WeeklyUpdates/2008-04-07

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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)
• join irc.mozilla.org #staffmeeting for backchannel

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Friends of the Tree

Ken Kovash nominates and asks that we all give a huge thanks to this week's Friends of the Tree: Julie and Bret. Julie and Bret have put in herculean efforts to make this year's Intern Program Mozilla's best yet.

Development Updates

Gecko 1.9

• RC1 Freeze date is April 8.
• 125 Blockers remaining for RC
  • Content: 23 (13 w/ patches)
  • GFX: 21 (14 w/ Patches)
  • JS: 9 (6 w/ Patches)
  • Layout: 26 (17 w/ Patches)
  • Platform: 27 (22 w/ Patches)
  • General: 17 (7 w/ Patches)
• Still 15 unowned blockers.
• Approximately 73 have patches of some sort.
• Blockers closed in last seven days by platform team: 32
• Blockers created in last seven days: 18

IT

• MXR capable of indexing code checked out of Hg and SVN - going to be deployed Tuesday - Stage Site
• Working on regressions from Bugzilla push

QA

• Q208 goals are now in its 2nd draft. Final draft to be compiled this week and posted.

Firefox 3

• Shipped Beta 5 on 4/2. Despite respin issues, QA/build/Web managed to release in 4 1/2 days!
• Feature testing:
  • Microformats: Filed bug 427456. Submitted patch with tests in bug 427457 [ctalbert]
  • Places: Continued to hone bookmark tests
  • Offline: some exploratory testing [marcia]
  • Plugins: Tested critical plugins and extensions needing blocklisting against staging. bug 421993
• Filed 12 new memory leak bugs. [tomcat]

Firefox 2.0.0.x

• Investigated GC crasher regression. bug 425576 [ss, bc]
• Completed a scan of the top 500 sites using a debug Firefox 2 build attempting to find a test case for the Firefox 2.0.0.13 GC crasher regression. Not reproducible so far. [bc]
• Testing began this week on Fx 2.0.0.14 rc1

Community

• Third installment of "Getting to Know the QA Community" was published [jay]
  • Feedback from blog highlights obstacles faced and ways to improve community events. See link for full set of survey results.
• Updated Test Day planning page to include all of our outreach channels for announcements/broadcasts [jay]

Security

RSA Conference is this week. Window is there today through Wednesday.

Marketing/PR

PR

• Mitchell featured in UK's Guardian technology coverage

Events

Mozilla.com

Support

• First SUMO Day this Friday [1]
  • Lots of preparation work for this day (writing documentation, figuring out specific tasks that new contributors can get involved with, etc)
• "Freezing" en-US in-product this week
  • Localizers should then be able to start translating the 14 Firefox 3 in-product articles
• Lots of performance work last week, plus moving the SUMO server all (TikiWiki) off the netapp
  • Still redirecting fx3 in-product links to static page; will hopefully change this week

Search Engine Marketing

• With some recent bid testing on our primary search campaign, we've found a way to increase our click volume by 50% (without zero cost increase)
• Current URL test is showing some surprising results. We'll blog with details later this week.

Metrics

• Stats Dashboard update
• Omniture (new web analytics solution) update: public discussion expected this week; implementation should resume shortly