WeeklyUpdates/2008-02-25

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm Pacific time (21:00 UTC until March 9, 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

Development Updates

Fx 2.0.0.13 / TB 2.0.0.12

Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 is on track to ship tomorrow. If you know of any reason why it shouldn't please let us know.

We're triaging nominations and approval requests for Firefox 2.0.0.13. If there are specific things that should be looked at, please ping the triage team. If you're a developer that owns a blocker, *please* look at your bugs this week.

IT

• Stage migration - After a *ton* of work by justdave and the unionfs devs, we finally have a stable build. Stage migration is continuing, looking to cut over in the next 2 weeks.
• All china hardware has been repaired and datacenter is fully online
• Bugzilla - Phase 1 is 50% complete, scheduled to be code complete on 3/5, with patches pushed to b.m.o after qa, but in March
• php5 migrations continuing
  • Completed: survey.mozilla.com, userpanel.mozilla.com, reporter.mozilla.org, firefoxflicks.com, firefoxparty.com, worldfirefoxday.com, mozilla-europe.org
  • This week: download.mozilla.org

Build

• group changes: bugs for build, perf, talos/unittest/mochitest/reftest/xpcshell

• TB2.0.0.12 release tomorrow
• mothballing tinderbox perf machines bug 413695
• wallclock times posted: note unusual problems hit in 3.0b3

• change over 1.8 nightlies to buildbot/release automation machines: Rob Helmer's blog and John's blog

• downtime this week for nsis update bug 403078, kernel updates bug 407796

Marketing/PR

PR

• Fx3b3 coverage
• Mozilla Messaging launch
• Mitchell in Europe
• Window included in eweek's most influential list
• Extend firefox winners announced
• David Tenser and SUMO featured in Computerworld piece that was syndicated to the NYT
• EFF Pioneer Award
• Webware 100 award finalist - voting opens today!
• Asa on NPR this morning
• 500 million downloads

Support

Events

Website

Metrics

• Working to launch a beta of spectator this week.
• Omniture - working through the privacy policy, sites are tagged and ready. Working to launch soon.

• At 43% of extension compat goal
• 5 AMO editor interns online

Evangelism

• nsIZipWriter is now documented.
• The Download Manager schema is now documented.
• This week, more Download Manager documentation should be rolling out onto MDC.

Mozilla Labs

• Extend Firefox
  • Winners announced/notified/awarded
  • Planning under way for launch of Extend Firefox 3 in early March