WeeklyUpdates/2008-12-29
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Meeting Details
- 1:00pm Pacific time (21:00 UTC until March 8, 2009)
- Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
- +1 650 903 0800 x92 Conf# 8600 (US/International)
- +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 8600 (Canada)
- +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8600 (US Toll Free)
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- http://air.mozilla.com/ to watch and listen
- join irc.mozilla.org #staffmeeting for backchannel
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Friends of the Tree
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
Branch work: Firefox 3.0.6 / Major Update
- Firefox 2.0.0.20 to 3.0.5 Major Update
- Going out to Beta today (12/29)
- Final release in early/mid January
- Localizations are working on translating the new major update banner
- Thunderbird 2.0.0.19
- Being released tomorrow at 11am (ahead of schedule!)
- Next Thunderbird 2 release will likely be in March
- Firefox 3.0.6
- Code freeze is January 6 at 11:59pm
- Final release is targeted at early February
Gecko 1.9.1
Firefox 3.1
- Dec 31 – string freeze <– coming soon! take note!
- Jan 13 – code freeze
- Jan 19 – QA start
- Jan 26 – ship to users
- workin’ on Beta 3 (triage queries)
TB 3
Mobile
IT
- No real updates this week.
- Last week was slow, took advantage of the slowness to run through kernel upgrades and other miscellaneous updates.
Release Engineering
- Releases discussed above.
QA
- Releases (mostly covered above)
- Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 testing, attempt to release this week
- Pre-release testing of 2.0.0.20 Major Update to 3.0.5
- 100,000 top site test ongoing
- Found and reduced two crash bugs to reproducible testcases so far, more to follow
- Tested and Released Alpha 2 for Fennec!
- Keeping abreast of Firefox 3 testing in CSS Tranforms, Session Restore, and PPC support among others
- Code coverage statistics are almost ready, getting the last kinks worked out
- Mozmill 1.0 will be released this week
- Bug fixing for Thunderbird support
- UI improvements
Security
Mozilla is investigating the issue of improperly issued SSL certificates from a Comodo reseller. See extra long thread here: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.tech.crypto/browse_thread/thread/9c0cc829204487bf#
Marketing/PR
PR
- Mozilla and John Lilly featured in SF Chronicle
- Firefox named “CHIP Online Download Award: Download of the Year”
- Firefox wins Web Browser of the Year
- Fennec alpha 2 released. Coverage includes Beta News, CNet, Ars Technica
Engagement
- New wiki page posted with Dec08 update slides.
Community
- Campus Reps “On the Street” Interviews project completed… Check out the videos!
Support
No updates this week. Thanks to all SUMO contributors (and of course the SUMO team and all helpful peers) for a fantastic 2008! Here’s to an even more spectacular 2009. 🙂
Metrics
Evangelism
- No Updates.
Labs
Developer Tools
Add-ons
Webdev
- No updates.
L10n
Foundation Updates
- Frank investigated problems with SSL certificate issuance at Certstar, a reseller of Comodo; see the public discussion in m.d.t.crypto for full details.
- David updated www.mozilla.org with new or revised pages for Mozilla project history, project roles and leadership, and a Catalan version of the Mozilla Manifesto.
- David migrated to MDC the list of all known Mozilla-based applications.