WeeklyUpdates/2007-07-23

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm Pacific time (20:00 UTC until November 4, 2007)
• 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 attendance taking and backchannel

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

Development Updates

TB 3

• We're working on final approval for switching our spell check engine to hunspell for Firefox and Thunderbird. Please let us know if you have any concerns.
• We're spending a lot of time looking at memory leaks right now and could use extra help tracking some leaks down. Especially with the compose window. Please see David or Scott if you are interested in helping out.

Gecko 1.9

• M7 Gecko Feature Freeze July 25th.
• Major New Features:
  • Anti-Malware
  • Finalized Offline APIs
  • Secure Wrappers

QA

Test Exectuion

• Completed FFX 2.0.0.5 and TBird 2.0.0.5 security releases [juan, tomcat, tracy, al, others]

Tools and Autoamtion

• Talos Performance Project
  • Collecting Trunk baselines. Had trouble getting new pageset running on old trunk builds. Switched qm-pxp02 to old page set, baseline currently being collected. We currently have baseline data for windows trunk from april 2006 - october 2006 woo! [alice]
  • Talos found a performance regression! A visible leap in the tp loadtime numbers was found, regression window was determined, patch was pinpointed and backed out and tp numbers were seen to improve
  • Macport was reviews. Waiting for landing. [zach, alice]

Developer Relations

• Headed to OSCON (shaver, mfinkle, jresig and fligtar)
• WebRunner experimentation continues
  • Adding spellcheck suggestions and password support
  • Better external link detection
  • Creating an extension to manage webapps from Firefox
  • Exploring the use of Firefox3 as a runtime for WebRunner
• Demo round-up: Compiling a list of demos we'd like to have:
  • Showcase Firefox3 features
  • "Web of the future" features

Foundation Updates

Note that Frank is traveling to Portland today for OSCON and won't be participating in the weekly call.

• Grants and related activities
  • Henri Sivonen completed another milestone in his Mozilla Foundation-funded HTML5 conformance checker project.

• IP/legal issues
  • Frank and Gerv did some internal licensing-related stuff.

• Other
  • Frank was on vacation and traveling a good part of the week.
  • Zak has been working to help get the Internet as a Public Good symposium organized.
  • David has been working on various tasks related to donations to the Mozilla Foundation.
  • Gerv attended the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS).

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