WeeklyUpdates/2006-09-18

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm PDT (20:00 UTC)
• Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
• +1 866 432 7917 (US toll free)
• +1 334 309 0297 (International)
• join irc.mozilla.org #staffmeeting for attendance taking

Development Updates

Fx 2.0

• RC1 being spun today
  • driving queries available on Mozilla 1.8 Tinderbox page
  • a few server side blockers also remain, and can be handled parallel to spinning and QAing the builds

IT Updates

• Mail migration
  • done for mozilla.com, firefox.com
  • upcoming mozilla.org
• DB migrations this week
• Mirrors
  • Major mirror offline - should be back online this week
  • Looking for more capacity (let us know if you know of anyone)
• Dan Serri starting on contract - office/desktop support

Product Management and Marketing Updates

Marketing

• Web site visual refresh is underway.
• Messaging development is also underway.
• Prepping for press tours to support Firefox 2 launch.
• Working closely with Wil Clouser and Pascal Chevrel to ensure full l10n support for new in-product pages.

Developer Relations

• Firefox 2 developer documentation is essentially complete, aside from minor cleanup and any bug fixes needed; there are no known bugs at this time.
  • Planning to add a session store sample this week.
• DevRel pitched in to help get user documentation updates wrapped up for RC1.
• Nutch is now working to provide improved search capability. Go to Special:Nutch to try it out; it needs testing before we replace the current search with it.
• We could use some help with some PHP code and assorted other web coding to help improve MDC.

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

• AUS
  • Partner channel fallback patch needs to be revisited, see bug 344742 for details.
  • Update metadata patch will be pushed this week, see bug 347256.
  • Finished up AUS acceptance tests, looking at automation of release verification in coming weeks. morgamic coming down 09/27-09/30.
• AMO
  • AMO v1/v2 code freeze official. Only super-important stuff from now until Fx 2.0. Efforts focusing on v3 (remora).
  • HTML-ification of mocks underway -- see Remora Dashboard for more info. See Remora Interactions for mocks.
  • Standards, server reqs, naming conventions, coding style guide, licensing, etc. have all been discussed further in the last week or so. See the Main wiki page for more info.
  • We've also solidifed our SVN structure -- see the project in SVN if you'd like to dig through it.
• Firefox Party!
  • Review of Firefox Party tool this week -- still would like to wait to have it code-complete (it's at 95% now) so we can stage it. Cursory review was OK -- it looked sane.
• mozilla.com l10n