WeeklyUpdates/2008-07-14

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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

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

Development Updates

QA

Firefox/Thunderbird 2.0.0.x [ss, abillings, juanb, hali]

• Firefox 2.0.0.15 post mortem notes
• Shipped 2.0.0.16 to Beta on July 8th
• Test plan Results [abillings]
• Began testing TB 2.0.0.16

Firefox 3.0.1 [ss, tchung, marcia, juanb, hali]

• Shipped 3.0.1 to Beta on July 9th
• Test Plan Results [tchung]
• Verified 3.0.1 fixed bugs
• Targeting Ship to world on July 15th

Firefox 3.1

• Targeting a first alpha late july
• QA to run high level smoketests, and general spotchecks only
• General Feedback, qawanted, and UNCONFIRMED bug testing

WebDev Testing [stephend]

Test development and automation

• Gristmill: worked on issues surrounding opening new windows, running JSTests and making Waits work. [ctalbert]
• Pushed sisyphus documentation
• Mobile Automation
  • Got mochikit tests working
  • got test system working (with occasional crashes) on mobile
  • determined cause of failures in JQuery and Prototype test suites and got out new patches for these
• Helped with and reviewed Mochitest for nsAccessible::name calculation bug 444279 mochitests. [marcoz]

Community

• QMO development:
  • Redesigned the QMO Bugzilla module UI and began adding functionality
  • Outlined more to-dos Notes
• Accessibility Community:
  • Lots of feedback is coming in with people being encouraged to use Firefox 3.0. Helping out with tips and tricks, verifying issues or deferring to screen reader vendors.
    • Filed bug 444998 as a direct result of community feedback of this week.
  • Writing an article for OSBR about Mozilla accessibility, mostly reusing and enhancing Accessibility - Where are we today?. This will be finished this week.

Marketing/PR

PR

Events

OSCON

• Clint Talbert and Carsten Book will be presenting a Bof session titled-Be Quality Material: Hang Out with Mozilla QA on July 23

• For a complete overview of OSCON activities here.

Download Day

• Guinness presented our certificate at the London Community Party.

Internship update

We have the following interns for today's internship presentations:

• Bobby (Platform)
• Keith (Platform)
• Joel (Platform)
• Blake (Marketing)
• Natnaree (Marketing)
• Paul C. (QA)