WeeklyUpdates/2008-04-28
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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
TB 2.0.0.14 / Fx 2.0.0.15 / TB 2.0.0.15
On track to ship the wonderful Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 this upcoming Thursday. Currently working on bug triage for the splendid Firefox/Thunderbird 2.0.0.15 releases.
TB 3
Gecko 1.9
- 26 Blockers remaining for RC
- Still 1 unowned blockers.
- Approximately 8 have patches of some sort.
- Blockers closed in last seven days by platform team: 15
- Blockers created in last seven days: 15
Firefox 3
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
QA
Firefox 2.0.0.15 [project lead-ss, QA lead-abillings]
- Much triage!
Firefox 3 [tchung-QA Lead]
- Daily Tiger Team testing [abillings, marcia, others]
- Bug Verification
- Feature testing
- Places: Explored further into bookmark tests. Discovered bug 430862. Almost have final patch for remaining tests ready. [ctalbert]
- Protocol Handling. The new MAILTO RFC compliance test is being used in bug 426260. [ctalbert]
- Printing Testing: Reviewed some of the printing bugs and crafted some Litmus test cases to give us better coverage in this area. [marcia]
- Mac theme testing: After landing this week, tested the toolbar area carefully and checked for possible regressions. [marcia]
- Help Menu crashes: Tested around the checkin for these crashes that stephen michaud checked in to disable OS-Level menu reindexing (bug 426499
- Looking at Litmus Test case failures [abillings, marcia]
- L10n: Checked in Minotaur's L10N config files for beta 2, beta 3, and beta 4
- leak testing: Found 13 new leak bugs. Now up to 251 bugs found! Verified bug fixes. [tomcat]
Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 [project lead-ss, QA lead-abillings]
- Ran Smoketests, BFTs, l10n, and update testing (for beta) for Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 with [abillings, Juanb, Marcia]
- Beta was released on Thursday, April 24!
Web Dev testing
- Helping with Download Day web site testing; both general web page testing and l10n testing [stephend, tomocat]
Community
- There was a Download Manager Test Day on Fri. It was a little slow. See the results.
- QMO Redesign: Edited final HTML/CSS template files on people.m.o to make them more interactive (removed password protection to share with everyone) [jay]
- QAC: Investigated, Patched and Checked-In the accessibility bug 428631 [ctalbert]
- Completed the wiki page for the Mozilla Test Workshop to be hosted by Dave Humphrey.
Misc
- We are starting to work on Code Coverage in the platform area. Got a Vista debug build up and running in preparation for that effort so that I wouldn't have to run those tools inside a VM. [ctalbert]
Security
Marketing/PR
PR
- Many articles about Mitchell's keynote at Web 2.0 Expo
- Two BBC articles resulting from an in-person meeting with Mitchell at Web 2.0 Expo: linked here and here
- Tech Review Q&A after in-person meeting with Mitchell at Web 2.0 Expo
Mozilla.com redesign
Support
- Two Google SoC projects approved:
- Next SUMO day to be held on Friday May 23. Main focus will be on helping other users in forum and Live Chat.
Metrics
Evangelism
- Work is now underway on a reorganization and cleanup of the Places docs, as well as to get the gaps filled in there.
- Skinning work continues to go well; hoping to see a first pass at a working skin within the next few days.
Mozilla Labs
Webdev, Add-ons, AMO
- AMO 3.4.1 release planned for this Thursday - compatibility ranges for add-ons are returning, separating out themes into their own categories, lots of other fixes - Full bug list
- Started a new process for managing featured and recommended add-ons
- Workin on an RSVP form for the summit
- Headrush will be staged this week -- it's an ideastorm-like app for feedback, we'll send out an email
- Download day, SFX, MozParty -- gearing these up for Fx3
