WeeklyUpdates/2008-06-23

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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

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Development Updates

IT

• Launched ff3

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

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
  • Theme browser
  • read more about it on Basil's blog
• Graph server (perfomatic) inaugural triage complete (see bug list)
• Launch notes
  • We made failblog but it happens to the best of us...
  • SUMO, SAMO and other new integrated services stayed up just fine
  • Bouncer served 8.6 Million downloads without problems

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.

• Other
  • Gerv Markham continued work on the public suffix list.

• 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.