WeeklyUpdates/2007-01-08

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm PST (21:00 UTC)
• Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
• +1 866 879 4799 (pin 369) Conf# 8600 (US Toll Free)
• +1 650 903 0800 x91 Conf# 8600 (US/International)
• [Use *1 to mute yourself]
• join irc.mozilla.org #staffmeeting for attendance taking

Development Updates

Fx/TB 1.5.0.10 + Fx 2.0.0.2

Dev.:

• Nominations deadline was last Friday, 1/5
• Code Freeze scheduled for Thursday, 1/18
  • Still have about 60 bugs that need patches, so we need to make sure to get some traction on those or they will be at risk for missing the release.
  • Already have over 100 bugs fixed.
  • Need to check bug lists to make sure we are in good shape with the Vista bugs we hope to fix in this release.
• Tentative release date set for Thursday, 2/1 (following the release of MS Vista)

QA:

• Started bug verifications last week
• Will be focusing a lot of testing around Vista bug fixes
• Adding extra checks to build automation/verification to catch a few issues discovered with past couple of releases (bouncer checks, permissions verification, etc)

TB 2.0

• No Updates For Today

Other

• • Firefox 1.5->2.0 Updates

Build

• CVS CLOBBER File support is finally available; it allows developers to clobber tinderbox builds. See CLOBBER file instructions for details
• We're working with IT to get tier 1 Tinderboxen into the on-call support infrastructure; we'll have more details on this shortly.
• As part of the stage migration, which is ongoing, we'll be getting every project its own ssh keys to upload builds to stage; we'll coordinate with everyone so there are minimal outages, but just wanted to give everyone a heads up.
• Couple of process changes for 1.5.0.10/2.0.0.1
  • As of Firefox 2.0.0.1, we signed all .exes and .dlls (with a couple of exceptions); this was not done for 1.5.0.9. We'll be doing this for 1.5.0.10 and continue to do it in 2.0.0.2 and future releases.
  • We will start doing version bumps on the _MINIBRANCH, so nightlies will always have a "pre" extension to the version number, and release candidates will always have actual version numbers

QA

• Test execution
  • Testing a partner extension we hope to release this week [Tony, Tim, Tracy]
  • Performing triage and bug fix verification for FFx 1.5.0.10 and FFx 2.0.0.2 [Jay, Juan, many others]
  • We are continuing focused Vista testing for 2.0.0.x. We organized a corp of community testers that is really helping out! [Marcia]

• Test Development
  • Completed the port of eggplant automated smoke tests to FFx 2. this is for all three platforms! [Tracy]
  • Ran into problem running the new Tp2 performance test on the trunck the page cycler is crashing. This works fine on 1.8.0 and 1.8.1

• Test Infrastructure
  • We have the test buildbot VMs mostly setup. There was a problem where the windowing system was not setup due to a mis-understanding. This is being corrected.

Product Management and Marketing Updates

Marketing

• Wrapping up Firefox marketing planning for 2007 -- Japan team in Mtn. View this week. Need to meet with Mozilla Europe team and get their input before finalizing plans.
• Prepping for Thunderbird 2 launch in February
• Ongoing web site projects: start page updates

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

• AMO
  • Public preview was released. See blog post for details.
  • Response was mixed, for the most part (it's an alpha after all) but we are excited about l10n and so was the community.
  • We are working on l10n currently and working towards a beta at the end of January.
• Bouncer2
  • Patched bounce script and db to improve query performance, but this did not fix the problem which appears to be a memory leak (never seen this before w/ a PHP app). Will work on it more this week.