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== Webdev, Add-ons, AMO ==
== Webdev, Add-ons, AMO ==
* Neil Lee is starting today!  Neil will be working on web design and user experience for webdev projects.  His first project will be redesigning the Socorro crash reporter, and he will be assuming design responsibilities for addons.mozilla.org in the near future.
* Today is Neil Lee's first day!  Neil will be working on web design and user experience for webdev projects.  His first project will be redesigning the Socorro crash reporter, and he will be assuming design responsibilities for addons.mozilla.org in the near future.  Welcome, Neil.
* AMO
* AMO
** Added [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=345675 Fennec support] to AMO API (see {{bug|453517}})
** Added [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=345675 Fennec support] to AMO API (see {{bug|453517}})

Revision as of 20:13, 3 November 2008

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Meeting Details

  • 1:00pm Pacific time (21:00 UTC until March 8, 2009)
  • Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
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  • http://air.mozilla.com/ to watch and listen
  • join irc.mozilla.org #staffmeeting for backchannel

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

TIME CHANGE NOTICE: Daylight Saving Time (DST) ended last Sunday. Meeting time until March 8, 2009 will be 21:00 UTC.

WeeklyUpdate Live: You can watch the weekly meetings live at Air Mozilla You can also view previous meetings from the "on-demand" button on the Air Mozilla player. Meetings will be posted for on-demand consumption shortly after the meeting conclusion.

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 2.0.0.18 / 3.0.4 / Thunderbird 2.0.0.18

  • Firefox 2.0.0.18 and 3.0.4
    • Code froze last Wednesday, a few days late
    • Builds for both releases were available Friday afternoon
    • Scheduled release date was November 12; actual release date a moving target dependent on the QA cycle
  • Major Update
    • Planning a major update after release
    • Aiming for ~2 weeks after release; some fudging might be needed due to the Thanksgiving holiday (mmm, chocolate...)
  • Thunderbird 2.0.0.18
    • Currently scheduled for November 19
    • Highly dependent on Firefox
    • Aiming for about a week after Firefox 2.0.0.18
  • Firefox 2.0.0.19 and 3.0.5
    • Schedules are on the wiki
    • Code freeze is for November 17 at 11:59pm PST
    • Using new short release, long QA cycle
    • Blocker owners were emailed last night

Gecko 1.9.1

Firefox 3.1

  • mozilla-central will be freezing this Tuesday, November 4th at 11:59pm PDT for Firefox 3.1 Beta 2
  • we are expecting to hold a "slushy freeze" until Thursday or Friday; nightly testers, your focus on the Wednesday and Thursday nightly builds will be appreciated!
  • last opportunity for beta 2 string changes is November 6th at 11:59 pm PDT
  • we expect en-US Beta 2 builds to start appearing next Monday, l10n builds on Tuesday
  • after Beta 2 the focus of the front end team will be bugfixes & polish fixes

TB 3

  • Thunderbird Tinderboxen now have bloat and leak tests (Thanks Standard8 & gozer)!
  • Intermediate beta 1 landings in progress.
  • Beta 1 dates:
    • string freeze: Friday, November 14, 23:59 Pacific.
    • code freeze Tuesday November 18, 23:59 Pacific.
  • davida offering free bottle of liquor for whoever gets Chromebug working in Tb

Mobile

IT

Release Engineering

QA

Firefox 2.0.0.x/3.0.x

  • Triaging 2.0.0.18 and 3.0.4 bugs [ss, abillings]
  • Testing 2.0.0.18 and 3.0.4 beta candidates including bug fix verification. [abillings, juanb, tchung, tracy, jmaher]
  • Updated the 3.0.3 top crashes report [ss]
  • Working on schedule for 2.0.0.19 and 3.0.5.[ss]

Firefox 3.1

WebDev testing [stephend]

  • Tested revised functionality of Add to Firefox button
  • Tested Fashion Your Firefox including bug fix verifications

Test Automation

  • MozMill:
    • Mozmill abspath fixes to Python end. Python end event enhancements. [mikael]
    • Support for running directories of test cases from UI and command line. [mikael]
  • Code Coverage: Completed the measurement of coverage for JS code. It is ~33% when just starting teh browser, going to a few web sites, and then closing the browser. The JS code coverage after running the Mochitests is ~50%. Next up is measuring the coverage for litmus tests. After that it will be measuring coverage fro XPCShell tests and doing a brown bag presentation about the results so far [mnandigama]

Security

Marketing/PR

PR

Events

  • MexicoWeb 2.0, Cancun, Mexico, Nov. 3 - 4: Chofmann and John Resig attending with Mozilla Mexico community - underway!
  • 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 sign up to help!
  • Mashup Camp, Mountain View, Nov. 17 - 19: Dave Camp is participating in a session on persistence.
  • FOSSCamp, Mountain View, Dec. 5 - 6: Organized by Ubuntu folks. Please check it out if you are local!
  • Next events triage will be held on November 5th, 2008 at 10am PDT. 650-903-0800, ext 92, id 248

Q3 Survey Results

Impact Mozilla

  • Over 300 submissions received - wow!
  • Great participation among MBA student groups and Mozilla community members
  • We'll be announcing the ten finalists tomorrow
  • Stay tuned at the Impact blog

Community Store - Coming Soon!

Support

Metrics

  • Huge Milestone -- 20% worldwide market share became official. Read more. Congratulations to all!
  • Continued share growth in an increasingly competitive environment is great to see.

Evangelism

  • Documentation for Firefox 3.1 continues
    • Storage API reference documentation updated
    • New how-to article: Executing a statement asynchronously
    • All modified interfaces that are already documented have been updated for Firefox 3.1
  • MDC upgraded to MindTouch Deki 8.08.1a to fix regressions
  • Had a good meeting with the CTO of MindTouch to discuss enhancements to Deki we'd like to see in their next release

Labs

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

  • Today is Neil Lee's first day! Neil will be working on web design and user experience for webdev projects. His first project will be redesigning the Socorro crash reporter, and he will be assuming design responsibilities for addons.mozilla.org in the near future. Welcome, Neil.
  • AMO
  • Socorro

L10n

  • Added six new languages to Firefox 3.0.4
    • Bulgarian
    • Esperanto
    • Estonian
    • Latvian
    • Occitan
    • Welsh

Read this blog post for more information.

  • Gandalf's "Mozilla Community Theme" is nearing completion. Have you read about this? Are you a community who wants to have a Mozilla Community Theme for your local website? Read here for more information.
  • Silme code was introduced at the Barcelona Developer Day. Gandalf's slides from the conference explain Silme in great detail.
  • Calling all localizers to participate in the localization of Firefox 3.1 beta 2. See Pike's post to dev-l10n.

Foundation Updates

  • The Mozilla Foundation team met in Mountain View October 28-30 to plan for the upcoming year, and also did a Foundation brown-bag presentation for people in the Mountain View office. (We plan to post video of this later.)
  • Mark Surman attended and blogged about MozCamp EU.

Roundtable

Other Business

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