WeeklyUpdates/2008-03-24
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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
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Friends of the Tree 
Development Updates
Fx 2.0.0.13 / TB 2.0.0.13
TB 3
Gecko 1.9
- P1s remaining to ship Beta 5: 8
- 7 have patches (in some form).
- 19 P1s closed in last 7 days.
- 136 P2s, 26 closed in last 7 days.
Firefox 3
IT
- Datacenter outage - Outage report
- Bugzilla patches delayed due to outage - this week
Release Engineering
QA
Firefox 3 [QA lead-tchung]
- Coming up on Beta 5 this week
- Feature testing:
- Places: started on bookmark tests. Investigated mochitest for bug 405924. Aided Al and Tracy with verifying some deep API level bugs
- Protocol Handling: Worked on bug triage. Investigated a mochitest for bug 420401
- Minotaur runs for automatically testing L10n related preferences and config values were completed. This is on Windows and Mac. Linux o not planned at this time and is not really needed since the values tested are platform independent. Requested machines allow for fully automated testing of builds.
- Tracked down a couple crashers:
- a crash for asa. Bug 424158 - Google Pack Crash Firefox 3 Beta 4 on the Google Pack Site @0x26dd378 [tomcat]
- Run into a Topcrash on Mac and found a way to reproduce it. Bug 423669 - AntiVir Current Virus Definition Extension Crash Firefox Debug Build
- Leak testing: Now up to 200 bugs found since the Project started!! Filed 23 new Leak Bugs last week. See blog entry.
Javascript testing [bc]
- Filed bug 424636 on a JavaScript regression.
- Starting to do more 64 bit testing. Ran Jesse's jsFunFuzz under Valgrind and filed bug 424555 on an invalid read in 64 bit Linux.
Community
- Working with Dave Humphery to setup a test workshop this summer. See posts in m.d.quality [ctalbert, timr]
Security
Marketing/PR
Support
Events
T-shirt contest
Metrics
Evangelism
- Community Participation Stats update
- Sethb update on Community Surveys
- MFinkle getting up to speed on mobile work
- Begin work on building XR apps on n8x0
- Begin adding extension related work into fennec browser
- Handled some late-compat changes to mozIJSSubScriptLoader
- End result was good for extension developers (thnx to bz and jst)
- If any other late-compat changes happen, consider CC'ing MFinkle or JResig on bug
Mozilla Labs
Webdev, Add-ons, AMO
Foundation Updates
- Grants and related activities
- Frank got paperwork done for another new grant, to be announced later.
- CAs and related issues
- Frank gave final approval to the applications from GeoTrust (bug 407168) and thawte (bug 407163) and filed bugs against NSS/PSM for the changes.
- Public communications and related issues
- David worked on various items related to the Mozilla 10th anniversary celebrations.
- Upcoming events and conferences
- Zak will be speaking at the Go Open conference April 8 and 9, 2008, in Oslo, the Leadership by (Open) Innovation in the Telecom, IT and Media Industries conference April 24 in Munich, and other events later in 2008.
- Frank is 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.
- Frank will be out for a few days the week of April 7 to handle a family medical issue.
For more information please see the individual status reports from David, Frank, Gerv, and Zak.