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= Foundation Updates =
= Foundation Updates =
* Grants and related activities
** Wellington Fernando de Macedo has been working on his server-sent DOM events project; this is continuing and extending the work referenced in bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338583 338583].
** Frank corresponded with the organizers of the [http://www.w4a.info/ W4A] conference about renewing Mozilla Foundation sponsorship for 2009.
* CAs and related issues
** Frank gave preliminary approval for [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/certs/pending/#Entrust Entrust]'s request to enable the Entrust Root Certification Authority for EV (bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416544 416544]), and opened up a second public comment period.
* Public communication
** David met with Samuel Sidler and Reed Loden about future www.mozilla.org changes.
** David also worked to get a new draft of the Mozilla brochure created; because of problems with getting model releases signed, we'll be switchng to a new photo for the brochure.
* Conferences
** Zak continued preparing for the [http://fosscoach.wikia.com/wiki/FOSSCoach FOSSCoach] event at OSCON.
* Other
** Gerv Markham continued work on the [http://publicsuffix.org/ public suffix list].
* Upcoming activities
** The Mozilla Foundation is a sponsor of the [http://pdf2008.confabb.com/conferences/60420-personal-democracy-forum-2008 Personal Democracy Forum conference] (June 23-24 in New York). Brian Behlendorf will be speaking, and Frank is attending.
** David, Gerv, and Zak will be attending OSCON (July 21-25 in Portland OR) and the Firefox Summit (July 29-31 in Whistler BC). Frank will be attending the Firefox Summit but not OSCON.
For more information please see the individual status reports from [http://davidwboswell.wordpress.com/ David], [http://blog.hecker.org/ Frank], [http://www.mozillazine.org/weblogs/gerv/ Gerv], and [http://zak.greant.com/ Zak].


= Roundtable =
= Roundtable =


= Other Business =
= Other Business =

Revision as of 16:30, 23 June 2008

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Development Updates

Tb Major Update / Fx 2.0.0.15 / TB 2.0.0.15

TB 3

Gecko 1.9.1

Firefox 3

Mobile

IT

Release Engineering

QA

Security

Marketing/PR

PR

Events

Mozilla.com

Download Day

Support

  • Another great Support Firefox Day last Friday [1]
    • Big thanks to the session hosts: mconnor, jonath, dietrich, sethb & asa, and, uh, myself :)
    • Also thanks to Lucy who organized the event this time, and to cilias, np, zzxc, and Cww for general awesomeness and invaluable help
  • Hectic but successful release of Firefox 3 from a SUMO point of view
    • Some frequent issues that were quickly covered in the Knowledge Base and promoted to the start page
    • List of common issues handed off to QA and developers

Metrics

Evangelism

Mozilla Labs

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

  • Most of Webdev is @ the Velocity conference (performance and scalability conference)
  • Download Day: Mission Accomplished! (really!)
  • AMO Load Issues
    • 3.4.4 update delayed due to load issues (related to NetScaler and code changes)
    • We spent the majority of the week troubleshooting AMO perf
    • Still not sure if it's a NetScaler proxy cache issue or an app issue, ticket open with Citrix and IT is working on it
  • AMO Features!
    • On the bright side...
    • Full-text search now implemented (search doesn't suck anymore)
    • Advanced search feature -- ability to search for very specific terms
  • Graph server (perfomatic) inaugural triage complete (see bug list)
  • Launch notes

L10n

Foundation Updates

  • Grants and related activities
    • Wellington Fernando de Macedo has been working on his server-sent DOM events project; this is continuing and extending the work referenced in bug 338583.
    • Frank corresponded with the organizers of the W4A conference about renewing Mozilla Foundation sponsorship for 2009.
  • CAs and related issues
    • Frank gave preliminary approval for Entrust's request to enable the Entrust Root Certification Authority for EV (bug 416544), and opened up a second public comment period.
  • Public communication
    • David met with Samuel Sidler and Reed Loden about future www.mozilla.org changes.
    • David also worked to get a new draft of the Mozilla brochure created; because of problems with getting model releases signed, we'll be switchng to a new photo for the brochure.
  • Conferences
    • Zak continued preparing for the FOSSCoach event at OSCON.
  • Upcoming activities
    • The Mozilla Foundation is a sponsor of the Personal Democracy Forum conference (June 23-24 in New York). Brian Behlendorf will be speaking, and Frank is attending.
    • David, Gerv, and Zak will be attending OSCON (July 21-25 in Portland OR) and the Firefox Summit (July 29-31 in Whistler BC). Frank will be attending the Firefox Summit but not OSCON.

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

Roundtable

Other Business

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