WeeklyUpdates/2008-08-18

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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

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->3 Major Update / Fx 2.0.0.17 / Fx 3.0.2

Refocusing efforts on delivering a Firefox 2->3 major update within the next week. This will be from Firefox 2.0.0.16 to 3.0.1. We're tracking some issues that might block the release but otherwise are looking good.

Firefox 2.0.0.17/3.0.2 was supposed to freeze on Friday. This has been moved out. The new schedule is:

• Code freeze: August 26 11:59pm PDT
• Builds start: August 27
• QA starts: August 28
• Release to beta channel: September 4
• Final Release: September 11

This puts code freeze one week after 3.1a2's code freeze to give developers more time to work on patches.

IT

• CDN Trials
  • Moved www.mozilla.org behind CDNetworks (CDN)
  • Planning on moving www.mozilla.com behind CDNetworks this week
• Patched Drupal vulnerabilities
• Bugzilla downtime Tuesday night - Database RAM (8GB -> 16GB) & web server RAM (4GB -> 8GB) upgrades

Marketing/PR

PR

Events

• [Jornadas Regionales de Software Libre http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/2820], Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 20 - 22, 2008: Chris Hofmann and Mozilla Argentina community members conducting talks.
• Congresso Estadual de Software Livre (CESoL-CE), Brazil, August 19 - 23, 2008: Chris Hofmann speaking and meeting up with Brazilian community.
• COSCUP 2008, Taipei, Taiwan: Mozilla is co-sponsoring and Gen Kanai is attending.
• BarCamp Bangkok, August 30 - 31, 2008: 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 on MindTouch Deki scheduled to deploy tomorrow (Tuesday, August 19th). Current MDC is in read-only mode for the transition.

Foundation Updates

• CAs and related issues
  • Frank gave final approval to a request from Comodo to include a new root CA certificate for EV use (bug 421946) and filed bugs 450427 and 450429 for the corresponding NSS and PSM changes.

• www.mozilla.org
  • David scheduled the next www.mozilla.org planning meeting for September 3.
  • David worked on more www.mozilla.org archiving issues (bugs 449446, 450165, 450328, 450412, 450490, 450682 and others).
  • David posted a new page to replace the obsolete Mozilla Suite pages.
  • David updated the Foundation home page with a link to the friendfeed room for Mozilla Foundation futures..

• Other
  • David gathered notes from the Mozilla identity discussion at the Summit and posted them.
  • David blogged about the Mozpad post mortem.
  • Gerv was on holiday all week.

• Upcoming activities
  • Gerv will be on holiday until August 20.