WeeklyUpdates/2006-12-18

« previous week | index | next week »

Meeting Details

• 1:00pm PST (21:00 UTC)
• Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
• +1 866 879 4799 (pin 369) Conf# 8600 (US Toll Free)
• +1 650 903 0800 x91 Conf# 8600 (US/International)
• [Use *1 to mute yourself]
• join irc.mozilla.org #staffmeeting for attendance taking

Development Updates

Fx/TB 1.5.0.9 + Fx 2.0.0.1

• Release Tuesday 12/19 @ 10am (update live @ 4pm).
• Build team pushing bits to mirrors tonight; QA will do live spot checks and update testing tomorrow.
• On track for simultaneous ship of Google/Yahoo! repacks (2.0.0.1 Google only; 1.5.0.9 Google and Yahoo!).
• Triage has already been going for 1.5.0.10 and 2.0.0.2; Hope to release by end of Jan. or early Feb.

QA

• Test Execution
  • Testing FFx/TBird 1509 and FFx 2001. The release was pushed out to ~Tuesday Dec 19th [jay, juanb, tracy, marcia, tchung, etc]. Conducted focused Vista testing for all 1509/2001 releases [marcia]. Ran search engine link checker test tool on 2.0.0.1 and 2.0.0.0. This included all locales for each release [alice]. Rescheduled Hebrew testing for FFx 2.0.0.1. That is a new locale for this release [timr]
  • Tested TBird 2 Beta 1. This included marshaling community members to help with the testing and reviewing their feedback. [marcia]
  • SpiderMonkey 1.6: Preparatory work for release developing and testing new release documentation. Plan to release Tuesday Dec 19, 2006 [bc]
  • Distro testing [tracy, tchung, timr]
  • Filed bugs. martijn filed 20 [all]

• Test Development
  • Added new window configuration test cases for Thunderbird to Litmus [marcia]
  • Eggplant GUI test cases: Completed porting FFx 1.5 Mac Smoketests to FFx 2.0 [tracy]

• Tools and Infrastructure
  • Bob redesigned build scripts used by his test automation. Next step is to redesign test data files and factor testing scripts to promote re-usability
  • Python/Neo-Ts Framework: further refinement of the python test framework. This makes browser run in off-line mode which ensures no possible contact with the outside world. Auto-installs flash plug in. Sends more information to the graph server (branch and branchid) [alice]
  • Developed more templates for QMO [jay]
  • Talkback: Server problems during the week; had to keep a close eye on Nagios alerts. Tablespace issue had to be resolved with new datafile creation [jay]

• Community
  • Testday last Friday Dec 15th. Theme was Gecko 1.9 and FFx 2.0.0.1 on Vista. [primarily: tracy, coop, tchung, robcee, jay, alice, marcia, martijn]
    • Community members found 2 failures
    • Community participation info
  • Bug Test day on Tues Dec 12th. There were about 15 participants.

• Misc
  • Investigated strategy and resources for Accessibility testing [timr]

Foundation Updates

See the report on Mozilla Foundation activities for the week ending December 15, 2006.