WeeklyUpdates/2006-10-02

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm PDT (20:00 UTC)
• Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
• +1-866-879-4799 (pin 369) Conf# 8600 (US)
• +1-650-903-0800 x91 Conf# 8600 (US/INTL)
• [Use *1 to mute yourself]
• join irc.mozilla.org #staffmeeting for attendance taking

Development Updates

Fx/TB 1.5.0.8

• Ship shortly after Fx2
• Take security fixes for Fx2

Fx 2.0

• RC1 was released last week
• Codefreeze for RC2 is imminent

QA

• Release Testing
  • Ran DOM tests for 1.8.0.8, 1.8, 1.9 20060927[bc]
  • Ran JS tests for 1.8.0.8 20060927, 20060929; 1.8/trunk 20060927, 20060929, 20060930 [bc]
  • Ran top site testing for 1.8 for Windows, Mac, Linux using 3900 urls provided from Robert Accettura. [alice]
  • Talked with sspitzer about major/minor update issues [davel]
  • Triaging bugs for 1.5.0.8 [juanb]
  • FFx2 RC1 Update path testing and Live update testing [juanb, marcia, tracy, timr]
  • Special distro testing [tracy]
  • Planning for the plethora of releases coming up:
    • FF2: RC2, RC3(?), final release
    • FFx 1.5.0.8, 1.5.0.9
    • FFx 2.0.0.1, 2.0.0.2
    • Special distros

• Test Development
  • Added 19 tests for Javascript Engine [bc]
  • Page Start Time Performance test [alice]
    • Refined the new page set collection scripts, still having a few troubles with sites from China
    • Collected a new page set from alexa's top 100 sites

• Tools and Infrastructure
  • With help from dougt got Annie's test framework to generate reports [alice]
  • Working on buildbot-based test runner. It is up and running on mac and windows. [davel]
  • Fixing make check. bug 352305 caused make check to fail in tools/test-harness/xpcshell-simple/example. Investigated short-term (patch in bug) and long term (bug TBA) fixes [davel]

• Community
  • Bug day Oct 26th: 3 participants in East Asia, 4 in Europe. This is slowly growing! [Tracy]
  • FFx2 RC2 community test day is planned for this Friday

IT Updates

• Preparing for FF2
• Litmus move
• SVN

Product Management and Marketing Updates

Developer Relations

• Dria: Working with Seneca on various projects including Newsgroup summaries, XULRunner documentation, some MDC-related PHP hackery.
• Sheppy: Done with Firefox 2 developer documentation. Investigating needs for Thunderbird 2 documentation, and working on other articles that need doing.

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

• Looking at a later AMO v3 launch date, with an interim solution for the 2.0 launch
• Visit last week was good - worked on build database w/ preed and build team
• This week will be focused entirely on forming more specific Remora milestones and further development
• mozilla.com l10n
  • 6 translations merged in
  • Staging server getting setup

Foundation Updates

See the report on Mozilla Foundation activities for the week ending September 29, 2006.