WeeklyUpdates/2008-12-29

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Meeting Details

  • 1:00pm Pacific time (21:00 UTC until March 8, 2009)
  • Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
  • +1 650 903 0800 x92 Conf# 8600 (US/International)
  • +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 8600 (Canada)
  • +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8600 (US Toll Free)
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  • http://air.mozilla.com/ to watch and listen
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Friends of the Tree Friends of the Tree

Please send FotT nominations to asa@mozilla.org. This is a great opportunity for the community to recognize those who go above and beyond, so please tell me when you see that happening. Thanks.

Development Updates

Branch work: Firefox 3.0.6 / Major Update

  • Firefox 2.0.0.20 to 3.0.5 Major Update
    • Going out to Beta today (12/29)
    • Final release in early/mid January
    • Localizations are working on translating the new major update banner
  • Thunderbird 2.0.0.19
    • Being released tomorrow at 11am (ahead of schedule!)
    • Next Thunderbird 2 release will likely be in March
  • Firefox 3.0.6
    • Code freeze is January 6 at 11:59pm
    • Final release is targeted at early February

Gecko 1.9.1

Firefox 3.1

Firefox 3.1 Beta 3

  • Dec 31 - string freeze <-- coming soon! take note!
  • Jan 13 - code freeze
  • Jan 19 - QA start
  • Jan 26 - ship to users

TB 3

Mobile

IT

  • No real updates this week.
  • Last week was slow, took advantage of the slowness to run through kernel upgrades and other miscellaneous updates.

Release Engineering

  • Releases discussed above.

QA

  • Releases (mostly covered above)
    • Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 testing, attempt to release this week
    • Pre-release testing of 2.0.0.20 Major Update to 3.0.5
  • 100,000 top site test ongoing
    • Found and reduced two crash bugs to reproducible testcases so far, more to follow
  • Tested and Released Alpha 2 for Fennec!
  • Keeping abreast of Firefox 3 testing in CSS Tranforms, Session Restore, and PPC support among others
  • Code coverage statistics are almost ready, getting the last kinks worked out
  • Mozmill 1.0 will be released this week
    • Bug fixing for Thunderbird support
    • UI improvements

Security

Mozilla is investigating the issue of improperly issued SSL certificates from a Comodo reseller. See extra long thread here: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.tech.crypto/browse_thread/thread/9c0cc829204487bf#

Marketing/PR

PR


Engagement

  • New wiki page posted with Dec08 update slides.


Community

Support

No updates this week. Thanks to all SUMO contributors (and of course the SUMO team and all helpful peers) for a fantastic 2008! Here's to an even more spectacular 2009. :)

Metrics

Evangelism

  • No Updates.

Labs

Developer Tools

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Webdev

  • No updates.

L10n

Foundation Updates

Roundtable

Other Business