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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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== 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 == | ||
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** Investigating drupal: | ** Investigating drupal: | ||
*** Imported data, added locale awareness, [http://drupal.sm-cms01.mozilla.com/en/firefox/2.0.0.3/firstrun Example] (still pretty rough!) | *** 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 = | ||
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Quick summary of SethB and SethS trip to Taipei, Osaka, Kyoto and Tokyo | Quick summary of SethB and SethS trip to Taipei, Osaka, Kyoto and Tokyo | ||
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