WeeklyUpdates/2009-01-05
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Meeting Details
- 1:00pm Pacific time (21:00 UTC until March 8, 2009)
- Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
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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
- Thunderbird 2.0.0.19
- Went live last Tuesday thanks to some holiday work by QA and build
- Moving Thunderbird 2.0.0.x to 2-month releases (every 8 weeks or so)
- Will likely be supported until six months after Thunderbird 3 release
- Firefox 2.0.0.20 -> 3.0.5 Major Update
- Went to beta users last Monday
- Localizers are currently working to get the new banner translated (36 done, 8 remain!)
- Final release date a moving target, but aiming for late this week or early next
- Firefox 3.0.6
- Code freeze is moved out to Wednesday, January 7 (at 11:59pm)
- Does not move out final ship date of February 3
- Currently 19 approved patches that need landing. Please land your patches.
Gecko 1.9.1
- New to the Platform Team:
- David Bolter, working out of the Toronto office, a new accessibility engineer.
- Jason Duell, Content Team, reporting to Johnny Stenback, networking code. YAY!
- Nicholas Nethercote, Javascript Team, reporting to Robert Sayre, core Valgrind hacker.
- 38 Bugs blocking beta 3, down one from before holidays!
- Beta 3 code freeze is Jan 13.
- For weekly engineering meeting notes and other info see the Platform page.
- Interesting queries related to Gecko 1.9.1
- 153 1.9.1 blockers.
Firefox 3.1
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Dec 31Jan 1 – string freeze has come and gone - Jan 13 – code freeze
- Jan 19 – QA start
- Jan 26 – ship to users
- workin’ on Beta 3 (triage queries)
- New faces on the Firefox team – please say “hi” on IRC!
- David Dahl (ddahl) – from ILM, author of the rCache add-on for Firefox and the Clarify Python wrapper for Tesseract OCR
- Drew Willcoxon (adw) – from Stanford and University of Georgia, author of the Extend Firefox 3 winning TagSifter add-on, as well as several other projects (see his web page)
TB 3
- 3.0b2
- String Freeze: Monday, 2009-02-02 23:59 Pacific
- Code Freeze: Thursday, 2009-02-05 23:59 Pacific
Mobile
- Released Fennec Alpha 2
- Windows Mobile builds are almost ready
- Clearing the patch queue so we build directly from mozilla-central
IT
- Another slow week, ran through more kernel updates and a few RHEL5 upgrades.
- “We made life easier for IT” – justdave
Release Engineering
- Holiday releases:
- all Partner Major updates released by 20dec2008
- TB2.0.0.19 released on 30dec2008.
- DHCP woes closed tree 31dec2008; see bug 471679 for details
- FF2.0.0.20->FF3.0.5 vanilla MU ready to release (Thursday?)
- linux-mobile talos results now on graphs.m.o. Look for “Nokia N810” platform. Still investigating Tp crash in bug 471585.
QA
Welcome Marco Zehe and Henrik Skupin as new employees!
Test Execution
- Major Update of Fx2.0.0.20 -> Fx3.0.5 shipped to Beta on 12/29 (al, juan)
- Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 shipped to World early on 12/30 (al, juan)
- Firefox 3.1 Feature testing progress:
- Testplans (90% completed)
- Testcases (76% completed)
- Community discussions beginning in the QMO forum
- Early stages of litmus redesign ideas
Web Dev Testing, Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Crash Reports
- Tomcat attended the 25th Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin. See his report.
- Code Coverage metrics: Working on ways to drill down and to visualize the coverage. See sample bubble diagram. Size of each bubble is the number of change sets on that file.
Test Development
- Continuing to execute JavaScript tests with focus on mozilla-central (1.9.2), mozilla-1.9.1 (1.9.1) and tracemonkey (1.9.2) repositories while attempting to keep up to date with the most recent failures
- Continued development to support Sisyphus|Javascript testing against 1.9.2 – work tracked in bug 472144 and should land today.
- New Patches for CSS Transform and CSS Border-Radius tests
- Mozmill 1.0 release should be this week – still in find/fix cycle
- Investigated all reftest and mochitest failures on Fennec and filed bugs for them.
- Finding, minimizing and diagnosing crash and memory leaks: bug 471416, bug 471458, bug 471543, bug 471598 etc.
- Analyzed results from the 100,000 Topsite Test: ~ 70,000 Sites done so far with about 16,000 abnormal exits (for example: fatal assertions, crashes, etc); currently running a verification test for these abnormal results.
- Started a 100,000 top site run for the 1.9.0 branch. After it completes, plan to do a 35,000 site run continuously against that branch to help catch any future regressions.
Security
Marketing/PR
PR
- Firefox add-ons on the homepage on CNET’s download.com
- John Lilly interviewed in the LA Times
- Johnathan Nightingale quoted in BusinessWeek.com’s “Tech Beat”
- Ubiquity update covered in InternetNews and NewsFactor
Support
- No updates
Metrics
Evangelism
- Getting ready to start evaluating the upcoming Lyons release of Deki.
- Re-starting the newsletter next week – send stories to deb if you have them.
Labs
- Snowl 0.2rc1 released; looking for feedback; see blog post for details and to download.
- Weave milestone 2 for 0.3 released, now with Fennec support! See the Weave forum for details and download instructions.
- Ubiquity 0.1.3/0.1.4 released, as well as 0.2 preview featuring Feed Plugins, providing opportunities for security enhancement and exploration.
Developer Tools
Add-ons
- Rey Bango working on short term project to improve Add-ons approval and review process
- Cranked up recruiting for new editors, 2 new joined in the past two weeks, 5 from Seneca College starting, and we’re going to look into recruiting from universities for more volunteers. Working on ideas to better thank our top editors.
- Worked on tools and analysis for improving the breadth of featured and recommended addons
- 2009 planning- focus on improving add-on awareness and discovery, let Nick Nguyen know if you want to help.
- Early ideation and analysis around next generation of Add-ons, will formalize project soon so everyone can be involved.
Webdev
- Socorro launched 2 new reports
- MTBF – example Thunderbird development
- Top Crashers by URL example FF 3.0.5
- LizardFeeder went quietly into production.
- More plans and narrative to come soon.
- Graph server 1.0 rewrite docs are up: Perfomatic#Rearchitecture
- Migration during Q1.
- SUMO 0.8.1 code freeze tomorrow (pushed back)
L10n
- Updates to MCS by gandalf, see his blog post, new MCS theme for WordPress
Foundation Updates
- It was a generally slow week, with some folks on vacation.
- Mark produced some initial notes on a possible Mozilla Foundation education program.
- David did updates to the Projects and History pages on www.mozilla.org (to add Fennec as a project, note Adobe Acrobat and Kirix Strata as applications using Mozilla technologies, and address comments raised in bug 471494).
- Frank continued participating in the public discussion about Comodo and Certstar.
- The new Mozilla shirt is now available in the International Store.
- And last but certainly not least, there’s a new member of the Boswell family.