WeeklyUpdates/2008-10-13

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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)
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Friends of the Tree

• Ted writes in, "I'd like to nominate Ben Hearsum for his hard work on reinventing release automation to work with Mercurial, and making the 3.1 beta 1 release happen."

• Seth joins Ted in nominating Ben. "I'd like to nominate Ben Hearsum for friends of the tree for re-spinning zh-CN by hand so the locale could participate in the FF 3.1 Beta 1 release."

Ben Hearsum, this weeks build/release hero and Fried 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 2.0.0.18 / 3.0.4

• Code freeze is October 24, a week from this Friday
• Please land any approved patches
• Please work on any blocking bugs
• Reminders will be sent quite often
• Now triaging approvals with new criteria
• Intend on changing release scheduling per proposal

Gecko 1.9.1

• Cranking on Beta 2.
• Major items of interest this week:
  • About to land nanojit2. Edwin Smith from Adobe is helping Graydon Hoare iron out issues so we can land their nanojit. For lots of technical details see the bug.
    • Will get us closer to JIT'ing regex in the future.
    • Will enable more perf wins specifically related to tracing.
  • mrbkap is working on optimistic script loading
    • For slow networks, this gives solid perf improvements with numbers being report as about a 19% win.
    • This is very important for mobile networks which are high-latency.
• See freeze dates below in Firefox 3.1 section.
• Interesting queries related to Gecko 1.9.1
• 80 1.9.1 blockers.
  • 1 Blocking 1.9.1 P1s
  • 37 Blocking 1.9.1 P2s
  • 35 Blocking 1.9.1 P3s
  • 7 Blocking 1.9.1 Other priority (Need to fix the priorities here!)
• 284 wanted bugs (also up) NOTE: Work on blockers, not wanted bugs, if you can!

Firefox 3.1

• Aiming for a beta 1 release this week (tomorrow if all goes well)

Marketing/PR

PR

• Mobile
  • NWW interview with Jay
  • Screenshots of Windows Mobile
• Labs
  • Geode
  • Developer Tools Lab
• Above the Fold up and running

Events

Europe:

• JDLL, Lyon, France, Oct 17 - 18: Tristan and the Mozilla FR community to attend.
• [http://www.opensourceworldconference.com/oswc/presenta Open Source World Conference, Malaga, Spain, Oct. 20 - 21: Tristan keynoting.
• Web 2.0 Berlin, Oct 21 - 23: John Lilly is keynoting.
• Moz Camp, Barcelona, Spain, Oct. 25 - 26
• Mozilla Labs EU Innovation Tour: Aza Raskin & Dan Mills will be in Europe from Oct 20-26 for both press meetings and labs meetups.
• Internet CEE Conference, Warsaw, Poland Oct 28: Seth Bindernagel will hold a session on the Importance of Localization in Open Source

U.S. and more:

• ICMC/USP Computer Science Week, Oct. 13, San Carlos, Brazil: Remote presentation for students at San Carlos University today at 3:30.
• WhereCamp PDX, Oct. 17 - 19, Portland, OR - Dietrich Ayala demo'ing Geode.
• FSOSS, Oct. 24 - 24, Seneca College, Toronto - Several Mozilla speakers!
• Nonprofit Software Development Summit, Nov. 17 - 19, Oakland, CA: Please check it out if you are local!
• Green Festival, San Francisco, Nov. 14 - 16: Mozilla will have passes for 200 people. Please let Mary or Julie know if you want to attend.
• FOSSCamp Dec. 5 - 6: Organized by Ubuntu folks. Please check it out if you are local!

Impact Mozilla

• since launch: 80,000 unique visitors to impactmozilla.com
• discussion forum: 90 members have joined
• submissions: approx. 100 emails received
• Please help us spread the word among student groups and marketing professionals... initial deadline is two weeks away!

Support

• Time for a new Support Firefox Day!
  • Friday, November 21st
  • Focus will be on localization, so the event will be split up into more than one time slot to allow people to participate around the globe.
  • More info about the event to follow shortly.

Evangelism

• Mozilla Developer Center
  • CSS transforms documentation is now complete.
  • CSS media queries documentation is now complete.
  • The HTML 5 audio element is now documented.
  • The HTML 5 video element is now documented.
  • Geolocation is now documented.
  • The MozAfterPaint event is now documented.
  • Documentation of worker threads has been pushed back to beta 2, since we're still working on matching the spec.
  • Planning to deploy the Deki 8.08.1 update this Thursday, which picks up a few bug fixes and a couple of security improvements.
  • Continuing to engage with MindTouch on plans for the next major release of Deki, which is shaping up to have a lot of big wins for MDC. We're a major factor in their design process for this release, once again. MindTouch is very eager to make us happy. See "Lyons" release's roadmap for details.

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

• AMO 4.0.2 open bugs & fixed bugs -- Code freeze Monday night, midnight
• Lars Lohn and Frank Griswold are in the final stages of re-engineering the Socorro filesystem -- read Lars' post about it or the SocorroFileSystem wiki page
• Austin King posted a patch for the Socorro topcrashers cron job (woot)
• Les Orchard worked on an activity feed for all public Mozilla activity -- looking at fleshing this out over the next few weeks, but here is a demo of his work
• pootle 1.2.0 and verbatim alpha released

Foundation Updates

Highlights

• Mark was in Mountain View for the Mozilla Foundation board meeting and various other meetings with Foundation and Corporation folks, including discussions on Foundation plans and budgets for 2008Q4 and 2009, possible new Foundation initiatives, Foundation/Corporation interactions, the Mozilla Store, and other topics.
• The Mozilla Foundation is making a $5K grant to the TeX Users Group to support the Open Font Library initiative to make high-quality free fonts available for use with the @font-face font downloading feature implemented in Firefox 3.1 (bug 70132) and other browsers.

Program activities

• Education
  • Zak worked to research who is doing what in open source education, to help in planning and making decisions about our own program efforts.
• CAs
  • Public discussion of the CA inclusion request from Microsec Ltd is ongoing, but Frank wasn't able to do the preliminary decision on schedule, so now will need to push the overall CA schedule out.
  • Frank worked with Kathleen Wilson to get her CVS access so that she can update the CA pending list herself.

Public communications and community outreach

• Powered by Mozilla
  • David worked on the "Powered by Mozilla" design guidelines page with John Slater and Tara, and worked on a Bugzilla template for "Powered by Mozilla" logo requests
• www.mozilla.org
  • David continued with archiving, redirect and bug triage work, posted new Mozilla Technologies and Mozilla Specifications pages, and archived the old Projects page.

Upcoming activities

• Gerv will be representing the Mozilla Foundation at the mySociety fifth birthday event (October 14, London).
• Mark and Frank will attend and participate in the FSOSS 2008 conference at Seneca College (October 23-24, Toronto).
• Mark will attend EU Mozilla Camp (October 25-26, Barcelona).
• We have a Mozilla Foundation staff retreat planned for late October (October 28-30, Mountain View).
• Zak will deliver the opening keynote for the AFUP (French PHP User Group) Forum PHP conference (December 8, Paris)