WeeklyUpdates/2008-09-29

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm Pacific time (20:00 UTC until November 2, 2008)
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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 2.0.0.17 / 3.0.2 , 3.0.3

• Released Firefox 2.0.0.17 and 3.0.2 on Tuesday, fixing over 200 bugs including several security vulnerabilities
  • simultaneous release
  • many respins were required; post-mortem to be held later this week (watch dev.planning for the announcement)
  • some regressions made it through the process on 2.0.0.17 and 3.0.2

• Released Firefox 3.0.3 on Friday, fixing 1 bug
  • regression in password manager found day after 3.0.2 launched
  • fix landed, verified, new builds produced and published tested all in 72 hours
  • required us to back out all other 1.9.0.3 changes and retarget at 1.9.0.4

• restarting triage for 1.8.1.18 and 1.9.0.4 this week

Firefox 3.1

• continuing to evaluate content for revised schedule, should have decisions by Wednesday
• Beta 1 Schedule
  • now string frozen for Beta 1 (freeze was Thursday, Sept 26th at 11:59pm PDT)
  • code freeze is tomorrow Tuesday, Sept 30th at 11:59pm PDT
• Beta 2 Schedule
  • en-US string freeze is Thursday, October 30th at 11:59pm PDT
  • code freeze is Tuesday, November 4th at 11:59pm PDT

IT

• Completed LDAP upgrade lastnight
• Completed CVS server OS upgrade (RHEL4 -> RHEL5)
• Breakpad - prio reporting
• Upcoming Maintenance (postponed from last week's release schedule)
  • Netscaler OS upgrades
  • mailman
  • Final MySQL 4 -> 5 migration, will affect:
    • Bonsai
    • Despot
    • Graph Server
    • Litmus

Release Engineering

• busy week last week with all the releases
• first signs of linux mobile builds showing up on public ftp
• new version of standalone talos announced last week
• changing how l10n nightly builds are created bug 456386
  • will produce l10n nightlies the new *and* the old way for a few days
  • one step closer to doing l10n nightly updates.
  • allows us to cleanup some of our l10n build systems, making l10n nightlies same way as l10n releases
• switched over unittest machines on mozilla-central.
  • Should be more stable, but pls file bugs if you see intermittent failures
• closing out remaining q4 goals.

Marketing/PR

Consumer Research

PR

• Jay Sullivan spoke to Forbes for "Break A Leg, Android" article
• GCN article about Brendan Eich's panel at Web 2.0 Expo
• Mozilla releases Firefox 3.0.2 and 2.0.0.17
• Many corrections on timeframe
• John Lilly quoted in LA Times article: Google's Chrome: Brand new but not so shiny?
• John Lilly Q&A in SJ Mercury News
• Great piece in PC Mag: Firefox 3: 8 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do
• Firefox 3.0.3
• A few articles around Clickjacking

• MozCamp = https://wiki.mozilla.org/EU_MozCamp_2008
• MexicoWeb 2.0, Nov. 3 - 4
• Next events triage will be help on October 8th, 2008 at 10am PDT.

Events

Retention Marketing

Creative/Brand

Metrics

• We'll soon be rolling out a couple multivariate tests at www.mozilla.com. Our objective is to test a solution, while also testing the potential positive impact to the user experience (on our web sites) and download conversion rate. We'll soon blog about our exact plans at blog of metrics.

Evangelism

• Mozilla Developer Center
  • Glitches with edits fixed by restarting the Deki software; MindTouch is continuing to try to figure out why it happened in the first place.
  • Work is ongoing on Firefox 3.1 documentation. Please be sure to add any developer-relevant changes to the list on the Firefox 3.1 for developers page.
  • Continuing to work with MindTouch to shape plans for the next Deki release later this year, to ensure that as many of our needs are met as possible.

• Mozilla Presentations Library
  • Library wiki is up and running, and everyone is welcome to add their presentations to it. The Library lives here: http://library.mozilla.org/
  • Information about how to add your presentations is written up on the How to add your presentation page. If anything is unclear or if you have any questions, please send feedback to Deb (deb-at-mozilla-com aka "dria" in IRC).

• about:mozilla newsletter has just passed its 40th issue. As always, contributions are more than welcome, and if you have any feedback about the newsletter itself, please contact Deb (deb-at-mozilla-com aka "dria" in IRC).

Foundation Updates

Top Items

• Mark worked with the team to develop an initial list of priorities for next quarter and next year. This will be boiled down and used for discussion at the October 8 Foundation board meeting.
• Mark and Frank participated in email discussions about speeding up our CA review process, and Frank will be taking various actions this week to execute on this.
• Mark provided feedback on agenda and attendee list for the Teaching Open Source track happening at Seneca's FSOSS conference. Mark and Frank will be participating in this event.
• Mark had a discussion with Tristan Nitot about Mozilla Foundation collaboration with Mozilla Europe, and agreed to meet with the Mozilla Europe board and help run a 2010 Goals session at MozCamp Europe.
• David met with Harvey Anderson to discuss the Powered by Mozilla project and sent out recommendations to stakeholders.

For a complete list of other activities please see below.

Program activities

• Education
  • Zak did some research on the Integrating FOSS into the Undergraduate Computing Curriculum Symposium and had some discussions with Mark on our direction and potential initiatives in this area.

Team and organization

• Mark did an initial round of status calls with Frank, David and Zak.
• Mark and the team did early planning and goals for the Foundation All Hands meeting (October 28-30 in Mountain View).
• Frank produced a task list for transitioning ED responsibilities to Mark.

Public communications and community outreach

• Powered by Mozilla
  • David posted a FAQ about the Powered by Mozilla program and blogged about it.
  • David had a call with John Slater about the Powered by Mozilla logo guidelines and creating a landing page on www.mozilla.org.
• www.mozilla.org
  • David continued www.mozilla.org archiving, redirect and bug triage work.
  • David looked into a stats issue with missing Urchin logs.
  • David updated the Community pages
  • David posted a draft of the new Roles and Responsibilities page and new Policies page.

Other

• Zak participated in the 2010 goals discussion.

Upcoming activities

• Gerv will be representing the Mozilla Foundation at the mySociety fifth birthday event (October 14, London).
• Mark and Frank will attend and participate in the FSOSS 2008 conference at Seneca College (October 23-24, Toronto).
• Mark will attend EU Mozilla Camp (October 25-26, Barcelona).
• We have a Mozilla Foundation staff retreat planned for late October (October 28-30, Mountain View).