WeeklyUpdates/2008-02-25

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm Pacific time (21:00 UTC until March 9, 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

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Development Updates

Fx 2.0.0.13 / TB 2.0.0.12

Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 is on track to ship tomorrow. If you know of any reason why it shouldn't please let us know.

We're triaging nominations and approval requests for Firefox 2.0.0.13. If there are specific things that should be looked at, please ping the triage team. If you're a developer that owns a blocker, *please* look at your bugs this week.

IT

• Stage migration - After a *ton* of work by justdave and the unionfs devs, we finally have a stable build. Stage migration is continuing, looking to cut over in the next 2 weeks.
• All china hardware has been repaired and datacenter is fully online
• Bugzilla - Phase 1 is 50% complete, scheduled to be code complete on 3/5, with patches pushed to b.m.o after qa, but in March
• php5 migrations continuing
  • Completed: survey.mozilla.com, userpanel.mozilla.com, reporter.mozilla.org, firefoxflicks.com, firefoxparty.com, worldfirefoxday.com, mozilla-europe.org
  • This week: download.mozilla.org

Build

• group changes: bugs for build, perf, talos/unittest/mochitest/reftest/xpcshell...

• TB2.0.0.12 release tomorrow
• mothballing tinderbox perf machines bug 413695
• wallclock times posted: note unusual problems hit in 3.0b3

• change over 1.8 nightlies to buildbot/release automation machines: Rob Helmer's blog and John's blog

• downtime this week for nsis update bug 403078, kernel updates bug 407796

• moz2 builds
  • win, linux running - this morning hit bug 419481
  • mac hardware being setup bug 391251
• mobile builds bug 414622

Test Infrastructure

• pushed jss only machines to stage (3) bug 416251
• pushed fast branch machines to stage (3) bug 416237

QA

Test Tools

• Minotaur - Worked with Alice to get the minotaur patches reviewed. Came up with some better solutions for the problems those patches were trying to resolve. Checked in patch for bug 413742. [ctalbert]
• QAX (AKA QAC) [ctalbert, jay]
  • This is the Firefox extension that serves up litmus test cases and annoucements to community testers.
  • Worked more on trying to debug the update problem. Rob Strong helped out. Fixed bug 393348
  • Only one blocker remaining on QAX, started work on it: bug 415849

Test Development

• JavaScript- Kept up with the JavaScript team's patches while reporting regressions and improving the Sisyphus/JavaScript framework. Tested Brendan's optimized getter/setter patch. [bc]
• Places - First set of automated functional tests are ready for review [ctalbert]
• Microformat mochikit tests - this is next of ctalbert's list

Leak testing [tomcat]

• Looking for leaks while running user test cases. Completed Mac FFT; starting the Windows FFT run.
• Filed 25 new Leak Bugs in th elast two weeks
• Rewrote the Leak Gauge Documentation and working on the next steps here.

Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 [proj lead - ss, QA lead-abillings]

• Released Beta Last Tues Feb 19th. The team did bug fix verification, smoketests, windows Basic Functional Tests (BFTs), and L10n testing. Only one issue was found where there was a talkback ID mismatch. This turned out to be due to no longer building talkback each release and this is now expected.
• In addition to a whole raft of platform bug fixes, there are 19 mail specific changes

Firefox 3

• Tested Beta 3 for release on Tues, Feb 12th. The QA live testing caught bug 417101 with the animated flavacon.

Partners - Tested and signed off the Firefox 2.0.0.12 partner repacks for 9 partners

Community

• There was another very successful test day on Friday, Feb 22rd. See results. 108 test cases were run on Downloading alone!
• Tomcat attended FOSDEM. He spoke at the Extension Workshop (first presentation ever :) together with Mark Finkle. He also supported L10n Presentation. And got video-interviewed by the Spanish Community!
• Test Dev Day

Community Dev/QA Day - We are looking at doing something similar to Dev Days to connect directly with community members and engage them in test and tools development, and test execution. Met with Mary to investigate how previous test days went and brainstorm ideas for a testing version. We are considering doing a session at the European dev day on June 5th or the Brazil conference April 17-19. [marcia, ctalbert]

Marketing/PR

PR

• Fx3b3 coverage
• Mozilla Messaging launch
• Mitchell in Europe
• Window included in eweek's most influential list
• Extend firefox winners announced
• David Tenser and SUMO featured in Computerworld piece that was syndicated to the NYT
• EFF Pioneer Award
• Webware 100 award finalist - voting opens today!
• Asa on NPR this morning
• 500 million downloads
• Firefox 3 T-Shirt Design Contest tell your friends!

Support

Events

Website

Metrics

• Working to launch a beta of spectator this week.
• Omniture - working through the privacy policy, sites are tagged and ready. Working to launch soon.

• At 43% of extension compat goal
• 5 AMO editor interns online

Evangelism

• nsIZipWriter is now documented.
• The Download Manager schema is now documented.
• This week, more Download Manager documentation should be rolling out onto MDC.

Mozilla Labs

• Extend Firefox
  • Winners announced/notified/awarded
  • Planning under way for launch of Extend Firefox 3 in early March
• Personas
  • Myk has posted another development build to the forum with various fixes, including improvements to persona preview;
  • Heldenhaft (a frequent commenter in the forum) has posted the first dynamic persona, a panorama from a webcam at a university in Paderborn (note: this has not yet been added to directory of personas);
  • Atul is working on a web app to manage the directory of personas and let users browse and select personas from a web page;

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

• Launched messaging site
• Migrated mozilla-europe to php5, download.mozilla.org tomorrow night
• AMO
  • check out preview of AMO reskin
  • breakdown of load issues during b3 launch
  • reskin continues, l10n freeze and we're working through feedback and UI bugs
  • API fixes/improvements for b4
• UI tweaks for mozilla.com CMS
• AUS3 migration script and schema are complete, starting alpha work this week
• morgamic will be up in Portland tomorrow working on Breakpad/Socorro at cubespacepdx