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'''Meeting Details'''
'''Meeting Details'''
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= Development Updates =
= Development Updates =
== Fx/TB 1.5.0.12/2.0.0.4 ==
== Fx/TB 1.5.0.12/2.0.0.4 ==
* Code freeze was this Friday, 4/27.
* Looks like we will have RC1 builds tomorrow morning.
* Bug verifications are in progress.
* Still shooting for release on 5/22.


== TB 2.0 ==
== TB 2.0 ==
* Over one million downloads of Thunderbird 2 in the first 6 days!
* Working with QA and build to join the 1.8.1.4 release train so we can fix a few regressions and start getting ready to think about offering a major update to 1.5.0.x users.


== Gecko 1.9 ==
== Gecko 1.9 ==
Last Week:
* Gran Paradiso Alpha 4 Last week.
* Project Planning for TextFrame/TextRun:  Plan is to enable by default on trunk for the Alpha 5 release, specifically targeting May 15.
*  Cycle Collector Activities:  dbaron, peterv, jst, graydon, and brendan met last week and we have four patches to be landed this week to address cycle collector performance.
*  Cocoa Migration:  Blocker Bashathon:  7 Blockers Eliminated last week, 29 remaining.  GO! GO! GO!
*  ES4 SpiderMonkey Test Hacking:  The ES4 team working on the SM test suite (mozilla/js/tests/).  Current numbers: FINISHED=376, CRASHED=629, PASSED=7775, FAILED=5445 (Note:  These numbers are three days-o-hacking old.  They fluctuate).
This Week:
* Introduce Daniel Holbert
* Another Cycle Collector Meeting this Friday.
* Platform Goal meeting this week (TBD).  See:  [http://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/2007-Q2-Goals]
* Continuing Cocoa Migration Blocker Bashathon:  Meeting this Wednesday @ 3pm PDT (Announcement to dev-planning pending).
== Firefox 3 ==
== Firefox 3 ==
* [http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2007/04/27/gran-paradiso-alpha-4-now-available-for-download/ Released Gran Paradiso Alpha 4] last Friday
* [[Firefox3/Product_Requirements_Document|Wikified the PRD]] and triaging changes using the new process
* [[Firefox3/Schedule|Alpha 5 scheduled]] for end of May, many more UI facing features scheduled - Password Mgr, Places
* Current Firefox [[Firefox3/StatusMeetings/2007-04-24|team status]]
* New newsgroups are being created for prerelease announcements & feedback collection for Firefox & Thunderbird (mozilla.announce.prerelease, mozilla.feedback.firefox, mozilla.feedback.thunderbird, mozilla.feedback.firefox.prerelease).


== IT ==
== IT ==
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* Downtime: litmus down for VM cloning (litmus-stage).
* Downtime: litmus down for VM cloning (litmus-stage).
* Tier1 tinderboxes now being monitored in nagios, will page oncall if builds drop off (no activity for over 4 hours).


== Build ==
== Build ==
* Tinderbox moves
** moved a bunch of community Tinderboxen last week
** Continuing to move Tinderboxen this week
* 2.0.0.4/1.5.0.12 will be using the new branch methodology as outlined [http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/preed/2007/04/crossposted1_to_mozilladevplan.html here]. {{bug|372755}} tracks the implementation of the feature in automation. Since 2.0.0.4 is the first version to use this new branching strategy, we may run into a few issues during the release cycle, so please bear with us if that's the case.


== QA ==
== QA ==
* Test Execution
** Tested FFx3, Alpha 4.  This was smoke tests and some limited focused testing on new features.  See the [[Firefox:3.0_QA_Activities_Alpha4Results|results and findings]]  [marcia, juanb, tomcat, aleksej, timr]  Plans are to do focused testing on new features over the next week or two.
** FFx 2.0.0.4/1.5.0.12 testing:  Mostly bug fix wrap-up, patch landings, and bug fix verification at this point. [juanb, marcia, tomcat]
** Perfomance tests:  Collecting baselines for trunk [alice]
* Test Development
** Litmus test cleanup:  Clean up test cases that were found to be "unclear" and add missing tests cases in preparation for cloning for FFx3.  See the [[MozillaQualityAssurance:Litmus_Test_Case_Maintenance|areas being reviewed]]  [marcia, tracy, juanb, tomcat]
** JS tests: Checked in updates to JavaScript ECMA Date related tests, {{bug|378683}}.  Worked on updating javascript.options.* testing to use new functions.  Working on automating JavaScript Tests using buildbot. [bc, robcee]
** Updated performance test docs regarding [https://intranet.mozilla.org/Anodelman:doc:PerfResults making sense of the Perf Results] and about [https://intranet.mozilla.org/Anodelman:doc:LocalTp running Perf tests locally] [alice]
** Alice updated [https://intranet.mozilla.org/Anodelman:doc:Minotaur doc for Minotaur ] (automated testing of preferences for Partner distros and L10n).  Tracy provided name/value pairs for the4 partner testing. [alice, tracy]
* Test  Tools and Infrastructure
** Buildbot test infrastructure: Upgraded windows box to Win2K3.  This is 3x faster than WinXP VM. See blog [http://antennasoft.net/robcee/2007/04/26/attack-of-the-robots/ Attack of the Robots]  [robcee]
** Built a bulk way of sending data to the graph server [alice]
* Community
** FFx3/Grand Paradiso Test day was held on Friday.  See [http://litmus.mozilla.org/testday_report.cgi?testday_id=38 results]. [tomcat, marcia, and many others]
** Two Bugday Sessions last Tuesday: Asian, Europe.  '''Three new Bugday Members from India!!''' [tomcat, tracy]


== Security ==
== Security ==
= Product Management and Marketing Updates =
= Product Management and Marketing Updates =
== Marketing ==
== Marketing ==
* Mitchell's in Australia for the CeBIT show and is giving two talks, which we'll post once she returns, and speaking with the Australian press about the Mozilla project.
* Looking at increasing conversion rate on the download page and doing A/B testing in the US. If successful, we'll look at rollout to other locales.
* Customer Support: Set timetable for community feedback sessions. Developed early draft of customer support specs and end-user work flow. Researching potential vendors to provide platform for community based customer support.
* Global Marketing: Developed priority list of countries for marketing expansion. A graduate student team from Stanford is currently identifying Mozilla community and current state of the Internet in each country to be followed by strategy development for roll-out of low-touch, high leverage marketing.
* Working on OSCON plan and roll out of new events process and calendar. Will schedule public call for later in the week to gather more feedback.
* Several student marketing projects are live now as part of Stanford d.School class on creating infectious action. Handy link [http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2007/04/firefox-promotion-projects-spree/ here].
== Community ==
== Community ==
* Recruiting for Team Firefox at Bay to Breakers. http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/27358


== Mozilla Labs ==
== Mozilla Labs ==
== Developer Relations ==
== Developer Relations ==
* MDC wiki upgrade asymptotically approaching completeness
** new-style and old-style breadcrumbs both working (yay RDF?)
** nutch working against the new server
** chasing some encoding issues with RSS and nutch output
* thanks to Gavin for finding and fixing bug that kept FUEL from being packaged in alpha 4, it's working well on trunk now and will be in alpha 5 FOR SURE
* Mark at CHI showing off the power of XUL for UI experimentation
* Paris Dev Day (June 23) planning is moving along well, check the http://wiki.mozilla.org/DeveloperDays/ParisJune2007 page for more detail and to sign up or propose a session
* Look for more details on the Tokyo Dev Day soon.
* New summer intern: Cesar Oliviera, he'll be working in Mountain View on developer tools.  Show no mercy!


== Webdev, Add-ons, AMO ==
== Webdev, Add-ons, AMO ==
* moz-eu cms
** production site is setup, still polishing rough spots with IT
* kubla
** Investigating drupal:
*** Imported data, added locale awareness,  [http://drupal.sm-cms01.mozilla.com/en/firefox/2.0.0.3/firstrun Example] (still pretty rough!)
* amo
** continuing to make fixes, working on issues with download counts not being tallied correctly due to script timeouts (we have a fix, need to get it to prod and update the live db)
** massive wiki cleanup from fligtar, docs are much clearer now, thanks Justin!
* looked at AMO in .nl and things looked good so far -- thanks to mrz for setting this up, should improve response time for EU users
* download counts issue affected counts for add-ons (see {{bug|378804}})
* breakpad
** postgres schema and indexes w/ partitioning
** python script to insert dummy data for load testing postgres db
* build automation
** created separate step for bouncer integration, more this week


= Foundation Updates =
= Foundation Updates =
For Mozilla Foundation activities for the week ending April 27, 2007 please see the status reports from [http://hecker.org/mozilla/foundation-activities-2007-04-27 Frank], [http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2007/04/weekly_status_20070427.html Gerv], and [http://zak.greant.com/mozilla-foundation-weekly-status-2007-04-27/ Zak].


= Roundtable =
= Roundtable =
= Other Business =
= Other Business =
Quick summary of SethB and SethS trip to Taipei, Osaka, Kyoto and Tokyo
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