WeeklyUpdates/2007-07-16

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm Pacific time (20:00 UTC until November 4, 2007)
• 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 attendance taking and backchannel

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Development Updates

Fx/TB 1.5.0.13/2.0.0.5

• Due a critical security bug (cross browser scripting) Fx/Tb2005 has become a firedrill release.
• A regression was found in Fx2005rc1 builds which caused a respin.
• Fx2005rc2 testing is in progress. We will have updates ready to test this evening.
• At this point the tentative release date is next Thursday (7/19), but we might be able to accelerate the release, as Fx2005 buils are ready/tested. This is to be discussed.

TB 3

• No Announcements this week. Work continues on leak fixes, frozen linkage and hunspell integration.

Gecko 1.9

• Christian Biesinger in Mountain View
• Mac team is in town this week

IT

• Build vmware migrations
• Breakpad support
• Supporting performance push and graph server enhancments

Build

• VMware Migrations are completed. We're still addressing performance issues, though (tracked in bug 386074). At this time, we don't think we'll have to take any substiantial downtime again, though.
• Related to that, we're aware that trunk cycle times need some work. We're discussing now how to best address this. Sub-30 minute cycle times is a requirement, and we're shooting for sub-20 minute cycles.
• The new Linux reference platform (fxnewref-linux-tbox) became the official Linux nightly build machine last week. This machine is based on the Linux/Runtime_Requirements. Thus far, we've not had any feedback regarding problems. Bug 387167 tracks renaming this Tinderbox after its shakedown cruise is finished.
• We're working on refreshing the Win32 reference platform as well. This is tracked in Bug 384624. Please comment there if you want any additional tools added to the refresh list. We're planning on switching Win32 nightlies later this week or early next week, depending on how testing goes.
• The Build Team will be doing our bi-weekly bug triage tomorrow, 17 July.

Marketing/PR

- Support knowledge base article tracking list is live. Need your help creating content starting this Thursday!
- Retention plan overview and feedback session this Thursday at 3pm.
- OSCON:

• Please help get the word out for office hours and our community party
• 4 passes available for Tuesday's Radar Briefing
• See SpreadFirefox for complete lineup of activities

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

• Kubla
  • Alex has been making great progress here: workflow is setup, language handling is setup
• AMO
  • Progress on mocks, had a good meeting last week about finalizing search/display/browse pages.
  • Download count script is behind but we made progress last week. Looking to avoid dupes and get better stats for users.
• Breakpad
  • Worked on bugzilla integration, among other things
• Mozilla Support
  • Working with TikiWiki community on support-stage setup

Foundation Updates

Note that Frank is on vacation and won't be participating in the weekly call.

• Grants and related activities
  • Frank completed paperwork for one more project left over from the Summer of Code applications, a project by Jörg Dotzki to create a Firefox extension to simulate the appearance of web pages to colorblind individuals.
  • Frank published a blog post on a proposed accessibility vision and strategy for the Mozilla Foundation.

• IP/legal issues
  • Frank formally submitted the application for US trademark registration of the Camino logo.

• Other
  • Zak has been working to help get the Internet as a Public Good symposium organized.
  • David has been working on various tasks related to donations to the Mozilla Foundation.
  • Gerv was on holiday last week.

For more information see the individual status reports from David, Frank, Gerv, and Zak.