WeeklyUpdates/2009-01-12

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm Pacific time (21:00 UTC until March 8, 2009)
• Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
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• +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 8600 (Canada)
• +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8600 (US Toll Free)
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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

Gecko 1.9.1

• 45 Bugs blocking beta 3, we're going up here, not down. Sadness.
• Right now, JS is the group to watch. Currently at 49 blockers. About 22 of those are blocking beta 3.
• We'll be discussing Beta 3 schedule tomorrow. So, if you are interested in hearing what our schedule is going to be feel free to attend.
• Beta 3 code freeze is still planned for Jan 13 until further notice.
• For weekly engineering meeting notes and other info see the Platform page.
• Interesting queries related to Gecko 1.9.1
• 156 1.9.1 blockers.
  • 45 Blocking 1.9.1 P1s
  • 72 Blocking 1.9.1 P2s
  • 20 Blocking 1.9.1 P3s
  • 15 Blocking 1.9.1 w/ no priority.

Firefox 3.1

Firefox 3.1 Beta 3

• we are string frozen
• we are add-on compatibility frozen
• code freeze is going to slip out by 1-2 weeks due to high remaining number of tracemonkey blockers
• everyone should still be trying to hit 0 P1s by tomorrow
• after that, the goal should be to reduce P2s to zero by end of the month
• new proposed schedule (to be decided at tomorrow's meeting):
  • Jan 25th, 11:59pm PST - code freeze
  • Jan 27th, 9:00am PST - QA start
  • Feb 1, 12:00pm PST - Beta 3 ship

• workin' on Beta 3 (triage queries)
  • Firefox 3.1 Nominations
  • Firefox 3.1 Blockers
  • Fixed Firefox 3.1 Blockers that need 1.9.1 landing
  • Firefox 3.1 - easy polish bugs we're looking to take
  • Firefox 3.1 - hard polish bugs we're looking to take

• New faces on the Firefox team - please say "hi" on IRC!
  • Blair McBride (Unfocused) has joined the Firefox team as a contractor, working on the task of integrating aspects of the Ubiquity project into a future version of Firefox. He's located in southern New Zealand, and available frequently on IRC

TB 3

• 3.0b2
  • String Freeze: Monday, 2009-02-02 23:59 Pacific
  • Code Freeze: Thursday, 2009-02-05 23:59 Pacific
  • Want to help? Grab something from the blocking list: http://tinyurl.com/7ar9de
• Various messaging folks (asuth, bienvenu, clarkbw, davida, dmose, rebron) in MV starting Weds for varying numbers of days

Mobile

• Next milestone release: end of Feb
  • Maemo Beta 1
  • Windows Mobile Alpha 1
• Initial Symbian port to land in incubator this week or next

IT

• core1 switch upgrade last night bug 473084
  • Problems with flash drive, problems with single-homed devices
  • Mini post-mortem
• Socorro database downtime Tuesday night
  • disk expansion

QA

Test Execution

• Firefox 3.1 Feature testing progress:
  • Testplans (92% completed)
  • Testcases (81% completed)
• Work on QMO to add documents, such as the Test Case Writing Primer
• Organizing a testweek on Places Testing in QMO
• Reviewed Litmus ownership areas and flagged that item for followup
• installed Windows 7 on the lab machine
• Testing and bug verifications of Mozmill 1.0 before ship

Web Dev Testing, Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Crash Reports

• Web Dev Testing: Began reviewing changes to Mozilla.com for 3.1. Verified 22 bugs. Stephen analyzed and summarized our Web Dev test coverage.
• Accessibility: Marco started a proposal to expose calendaring controls to ATs in the future, using Lightning as a basis.
• Metrics:
  • Murali summarized his results and findings. Check out the pretty pictures!  ;)
  • We are working on identifying the first 6 components to focus on to create a set of project metrics extending beyond code coverage.

Test Development

• Mozmill 1.0 Released
• Reconfigured and better positioned the VMs for JavaScript testing to decrease turnaround time and increase reliability
• Continuing to process Javascript test failures to get a handle on actual failing test cases. Began process of reviewing modifications to the known failures to ensure all new bugs are filed.
• Completed investigation into Crashtest and Mochitest Chrome failures on maemo for Fennec.
• Started creating "projects" and "tools" entries for corresponding test development and automation on QMO (quality.mozilla.org).

Marketing/PR

• Customer Satisfaction Survey Results
  • Second Release of the Survey, with 3.05
  • Had 15K responses in 10 locales.
    • Customer Sat Rating of 84% (Any rating over 80% is considered extraordinary).
    • See results here: http://livetolaugh85.blogspot.com/2009/01/second-installment-of-quarterly-survey.html
  • Next release planned for late February/early March.

PR

• Jay Sullivan spoke at CES on SuperPhone or SubComputer: The Rise of Something Very Small
• Mozilla partnership with Yandex in TechSpot, CNET, TechRadar and Mashable
• Johnathan Nightingale comments on MD5 security flaw in SearchSecurity.com and Enterprise IT Planet
• Vietnam's decision to mandate open source covered in ZDNet, CNET and PC World

Events

• Break the Floor, Jan 9, 2009, Cannes, France: William Quiviger and Julie Deroche attended on Mozilla's behalf. Mozilla sponsored in order to drum up more end user awareness of Firefox.
• Churchill Club, Jan. 15, 2009, San Jose: Mike Shaver is speaking on the "Browsers are Hot again" panel with Opera, MSFT and Google.
• Campus Party, Jan. 19 - Jan 25, Sao Paulo, Brazil: Finalizing details, but Mozilla will be collecting video testimonials at this technology and digital entertainment event.

Evangelism

• Asa has been rocking pretty hard on streaming with ogg.
• Paul has been looking at an updated add-ons manual that was provided by one of our Japanese contributors. He will be working on getting it into developer.mozilla.org and making sure that it's updated for 3.1.
• Geolocation and web workers documentation have been updated to deal with some spec changes.
• Starting to evaluate the next version of Deki -- due for release in February -- and provide feedback to MindTouch to ensure our needs are addressed as well as possible. Things look very promising so far.
  • Mindtouch has a page about the next release of Deki.
  • We also have a most needed features list that includes notes about which are expected to be fixed in this upcoming release.
• Send newsletter-worthy stories to deb if ya have 'em.

L10n

• L10n drivers team is presently gathering participation of all locales for FF 3.1 b3
  • Two new locales likely to participate: Persian and Vietnamese
  • 33 locales checked in so far: vi fa tr ro fy-NL zh-TW it ru et es-ES mk el ca is si zh-CN fr de sv-SE sr eu pl be nl fi nb-NO nn-NO hu ar lv ga-IE bn-IN th

• This week, l10n-drivers will be finalizing their 2009 Q1 goals. Email [1] for any suggestions or comments.

Foundation Updates

• Mark and Frank worked on a planning document for possible Mozilla Foundation education activities in 2009.
• The developers of the NVDA open source screen reader published a report on NVDA development activities funded by the Mozilla Foundation. NV Access (the nonprofit organization supporting NVDA) also published its own annual report.