WeeklyUpdates/2006-12-18

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm PST (21:00 UTC)
• Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
• +1 866 879 4799 (pin 369) Conf# 8600 (US Toll Free)
• +1 650 903 0800 x91 Conf# 8600 (US/International)
• [Use *1 to mute yourself]
• join irc.mozilla.org #staffmeeting for attendance taking

Development Updates

Fx/TB 1.5.0.9 + Fx 2.0.0.1

• Release Tuesday 12/19 @ 10am (update live @ 4pm).
• Build team pushing bits to mirrors tonight; QA will do live spot checks and update testing tomorrow.
• On track for simultaneous ship of Google/Yahoo! repacks (2.0.0.1 Google only; 1.5.0.9 Google and Yahoo!).
• Triage has already been going for 1.5.0.10 and 2.0.0.2; Hope to release by end of Jan. or early Feb.

QA

• Test Execution
  • Testing FFx/TBird 1509 and FFx 2001. The release was pushed out to ~Tuesday Dec 19th. [jay, juanb, tracy, marcia, tchung, etc]
  • Focused Vista testing for all 1509/2001 releases [marcia]
  • Ran search engine link checker test tool on 2.0.0.1 and 2.0.0.0. This included all locales for each release [alice]
  • Tested TBird 2 Beta 1. This included marshaling community members to help with the testing and reviewing their feedback. [marcia]
  • SpiderMonkey 1.6: Preparatory work for release developing and testing new release documentation. Plan to release Tuesday Dec 19, 2006 [bc]

• Test Development
  • Added new window configuration test cases for Thunderbird to Litmus

• Tools and Infrastructure
  • Bob redesigned build scripts used by his test automation. Next step is to redesign test data files and factor testing scripts to promote re-usability
  • Python/Neo-Ts Framework: further refinement of the python test framework. This makes browser run in off-line mode which ensures no possible contact with the outside world. Auto-installs flash plug in. Sends more information to the graph server (branch and branchid) [alice]
  • Developed more templates for QMO [jay]
  • Talkback: Server problems during the week; had to keep a close eye on Nagios alerts. Tablespace issue had to be resolved with new datafile creation [jay]

• Community
  • Testday last Friday [primarily: tracy, coop, tchung, robcee, jay, alice, marcia, martijn]
    • Community members found 2 failures
    • Community participation info

• Misc

Product Management and Marketing Updates