WeeklyUpdates/2008-08-25

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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

• Rob Strong wrote in to nominate Serge Gautherie as a friend of the tree. He has been tracking down bugs that cause tests to fail in debug builds as well as tested many edgecases and filed bugs for them."

• Deb Richardson wrote in after last week's meeting, "I would like to nominate Mister Asa Dotzler as one of this week's friends of the tree for totally kicking ass with setting up video streaming of the weekly meeting on air mozilla. It was much, much more engaging than the regular old 'disembodied voices over the phone' that we usually have. Also, with the ability to record and post meetings after the fact, Asa has solved the problem of keeping good and accurate notes for folks in other timezones who can't make the live meeting. Three cheers for Asa. Awesome, awesome work  :)"

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

• no showstopper feedback from beta
• thanks to some awesome localization work we're ready to issue the major update today
• QA is off site for a meeting, so we'll go live late PDT today, around 7pm
• initial throttle rate will be 75%, will monitor and adjust based on uptake
• we will not be issuing the update to ja-JP-mac builds until Firefox 3.0.2

IT

• Continuing CDN Trials
  • Moved www.mozilla.com behind CDNetworks (CDN)
  • Testing addons.mozilla.org behind CDNetworks bug 450745
• Bugzilla
  • Completed database/webserver memory upgrades
  • Bugzilla 3.2 upgrade coming, possibly Thursday bug 450310
    • http://www.bugzilla.org/releases/3.2/new-features.html
• Prep'd for Major Update

Marketing/PR

PR

Events

• 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: Please join us for our bi-weekly events triage call Wednesday at 10 a.m. PDT. Dial-in is 650-903-0800, ext 91, id 248 or 800-707-2533, password 369, ext 91, id 248 and #events on irc.mozilla.org.

Metrics

We have begun posting about the uninstall survey at the metrics blog and are looking for feedback.

Mozilla Labs

• Labs Meet-up in San Francisco. Thursday 8/28, 6-9pm at the Twitter office, 539 Bryant St. Suite 402, SF. We will be discussing Ubiquity and encouraging general hacking and conversation.

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

• SUMO dot release pushed
• AMO 3.4.7 pushed
• AUS updates for major updates pushed

Foundation Updates

• Future of the Foundation
  • Mitchell announced Mark Surman's hiring as the new Executive Director of the Foundation. Mark and Frank did follow-up posts.

• CAs and related issues
  • Frank did a blog post on Mozilla and CAs.

• www.mozilla.org
  • David worked on more www.mozilla.org archiving and redirect issues.

• Other
  • We also worked on various internal-for-now projects; details later as they move forward.

• Upcoming activities
  • Frank will be out on vacation most of this week.