WeeklyUpdates/2008-08-11

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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

note: all participants are muted automatically; if you want to talk, press *1 to un-mute yourself

Friends of the Tree

• Myk Melez writes in to nominate Archaeopteryx as a friend of the tree for his tireless work as an AMO reviewer. "Archaeopteryx reviews a lot of extensions, but he also goes above and beyond, discussing issues in IRC and filing bugs on problems he finds. His feedback is really useful!"

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

Fx 2.0.0.17 / Fx 3.0.2

Firefox 2.0.0.17

• simultaneous release with 3.0.2

Firefox 3.0.2

• code freeze scheduled for Friday, August 15th
• see schedule/tracking page for more info
• plan is for this to be the version that will be used for Major Update
  • unclear if we'll launch major update the same day that 2.0.0.17 / 3.0.2 come out

Gecko 1.9.1

• Proposed Gecko Shiretoko 1.9.1 Beta 1 Freeze: Still planning for Tuesday, August 19 @ 11:59PM PDT. Like the Firefox section says below, we'll be discussing this more in tomorrow's Firefox meeting.
• Interesting queries related to Gecko 1.9.1
• 21 1.9.1 blockers.
• 138 wanted bugs
  • 26 P1s. These are bugs we feel would really, really make a good release if we had a solid handful completed.
  • 44 P2s. These are medium complexity bugs/changes that are nice to have.
  • 38 P3s. The lowest priority bugs for this release. These are the ones that we will definitely take, but the others take priority.

Firefox 3.1

• canonical feature list being assembled for tracking (based on feedback from post-mortem at Mozilla Summit)
• will be evaluating progress to date at tomorrow's product delivery meeting
  • code freeze for next milestone is Aug 19
  • l10n freeze for next milestone is Aug 15

Marketing/PR

PR

Events

• Black Hat: Please update Chofmann's recap on the Intranet if you attended.
• COSCUP 2008, Taipei, Taiwan: Mozilla is co-sponsoring and Gen Kanai is attending.
• BarCamp Bangkok, August 30 - 31: Mozilla is co-sponsoring and Gen Kanai is participating.
• Events Triage Call: Join us at 10 a.m. PDT on August 13th. Dial-in: 650-903-0800, ext 91, id 248.

Evangelism

• MDC relaunch still scheduled for Thursday, August 14th, although some work is taking longer than expected.

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

• Working on AMO perf release, code freeze Monday
• Socorro was rewritten in PHP over the weekend (lorchard!!), looking to cluster it and resolve 500 ISE issues with outdates Pylons reporter this week
• Working on archive policies for crash reports
• Graph server is fully moved over to Hg and documented, 0.4 milestone is next -- focusing on perf issues (triage is this week)

L10n

• 3.0.2 update
• Thai localization sprint
• Localization efforts in Uganda over the weekend resulted in a translation of Firefox into Luganda. Thanks to Friedel Wolfe for helping with this.
• Axel and others set up separate l10n repos in Hg and then Axel worked tirelessly to migrate our locales over to Hg. Special thanks to Axel for doing this...amidst the dot-release for Firefox (where we hope to add several languages), Axel is getting our localization community ready for 3.1 by preparing Hg. Seriously great work!