WeeklyUpdates/2008-06-02

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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

(I'll cover this unless someone else wants to -timr)

David Tenser nominates Cheng Wang (Cww) and Matthew Middleton (zzxc) for amazing contributions in the planning and execution of the Support Firefox Day. "These two community members really kick ass!" Let's give a big round of applause for Cheng and Matthew!!

Clint Talbert nominates Massimiliano Mirra (bard) and Adam Christian for their continuing contributions to the Gristmill project. These community javascript hackers are helping us out with the automation test harness framework.

Development Updates

Fx 2.0.0.15 / TB 2.0.0.15

We're targeting this Friday, June 6, as a code freeze date. However, given the lack of patches for this release, 2.0.0.15 is currently at risk.

If you are a developer who owns a bug that's currently blocking 1.8.1.15, please look at it today and let us know if you think you'll be able to fix it by Friday.

Current schedule:

• Code freeze: June 6
• Builds start: June 9
• QA starts: June 10
• Release to beta channel: June 17
• Final Release: June 24

TB 3

• Shredder Alpha 2 underway (code freeze July 8)
• davida in Romania, speaking at eLiberatica conference

Mobile

• Held UI work week in Toronto last week
  • agreements on direction on UI
  • spec work in progress
• Owners assigned to all P1/P2 requirements

IT

• Scaling for FF3
  • SUMO, services, downloads
• bugzilla patches pushed
• working with evangelism on dekiwiki stuff
• rhel 5 and kernel upgrades continuing...

Release Engineering

• NetApp fun continues: Tree burning this morning, see bug 435134 for details.
• Opening mozilla-central *gradually*.
  • metered checkins, each needs with sheriff approval, until we clear backlog
  • extra hg-help available from sheriff for first few days
  • making sure it all scales ok, before we throw open the floodgates

QA

Firefox 2.0.0.15 [ss, abillings]

• Mostly in triage and coordinating landing of patches

Firefox 3 [tchung-lead]

• Testing RC2. We have to do a Mac Respin. The Windows and Linux testing kept on track and those BFTs are 100% done and PASS! Mac testing is ~85% done.
• We had another high activity RC2 test day on Fri, May 30th. Over 35 people joined us. Coce was again the top community tester! There was a lot more activity and interaction than that the results show.

Web Dev testing [stephend]

• Download Day testing - tested the sign-up page in 10 languages, 50 individual pages. Released on Wednesday. Also heavy testing of the "day of" pages. Great teamwork by Ryan, Mary, Stephen, and others! Next up is a couple more locales along with "day of" and "day after" testing.
• Testing Remora 3.4.3
• mozilla.com - tested /whatsnew/, /firstrun/, and /central/ pages for tier 1 / tier 2 locales

Community

• A updated nightly start page was published. This is meant to clear away clutter and provide a better path for people to get involved with testing.
• Accessibility:
  • Announced the availability of the Litmus test run for Accessibility on newsgroups and my blog. Number of run testcases shows that some people besides me have already submitted results.Announced the availability of the Litmus test run for Accessibility on newsgroups and my blog. Number of run testcases shows that some people besides me have already submitted results.
  • Contacted the FoxMarks extension developers with some suggestions to improve their XUL.

Misc

• Porting dojo toolkit tests to Mochitest so all the Dojo tests to be run automatically [mw22]
• Checked in fix to bug 432033 – Accessibility fixes in mail/components/preferences XUL files [marcoz]

Marketing/PR

PR

- May 26 - New York Times Feature, "Browsers Are a Battleground Once Again" http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/26/technology/26firefox.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=login

- Download Day in the Media

- Awards:

• Laptop 25 Most Influential in Mobile Tech, Mike Schrep (http://www.laptopmag.com/business/feature/25-most-influential-people-in-mobile-technology.aspx?page=7)
• PC World’s The 100 Best Products of 2008 (Thunderbird and FF3), (http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,146161-page,12-c,electronics/article.html)

Events

Mozilla.com

Search Engine Marketing

• We recently concluded a set of branding experiments via our search engine advertising. For example, do new users better identify with getfirefox.com or with mozilla.com/firefox? David walked through our findings at giantspatula.

Metrics

• May 2008 market share update from Net Applications. Firefox showed strong growth last month... details at blog of metrics.

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

• Launched Download Day
• Launched Mozilla Party
• Worked on AMO 3.4.3 -- code freeze is tonight
• Brian Krausz, Jacob Potter and Dan Schafer joined us last week - welcome!
• Breakpad server (Socorro)
  • Production pushes of pending changes to processor (infinite loop handling, logging of report errors) will be pushed
  • Final review of aggregate reports patch, working to push this ASAP
  • Database pruning and optimization this week to improve performance for common topcrasher queries -- will archive data older than 60 days

Roundtable

• So I've been following m.d.planning, but I'm still confused. Can we outline the code checkin state right now w.r.t. the following questions:
  • What should be checked into CVS (for 1.9.0 trunk)? (i.e. QA Dev has tests that need landing)
  • What should be checked into Hg? Should everything going into CVS now be cross-committed to Hg too?
  • When are the repo's going to re-open? And what bugs should people be following for that status?