WeeklyUpdates/2007-05-07

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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)
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Development Updates

Fx/TB 1.5.0.12/2.0.0.4

• An issue was discovered last week which requires an RC2 respin: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=379738 (Error "entry point GetLongPathNameA could not be located" under NT 4.0 starting Firefox 2.0.0.4 RC1)

• Other bugs which will be taken in this respin:

• • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373228 (Cookie injection problems) - Affects Fx 2004
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=379722 (Starting Firefox or Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 prints "Handling command line!") - Affects Fx 2004
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375677 (Deleting 5 or more bookmarks at once in Bookmark Manager (FF 2.0.0.3) seriously messes up the bookmark handling) - Affects Fx 2004
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378958 (Move NSPR pull-tag for 1.8.1.4 and 1.8.0.12) - Affects Fx 2004/15012, Tb 15012

• This respin will delay the beta push we had planned for Thursday 5/10, so that we now plan to push betas next week, Tuesday 5/15.

• Tagging will happen this afternoon, and RC2 builds should be ready tomorrow.

Gecko 1.9

Last Week:

• GFX: Landed Border rendering rewrite patch with some regressions.
• Layout: Continuing work on textrun-cache patch; a big pile of mochitests for style system, international bugs for textframe.
• Cycle Collector Activities: dbaron, peterv, jst, graydon, sicking, and brendan met last week. Now awaiting a patch by Sicking. See: Cycle Collector Status
• Cocoa Migration: Blocker Bashathon: 5 Blockers Eliminated last week, 32 remaining (8 Bugs added to blockers list during triage). GO! GO! GO!
• Goals were finalized last week: Mozilla Platform Q2 Goals

This Week:

• GFX: Regressions from Borders, reviews for linux perf patches, and mac performance.
• Layout: textrun cache patch review, reflow regressions, more intl bugs.
• Yet Another Cycle Collector Meeting this Friday @ 11:30AM PDT.
• Continuing Cocoa Migration Blocker Bashathon: Meeting this Wednesday @ 3pm PDT

Firefox 3

• Password Manager review completed, should land this week
• Close to turning on Places/Bookmarks on the trunk
• Shawn Wilsher starting to work on Content this week
• Growl (Mac notification) is now on and working on trunk
• Alpha 5 scheduled for end of May
• Current Firefox team status

IT

• AMO -> GSLB proximity load balancing switch during Tuesday's maintenance window.
• Kernel Updates
• Build migrations - blocked on releases
• Perf testing machines to arrive

Build

• We're working with IT on switching the Tp/pageload server away from axolotl; when we do this, the Tp numbers will change. We're figuring out the schedule for this, and will let everyone know via an outage announcement when we make this switch.
• We're currently figuring out the semantic usages of the new _RELBRANCH proposal that preed discussed in his blog; as such, please don't check into it without checking with build@mozilla.org first.
• The Win32/Linux Community VMs have been moved out to the community network, but we're still waiting for to get read only CVS access for those accounts bug 369013

Marketing

• Firefox Companion for eBay beta release last Thursday
• Firefox end-user support open forum meetings Tuesday at 10 and Thursday at 2. See Sam's blog post for more details.
• Firefox download page A/B testing -- hoping to have sign-off on a few page designs so we can start testing by end of this week
• Search landing page testing -- to optimize search -- plan is to implement this week
• Store - bid process to redesign look and feel being finalized
• Event Strategy Feedback session at 2:00 p.m. PDT today, +1 650-903-0800, ext 91, id 248
• OSCON: Mitchell Baker added as speaker on opening day. Finalizing plan today/tomorrow.

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

Bouncer

• Tb2 downloads are going through bouncer2

Breakpad

• Updated models to match new schema
• Inserted about 40 million records into stage db over the weekend; doing more db load testing w/ postgresql
• Looking at topcrasher reports this week along with webapp tasks

AMO

• Tested .nl mirror of AMO -- should go live on Tuesday as mrz said
• Download count issues resolved

CMS

• mozilla-europe CMS is setup, email sent to involved parties