WeeklyUpdates/2007-09-24

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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

Fx 2.0.0.7 / 2.0.0.8

• Firefox 2.0.0.7 shipped last Tuesday, (9/18)
• Firefox 2.0.0.8 code freeze date has moved and it is to be decided. We are still trying to ship by Oct 4.

TB 3

• No Updates This Week

Gecko 1.9

• Currently tracking and focusing on security bugs in trunk. Fuzzers are identifying bugs, and we're down two from our all time high.
• Remimder that the M9 code freeze is Oct 16; however, we will enter Tree Control Level Red two weeks before the freeze, Tue. Oct 2nd (only a week away!). The means all checkins require end-game driver approval (MConnor, CBeard, Beltzner, Basil, Schrep, Damon, Vlad).

IT

• stage migration - Thursday, 7/27
• new peering fabric - any2 exchange. Should be up this week, many peering possibilities, including asia.
• new line to ISC in .nl - peering and faster transit. Thanks ISC!

Build

• ftp / archive directory restructure before thurs
• machine migration - downtime thursday 10pm - 2am PST
  • tree closed
  • sftp access

QA

Test Execution

• FFx 2.0.0.7 focus testing and live testing of this release on Tues. [abillings, juanb, tomcat, others]
• FFx 2.0.0.8 Triage [abillings, juanb]
• FFx 3:
  • Daily tiger test testing [tomcat, others]
  • Finishing up test plans and running new feature tests [tomcat, many others]
  • M8 testing. It was released wearly Thursday. [tomcat, many others]
• Tested the new career page (bug 396498
• Special testing of a special Quicktime patch from Apple. This included compatibility with 2.x and 3.0.

Test Development:

• Added several OS integration test cases to Litmus. Test cases: 4685, 4692

Tools and Infrastructure

• Performance:
  • Tested Alice's configuration patch for Talos bug 396232. Worked on Talos pageloader component generator bug 396095. Submitted patch to make Talos slaves auto-updating bug 396447 [bhearsum]
  • Tomcat will be the new performance sheriff and will monitor the performance results on a daily basis.
• JS test automation: got waterfall display for results working. [robcee, bc]
• Security test automation: made progress completing the automation of about 200 of the security tests. [tracy, bc]
• Setup a dashboard of the Top 4 performance comparison charts [timr]

Community

• Bug Day was held on Tues.
• Test Day was held on Fri. The topic for test day was Site Specific Prefs / OS Integration, Next test day is this Friday and the topic is Security / Privacy. [lead: tomcat]

Marketing/PR

• Events:
  • Ajax Experience, Boston, 10/24 - 10/26
  • FSOSS, Seneca College, Toronto, 10/25 - 10/26
  • FOSS.in, Bangalore, 12/4 - 12/8

• PR - Alex Faaborg included in article on Microformats: http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3701096
• MailCo recap

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

• Finished plugin updating tasks, see staging site or screen shot -- screen shot just shows styles
• Protocol app moving along, staging soon
• Support site beta on track for 9/28
• AMO update sent out last Friday -- fixes to discussions/reviews along with l10n updates -- thanks to everyone who contributed
• Fred (wenzel) patched Bouncer to improve support for locales and is currently working on Sentry improvements and geo-ip location
• AUS v3 URLs now supported (dist, distVersion)