WeeklyUpdates/2007-10-01

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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)
• join irc.mozilla.org #staffmeeting for attendance taking and backchannel

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

Friends of the Tree

• I'd like to recognize Paul Booker for all his help this last week or so in installing, testing, and configuring modules as well as debugging problems with the Spread Firefox v.2 website. - Asa

Development Updates

Build

• status of ftp/archive/stage migration

QA

Test Execution

• FFx 3:
  • Daily smoke testing and focused testing.
  • tested OS integration and installer bugs [tomcat]
  • Cleanup Critical Printing Bugs. Dropped the List from 25 -> 14 Bugs by verifying fixes, clearing out dups, etc. [tomcat]
• FFx 2.0.0.8
  • Monitoring the daily automated UI test runs by Eggplant. [tomcat]
  • Started bug fix verifications [tomcat, others]

Test Development

• Worked on test plan and created Testcases for Password Manager and Security/Privacy [tomcat]
• New program to triage litmus test requests. People can request new manual test cases by setting the "in-litmus" flag to '?'.

Test Automation and Tools

• Talos
  • Patch for Tdhtml is being reviewed bug 386995 [bhearsum]
  • Mac Talos slave setup bug 393073. Finally got a couple slaves up and running well. [bhearsum]
  • Change qm-pxp* slaves to all report as their own Tinderbox column bug 397755 . See here. [bhearsum]
• Litum; Several bugs fixed: bug 378604-allow reporting on completed test runs. bug 394238-fixed some outstanding JS errors. bug 320156-some Litmus i18n testing.
• Sisyphus/JS Automation: Several bugs updated: bug 398005-Enable the use of buildbot to run the shell and browser tests via Sisyphus with reporting to a Tinderbox like waterfall display. bug 386992-Misc cleanup ;

Community

• A well-attended testday was held Fri, Sept 29th. Topic was Security and Privacy. Jonathan Nightengale joins us! Thanks Johnathan!!
• Next test day is on Download Manager/TabBrowser

Upcoming events:

• Accessibility Summit-Boston - Oct 4-5
• FSOSS at Seneca - Oct 25-26

Marketing/PR

• Events:
  • Ajax Experience, Boston, 10/24 - 10/26
  • FSOSS, Seneca College, Toronto, 10/25 - 10/26
  • Open Source Asia Summit, Hong Kong, 11/26 - 11/30. Li Gong keynoting
  • FOSS.in, Bangalore, 12/4 - 12/8
  • Triage call this Friday at 11 a.m., 650-903-0800, ext 91, id 248 & #events on irc.mozilla.org

Evangelism

• Distribution of Swag distribution - Asa

Mozilla Labs

• Extend Firefox competition officially open. Contest is focused on fostering innovation in Web experience through the development of add-ons for Firefox 2.
• Prizes will be awarded on the basis of excellence in user experience, innovativeness and use of open standards.
• If you have ideas for cool and innovative extensions that you'd love to see come to life, please do post them to the Extend Firefox wiki page.
• Much more to come as we roll out the promotional campaign, a revamped web site, judges, and schedule of technical sessions.