WeeklyUpdates/2008-05-12

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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

TB 2.0.0.14 / Fx 2.0.0.15 / TB 2.0.0.15

Tb 2.0.0.14 has a bug which is annoying for people using per-user certificates over SSL connections (bug 431819). We're trying to figure out what the right course of action is to remedy that.

TB 3

Shredder a1 (AKA Tb 3.0a1) is about to leave QA and be released. Onwards to a2!

IT

• Working on scale issues for sumo, services.amo and other FF3 launch sites
• Bugzilla Round 2 - http://wiki.mozilla.org/Bugzilla_Fixup
• MySQL 5 upgrades, in progress
• cb-vmware01 will be upgraded to esx 3.5 bug 433031, SeaMonkey is affected
• build-graphs will be migrated to a new VM tomorrow night (bug 431380)
• Bonsai upgrade (bug 399693) will be attempted again tomorrow night (now that bug 52573 is fixed)
• Audited 195 tinderbox tree configs and fixed numerous problems (bug 397298)

QA

Firefox/Thunderbird 2.0.0.x

• Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 - Held post-mortem meeting
• Firefox/Thunderbird 2.0.0.15 - Currently in triage. Considering an earlier release to fix a serious regression in Thunderbird.

Firefox 3

• See RC1 test plan
• First ever QA Team Bug Bash was held on Tues, May 6th. The team verified 78 Firefox and core bug fixes, added 5 litmus tests, and updated 3 litmus tests.
• 290 FFX3/Core bug fixes verified in the last two weeks!
• 25 new litmus test cases added
  • Added a Litmus test suite for keyboard regressions on Mac [marcia]
• Feature testing
  • Security: Investigated automated eggplant security test false failures. [tracy]
  • Places: bug triage, verified 10 P1/p2 blocking bugs, wrote new litmus test cases, cleaned up distribution of Litmus test cases between BFTs and FFTs [tracy]
  • Accessibility: Worked with Alexander Surkov to fix a bug causing hangs when accessing lists. See bug 431802 [marcoz]
  • L10n: tested translated product pages. [stephend, tchung]

Web Dev testing [stephend]

• Verified 11 bug fixes for mozilla.com update.
• Plan to test and ship Remora 3.4.2 this week.

Miscellaneous

• Accessibility [marcoz]
  • Attended German Web 2.0 Accessibility Conference called Einfach für Alle - Konzepte und Zukunftsbilder für ein Barrierefreies Internet, loosely translated “Simply for all - Concepts and Visions for an accessible internet”. See Marco's blog post.
  • Attended SightCity in Frankfurt, Germany. See Marco's other blog posting.
• Grant work: investigated grants in the areas of
  • Common accessibility patterns in HTML coding, and what could be converted into standard proposals for HTML 5
  • ChatZilla enhancements

Marketing/PR

PR

Events

Support

Campus Reps

Foundation Updates

• Grants and related activities
  • With support from people who've designated donations for Bugzilla, the Mozilla Foundation is funding a new project to be undertaken by Everything Solved, Inc. As a major Bugzilla contributor and customization expert, Everything Solved will survey large corporations and organizations already using Bugzilla in order to determine what the most desired enhancements and changes are. This will help guide the Bugzilla project for future development, and will also begin a standardized and organized list of feature ideas from the most visible users of Bugzilla.

• Legal issues
  • Frank is getting a final round of legal review for the proposed new Mozilla committer's agreement.

• CAs and related issues
  • Frank held discussions with various parties about how to resolve issues with disabling email trust for certificates issued by DigiNotar.

• Public communication
  • David participated in a planning meeting for www.mozilla.org changes and worked on related issues; for more information see his recent blog post.

• Conferences.
  • Various members of the Mozilla accessibility team attended SightCity 2008, with sponsorship by the Mozilla Foundation; Marco Zehe wrote a blog post with more details.
  • Zak prepared for upcoming conference appearances already scheduled, and proposed some new conferences for our consideration.

• Upcoming activities
  • Zak will be doing a keynote at the eLiberatica 2008 conference (May 30-31, 2008, in Bucharest).
  • The Mozilla Foundation will be a sponsor of the Personal Democracy Forum conference (June 23-24 in New York). (Frank is planning to attend if possible.)

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