interest in people wanting to switch to open-source solutions. With the help of Frank Hecker, answered a few questions on accessibility in Mozilla for the linux.com magazine.

Tools:

  • Minotaur - Reworked review comments for bug 416049 and bug 414056 and resubmitted patches. Awaiting review. [clint]
  • QAC - QA Companion community test extension. Worked on getting updated 0.1.8 out to people.mozilla.org to coincide with the version up on Add-Ons. Decided on how to handle the notification preference bug - remove notifications for now. [clint, jay]

Security

Marketing/PR

PR

Support

  • 0.5 (l10n) milestone released
    • Now possible to localize UI/sidebar/heading stuff as well as the actual articles
    • Cleaned up start page to ease l10n
  • Focus on Firefox 3 preparations (milestone 0.6) from now on

Events

  • SxSW: Web Developer Get Together on March 10 at 3:30 p.m. RSVP

Metrics

Evangelism

  • More documentation updates to close the little gaps left to take care of before Firefox 3 ships.
  • Mobile
    • Messages starting to come together
    • Building data so that we know where we stand in areas of performance and size
  • Extension updating
    • Working with more extensions to get updated
    • MFinkle talked to some extdevs @ FOSDEM
    • GKanai has been working with Japanese extdevs

Mozilla Labs

  • Extend Firefox
    • Planning under way for launch of Extend Firefox 3 in early March
  • Weave
    • Guy and Minh, two Berkeley Haas MBA students, kicked off a semester-long project to work with Labs on third-party developer programs for Weave.
    • Cookie synchronization is being added.
  • Personas
    • Currently working on a Personas backend website (similar in concept to addons.mozilla.org); planning on rolling this out, along with dynamic Persona capabilities, by the end of Q1.
  • Dromaeo (JavaScript performance analysis)
    • Added test comparisons
    • Working on IE support
    • Contact jresig if you want access
  • Prism
    • 0.9 release candidates ready tonight
    • Web content accessible JS API discussion (bug 420661)

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

PHP5 Migration

  • migrated download.mozilla.org successfully
  • aus2.mozilla.org migration tonight

Bouncer

  • Optimized Bouncer geo-ip location
  • Bouncer load testing on test cluster

Breakpad

  • Processor optimization and reporter tasks
  • utf8 bug fixes and comments view for top crasher pages

AUS3

  • AUS2 -> AUS3 migration script completed (lars)

PFS

  • Working with vendors to help fix the install.js issue for Fx3 plugin
  • Started server-side work for plugin blocklisting

AMO/Add-ons

  • Add-on update to Firefox 3 has commenced - we currently have 163 pending updates & 94 new nominations. AMO Editors and interns are working to reduce the queue.
  • For add-ons, 47.63% are claiming Firefox 3.0b2 or higher compatibility
  • If you are an add-on developer and have gotten Firefox 3.0 compatibility, come claim your new T-shirt
  • 43 bugs to 3.2 completion

Foundation Updates

  • CAs and related issues
    • Frank gave preliminary approval to the application from VeriSign to add a new EV-capable root.
    • Frank also worked on EV-related applications from Comodo, GeoTrust, and thawte.
  • Public communication
    • David continued worked on various www.mozilla.org-related tasks.
  • Upcoming activities
    • Frank is planning to be in Mountain View on March 12 and at the CSUN conference on March 13 in Los Angeles CA.
    • Frank is also planning to attend the Freedom to Connect conference March 31 and April 1, 2008 in Silver Spring MD, and (if possible) the Berkman@10 conference May 15-16 in Boston MA.
    • Zak will be speaking at a number of Norwegian universities February 25-27 on open source and Mozilla-related topics, at the PHP Quebec Conference March 12-14, and other events later in 2008.

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

Roundtable

Other Business

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