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Meeting Details

  • 1:00pm Pacific time (20:00 UTC until November 4, 2007)
  • Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
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Contents

Friends of the Tree Friends of the Tree [edit]

Shawn Wilsher nominated Edward Lee for his huge number of patches for the download manager this past week to fix a number of UI bugs and some issues with cross session resumable downloads.

Development Updates [edit]

Fx/TB 1.5.0.13/2.0.0.7 [edit]

  • 2.0.0.7 on-going bug triage
    • Tentative code freeze 9/21
    • Release scheduled for 10/4
  • Fx 15012-2006 Major Update
    • Testing nearly done.
    • Scheduled for this Wednesday 9/12

TB 3 [edit]

  • No updates for this week.

Gecko 1.9 [edit]

  • M8 Freeze will continue through tomorrow to give the remainder of the approved M8 bugs time to land.
  • We are in Threat Level Red, meaning only the drivers listed on the tinderbox page can plus approval requests.
  • If you get an approval, you can land as long as the tree is open.

Firefox 3 [edit]

New feature work [edit]

  • Places
    • Unified search in location bar
      • search on full URL, title and tags
    • Saved search support (bookmarks and history)
  • Addons
    • Enforcing secure extension updates
    • McCoy
    • No more whitelist, can allow install directly from notification
  • Protocol Handling
    • Building on feed handling (web/local handlers)
      • Test webapp for calendaring being set up to test
    • New Applications tab in preferences
      • Will hook into app selector on Windows in M9
  • Password Manager
    • Non-modal interaction for remembering passwords

Upcoming Work (M9) [edit]

  • Cross-Session Resumable Downloads
    • Getting close, just need a last set of patches to make everything work, testing builds available
  • Password Manager
    • More usable pwmgr with filtering and better sort

IT [edit]

  • Stage migration - working with build
  • China office up and running
  • VMWare perf work - more coming this week
  • Performance machine work (and additions)
  • Stats work

Build [edit]

  • Firefox 1.5.0.12 -> Firefox 2.0.0.6 major update
  • waiting for "go" on gecko19a8 release
  • cf, coop, bhearsum going on/returning from vacation

QA [edit]

See Project List for details.

Test Execution

  • Firefox 2.0.0.6:
  • Firefox 2.0.0.7: Lots of triage with Dveditz [abillings, juanb]
  • Firefox 3:
    • Engaged in daily smoke and focused testing [abillings, tomcat, marcia]
    • Ad hoc testing and bug fix verification for Places. [abillings]
    • Triaging/running Plugins manager testcases [stephend]

Test Development

  • Firefox 3
    • Continuing to plan and develop Places testing [abillings, tracy]
    • CCS tests: Completed most of the tests for bug 315920 - attribute and event state change optimizations in nsCSSStyleSheet assume changes are sequential [ctalbert]
    • Planning testing for Location Bar and Tabbed Browsing, and verified Location Bar bugs [stephend]
    • Wrote more Download Manager testcases [stephend]
    • 80% completion of Addons Test Plan [tchung]
    • Created a Vista specific Firefox 3 plan. This is part of the OS Integration feature. [marcia]
    • Sent out first draft of Firefox 3 Test Strategy to QA team for review.

Tools and Infrastructure

  • The QMO/Litmus Test Extension has been reviewed and is ready for checkin! [ benh, ctalbert]

Community:

  • Firefox 3 Download Manager test day was held last Friday, Sept 7th.
  • First draft of the Community Strategy Document is ready for review outside QA. [jay]

Security [edit]

China and Malaysia trip
Update in 2.0.0.7

Marketing/PR [edit]

  • Operation Firefox update
  • revised First Run page is now live
  • Events:
    • Mozilla 24:
      • How can you help?
        • Blog and spread the word. Details are here
        • Participate in opening ceremony at Stanford on 9/14 at 8 p.m.
        • Attend the Stanford event (9/15, 11 a.m. - 8 p.m.):
        • Submit themes, post banners, etc.: Get Involved
        • Help day of -- email Mary if you interested.
    • Software Freedom Day:
  • Spread Firefox 2.0 - working on adding content to the staging site this week. We hope to have a beta version available within 10 days.

Community [edit]

Mozilla Labs [edit]

Developer Relations [edit]

  • Firefox 3 documentation progress continues, with new material on Download Manager including example code, among other choice items.
  • Preparing for Software Freedom Day @ Univ or North Carolina

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO [edit]

  • Laura Thomson starts on Sept. 24th (on-site)
  • This is Alex Buchanan's last week, thank you to Alex for all his hard work this summer
  • AMO updates went out last week, download counts are back up as a result
  • mozilla.com download link bugs were fixed last weekend; thanks to QA for their hard work verifying the changes
  • SUMO - set up live chat server, working with Jive to fix some quirks in the eval install
  • Started on plugin updating last week, ETA is Tuesday
  • clouserw coded the next version of the firstrun survey
  • Posted quick AUS patch to accept new schema in bug 368117
  • Socorro - bsmedberg committed leak fix, will push to staging today then prod later this week; load testing shortly after (for collector and processor)
  • Kubla has been updated. Check it out and give feedback please.
  • Rock Your Firefox 0.4 launched last week with new homepage and automatic add-on detection
    • So far, over 2000 add-ons have been automatically detected and favorited
    • Friday we sent out a message to the 21,000 members of our sponsored Facebook group, resulting in a peak of 250 new users per hour (we only got to 60 per hour when we launched)
    • 4700 people to date have tried out the app

Foundation Updates [edit]

(Since there was no meeting last week, this update combines items from the weeks ending August 31 and September 7.)

  • Grants and related activities
    • The Mozilla Foundation is funding a project to implement server-side features in Apache and OpenSSL to complement future Firefox enhancements to check the validity of SSL certificates using OCSP. For more information see Gerv's post on OCSP stapling.
    • The Mozilla Foundation is co-sponsoring the Foundations of Open Media Software developer workshop to be held in January in Melbourne Australia.
    • Peter Jaros completed the intermediate milestone on his project to improve scriptability of Camino with AppleScript (a project the Mozilla Foundation is co-sponsoring with the Camino project).
    • Jörg Dotzki finished his Foundation-funded project to create a Firefox extension to simulate how web pages appear to color-blind individuals, and submitted it to addons.mozilla.org.

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

Roundtable [edit]

Other Business [edit]

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