WeeklyUpdates/2007-03-05

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm PST (21:00 UTC)
• Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
• +1 866 879 4799 (pin 369) Conf# 8600 (US Toll Free)
• +1 650 903 0800 x91 Conf# 8600 (US/International)
• [Use *1 to mute yourself]
• join irc.mozilla.org #staffmeeting for attendance taking

Development Updates

Fx/TB 1.5.0.11 + Fx 2.0.0.3

• Shipped Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 and Firefox 1.5.0.10 partner updates last week
• QA still working with Dev to sort out 2.0.0.2 partner builds
• Mconnor driving 2.0.0.3/1.5.0.11 release
• Need to figure out plans for Major Updates
• Start scheduling for 2.0.0.4/1.5.0.12

TB 2.0

• Thunderbird 2 code and string freeze still scheduled for tonight. Things look good for bouncing of zarro bugs by tomorrow.

Other

bsmedberg: please note new build system requirements and upgrade your Windows build trees to MozillaBuild ASAP.

IT

• Taking over tinderbox support via tickets
  • More details on the new process from build
  • Still working with build to take over Nagios build monitors
• Community machine up and running in .nl
  • See Seth for access/resources
• Supporting build/qa last week and this week
  • 6 new machines coming online this week for build, 1 already installed
  • VMWare upgrades are coming - expect them in the next few weeks
• Deploying remaining static sites and cvs-mirror to .nl this week
• Looking at how to add dynamic applications to .nl load balancing pool
• Time zone, PHP, kernel and phone system upgrades/patches are being done as possible - look for downtime
• Working through netscaler issues - currently are stable, but continuing to work with netscaler engineering
• lxr -> mxr migration - please test at: mxr.mozilla.org -- currently re-syncing data, ETA 6 to 8 hours, then should be up-to-date from now on.

Build

• IT is taking over first-level support of Tinderbox this week; details will be posted in the newsgroups and planet this afternoon, but the most important change is we're tracking outages and Tinderbox problems via bugs; this is a departure from handling things on IRC.
• The new daylight saving time occurs next week; we're starting to look at what'll be affected this week.
• We will be turning off the build Macs in the office at the end of April; materially, this means binus, boxset, hilo, and pawn. We have supported hardware in the colo to move these builds to; we can also ship these Macs to those doing builds for community projects if they want to continue using them as build machines.
• More details will be coming in the following weeks, but we're working on getting dedicated, community accessible build resources in the community network; we've been working with IT and SethB to make sure we have the proper environments for these projects. This is especially relevant given the Tinderbox support switchover above.

QA

• Test Execution
  • Final testing and certification of Thunderbird 1.5.0.10
  • 1.5.0.10 partner build testing
  • Partner testing [timr, tracy, thcung, tomcat, others)
  • Ran the Partner test tool on 1.5.x/2.x [alice]

• Test Development
  • Partner testing tool. Took a quick tool provided by thunder, extended it to 1.5.x, added output of build id [alice]
  • Reviewed and checked in Rhino tests to JavaScript Tests [bc]

• Tools and infrastructure
  • Litmus: bug 370211: work on integrating test runs into the "Run Tests" process -> criteria selection screen and error checking [coop]

• Community
  • Helped Seneca College with a special test day on Thursday

• Misc
  • Attended security bug busting meeting [bc]
  • Team members helping a bunch with big Build automation push [coop, robcee]

Product Management and Marketing Updates

Marketing

• Web content development for TB2 launch continues -- well on our way for web l10n.
• We'll need to rev in-product web content for Fx 2.0.0.3
• South by Southwest Interactive Festival this weekend in Austin -- any Mozilla community members who are attending the show are welcome to stop by our booth or our barbecue Monday night.
• Welcome John Slater to the marketing team here at MoCo.

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

AMO

• shaver is at GDC
• Went through about 385 add-ons in last 4-5 days
• Database migration from AMO v2 -> Remora today
• Posted blog about schedule
• preview.addons.mozilla.org will be updated and community testing with up-to-date data will resume today
• Final deployment set for March 15th to allow time for feedback from community
• started thinking about dynamic l10n management in AMOv3

Webdev

• Build automation -- config bootstrap
• oremj rewrote bouncer2 bounce script using Python/mod_python
• Look to load test bouncer2 this week since we're between releases (will test both script and compare) -- all using oremj's log replay script
• Looking at Socorro this week, the front-end of Breakpad (formally Airbag) -- getting up to speed on what sayrer and ted have done since Jan.

Roundtable

• FOSDEM Update