WeeklyUpdates/2008-03-10

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm Pacific time (20:00 UTC until November 2, 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

Fx 2.0.0.13 / TB 2.0.0.13

Had a semi-slushy code freeze on Friday night at midnight. Picked up a couple more blockers over the weekend. We gave the official "go" to build at 10:37am this morning. Still mostly on schedule (maybe a day off).

We'll be having a scheduling meeting for Thunderbird 2.0.0.13 this Thursday. I (ss) will be sending an email to dev-planning later today with time and call-in info.

Gecko 1.9

• Reminder that Tue-Fri @2pm is Gecko Triage:
  • Tuesday - Friday, 2008 @ 2PM PST
  • Building S, whichever conf room is free.  :]
  • 650-903-0800 x91 conf# 217 (US/Intl)
  • 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) conf# 217 (US)
  • irc.mozilla.org #granparadiso for backchannel

• Currently: 31 P1s, 153 P2s.

IT

• Stage migration - happening this Thursday, downtime notice to go out.
• AMO migrating to php5 on thursday, AUS2 done

QA

• Security testing: Productive Meeting with Bob Lord, Bob Relyea and Scott Haines re: improving security testing. We discussed strategies to get better coverage on cert testing and to be able to test EV. There will be follow up meetings to come, perhaps with the QA contact that works with them. [marcia organized this]

Firefox 3 [QA lead-tchung]

• Tested B4 RC1 until bug 421528 was discovered
• Tested respin to B4 R2 over the weekend
• Hosted the Firefox 3 Beta 4 Testday 375 Tests run by the Community. 12 active testers from the community participated. MrWhsprs wins the award for the most tests executed with 101 tests. No critical bugs found!

Leak Testing - Continued the Windows FFT for Leaktesting. Filed 6 new Leak Bugs. Found one recent Leak Regression: bug 421150 XUL template leak! [tomcat]

Talkback maintenance. Many issues this week: Tablespace issue required new datafile, dingbat ran out of space, servers had to be brought down, and worked woth Justin on netapp drive mapping issue.

Community

• Wrapped up work on the QA Companion Extension This is now in the sandbaox awaiting review. Still need to update Help content. [jay, clint]
• QMO redesign - Reviewed mockups. The final mockup should be ready this week for sign-off.
• Nightly Start Page re-fresh - Mock-ups are in progress.

Marketing/PR

PR

Support

Events

Mozilla Labs

• Personas
  • new development build of extension being released to the Personas forum shortly
    • bug fixes (f.e. tab transparency on Windows Fx3, memory leaks on Fx2);
    • initial implementation of a custom persona editor;
    • personas can now specify any color as the foreground (text) color.