WeeklyUpdates/2008-08-04

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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

note: all participants are muted automatically; if you want to talk, press *1 to un-mute yourself

Friends of the Tree

(I'm out of the office today. Sam or Tim, can one of you please announce the Friends?! -A)

• Schrep nominated Ted for "seriously kicking ass to fix tests to not fail intermittently" Let's hear it for Ted!
• Asa asks that you all recognize all the people that prepared and delivered great talks, discussions, and presentations at the Summit.
• Asa also wanted to recognize John Lilly and the Steering Committee for supporting the biggest and most productive gathering of the Mozilla community ever.
• Last, and definitely not least, too many people to list wrote in nominating Dan Portillo for the amazing job he did in organizing and managing the 2008 Firefox+ Summit. This was the largest event undertaking in Mozilla's history and Dan rocked it!! Let's have a giant round of applause for Dan!

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

Fx 2.0.0.17 / Fx 3.0.2

Since we last talked, Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 shipped and we had a joint post-mortem for Firefox 2.0.0.16/3.0.1.

We're currently finalizing the schedule for Firefox 2.0.0.17 and 3.0.2. If you have a bug that's blocking either release, please work on it immediately as we're more than likely aiming for a release in the next three to four weeks.

QA

Firefox 3.0.2

• Landed patch to:
• bug 438784 – URL of loaded page no longer exposed as the accValue for the Doc accessible. [marcoz]

Bug 440770 – DOCUMENT_FRAME has a parent INTERNAL_FRAME with an action (edit) Bug 441519 – nsOuterDocAccessible chrome tests (edit)

Community

• Working on a bugzilla drupal module for QMO. This would allow us to highlight some of the great things community members are doing subitting, triaging and fixing bugs along with giving us easier access to bug charts. [paulc]

Accessibility [marcoz]

• Landed patches to:
  • bug 438784 – URL of loaded page no longer exposed as the accValue for the Doc accessible.
  • bug 440770 – DOCUMENT_FRAME has a parent INTERNAL_FRAME with an action along with Chrome tests (bug 441519)
• Investigated this posting on the Orca-list by a Google a11y dev and found that it works very well with JAWS/FFX3/Windows already.
• Created a article about "Software Accessibility: Where Are We Today?" which

Marketing/PR

PR

Events

• Black Hat 08: Mozilla attending and hosting "Milk & Cookies Party" on Aug 6th from 11 p.m. - 2 a.m. at Caesar's Palace. Room location and other details will be posted shortly here.
• InstallFest for Schools at LinuxWorld: You can help by:
  • Donating hardware
  • Nominating a school to receive refurbished hardware
  • Volunteering at LinuxWorld

Retention Marketing

Affiliates Program

Evangelism

• MDC relaunch scheduled for August 14th.
  • Installed customized toolbar changes to make editing more fun than ever!
  • Waiting on a MediaWiki converter fix from MindTouch so we can do one more test import.
  • Screencast demo of the new MDC is being developed.

Foundation Updates

• Future of the Foundation
  • David, Frank, Gerv, and Zak did a "Foundation road-trip" with Mark Surman from Vancouver up to the summit to discuss future plans. Fortunately the the rock slide waited a day or two and thus avoided wiping out the entire Foundation staff in one fell swoop.
  • We did an interactive "Mozilla Foundation 2.0" session at the summit, with lots of good suggestions from the participants. More on this later as we have a chance to write things up.

• CAs and related issues
  • Frank gave preliminary approval to requests from Comodo (for a new ECC root, bug 421946) and Wells Fargo (bug 428390).

• Public communications
  • David hosted a session on the www.mozilla.org site at the summit.

• Upcoming activities
  • Gerv will be on holiday until August 20.
  • Frank is on vacation all this week (August 4-8).

Other Business

• BMO Reorg Part One completed last Wednesday night / Thursday morning; part two coming in a few weeks