WeeklyUpdates/2007-04-30

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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)
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Development Updates

Fx/TB 1.5.0.12/2.0.0.4

• Code freeze was this Friday, 4/27.
• Looks like we will have RC1 builds tomorrow morning.
• Bug verifications are in progress.
• Still shooting for release on 5/22.

Gecko 1.9

Last Week:

• Gran Paradiso Alpha 4 Last week.
• Project Planning for TextFrame/TextRun: Plan is to enable by default on trunk for the Alpha 5 release, specifically targeting May 15.
• Cycle Collector Activities: dbaron, peterv, jst, graydon, and brendan met last week and we have four patches to be landed this week to address cycle collector performance.
• Cocoa Migration: Blocker Bashathon: 7 Blockers Eliminated last week, 29 remaining. GO! GO! GO!
• ES4 SpiderMonkey Test Hacking: The ES4 team working on the SM test suite (mozilla/js/tests/). Current numbers:

This Week:

• Introduce Daniel Holbert
• Another Cycle Collector Meeting this Friday.
• Platform Goal meeting this week (TBD). See: [1]
• Continuing Cocoa Migration Blocker Bashathon: Meeting this Wednesday @ 3pm PDT (Announcement to dev-planning pending).

Firefox 3

• Released Gran Paradiso Alpha 4 last Friday
• Wikified the PRD and triaging changes using the new process
• [[[Firefox3/Schedule|Alpha 5 scheduled]] for end of May, many more UI facing features scheduled - Password Mgr, Places
• Current Firefox team status

IT

• Completed community build/tinderbox VM migrations to community build network.
• Working on getting AMO out in Amsterdam.

• Downtime: litmus down for VM cloning (litmus-stage).
• Tier1 tinderboxes now being monitored in nagios, will page oncall if builds drop off (no activity for over 4 hours).

QA

• Test Execution
  • Tested FFx3, Alpha 4. This was smoke tests and some limited focused testing on new features. See the results and findings [marcia, juanb, tomcat, aleksej, timr] Plans are to do focused testing on new features over the next week or two.
  • FFx 2004, 1.5.0.12 testing: Most bug fix wrap-up, landing, and bug fix verification at this point. [juanb, marcia]
  • Perfomance tests: Collecting baselines for trunk [alice]

• Test Development
  • Litmus test cleanup: Clean up test cases that were found to be "unclear" and add missing tests cases in preparation for cloning for FFx3. See the areas being reviewed [marcia, tracy, juanb, tomcat]
  • Updated docs for perf testing [alce]
  • Alice updated doc for Minotaur (automated testing of preferences for Partner distros and L10n). Tracy provided name/value pairs for the4 partner testing. [alice, tracy]

• Test Tools and Infrastructure
  • built a bulk way of sending data to the graph server

updated docs for both perf testing and minotaur 

• Community

Product Management and Marketing Updates

Marketing

• Looking at increasing conversion rate on the download page and doing A/B testing in the US. If successful, we'll look at rollout to other locales.

• Customer Support: Set timetable for community feedback sessions. Developed early draft of customer support specs and end-user work flow. Researching potential vendors to provide platform for community based customer support.

• Global Marketing: Developed priority list of countries for marketing expansion. A graduate student team is currently identifying Mozilla community and current state of the Internet in each country to be followed by strategy development for roll-out of low-touch, high leverage marketing.

• Working on OSCON plan and roll out of new events process and calendar. Will schedule public call for later in the week to gather more feedback.

Community

• Recruiting for Team Firefox at Bay to Breakers. http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/27358

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

• moz-eu cms
  • production site is setup, still polishing rough spots with IT

• kubla
  • Investigating drupal:
    • Imported data, added locale awareness, Example (still pretty rough!)

Foundation Updates

For Mozilla Foundation activities for the week ending April 27, 2007 please see the status reports from Frank, Gerv, and Zak.

Other Business

Quick summary of SethB and SethS trip to Taipei, Osaka, Kyoto and Tokyo