WeeklyUpdates/2008-06-30

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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

Friends of the Tree

Development Updates

Fx 2.0.0.15 / Fx 2.0.0.16 / TB 2.0.0.15 / TB 2.0.0.16

Firefox 2.0.0.15 is on track to ship tomorrow at ~3pm PDT. After which, we’re going to do a short-cycle follow up (Firefox 2.0.0.16). A proposed schedule is available.

As a result of our short-cycle Firefox 2.0.0.15, we’ve scrapped Thunderbird 2.0.0.15. You’ll see a new reincarnation going by the name of Thunderbird 2.0.0.16.

TB 3

• Shared Tb/Calendar/SeaMonkey hg repository strategy decided; KaiRo already has a test repo up and building!
• dmose blogged a proposal for when and how to ship Thunderbird 3
• Code freeze for Tb3 Alpha 2 one week from tomorrow: July 8, 2008, 23:59 PDT

Gecko 1.9.1

• Look here for interesting queries related to Gecko 1.9.1.
• Tracking 17 1.9.1 blockers.
• 78 wanted bugs
  • 21 P1s. These are bugs we feel would really, really make a good release if we had a solid handful completed.
  • 20 P2s. These are medium complexity bugs/changes that are nice to have.
  • 19 P3s. The lowest priority bugs for this release. These are the ones that we will definitely take, but the others take priority.

Firefox 3

Mobile

• First issue of about:mobile published, subscribe here or alternatively read it here.
• Installation and automatic update tutorial for Fennec releases on N8x0-series devices.

IT

• breakpad scaling
• ramping up for ff 2.0.0.15 release
• finish off ff3 debrief

Release Engineering

• Tinderbox tree renaming.
  • Details in bug 441945 and bhearsum’s post to dev.planning
• Doing FF3.0.1 and FF2.0.0.16 on Wednesday; two releases on the same day!?!?

QA

Firefox 3.0/3.1 [tchung]

• Followed up Hendrix/Mozillazine/Reporter/etc Feedback [marcia, marcoz, and others]
• Installed the Flash 10 Beta and did some compatibility testing [marcia]
• Participated in the Fx3 Release Postmortem meeting [tchung and others]

Firefox 3.0.1 – Created a schedule and a testplan for 3.0.1. Triaging bugs and verifying bug fixes. Forms manager bug triage with Dolske [tomcat, hali, juan, others]

• Schedule for testing has been created. builds expected on july 2nd
• Fx3.0.1 Testplan in the works [tchung]

Firefox/Thunderbord 2.0.0.x – [ss, abillings]

• Went to beta with [[Firefox:2.0.0.15:Test_Plan|Firefox 2.0.0.15] RC3. See checklist. triaging bugs
• Completed 2.0.0.15 Smoketests, betatest and beta channel testing [abillings, tomcat, hali]
• Started planning for 2.0.0.16

Webdev testing [stephend]

• AMO – Verified 12 bugs for AMO 3.4.5. Began working on a separate Selenium test suite for search.
• SUMO testing- shipped the SUMO reskin! See the Test Plan. Verified 32 FIXED bugs

Automated Test Development

• Updated spider to run on 3.1 and 3.0.1 [bc]
• Completed calibration runs if the JS Sisyphus test suite on ~19 OS configurations against trunk code. [bc]
• Added Accessibility tests for fixes to bug 438784 and bug 440770, along with several new chrome tests. See bug 441737 and bug 441519.
• Got a patch ready for Scriptaculous integration. This is an externally developered test suite we use for JS compatibility. [harthur, ctalbert]
• Gristmill – Completed a major project to update the mozmill API. Completed theJSbridge callback system. Working with pilot users (hali, abillings) to get early test developer feedback. [mikeal, adam, ctalbert]

Miscellaneous

• Fixed several Accessibility bugs: bug 438784, bug 441610 (which mostly affects Thunderbird, but is actually a platform bug), and bug 440770.

Community

• Held a Firefox 3.0.1Nightly Places test day on Friday. See results
• Worked on several QMO Bugzilla module features such as: Unlimited pages, Integrated Timeplot into display (http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Timeplot), functionality and sync with Bugzilla [paulc]
• OSCON- Submitted proposal for OSCON BOF. Worked with Mary to provide the full submission for the session presentation. [ctalbert]

Security

Marketing/PR

PR

• Computerworld: Firefox 3.0 wins memory battle
• Vote for Mozilla in Fast Company’s Fast 50 2008
• Firefox 3 awarded CNET Editor’s Choice Award
• Brendan Q&A in InfoWorld
• Brendan featured in Scripting Languages feature

Events

• Firefox Parties still underway:
  • Slovenia.
  • pix Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Israel
  • Munich
  • Madrid

Download Day

• Judges have finished review, Guinness is currently reviewing our collateral.

Spread Firefox Affiliates Program

• Working on a refresh of the program. For the latest information please see: http://wiki.mozilla.org/Affiliates
• and input welcome here: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/affiliates

Support

• New theme (updated to go well with the new mozilla.com) [1]
  • Extra special thanks to kbrausz, laura, stephend, and jslater
• Weekly SUMO dev meeting on Tuesdays at 9:00 AM PDT
• Releasing 0.6 this week (see the roadmap for more info)

Metrics

• Over 10 million active FF3 users (!)

Evangelism

• Deki based MDC is nearly ready for its final round of testing. Hoping to get that started this week.

Mozilla Labs

• Labs Night (Lightning talks, covering Weave and Mobile)
• Weave Release Today
• Labs Redesign
• Canvas and Javascript explorations (ContextFree.js, Processing.js, and Parchment)

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

• AMO 3.4.5 release scheduled code freeze on Thu (7/2), public push on Tues (7/8)
• Updated the AMO product roadmap
• SUMO redesign launched
• Breakpad/Socorro
  • Data import has been set back until Wednesday — ran into some issues with partitioning
  • Processor had missing symbols last week, issue was resolved
  • Database is humming along otherwise, which is great news — thanks for Aravind for his help with this
• Verbatim (l10n app) — presentation last week went well, thanks to all those who came
• Velocity conference — webdev attended, pretty decent conference
• Wikipedia gentlemen visited Mozilla office Wednesday afternoon and gave a repeat of their Velocity presentation — thanks to them for stopping by!
• Front-end coding guidelines finalized
• Met with Harvey and team regarding new Prior Art project, very excited about this
• Working on labs site redesign with labs team
• Graph server
  • Graph server should all be in Hg thanks to alice
  • Working on setup instructions and documentation to get dev environments set up
  • Work on 0.3 milestone shortly after we get set up

L10n

• Axel is working with build to make starting new localizations easier
• Fx3.0.2 will fix webmail and webcal handlers to include GMail and MSN LiveMail for locales and 3.0.1 for en-US
• Funded development of Toolkit by translate.org.za

Foundation Updates

• Foundation future
  • Lots of people have been posting recently on the topic of what the Mozilla Foundation should be doing in the future. Check out the blog posts from David Eaves, Mark Surman (including a followup), Glyn Moody, and Mozilla’s own David Ascher and Mitchell Baker. There’s also lots of good stuff in the comments to the posts.

• CAs and related issues
  • Frank gave final approval for Entrust‘s request to enable the Entrust Root Certification Authority for EV (bug 416544) and filed bug 442561 against PSM to have the change made.

• Conferences
  • Brian Behlendorf (Mozilla Foundation board member) spoke at the Personal Democracy Forum conference. Frank also attended, and did a related blog post.
  • Zak continued preparing for the FOSSCoach event at OSCON.

• Other
  • Gerv worked on a number of projects, including tracking Google Summer of Code work for Mozilla-related projects, updating the public suffix list, working toward the proposed Bugzilla reorganization, review of a new proposal for site security policies, posting a collection of “party favors” for Mozilla/Firefox parties, and various other things.
  • David was on vacation last week.

• Upcoming activities
  • 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.

Internship update

We have the following interns for today’s internship presentations:

• Dan C (IT)
• Ulili (Marketing)
• Rob (platform)
• Paul O. (Firefox)
• Dan S. (Web Dev)
• Wei (UX)
• Heather (QA)

Roundtable

Revisit TB3

Other Business

WeeklyUpdates/2008-06-23

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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

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Friends of the Tree

Development Updates

Fx 2.0.0.15 / TB 2.0.0.15

Shipped Firefox 2.0.0.15 RC1 to the beta channel on Wednesday after server load lessened. Unfortunately, we had a couple bugs we had to fix. They’ve now landed and builds are on their way (Mac and Linux available). We intend to go to the beta channel again this week and release next week (targeting July 1 for release).

Thunderbird 2.0.0.15 has been delayed as a result of this respin. We’re unsure of the schedule, but we’ll update the wiki as we know more.

TB 3

No updates this week.

Gecko 1.9.1

• Look here for interesting queries related to Gecko 1.9.1.
• Tracking 15 1.9.1 blockers.
• 69 wanted bugs
  • 17 P1s. These are bugs we feel would really, really make a good release if we had a solid handful completed.
  • 19 P2s. These are medium complexity bugs/changes that are nice to have.
  • 15 P3s. The lowest priority bugs for this release. These are the ones that we will definitely take, but the others take priority.
• In parallel, we’re working on 1.9.0.1 bugs. Please nominate for that release as well if you find issues you think important enough to block that release.

Firefox 3

Released on Tuesday June 17th!! See Marketing/PR below for coverage!

Mobile

Released M4 over the weekend. Will provide a deb package during the week.

Installation instructions for N8x0:

• ssh in to the device.
• type “wget http://people.mozilla.org/~dougt/fennec-0.4/fennec-0.4.en-US.linux-arm.tar.gz”
• type “tar -xvzf fennec-0.4.en-US.linux-arm.tar.gz”
• type “cd fennec”
• type “./fennec”

If you run out of space, try moving the archive file to /media/mmc2, and then untar it from there.

IT

• Launched ff3
  • over 17,000 downloads a minute at peak
  • over 8 mil downloads done
  • at peak over 10x our highest release
  • bouncer (download re-director) stayed up through the whole event, downloads did not fail
  • mirror network was still under capacity after serving 20 gigabits/sec
• Welcome to Phong Tran – sysadmin

Release Engineering

• FF2.0.0.15 in progress; TB2.0.0.15 next
• scheduled downtime Wed morning 8am PST -> 11am PST for unittest VMs. IT doing cpu replacement. This will take down unittest *and* talos machines.
• generating test snippets for major update
• Armen and Lukas doing quick “show-and-tell” today

QA

Firefox/Thunderbird 2.0.0.x [ss/abillings]

• Released Firefox 2.0.0.15 to Beta testing last week. Since then some security issues has been identified for fixing and there was a respin.

Firefox 3 [tchung]

• Final release: Tested the staged and live bits along with web sites
• Monitored feedback on hendrix, mozillazine, reporter, crashers, etc.

WebDev Testing [stephend]

• Completed final testing of the new and improved mozilla.com site along with testing of the Download Day site. Verified 30 mozilla.com bug fixes and worked with rolo, lorchard, and reed for a special effort to resolve bug 439748 – Migrating from Firefox 2.x to Firefox 3 shows wrong page. Verified 18 Download Day bug fixes
• AMO – Created automated test script with Selenium RC
• Sumo – Began executing tests against the test plan

Test Automation

• Dojo test suite port – Completed integration coding. Now just needs review and checkin. 612 test cases for Dojo compatibility are now available!! [mw22]
• Created automated test cases for accessibility bugs going into Firefox 3.1 [marcoz]
• Started running first automated Mochitest leak tests with Extension Builds [tomcat]
• Sisyphus – Still looking at better ways to process error logs to pull out results for specific versions, platforms, etc. This is for the big JS test suite. [bc]

Miscellaneous

• Nice blog about Accessibility with Firefox 3
• Planning a QA segment of the European Developer Day. Working with Jane Finette on this [marcia]
• Starting to plan for early testing of Snow Leopard Developer Preview [marcia]
• Completed the latest Community tester survey. See the Basic results or More details results [jay]
• Set up of 1.9.1 Environments for Debug Builds on Mac, Linux and Windows. This is for leak testing. [tomcat]

Security

Marketing/PR

PR

• Amazing round of coverage for Firefox 3 and Download Day

Some favorites:

• Forbes: The Best Firefox Feature You’ll Overlook
• USA Today: Firefox 3 browser is nifty and packed with handy features
• New York Times: Stunts Today for Firefox. Sophisticated Programs Tomorrow
• San Jose Mercury News: O’Brien: Mozilla’s open-source model represents valley at its best
• Time: Firefox Goes for a Record
• Washington Post: Building a Better Browser: Firefox Keeps Innovating

• Press report on first Firefox 3 vulnerability

Events

• Public events triage call on Wednesday, June 25 at 10 a.m. PDT. Dial-in: 650-903-0800, ext 91, id 248.
• More Firefox parties!. Check out video from this weekend for highlights from the Kung Fu Panda screening & the Build a Robot party!

Download Day

• Awesome work!
• Judges are reviewing logs right now.

Welcome Dave Bottoms to the marketing team.

Support

• Another great Support Firefox Day last Friday [1]
  • Big thanks to the session hosts: mconnor, jonath, dietrich, sethb & asa, and, uh, myself 🙂
  • Also thanks to Lucy who organized the event this time, and to cilias, np, zzxc, and Cww for general awesomeness and invaluable help
• Hectic but successful release of Firefox 3 from a SUMO point of view
  • Some frequent issues that were quickly covered in the Knowledge Base and promoted to the start page
  • List of common issues handed off to QA and developers
  • Blogged about the release

Metrics

• A few fast facts from last week:
  • more than 2 million IE users downloaded Fx on download day!
  • our “2nd download day” (hours 25-48 after launch) saw an estimated 3.7 million downloads
  • worldwide market share grew in the last week from 18.8% to 19.2% (according to net applications)
• Currently working to detect possible Colbert bump

Evangelism

• The MindTouch Deki version of MDC is due to launch by the end of the quarter, which might mean this week. We’ll see.
• Continuing to work on watching the plans for Shiretoko to ensure that the documentation for it goes smoothly.

Mozilla Labs

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

• Most of Webdev is @ the Velocity conference (performance and scalability conference)
• Download Day: Mission Accomplished! (really!)
• Socorro/Breakpad – we are getting roughly 2x the estimated crash throughput, working on some pruning and database optimizations to improve app responsiveness — we are aware of current issues
• AMO Load Issues
  • 3.4.4 update delayed due to load issues (related to NetScaler and code changes)
  • We spent the majority of the week troubleshooting AMO perf
  • Still not sure if it’s a NetScaler proxy cache issue or an app issue, ticket open with Citrix and IT is working on it
• AMO Features!
  • On the bright side…
  • Full-text search now implemented (search doesn’t suck anymore)
  • Advanced search feature — ability to search for very specific terms
  • Theme browser
  • read more about it on Basil’s blog
• Graph server (perfomatic) inaugural triage complete (see bug list)
• Launch notes
  • We made failblog but it happens to the best of us…
  • SUMO, SAMO and other new integrated services stayed up just fine
  • Bouncer served 8.6 Million downloads without problems

L10n

• Community report
  • Parties are continuing to happen this week by and for many Localizers and we supported many folks in organizing them over last week: Barcelona, Italy, Madrid, Paris, Romania, Sri Lanka. 3 parties in Catelanan/Valencia areas. We know there are more but these are the ones we’ve been directly supporting or involved with.
  • Romania, SriLanka, Frisian, Greek looking for help in marketing and/or community building. Romania and Greece specifically looking to develop out a community portal which Pascal is helping with.

• Tools
  • We have been working with the community to gather information on tools available and being used so that we can better support and scale translation. We’ve code named that initiative “Verbatim”. Wil Clouser will be hosting a brown bag hopefully later this week (confirmation to come shortly). More information is available on our Verbatim wiki page and Seth wrote a good blog post on a summary of what we found out and discussed at Fosdem earlier this year

• Firefox
  • Not much to report. We have now officially shifted focus to 3.1 and 3.0.1 releases. We are getting many requests for more support on mailto and webcal protocol handlers from third party vendors which we’re working with Evangelism to field

Foundation Updates

• Grants and related activities
  • Wellington Fernando de Macedo has been working on his server-sent DOM events project; this is continuing and extending the work referenced in bug 338583.
  • Frank corresponded with the organizers of the W4A conference about renewing Mozilla Foundation sponsorship for 2009.

• CAs and related issues
  • Frank gave preliminary approval for Entrust‘s request to enable the Entrust Root Certification Authority for EV (bug 416544), and opened up a second public comment period.

• Public communication
  • David met with Samuel Sidler and Reed Loden about future www.mozilla.org changes.
  • David also worked to get a new draft of the Mozilla brochure created; because of problems with getting model releases signed, we’ll be switchng to a new photo for the brochure.

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

• Other
  • Gerv Markham continued work on the public suffix list.

• Upcoming activities
  • The Mozilla Foundation is a sponsor of the Personal Democracy Forum conference (June 23-24 in New York). Brian Behlendorf will be speaking, and Frank is attending.
  • 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.

Roundtable

Internship update.
Six interns will be giving us some updates on the projects they’ve been working on since they started with us.

List:
Armen Zambrano Gasparnian (L10n build) – blog
Lukas Blakk (build/test tools)
David Anderson (Platform)
Anant Narayanan (Labs)
Cesar Oliveira (AMO)
Gary Kwong (Thunderbird)

Other Business

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

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Friends of the Tree

We have three friends of the tree this week:

John Slater nominates Stephen Donner and Pascal Chevrel for Friend of the Tree saying, “Both of them have gone completely above and beyond the call of duty to ensure that the new mozilla.com works properly and will be available to all our worldwide users with the Firefox 3 launch. Stephen has sorted through dozens and dozens of QA bugs for the en-US site and the localized versions, and Pascal has coordinated a massive localization effort that includes mozilla.com, Download Day, Firefox 3 and all its in-product pages, and much more.”

Several people wrote in to nominate Deb Richardson for her amazing Firefox 3 Field Guide. Amazing, amazing work. Obviously a labor of love and it really shows. If you haven’t seen this blog post, go check it out today! http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/06/12/655/

Development Updates

Tb Major Update / Fx 2.0.0.15 / TB 2.0.0.15

Shipped Thunderbird Major Update on Monday, 6/9 at about 2:30pm. Go QA! Props! Initial results look like we cut the number of Thunderbird 1.5 users in half (or close to it).

Firefox 2.0.0.15 is on track for release next Tuesday. We’re planning on going to beta this Wednesday.

Thunderbird 2.0.0.15 has its schedule in the wiki but might moved out a day or two, depending on Firefox 2.0.0.15. We’ll keep release-drivers updated as we find out more.

TB 3

• Improved IMAP delete / move response significantly. See bug 435153.
  • Code is now in today’s nightlies.

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

Firefox 3

• SHIP IT!

Mobile

Milestone M4 scheduled for Friday June 20. By clicking on “M4” at the right hand side, you will get a list of the issues for this milestone.

IT

• Most of the IT team onsite this week in support of the release.
• Storage issues fixed – http://blog.mozilla.org/justin/2008/06/16/build-storage-issues-resolved/
• FF3.

Release Engineering

• NetApp woes solved (!!!)
• FF2.0.0.15 going to beta wednesday (not doing two releases on the same day!)
• TB2.0.0.15 using automation
• alice, coop, morgamic starting on graph server – any / all help very very welcome!

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

• USA Today photographer on site today
• Gearing up for Firefox 3 launch day
• Reminder about press attending Download Day
• Four BusinessWeek pieces: one podcast, one on Mobile, two on FF3
• Portfolio article on Firefox 3
• Stevie American Business Award: won Most Innovative Company – Up to 2,500 Employees and Finalist in Best Product Development Team category
• Paul Kim in Businessworld article on “Co-creating Brands”
• Additional Walt Mossberg mention

Events

• Firefox 3 Parties underway:
  • 582 parties registered
  • Over 3,500 party goers
  • Campus Rep Ebenezer Laryea just hosted one in India.

Mozilla.com

• The site is ready for launch!

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

Metrics

• Welcome Blake Cutler, our analytics-marketing intern

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 (FF 3.1) 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
• Working to get more translations of the FF3 Field Guide done (4 already, plus one underway!)
• Putting some presentations and speaker notes on the nascent Evangelism library — please get in touch with Deb if you’d like to help transcribe or otherwise package presentations for others to use.
• MFinkle started a webapp that generates scaffolding for Mozilla-based projects (add-ons, XUL applications and JS XPCOM components). We will be launching the project (codename ‘casserole’) & opening up development to volunteers.

Mozilla Labs

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

• AMO 3.4.3, 3.4.4 pushed
• SUMO linked to in-product help
• Scalability and preparation for launch
• Download Day mass emails, site updates and preparation for the Big Show
• mozilla.com updates and prep for launch of redesign
• Resolved our Fx3 blockers
• Other general prep for launch tomorrow
• threedom
  • 1300+ addons ready for Firefox 3
  • ~75% of add-on usage ready for Firefox 3
  • Google Toolbar, Firebug, Greasemonkey, and more!

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.

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WeeklyUpdates/2008-06-09

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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

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Friends of the Tree

(Asa) I’d like to nominate Melissa Shapiro for the awesome job she, the PR team, and the spokespeople did putting together the Firefox 3 press tour. In all of my time at Mozilla, I’ve never seen such an amazing and effective press effort and that includes the launches of Mozilla 1.0 and Firefox 1.0. Great job, Melissa!! and everyone else involved.

Development Updates

Tb Major Update / Fx 2.0.0.15 / TB 2.0.0.15

We had a window of opportunity last week to do a final major update for Thunderbird 1.5.0.14 users. QA is ahead of schedule and expects to finish testing and release later today. Follow along on the wiki.

Firefox 2.0.0.15 is currently scheduled to hand over to build today. However, given the lack of tinderbox coverage (and nightlies) over the weekend, and given that we have a couple more patches we want to land before freezing, the release will probably be delayed a day, possibly two. We’re hoping to hand over to build tomorrow afternoon.

Finally, last week while thinking through Thunderbird Major Update and Firefox 2.0.0.15, we scheduled Thunderbird 2.0.0.15. There are certain restraints we have in scheduling it, so it’s currently targeted for a week after Firefox 2.0.0.15. Tb20015 will need a larger testing cycle so we might delay a further couple of days.

TB 3

No updates this week.

Gecko 1.9.1

• Planning, triage, etc.

Firefox 3

Mobile

• UI work in progress
• Prototype demo of spatial navigation (not currently part of Fennec)

IT

• Storage issue for build VMs
  • Been working on it for some time, netapp thinks they have a solid solution. In the process of implementing it, but takes a lot of time as we have to re-build LUNs, which means moving all VMs to another storage array.
  • Huge thanks to RelEng (and everyone else) for their patience. First priority is to get crazyhorse, production-pacifica-vm and production-prometheus-vm – rest set by build
• Working with webdev to get SUMO perf acceptable for launch – planning on enabling this week
• GeoDNS for releases, mozilla.com, mozilla.org is live!
• mysql5 migrations continue – to be completed this month

Release Engineering

• All trees remain closed while VM NetApp woes continue bug 435134
  • After VMs are stable, it will take time to bring up all build, unittest, talos machines again.
• TB major update
• mozilla-central checkins went smoothly last week, so no more need for metered checkins.
• Central inventory list and new support docs coming together. This cleans up various machine lists, as well as existing support docs.

QA

Firefox/Thunderbird 2.0.0.x [ss-project lead, abillings-QA lead]

• Completed betatest testing for TBird MU to 2.0.0.14. See Test Plan.
• Worked with developers to get more patches in for FFx 2.0.0.15. Got ~30 bugs fixed in the week!! See Test Plan [ss]

Firefox 3 [tchung-QA lead]

• Completed RC2 testing including the live testing for the Wednesday release.
• Investigating the Mac 10.5.3 specific issue (bug 436575).
• Monitoring feedback on Newsgroups, Hendrix, Forums, etc. [tomcat, marcia, others]
  • 4 bugs filed from Hendrix feedback [marcia]
• Another very good test day on Friday with 354 test cases executed and lots of interaction in the IRC channel. See results.
• Monitoring top crashes [ss]
• 6 new leak bugs found [tomcat]

Webdev testing – [stephend]

• Download Day – Continued executing against test plan. Work still on-going for our next two phases–day of and day after
• Mozilla.com – Starting testing the “Get Personal” page. Filed 11 bugs

Test Development and Automation

• Created patches for integration of the externally developed test suites for Prototype and JQuery. Working on the Dojo (bug 424818) test suite and Scriptaculous (bug 424816). [harthur, ctalbert, mw22]
  • Documented the process for integrating AJAX test suites into Mochitest
• Finished improving the known failure format for Sisyphus (JS test suite framework) to make it easier to maintain and troubleshoot. The standard details about the test and the machine configuration are captured in a reduced key for each. The test key consists of the branch, build type, test type while the machine key consists of the operating system, kernel, processor type and architecture, memory, speed and time zone. [bc]
• Gristmill – Finished all the javascript for js side callback infrastructure along with the initial work on Python end. Version for initial user testing should be ready in about a week! [mikeal, ctalbert]

Community

• Tomcat blogged about bug days.
• Accessibility: Put up a German translation of the article on WAI-ARIA on Wikipedia. This should help authors find ARIA-related info more easily.

Security

Marketing/PR

PR

• Walt Mossberg at The Wall Street Journal reviews FF3 View the in-print version here
• Walt Mossberg interviewed for Personal Technology segment on CNBC
• Mossberg also posts video clip and review on AllThingsD blog
• Internetnews.com visits Toronto office: Two articles so far on office space and FF3 performance
• Johnathan Nightingale on CNET’s Security Bites podcast
• Brendan interviewed for eWeek Q&A
• John Lilly quoted in Forbes article on Adobe
• RC2 launches to kudos and accolades

Events

• OSCON & Black Hat planning underway.
• Next events triage call is on June 18th at 10 a.m. PDT. 650-903-0800, ext. 91, 248.
• Download Fests & Launch parties: Sending out party packs to party planners now.

Firefox 3 T-shirt

• Now live in the Mozilla Store
• Getting closer to a community store where other designs can be available for print. Stay tuned for more information.

Download Day

• Planning for the Download Day Party (a.k.a. Camp Firefox) is going great. Expect a bar-b-q and lots of games at the Mountain View office. Please let Ulili know if you want to volunteer.

Support

• Firefox Screencast Contest ending next Sunday
• Chris has worked a lot on updating the Knowledge Base for Firefox 3
• Brian Krausz is working on the SUMO site redesign
• Laura, Les, Jason and Nelson have been working on performance.

Metrics

Evangelism

• Evangelism had successful meet-up in Toronto last week.
• Work on MDC on MindTouch Deki rollout continues to get even more tantalizingly close to complete.
  • Need to get it into SVN for localization of the skin to begin.
  • Otherwise it’s about ready to go.
• Continuing the blogging drive towards Fx3. Blog more.
• Will be starting an experimental new blog to expand upon and support the about:mozilla newsletter, talk to Deb if you have questions.
• about:mozilla survey has been completed, will be going over the results shortly to see how we can improve the newsletter.
• Prepare for next about:addons newsletter
• Start work on extension and app tools
  • Scaffolding generation
  • Remote debugging / automation
• planning underway for an Air Mozilla Live on Download Day.
• lots of great new additions to planet. especially want to call out the meeting notes blog that bsmedberg’s running. see planet blog for more info. http://blog.mozilla.org/planet/

Mozilla Labs

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

• SUMO master/slave db patch – will push today or tomorrow, in-product linked shortly afer
• Socorro – database analysis and worked on maintenance scripts – need to agree on an archiving/pruning policy that works for everyone
• Graph Server – met with Alice to discuss graph server future, follow-up this week
• AMO 3.4.3 was delayed last Thursday because of problems with search queries; they will be backed out and 3.4.3 will go out this Thursday instead
• MozParty critical updates last week, 2.2 milestone this week
• MDC – made repo for Deki, importing code today to unblock l10n
• ExtendFirefox 3 ready tomorrow
• Getting ready for Firefox 3
• Webdev on-site was a success

L10n

Firefox 3 – final preparations

• Pascal is wrapping up the over 1000 screen shots for the international product pages on the 46 locales that we are shipping, and finishing work on the mozilla-europe website for the launch. (For those interested in [updates]
• Stuff still to do:
  • translate release notes, (we are waiting for them)
  • create a news item/press release for all locales to publish the day we ship
  • create subtitled videos with translated subtitled
  • migrate old Mozilla Europe web pages into the new design, (pascal is almost done)

New locales to shout out!

• Locales we’re shipping newly with Firefox 3 compared to Firefox 2 (..14) are Indonesian, Sinhala, Albanian, and Serbian (ordered by locale code). Georgian is shipping on the mac (subject to testing)
• Shout out to Danishka Navin in Sri Lanka (Sinhala) who has lined up some Press events and parties which he’s getting some help from us on for this first release, and
• Hands up for Brian King who volunteered to help us ship Slovenian as Beta with the rest of the team (Matjaz Horvath and I believe Brian’s wife helped out too)
• Bulgarian, unfortunately, hasn’t made shipping 🙁

Community Development

• Seth, Gandalf, Jane, and Mic are working on a new community portal to help recruit and organize new international communities and localization teams, and build communities were they already exist. More on this to come, we’re expecting to get lots of input from other folks in MoCo (and MoFo)

Firefox .next

• Axel is working on our approach regarding Mercurial

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

Foundation Updates

• Grants and related activities
  • Alexander Surkov completed the intermediate milestone on his Mozilla Foundation-funded project to develop automated tests and regression fixes in the Mozilla accessibility module; so far he’s fixed 16 outstanding bugs (relating to crashes, regressions, and new features), as well as kept the accessibility API documentation up to date and worked on several other accessibility-related tasks.
  • Proceedings, slides, and an attendee list have now been published for the Foundations of Open Media Software 2008 workshop, for which the Mozilla Foundation was a sponsor.

• Legal issues
  • Frank approved a new privacy policy for mozilla.org sites and David posted it to www.mozilla.org. (Note that this is a separate policy from the privacy policy for mozilla.com sites, although it is based on that policy.)
• CAs and related issues
  • Gerv proposed some ideas as to how we might address the Debian weak key problem in a Mozilla context.
  • Kathleen Wilson is waiting on responses from CAs to close out her information-gathering work on their requests. Frank worked with her to identify a set of new requests to look at, including those for Trustis (bug 324126), Microsec Ltd (bug 370505), S-TRUST (bug 370627), and TC TrustCenter (bug 378882).
  • Frank put Entrust’s request to enable the Entrust Root Certification Authority for EV (bug 416544) into the first public comment period.

• Public communication
  • David continued work on a new www.mozilla.org design brief.
  • David also worked to help produce a new draft of the proposed Mozilla brochure and get model release forms signed for people whose photos appear in the brochure.

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

• Other
  • Gerv worked on a project to calculate what percentage of the world’s Internet users have a localized version of Firefox available in their native language.
  • Gerv also worked on a project to compile a definitive domain suffix list, e.g., suffixes like “co.uk” that do not themselves refer to web sites (unlike, e.g., “co.org”); this list could be useful in contexts like handling of cookies, bookmarks, etc.

• 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.

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View Walt Mossberg Video and the other Walt Mossberg Video

WeeklyUpdates/2008-06-02

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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

Friends of the Tree

David Tenser nominates Cheng Wang (Cww) and Matthew Middleton (zzxc) for amazing contributions in the planning and execution of the Support Firefox Day. “These two community members really kick ass!” Let’s give a big round of applause for Cheng and Matthew!!

Clint Talbert nominates Massimiliano Mirra (bard) and Adam Christian for their continuing contributions to the Gristmill project. These community javascript hackers are helping us out with the automation test harness framework.

Development Updates

Fx 2.0.0.15 / TB 2.0.0.15

We’re targeting this Friday, June 6, as a code freeze date. However, given the lack of patches for this release, 2.0.0.15 is currently at risk.

If you are a developer who owns a bug that’s currently blocking 1.8.1.15, please look at it today and let us know if you think you’ll be able to fix it by Friday.

List of bugs blocking the release which need patches

Current schedule:

• Code freeze: June 6
• Builds start: June 9
• QA starts: June 10
• Release to beta channel: June 17
• Final Release: June 24

TB 3

• Shredder Alpha 2 underway (code freeze July 8)
• davida in Romania, speaking at eLiberatica conference
• Mac OS X Address Book interface now enabled by default. Please give it a try.
  • Read-only access.

Gecko 1.9.1

• mozilla-central opening this afternoon
• controlled checkins for next few days, talk to sheriff before checking in
• #hg for mercurial help
• Intro: Eric Butler, Intern from CMU.

Firefox 3

• RC2 still on track to ship Wed
• Clare Bayely and Paul O’Shannessy started last week (Fx interns)

Mobile

• Held UI work week in Toronto last week
  • agreements on direction on UI
  • spec work in progress
• Owners assigned to all P1/P2 requirements

IT

• Scaling for FF3
  • SUMO, services, downloads
• bugzilla patches pushed
• working with evangelism on dekiwiki stuff
• rhel 5 and kernel upgrades continuing…

Release Engineering

• NetApp fun continues:
  • Tree burning on multiple VMs last week, see bug 435134 and bug 435052 for details.
  • now that 3.0rc2 is done, IT now doing diagnostics. May see burning today while testing.
• Opening mozilla-central *gradually*.
  • metered checkins, each needs with sheriff approval, until we clear backlog
  • extra hg-help available from sheriff for first few days
  • making sure it all scales ok, before we throw open the floodgates

QA

Welcome interns:

• Heather Arthur – Autoamted test development
• Hasham Ali – Release Testing
• Paul Craciunoiu – QMO community tester site development

Firefox 2.0.0.15 [ss, abillings]

• Mostly in triage and coordinating landing of patches

Firefox 3 [tchung-lead]

• Testing RC2. We have to do a Mac Respin. The Windows and Linux testing kept on track and those BFTs are 100% done and PASS! Mac testing is ~85% done.
• We had another high activity RC2 test day on Fri, May 30th. Over 35 people joined us. Coce was again the top community tester! There was a lot more activity and interaction than that the results show.
• Found more leak bugs [tomcat]

Web Dev testing [stephend]

• Download Day testing – tested the sign-up page in 10 languages, 50 individual pages. Released on Wednesday. Also heavy testing of the “day of” pages. Great teamwork by Ryan, Mary, Stephen, and others! Next up is a couple more locales along with “day of” and “day after” testing.
• Testing Remora 3.4.3
• mozilla.com – tested /whatsnew/, /firstrun/, and /central/ pages for tier 1 / tier 2 locales

Community

• Latest Beta Tester survey was released. This was sent to the betatesters mail list, but anyone is encouraged to give us feedback. Here are some cool early results.
• A updated nightly start page was published. This is meant to clear away clutter and provide a better path for people to get involved with testing.
• Accessibility:
  • Announced the availability of the Litmus test run for Accessibility on newsgroups and my blog. Number of run testcases shows that some people besides me have already submitted results.Announced the availability of the Litmus test run for Accessibility on newsgroups and my blog. Number of run testcases shows that some people besides me have already submitted results.
  • Contacted the FoxMarks extension developers with some suggestions to improve their XUL.

Misc

• Test suite porting to FFX testing infrastructure. Porting dojo toolkit tests to Mochitest so all the Dojo tests to be run automatically [mw22]. Heather is taking on Prototype suite and Clint is halfway through Scriptaculous integration.
• Checked in fix to bug 432033 – Accessibility fixes in mail/components/preferences XUL files [marcoz]
• Code Coverage project – Looked at bullseye coverage tool and now looking at gcov [ctalbert]
• Gristmill XUL test automation tool – This already came in handy to automate some time intensive anti-phishing tests [ctalbert, juan]
• Wrote the abstracts for the OSCON BOF session [ctalbert]
  • Uploaded latest notes for test writing workshop [ctalbert]
• Sisyphus (JS autoamted test framework) – Modified it to support the 1.9.1 branch and using mercurial repositories for mozilla-central and actionmonkey. Worked on modifying the known failure format to reduce the size of the known failures file and to make it easier for others to maintain it. Needs to check in a number of changes. [bc]

Security

Marketing/PR

PR

– May 26 – New York Times Feature, “Browsers Are a Battleground Once Again”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/26/technology/26firefox.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=login

– Download Day in the Media

– Awards:

• Laptop 25 Most Influential in Mobile Tech, Mike Schroepfer (http://www.laptopmag.com/business/feature/25-most-influential-people-in-mobile-technology.aspx?page=7)
• PC World’s The 100 Best Products of 2008 (Thunderbird and FF3), (http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,146161-page,12-c,electronics/article.html)

Events

• Download Fest at Mozilla HQ: Planning in process — date and details tbd!

Mozilla.com

• en-US version is ready
• localization coming along well…final push to complete going on now
• email siteredesign at mozilla.com to participate in the ongoing beta test

Search Engine Marketing

• We recently concluded a set of branding experiments via our search engine advertising. For example, do new users better identify with getfirefox.com or with mozilla.com/firefox? David walked through our findings at giantspatula.

Download Day

• Pledge site is live.
• Spread the word!

Support

• David Tenser presented on SUMO in Tokyo to Mozillagumi, at the request of Mozilla Japan as part of their 10th anniversary celebration. Photos here

Metrics

• May 2008 market share update from Net Applications. Firefox showed strong growth last month… details at blog of metrics.

Evangelism

• Toronto DevDay planning is underway
  • Bringing Mozilla technology to those who have never used it
  • Includes a Test Day too
• Working with IT and webdev on MDC dekiwiki migration

Mozilla Labs

• Focus right now on pushing out a major update to Weave. (See bug 433903 for open issues.)
• Maria Emerson joined us last week as a summer intern in Labs focused on User Experience.

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

• Launched Download Day
• Launched Mozilla Party
• Worked on AMO 3.4.3 — code freeze is tonight
• Brian Krausz, Jacob Potter and Dan Schafer joined us last week – welcome!
• Breakpad server (Socorro)
  • Production pushes of pending changes to processor (infinite loop handling, logging of report errors) will be pushed
  • Final review of aggregate reports patch, working to push this ASAP
  • Database pruning and optimization this week to improve performance for common topcrasher queries — will archive data older than 60 days
• SUMO memcache patch released, performance benefits were amazing (bug 395271)
• Webdev on-site is this week, see the schedule and contact morgamic if you’d like to participate or have an idea for an all-webdev session

Foundation Updates

• Grants and related activities
  • Eitan Isaacson completed his Mozilla Foundation-funded work to improve the Orca open source screen reader for Linux. Thanks go to Eitan for all his work on this!
  • The Mozilla Foundation is funding Ben Millard for an accessibility-related project to study how authors use HTML in practice, compare this with the semantics and accessibilty-related features in HTML5, identify any gaps, and help develop realistic ways to fill them.
  • The Mozilla Foundation is funding Wellington Fernando de Macedo to help implement in the Mozilla code base server-sent DOM events functionality as specified in HTML5 (building on the work in bug 338583). This is a project originally proposed for the Google Summer of Code; we thought it was a project worth supporting but didn’t have enough SoC slots to include it as part of that program.

• CAs and related issues
  • Frank posted a draft checklist for information needed for evaluating CA requests for inclusion of root certificates in Mozilla.
  • Kathleen Wilson gathered information for CA requests from TC TrustCenter (bug 392024), Comodo (bug 421946), and Wells Fargo (bug 428390).
  • Kathleen and Frank updated the pending and included lists respectively.

• Public communication
  • David worked with Samuel Sidler on a www.mozilla.org design brief and archiving plan
  • David posted new featured Mozilla-based applications for June (Google AdWords Editor and Zimbra Desktop).
  • David posted a draft Mozilla brochure for public review.

• Conferences.
  • Zak spoke at the eLiberatica 2008 conference in Bucharest.
  • Zak prepared 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.

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

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• So I’ve been following m.d.planning, but I’m still confused. Can we outline the code checkin state right now w.r.t. the following questions:
  • What should be checked into CVS (for 1.9.0 trunk)? (i.e. QA Dev has tests that need landing)
  • What should be checked into Hg? Should everything going into CVS now be cross-committed to Hg too?
  • When are the repo’s going to re-open? And what bugs should people be following for that status?

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