WeeklyUpdates/2008-06-30

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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 2.0.0.15 / Fx 2.0.0.16 / TB 2.0.0.15 / TB 2.0.0.16

Firefox 2.0.0.15 is on track to ship tomorrow at ~3pm PDT. After which, we're going to do a short-cycle follow up (Firefox 2.0.0.16). A proposed schedule is available.

As a result of our short-cycle Firefox 2.0.0.15, we've scrapped Thunderbird 2.0.0.15. You'll see a new reincarnation going by the name of Thunderbird 2.0.0.16.

TB 3

• Shared Tb/Calendar/SeaMonkey hg repository strategy decided; KaiRo already has a test repo up and building!
• dmose blogged a proposal for when and how to ship Thunderbird 3
• Code freeze for Tb3 Alpha 2 one week from tomorrow: July 8, 2008, 23:59 PDT

Gecko 1.9.1

• Look here for interesting queries related to Gecko 1.9.1.
• Tracking 17 1.9.1 blockers.
• 78 wanted bugs
  • 21 P1s. These are bugs we feel would really, really make a good release if we had a solid handful completed.
  • 20 P2s. These are medium complexity bugs/changes that are nice to have.
  • 19 P3s. The lowest priority bugs for this release. These are the ones that we will definitely take, but the others take priority.

IT

• breakpad scaling
• ramping up for ff 2.0.0.15 release
• finish off ff3 debrief

Release Engineering

• Tinderbox tree renaming.
  • Details in bug 441945 and bhearsum's post to dev.planning
• Doing FF3.0.1 and FF2.0.0.16 on Wednesday; two releases on the same day!?!?

QA

Firefox 3.0/3.1 [tchung]

• Followed up Hendrix/Mozillazine/Reporter/etc Feedback [marcia, marcoz, and others]
• Installed the Flash 10 Beta [marcia]
• Participated in the Fx3 Release Postmortem meeting [tchung and others]

Firefox 3.0.1 - Triaging bugs and verifying bug fixes. Forms manager bug triage with Dolske [tomcat, hali, others]

Firefox/Thunderbord 2.0.0.x - [ss, abillings]

• Went to beta with 2.0.0.15 RC3. See checklist. triaging bugs
• Completed 2.0.0.15 Smoketests, betatest and beta channel testing [abillings, tomcat, hali]
• Started planning for 2.0.0.16

Webdev testing [stephend]

• AMO - Verified 12 bugs for AMO 3.4.5. Began working on a separate Selenium test suite for search.
• SUMO testing- shipped the SUMO reskin! See the Test Plan. Verified 32 FIXED bugs

Automated Test Development

• Updated spider to run on 3.1 and 3.0.1 [bc]
• Completed calibration runs if the JS Sisyphus test suite on ~19 OS configurations against trunk code. [bc]
• Added Accessibility tests for fixes to bug 438784 and bug 440770, along with several new chrome tests. See bug 441737 and bug 441519.

Miscellaneous

• Fixed several Accessibility bugs: bug 438784, bug 441610 (which mostly affects Thunderbird, but is actually a platform bug), and bug 440770.

Community

• Held a Firefox 3.0.1 Places test day on Friday. See results
• Worked on several QMO Bugzilla module features such as: Unlimited pages, Integrated Timeplot into display (http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Timeplot), functionality and sync with Bugzilla [paulc]

Marketing/PR

PR

• Computerworld: Firefox 3.0 wins memory battle
• Vote for Mozilla in Fast Company's Fast 50 2008
• Firefox 3 awarded CNET Editor's Choice Award

Events

• Firefox Parties still underway:
  • Slovenia.
  • pix Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Israel
  • Munich
  • Madrid

Download Day

• Judges have finished review, Guinness is currently reviewing our collateral.

Spread Firefox Affiliates Program

• Working on a refresh of the program. For the latest information please see: http://wiki.mozilla.org/Affiliates
• and input welcome here: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/affiliates

Support

• New theme (updated to go along with the new mozilla.com) [1]
• Weekly SUMO dev meeting on Tuesdays at 9:00 AM PDT
• Releasing 0.6 this week [2]

Metrics

• Over 10 million active FF3 users (!)

Evangelism

• Deki based MDC is nearly ready for its final round of testing. Hoping to get that started this week.

L10n

• Axel is working with build to make starting new localizations easier
• Fx3.0.2 will fix webmail and webcal handlers to include GMail and MSN LiveMail for locales and 3.0.1 for en-US
• Funded development of Toolkit by translate.org.za

Internship update.

We have the following interns for today's internship presentations:

• Dan C (IT)
• Ulili (Marketing)
• Rob (platform)
• Paul O. (Firefox)
• Dan S. (Web Dev)
• Wei (UX)
• Heather (QA)