WeeklyUpdates/2008-04-21

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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

Development Updates

TB 3

• Code freeze for 3.0a1 tuesday midnight PST.

QA

Firefox 2.0.0.14 [Project lead: ss, QA Lead abillings]

• This was released on Wednesday! Way to go!!
• Tested live bits and updates right before release

Firefox 3

• Daily Tiger Team testing continues
• Accessibility [marcoz]
  • Found 11 A11y crashers in B5
  • Fixed bug 429622

Thunderbird 3

• Filed and fixed A11y bug 428915, which makes the e-mail address autoComplete fully accessible on Windows. Also has a positive impact on SeaMonkey's Location bar.

Community

• Bug day was held on Tuesday, April 15th
• Test day was held on Friday, April 18th. The topic was general testing of new features in the latest nightly. Almost 300 test cases were run. See results. The Germans had a good showing. What happened to the French??
• Went to an Accessibility presentation at the Thunderbird/Calendar face2face meeting at the Sun office in Hamburg. Very successful session with lots of questions answered regarding accessibility and how devs can find out whether what they're doing is accessible. [Marcoz]

Marketing/PR

PR

• Mitchell speaking at Web 2.0 Expo on Thursday morning in SF
• Several articles about changes to Apple Software Update
• Pickup of 2.0.0.14 fix for garbage collector

Events

Mozilla.com redesign

• Semi-public beta testing of the new site begins today. Will release details to interested parties via email and the MoCo forum this afternoon. If you're interested in taking part, email siteredesign@mozilla.com.

Support

Foundation Updates

• Grants and related activities
  • The Mozilla Foundation will be funding Alexander Surkov to continue his work with the Mozilla accessibility code, and in particular to develop test cases and create fixes where necessary for the Gecko 1.9 accessibility infrastructure.

• CAs and related issues
  • Frank gave preliminary approval to the request from Network Solutions to add a new root and enable it for EV.
  • Frank also worked on the request from DigiNotar to add a new root and enable it for EV.

• Public communication
  • David participated in activities related to the Powered by Mozilla program.

• Conferences
  • The Mozilla accessibility team will be attending and staffing a Mozilla booth at the SightCity conference May 7-9 in Frankfurt.
  • The Mozilla Foundation will be a sponsor of the Personal Democracy Forum conference June 23-24 in New York NY.

• Upcoming activities
  • Zak will be speaking at the Leadership by (Open) Innovation in the Telecom, IT and Media Industries conference (April 24 in Munich) and at other events later in 2008.
  • Frank is planning to attend the Berkman@10 conference (May 15-16 in Boston MA) and the Personal Democracy Forum conference (June 23-24 in New York NY) if possible.

For more information please see the individual status reports from David, Frank, Gerv, and Zak.