WeeklyUpdates/2008-05-05

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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

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Development Updates

TB 2.0.0.14 / Fx 2.0.0.15 / TB 2.0.0.15

Last Thursday, to the joy of many a user, we shipped Thunderbird 2.0.0.14, a wonderful release fixing a plethora of bugs. Having a post-mortem this Wednesday at 11am PDT.

The next release for 2.0.0.x is Firefox 2.0.0.15, which we're tentatively targeting for late June. A proposed schedule is available on the wiki.

Gecko 1.9

• 11 Blockers remaining for RC
  • Content: 2 (2 w/ patches)
  • GFX: 5 (1 w/ Patches)
  • JS: 0 (0 w/ Patches)
  • Layout: 0 (0 w/ Patches)
  • Platform: 1 (1 w/ Patches)
  • General: 3 (1 w/ Patches)
• Still 1 unowned blockers.
• Approximately 1 have patches of some sort.
• Blockers closed in last seven days by platform team: 30
• Blockers created in last seven days: 13

IT

• First intern started - welcome Reed
• Capacity planning for FF3

QA

Firefox 2.0.0.15 [project lead-ss, QA lead-abillings]

• Triaging bugs

Firefox 3 [tchung-QA Lead]

• Daily Tiger Team testing [abillings, marcia, others]
• 180 core bugs Verified in last two weeks
• 193 firefox bugs Verified in last two weeks
• 16 http://tinyurl.com/432u8y new litmus testcases] added last week
• Feature testing
  • Microformats:
    • Submitted patch addressing review comments in bug 427457
  • Places:
    • Completed remainder of query API tests. Several bugs were found in process [ctalbert]
      • bug 431431
      • bug 431616
      • bug 431670
      • bug 431679
      • bug 431798
  • Protocol Handling [ctalbert]
    • We managed to convince folks to help convince folks to take bug 428600
  • Key Handling [tomcat, tchung, marcia]
    • Triaged most bugs with platform team
    • Added litmus test cases and working with L10n team on specific key handling scenarios
    • Created tryserver builds for verifying patches

• L10n:
  • Worked with Axel and John O'Duinn to figure out how to approach the Minotaur buildbot integration in bug 416228
  • Decided to won't fix the Minotaur VM's issue as we are going to solve this a different way bug 424396
  • Test l10n for the Mozilla.com redesign
    • Tested and filed bugs against es-ES, pl, and en-GB locales:
      • 432078 - [es-ES] Mozilla.com redesign l10n testing
      • 432079 - [pl] Mozilla.com redesign l10n testing
      • 432080 - [en-GB] Mozilla.com redesign l10n testing
• Leak testing [tomcat]
  • Filed 7 new Leak
  • Retested Places Scenario, because found a new Places Leak bug 431568.

Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 [project lead-ss, QA lead-abillings]

• TB 2.0.0.14 shipped!
• Post mortem on wed, may 7th, at 11am PDT.

Web Dev testing

• Shipped AMO 3.4.1

Accessibility [marcoZ]

• the dev team of the WordPress blogging platform are embracing ARIA and I will work with them in the coming weeks to incorporate it in useful places in their next release, slatted to be released in July or August

Community

• Planning a QA session workshop at OSCON, Seneca, and European Dev day
• QMO Redesign
  • Reviewed QMO Drupal development bids/quotes from two firms (Raincity and Achieve Internet) and a freelancer (Marek)
  • Achieve Internet cannot do the project during our time frame; working with Raincity to bring their estimate down (they quoted over $60K for the entire project... which is about $25K over budget);Marek might be a good candidate for the basic setup, but does not have the experience for some custom development/customization;
  • RDP still available here: http://people.mozilla.com/~jpatel/qmo/QMO_Drupal_Dev.pdf
• Firefox 3 launch initiatives
  • Closed 2008 Campus Reps signup+survey; no more registrations until Fall; contacted various email lists of interested students about upcoming projects (on the street, firefox pledge, download day and firefox 3 launch parties)
  • Placed final order (quantity and sizes) for t-shirts with Scott at GatewayCDI
  • Created spreadsheet for Campus Reps swag/party packs; worked with Mary to decide how we want to organize shipping; will update Polvi's spreadsheet with my info so we have everything in one place.
  • Finished "Firefox Download Day Pledge" petition+flyer; posted to grouphub for review
• Campus Reps
  • "On the Streets Interviews" project
    • Revised project logo/title and got approval from John Slater to post to SFX
    • Launched Mozilla "On the Street" interviews project on SFX: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/campusreps/onthestreet
    • Submitted final patch for file upload bug (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416458); hope to have that page setup this week.

Marketing/PR

PR

• 2008 Linux Journal Reader's Choice Awards - Thunderbird and Firefox win "Favorite E-mail Client" and "Favorite Web Browser - http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10065
• eWeek feature - http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Content-Creation/One-Web-Desktops-and-Devices-Unite/

Events

• FISL: Using community survey tool to collect feedback.
• Planning for Blackhat & OSCON underway.

Support

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

• AMO 3.4.1 shipped, no animals were harmed
• Status page fix to improve Socorro monitoring
• RSVP fun
• SUMO perf fixes and planning roadmap
• AMO 3.4.2 code freeze scheduled for May 12

Foundation Updates

• Grants and related activities
  • Frank approved funding for a new Bugzilla-related project; more details next week. Thanks to all who donated to the Mozilla Foundation in support of Bugzilla!

• CAs and related issues
  • Frank gave final approval to the request from DigiNotar to add a new root and enable it for EV.

• Public communication
  • David checked in changes to the Community pages on www.mozilla.org (bugs 271655, 370222, and 426600).
  • David updated the Mozilla-Based Applications page and added Featured Apps for May (Joost and Second Life).
  • David and Frank participated in activities related to the Powered by Mozilla program.

• Other
  • Gerv worked on Summer of Code and other activities.
  • Zak worked on various conference-related activities.

• Upcoming activities
  • The Mozilla accessibility team will be attending and staffing a Mozilla booth at the SightCity conference May 7-9 in Frankfurt.
  • Frank will not be able to attend the Berkman@10 conference (May 15-16 in Boston); if any Boston-area Mozilla people are interested in attending, please contact Frank.
  • 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.