WeeklyUpdates/2008-06-16

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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

Gecko 1.9.1

• Currently tracking 11 blockers for Gecko 1.9.1
• 45 wanted for 1.9.1 bugs.
• New interns arrived today:
  • Bobby Holley
  • Joel Galenson
  • Keith Schwarz

IT

• IT team onsite this week in support of the release.

Release Engineering

• NetApp woes solved (!!!)
• FF2.0.0.15 going to beta tomorrow
• TB2.0.0.15 using automation
• alice, coop, morgamic starting on graph server

QA

Firefox/Thunderbird 2.0.0.x [ss, abillings]

• Finished Thunderbird 1.5.0.14 - 2.0.0.14 Major Update testing!!
• Firefox 2.0.0.15- Bug verification, Smoketests, l10n tests
• Thunderbird 2.0.0.15 - created test plan.

Firefox 3.0

• Completed RC3 testing: Bug Verification, Smoketests for Mac 10.5.3 and 10.4, Update Tests, Live Tests
• Shipped RC3 on 6/11! Amazing build/test/web work done within 24 hours.
• Monitoring RC3 feedback
• Breakpad crash reporter: Worked with morgamic to push for the build ID patch we need. If we can't search by build ID, it'll be hard to distinguish between RCs. [cc]
• 17 new leak bugs! Total from tomcat is now 306

Firefox 3.1

• There are several accessibility bugs we think are important and have been nominated

Test Development

• Looking into mochitest for leak testing automation [tomcat]
• Making progress with code coverage analysis with gcov. We have given up on bullseye for our purposes. [ctalbert]
• Completed the initial usable version of Gristmill. Sample tests are available. A demo for the initial users of the tool, the Test Execution Team, is ready. This will be conducted after the 2.0.0.15 push.
• Developing automation for accessibility tests [marcoz]
  • Continued work on form controls accessibility tests. Textfields, Textareas, Selects are done with all kinds of variations to label them.
  • Continued working with Robcee on bug 424195 and filed bug 439057 and bug 437980 to get the tests passing when running together. Esp for 439057.

Community

• Another successful test day on Friday. Topic was RC3 testing. See litmus results.
• The QA Companion extention has been updated with fix to bug 434584 along with Accessibility Improvements [ctalbert, marcoz]
• Betatesters - The second Firefox 3 Beta tester survey is live! Over 300 responses so far!! We sent this to the betatesters@ mailing list. But anyone is invited to take the survey. Some standard reports are here:
  • Complete report
  • basic report

Security

• Security Process kick-off for Fennec

Marketing/PR

PR

• Four BusinessWeek pieces: one podcast, one on Mobile, two on FF3
• Portfolio article on Firefox 3
• Stevie American Business Award
• Paul Kim in Businessworld article on "Co-creating Brands"
• Additional Walt Mossberg mention

Events

Firefox 3 T-shirt

Download Day

Support

• Firefox 3 product help finally links to SUMO again after an incredible team effort by morgamic, laura, oremj, justin, lorchard, xb95, nkoth, and np.
• Anyone wants to help out with Live Chat or monitoring the support forum?
  • People can get invites from Live Chat using a standard jabber client
  • Or people can download the full client and help out in a more direct way too :)
• Knowledge Base content is updated for Firefox 3
  • Support for Firefox 2 kept
  • SUMO automatically detects what version of Firefox a user is running and displays the relevant content
  • Updated screenshots for Firefox 3

Evangelism

• Work on MDC upgrade to Deki is paused until after Firefox 3 ships, to let IT and webdev focus their attention on that.
• Ramping up the processes for making sure that Shiretoko gets documented properly.
• Asa and Seth will be working with two interns this week on compiling info about community contribution to the various aspects of Mozilla project
• Asa and Seth will be hosting Air Mozilla live all day tomorrow at Mozilla MV office

L10n

Firefox 3 - final preparations

• Pascal completed international product pages on the 48 locales that we are shipping (plus 2 betas sl and si), those two have web pages but their pages were created late and not really tested so they probably have some visual bugs here and there, and we finished work on the mozilla-europe website for the launch including new design.
• Stuff still to do:
  • release notes for localization last Friday (thanks Mike), we should have them ready for launch for 8 to 10 Tier 1/2 locales
• axel/mic started updating documentation to ensure all new localizer teams have latest information for building out for Fx3 and not Fx2
• Firefox 3.1 localization; no progress made, Axel called out for some help in .planning

Locales to shout out!

• Bulgarian, has resurfaced and is working again on build for shipping in 3.0.1

Community Development

• Community portal - team has met with dboswell, jslater, fantasai, sheppy, sam sidler on new mozilla.org redesign and with JSlater on get-involved mozilla.com pages - there are some synergies in the efforts that are being explored to share efforts; gandalf and seth are working on creating a community pack that includes templates for local websites, clarification on support for hosting, instructions on (link to) how to access the l10n server, potential PR templates, link to other Mozilla services for l10n community members like event supports, swag, and community giving/empowerment program; more to come

More details on what we're working on can always be found on our weekly meeting notes

Foundation Updates

• Grants and related activities
  • Gary Bishop of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill published information on the atool project, a follow-on project to an earlier Mozilla Foundation-funded project to enable people with physical disabilities to do keyboard input using commodity webcam hardware.

• Legal issues
  • Gerv published the new Mozilla committer's agreement and related information on the www.mozilla.org site.

• CAs and related issues
  • Kathleen Wilson updated the pending CA request list to reflect current information received from CAs; she's still waiting on information from several CAs.

• Public communication
  • David participated in a planning meeting on www.mozilla.org changes.
  • David also had a call with SethB, Gandalf, and Mic about community content ideas for www.mozilla.org.

• Conferences
  • Zak continued preparing for the FOSSCoach event at OSCON.

• Upcoming activities
  • The Mozilla Foundation will be a sponsor of the Personal Democracy Forum conference (June 23-24 in New York). Brian Behlendorf will be speaking, and Frank is also planning to attend if possible.
  • David, Gerv, and Zak will be attending OSCON (July 21-25 in Portland OR) and the Firefox Summit (July 29-31 in Whistler BC). Frank will be attending the Firefox Summit but not OSCON.

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