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

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

Friends of the Tree Friends of the Tree

Tomcat would like us to recognize Jonas Sicking, Peterv and Ben Turner for their efforts and help in getting Tomcat's (ed. very effective) Leak Testing Project up and running. He'd also like to thank Jesse and Timeless for helping him to get into the Magic of Debug Builds with generating Stacks and other arcana.

Mary nominated as Friend of the Tree Judy Talbert (yes, Clint's mom :-) for her regular care packages, keeping us all well-fed with great baked goods -- especially appreciated during this release crunch time.

Development Updates

Fx 2.0.0.13 / TB 2.0.0.13

On track for releasing Firefox 2.0.0.13 tomorrow. Looking at when to do the post-mortem, hopefully sometime this week. An email to dev-planning will be sent out when we have a time.

Also look for an email for scheduling Firefox 2.0.0.14.

Thunderbird 2.0.0.13 is on track for release on April 15. Build will start March 31.

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

  • QA Companion was officially released! Over 800 downloads in the first week! Initial feedback: "awesome", "very comfortable"
  • Working with Dave Humphery to setup a test workshop this summer. See posts in m.d.quality [ctalbert, timr]
  • Community Survey - Results are in!! [jay] A few quick highlights:
    • Most QA community members have been using firefox for a long time: 46% 3-4 years; 35% 5+ years
    • Most QA community members have been actively involved only for the last couple years: 49% < 1 year; 17% 1-2 years
    • Our biggest non-en-US locale users are en-GB, fr, de (21%, 19%, 15% respectively)

Security

  • security conference bonanza!!
    • CanSecWest, RSA, BlackHat Amsterdam, Toorcon Seattle

Marketing/PR

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
  • Mobile
  • Upcoming events - Linux Collaboration Summit, LUGRadio Live, FISL
  • Documentation is continuing to receive final pre-Fx3 tweaks; if you're aware of something that needs to be done before Firefox 3 ships, please let Sheppy know.
  • Deki Wiki transition for MDC progress continues
    • Talking to a potential contractor for the skinning work
    • MindTouch has tentatively scheduled April 16th for the release of our updates to Deki Wiki software - our goal is to make the transition around that time.
  • Acid 3
    • looks like Firefox 3 will be in top 5% or so of released browsers when it ships, unlikely that we're going to take any big Acid 3 fixes between now and then -- we don't want to risk regressing stuff that's used on the web, or Acid 2 for that matter!
    • Can track the progress in the bug or the spreadsheet

Mozilla Labs

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

Foundation Updates

  • Grants and related activities
    • Frank got paperwork done for another new grant, to be announced later.
  • Public communications and related issues
    • David worked on various items related to the Mozilla 10th anniversary celebrations.

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

Roundtable

Other Business

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