WeeklyUpdates/2006-07-17

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm PDT (20:00 GMT)
• Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
• 866-432-7917 (US)
• 334-309-0297 (INTL)
• join irc.mozilla.org #staffmeeting for attendance taking

Agenda

1. Development Updates
2. IT Updates
3. Product Management and Marketing Updates
4. Foundation Updates
5. Roundtable
6. Other Business

Development Updates

FF/TB 1.5.0.5

• QA has completed smoketests, BFTs, and l10n testing with rc3 for FF and TB (found a couple of issues with l10n builds and new security exploit reported over the weekend)
  • We need to hold the release for a bug that is in the queue for the Browser Fun blog (will require respin for rc5):
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344759 - EIP hijack in FF 1.5.0.5 -- crash [@ 0x20202113] called by JS_SetPrivate
  • 2 l10n issues to resolve (will require repackaging for rc5):
    • Bug 344633 - bookmarks menu in fy-NL version not displaying item correctly (OPEN - rhelmer looking into it)
    • Bug 344710 - Thunderbird GA-IE Crashes when entering IMAP password [@ nsCRT::strlen] (FIXED - checked in 7/16)

• Remaining Tasks
  • Fix and check-in remaining bugs and respin for rc5
  • Smoketest rc5 and verify new fixes
  • Repackage l10n and retest fy-NL and ga-IE
  • Get update patches generated and tested
  • Contact affiliates and partners when we have a final RC (hoping rc5 will be it).

• Release date might need to be pushed out depending on how quickly we get a fix for bug 344759.
  • Currently slated 7/25 for FF and 7/27 for TB

FF 2.0

• Beta1 Shipped last Weds in 29 locales - way to go!
• Beta2 planned for Early August. Daily triage happening.

TB 2.0

Alpha hopefully this week. Blocked by:

• Need to turn on the new installer
• Need to recover from the tinderbox / build re-org over the weekend

Build

• Most Tinderboxen are back after the colo move; we're still working through some issues. Please email build@mozilla.org if you find builds missing, etc.
• Trunk Tbird builds will be unavailable for awhile, due to failed hardware; we'll work on bringing them back ASAP.
• We have some Mac hardware that's ready to be reimaged, so the UB build situation should start to improve.

IT Updates

• Colo move - done
• VPN/Jumphost

Product Management and Marketing Updates

Developer Relations

• started brainstorming Q3 project work, going to refine slightly and then start circulating to appropriate communities; should be a very exciting quarter!
• sancus getting Nutch up and language-happy, as replacement search system
• JS1.7/Fx2 documentation work continues, largely limited now by things being frozen enough to doc
• MDC server moved to new colo largely without incident; big thanks to the IT team!

Add-ons and AMO

• investigation underway of template-localization strategies for AMO-public (clouserw)
• designing schema revisions for multi-lingual database content and other helpfulnesses (morgamic)
• updated policy document draft to be split into reviewer-guide and author-guide, posted on AMO proper, blogged about, cheered, reviled, etc. -- hopefully all this week
• starting to solicit design help for a more polished/consumer-friendly sister site to AMO, basically a dramatic expansion of the recommended list

Foundation Updates

See the report on Mozilla Foundation activities for the week ending July 14, 2006.