WeeklyUpdates/2008-08-25

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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

WeeklyUpdate Streaming Video & Podcast update

You can watch the weekly meetings live at Air Mozilla and I’ll link to the Podcast here until I can get the podcast directory listing added to the Air Mozilla page.

Because I suck, there will again be no podcast this week. Sorry. I’ll try again to get it right next week. -Asa

Friends of the Tree

• Rob Strong wrote in to nominate Serge Gautherie as a friend of the tree. He has been tracking down bugs that cause tests to fail in debug builds as well as tested many edgecases and filed bugs for them.”

• Deb Richardson wrote in after last week’s meeting, “I would like to nominate Mister Asa Dotzler as one of this week’s friends of the tree for totally kicking ass with setting up video streaming of the weekly meeting on air mozilla. It was much, much more engaging than the regular old ‘disembodied voices over the phone’ that we usually have. Also, with the ability to record and post meetings after the fact, Asa has solved the problem of keeping good and accurate notes for folks in other timezones who can’t make the live meeting. Three cheers for Asa. Awesome, awesome work  :)”

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

Fx 2->3 Major Update / Fx 2.0.0.17 / Fx 3.0.2

Firefox 2.0.0.16 -> 3.0.1 Major Update

• no showstopper feedback from beta
• thanks to some awesome localization work we’re ready to issue the major update today
• QA is off site for a meeting, so we’ll go live late PDT today, around 7pm
• initial throttle rate will be 75%, will monitor and adjust based on uptake
• we will not be issuing the update to ja-JP-mac builds until Firefox 3.0.2

Firefox 2.0.0.16

• code freeze is tomorrow at 11:59pm
• several bugs need patches

Firefox 3.0.2

• code freeze is tomorrow at 11:59pm
• a few bugs still need patches
• several bugs need to land

Gecko 1.9.1

• please update your status on the feature list wiki page
• code freeze for beta 1 is Tuesday, September 9th

Firefox 3.1

• please update your status on the feature list wiki page
• code freeze for beta 1 is Tuesday, September 9th
• good discussion of ctrl-tab interaction on planet.mozilla.org, a summary thread will soon follow on dev-apps-firefox
• need to pay attention to small usability issues that remain in the product

TB 3

• Current Schedule
  • Beta 1 string freeze in 1 week (Sept 2)
  • Beta 1 code freeze in 2 weeks (Sept 9)

Mobile

• Close to release of M7, tracking bug
• Proposed new themes for Fennec

IT

• Continuing CDN Trials
  • Moved www.mozilla.com behind CDNetworks (CDN)
  • Testing addons.mozilla.org behind CDNetworks bug 450745
• Bugzilla
  • Completed database/webserver memory upgrades
  • Bugzilla 3.2 upgrade coming, possibly Thursday bug 450310
    • http://www.bugzilla.org/releases/3.2/new-features.html
• Prep’d for Major Update

Release Engineering

• l10n on mercurial – workaround in progress
• FF2->FF3 major update still on track for today 7pm
• FF3.1a2 builds scheduled to start Wed (27th)
• Armen and Lukas internships ended, now migrating back slowly to Canada.

QA

Security

Marketing/PR

PR

Tracemonkey is announced and well received in the technology trade press; more than 20 articles to date. Highlights include Ars Technica, Information Week, InfoWorld and ComputerWorld

Firefox 3 extension contest appears in ComputerWorld and LifeHacker

Events

• BarCamp Bangkok, August 30 – 31, 2008: Mozilla is co-sponsoring and Gen Kanai is participating.
• Events Triage call: Please join us for our bi-weekly events triage call Wednesday at 10 a.m. PDT. Dial-in is 650-903-0800, ext 91, id 248 or 800-707-2533, password 369, ext 91, id 248 and #events on irc.mozilla.org.

Spreadfirefox.com

• Help us define what spreadfirefox v3 should look like by participating in the Sfx group
• Mozilla Campus Reps 2008-09 registration is now OPEN! More info at http://www.spreadfirefox.com/campusreps and signups + survey at http://moz.campusreps0809signups.sgizmo.com/

Support

Metrics

• We have begun posting about the uninstall survey (data analysis, along with suggested changes we’re looking to implement) at the metrics blog and are looking for feedback.

Evangelism

• New MDC launched on Tuesday. Updates and fixes for the mostly minor glitches are underway.

Mozilla Labs

• Labs Meet-up in San Francisco. Thursday 8/28, 6-9pm at the Twitter office, 539 Bryant St. Suite 402, SF. We will be discussing Ubiquity and encouraging general hacking and conversation.

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

• SUMO 0.6.2 pushed
• AMO 3.4.7 pushed
• AMO 3.5 was merged back into trunk (dev control panel revamp)
• AUS updates for major updates pushed
• Breakpad/Socorro – work continues on server-side throttling, PHP version of reporter is staged on cluster, working out some issues with rewrites/apache

L10n

• Resolved bug 450655
• Adding 8 locales for beta, 2 more out of beta
  • Bengali (bn-IN)
  • Hindi (hi-IN)
  • Galician (gl)
  • Icelandic (is)
  • Kannada (kn)
  • Marathi (mr)
  • Telugu (te)
  • Thai (th)

With the addition of these localizations, Firefox’s coverage of the Internet population grew from 88.64% to 93.10%. (This is based on a rough model constructed by Gerv and Seth. Ping sethb if you want to learn more.)

• bsmedberg volunteered to do unsupported fx3.1 l10n builds

Foundation Updates

• Future of the Foundation
  • Mitchell announced Mark Surman’s hiring as the new Executive Director of the Foundation. Mark and Frank did follow-up posts.

• CAs and related issues
  • Frank did a blog post on Mozilla and CAs.

• www.mozilla.org
  • David worked on more www.mozilla.org archiving and redirect issues.

• Other
  • We also worked on various internal-for-now projects; details later as they move forward.

• Upcoming activities
  • Frank will be out on vacation most of this week.

Roundtable

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WeeklyUpdates/2008-08-18

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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

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

Fx 2->3 Major Update / Fx 2.0.0.17 / Fx 3.0.2

Refocusing efforts on delivering a Firefox 2->3 major update within the next week. This will be from Firefox 2.0.0.16 to 3.0.1. We’re tracking some issues that might block the release but otherwise are looking good.

Firefox 2.0.0.17/3.0.2 was supposed to freeze on Friday. This has been moved out. The new schedule is:

• Code freeze: August 26 11:59pm PDT
• Builds start: August 27
• QA starts: August 28
• Release to beta channel: September 4
• Final Release: September 11

This puts code freeze one week after 3.1a2’s code freeze to give developers more time to work on patches.

Gecko 1.9.1

Firefox 3.1

As discussed at last week’s product delivery meeting on Tuesday the
next Shiretoko milestone will be Alpha 2, with code freeze set for
Tuesday, August 19th at 11:59pm PDT. As an alpha, this milestone will be
en-US only, so there is no string freeze date.

TB 3

• Shredder 3.0Alpha 2 has shipped!
• https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Dmose:Full_Text_Indexing_Meeting full-text indexing for the Mozilla platform discussion on Tuesday
• code freeze for beta 1 on September 9

Mobile

IT

• CDN Trials
  • Moved www.mozilla.org behind CDNetworks (CDN)
  • Planning on moving www.mozilla.com behind CDNetworks this week
• Patched Drupal vulnerabilities
• Upcoming Planned Mainentance
  • Kernel upgrades
  • Bugzilla downtime Tuesday night – Database RAM (8GB -> 16GB) & web server RAM (4GB -> 8GB) upgrades

Release Engineering

• major update from FF2.0.0.16 -> FF3.0.1 handed over to QA early last Wed morning (13th).
  • doing practice major updates since december2007 🙂
• moved a bunch of unittest machines from QA network
• making progress on getting mobile linux builds automated.
• group stretched thin rest of month.

QA

Firefox 3.0.x

• Major Updates are now the top priority. We started testing these late last week. Will finish the testing early this week. [juanb, tomcat, tchung]
• Fixed bug 441703 – direction attribute of marquee should be case-insensitive (for selector matching) [mw22]
• Migrated bug 423176, Crash with jaws 7.1, to Firefox 3.0.2/Gecko 1.9.0.2. This means that more screen reader users will benefit from the new Firefox 3.0.x, without having to buy expensive upgrades to their screen reader. [marcoz]
• Verified bugs for 3.0.2 [marcia and others]
• Triaged over 50 unconfirmed bugs last week [tomcat, marcia]

Firefox 3.1

• Feature Planning/Testing:
  • Continued creating automated test cases for bug 156716 (mediaqueries) – CSS3 “media queries”. Print cases just about done. [hali]
  • First draft of Addons Manager Testplan for Fx3.1 [tchung]
  • Working on a testplan for <WHATWG> canvas testing [tchung]
  • Wrote AwesomeBar test plan [stephend]
  • Completed a first draft of test plan for Ctrl-Tab feature and circulated it for comments among some of the interested members of the team.
• Around 7 Gristmill scripts are completed (mostly browser control BFT’s). [hali]
• Tested and verified bug 450089, which fixes a remaining accessibility issue with the new Session Restore implementation

WebDev Testing – AMO: Verified as FIXED 19 bugs. Continued work on Selenium-based search test suite; 90% finished! [stephend]

Test Tools

• Gristmill: Finished API documentation
• Fixed Sisyphus bugs: bug 450043, bug 450446, bug 450453

Misc

• QMO2 Project: Good progress on templates and Themes. See staged pages. Working with IT and Advomatic to move staged QMO2 to Mozilla servers. Defined feature specs for Advomatic to help get some of the custom work done quicker.
• Buzilla Dashboard for QMO – Added sharing and custom path for each chart.
• Pushed to get tracemonkey build issues fixed. Still outstanding:bug 450848, bug 450612
• Marco’s Easy ARIA tips blog posts were picked up by css.dzone.com/news!
• Worked on Testing Event for EU Dev Day. Reviewed list of invitees. Roughed out a list of proposed sessions. [marcia, tomcat, ctalbert]
• Intern Heather Arthur left after doing a great job on porting JavaScript standard tests for Prototypes and JQuery, Mobile mochitest automation, and Mobile geo-location testing

Security

Marketing/PR

PR

– Mozilla Labs Concept series in InfoWorld, PC World, BusinessWeek

– Myk Melez discusses Snowl during a podcast on Technology Gazette

Events

• Jornadas Regionales de Software Libre, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 20 – 22, 2008: Chris Hofmann and Mozilla Argentina community members conducting talks.
• Congresso Estadual de Software Livre (CESoL-CE), Brazil, August 19 – 23, 2008: Chris Hofmann speaking and meeting up with Brazilian community.
• COSCUP 2008, Taipei, Taiwan: Mozilla is co-sponsoring and Gen Kanai is attending.
• BarCamp Bangkok, August 30 – 31, 2008: Mozilla is co-sponsoring and Gen Kanai is participating.

Support

Metrics

• We’re really, really close to passing 20% worldwide market share (according to Net Applications). the week of August 10th shows Fx at 19.82%. for comparison purposes, we were at 19.22% for the month of July.

Evangelism

• MDC on MindTouch Deki scheduled to deploy tomorrow (Tuesday, August 19th). Current MDC is in read-only mode for the transition.

Mozilla Labs

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

• AMO 3.4.7 open bugs & fixed bugs – Freeze – Mon, 8/18 (11:59pm), push: Thu, 8/21
• SUMO 0.6.2 [1] code freeze was Thur 8/14, push Tue 8/19.
• Socorro/Breakpad
  • Working with IT to push latest monitor/processor changes
  • PHP version ready to be clustered, needs cron jobs set up for summary tables (this gets the reporter back to a workable state)
• MU-related (done this week)
  • bug 444961 – Server-side throttling
  • bug 418129 – OS ignore for AUS
• Graph Server (AKA Perfomatic)
  • Did triage last week, code freeze for 0.4 milestone Aug 28th
  • Focusing on performance improvements
  • Need some help fleshing out important use-cases so we know where to focus perf improvements

L10n

• See the L10n Dashboard to review the most recent state of Firefox translations.
• Finishing up 8 locales for beta stage, Bulgarian might benefit from push-out of 3.0.2

Foundation Updates

• CAs and related issues
  • Frank gave final approval to a request from Comodo to include a new root CA certificate for EV use (bug 421946) and filed bugs 450427 and 450429 for the corresponding NSS and PSM changes.

• www.mozilla.org
  • David scheduled the next www.mozilla.org planning meeting for September 3.
  • David worked on more www.mozilla.org archiving issues (bugs 449446, 450165, 450328, 450412, 450490, 450682 and others).
  • David posted a new page to replace the obsolete Mozilla Suite pages.
  • David updated the Foundation home page with a link to the friendfeed room for Mozilla Foundation futures..

• Other
  • David gathered notes from the Mozilla identity discussion at the Summit and posted them.
  • David blogged about the Mozpad post mortem.
  • Gerv was on holiday all week.

• Upcoming activities
  • Gerv will be on holiday until August 20.

Internship Updates

• Adrian Kalla, l10n intern

Roundtable

Other Business

WeeklyUpdates/2008-08-11

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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

• Myk Melez writes in to nominate Archaeopteryx as a friend of the tree for his tireless work as an AMO reviewer. “Archaeopteryx reviews a lot of extensions, but he also goes above and beyond, discussing issues in IRC and filing bugs on problems he finds. His feedback is really useful!”

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

Fx 2.0.0.17 / Fx 3.0.2

Firefox 2.0.0.17

• simultaneous release with 3.0.2

Firefox 3.0.2

• code freeze scheduled for Friday, August 15th
• see schedule/tracking page for more info
• plan is for this to be the version that will be used for Major Update
  • still need to work out plan for when we offer it

TB 3

• Shredder Alpha 2 release candidate built; testing in progress
• Will be scheduling platform full-text indexing meeting for early next week (probably Tuesday or Wednesday); will announce in dev.planning & elsewhere

Gecko 1.9.1

• Proposed Gecko Shiretoko 1.9.1 Beta 1 Freeze: Still planning for Tuesday, August 19 @ 11:59PM PDT. Like the Firefox section says below, we’ll be discussing this more in tomorrow’s Firefox meeting.
• Interesting queries related to Gecko 1.9.1
• 21 1.9.1 blockers.
• 138 wanted bugs
  • 26 P1s. These are bugs we feel would really, really make a good release if we had a solid handful completed.
  • 44 P2s. These are medium complexity bugs/changes that are nice to have.
  • 38 P3s. The lowest priority bugs for this release. These are the ones that we will definitely take, but the others take priority.

Firefox 3.1

• canonical feature list being assembled for tracking (based on feedback from post-mortem at Mozilla Summit)
• will be evaluating progress to date at tomorrow’s product delivery meeting
  • code freeze for next milestone is Aug 19
  • l10n freeze for next milestone is Aug 15
  • some developer overlap with 2.0.0.17/3.0.2 might cause schedule risk

Mobile

• Fennec M6 released
• New edition of about:mobile

IT

• nothing of note 🙂

Release Engineering

• new BuildID, see newsgroups / [blog] / bug 431270 for details.

• Unittest downtimes this week
  • Move machines QA network to Build network, change to use same version of buildbot, same user a/c. One step closer to unifying Build and Unittest machines.
  • doing 1.9 unittest machines 8am PST Tues morning
  • if all goes well, will do moz2 unittest machines Thurs night.

QA

firefox 3.0.x

• Bug Triage, bug fix verification
• Created patch for A11y related crash: bug 423176 [marcoz]

Firefox 3.1

• Worked on Test Plan and updated the features list and QA owner for each one. [tchung, ctalbert]
• Worked on Beta1 specific Test Plan [tchung]
• Test Development
  • Developing test plan for Worker Threads [Adam]
  • Tested new video implementation and may have found a way to make the controls accessible to screen readers, by putting them always outside the video element. Am working on a blog post and possibly a GreaseMonkey script. [marcoz]
  • Filed several Video/Audio/Layout bugs, including a few crashers. [mw22]
  • Automating browser control tests from the Litmus BFTs using Gristmill [hasham]
• Bug fix verification [tchung, others]

JavaScript/Tracemonkey Testing [bc]

• Added support for running JavaScript shell tests on 1.9.1 tracemonkey using JIT. Have tested locally.
• Performed a shell test run using 1.9.1 tracemonkey with JIT and filed several assertion bugs.

WebDev Testing

• AMO: Shipped AMO 3.4.6. Verified the only (yet) fixed bug for 3.4.7. More testing of the 3.5 Developer Control Panel branch. Continued work on Selenium-based automated search test suite
• SUMO: Verified 8 FIXED bugs

Test Tools

• Put together Gristmill Documentation, Boilerplate Explained, and Gristmill API doc

Miscellaneous

• Gave a “how to write mochitests” preliminary session for Hasham, Paul C and Akira. This will be given again as a open invitation brown bag presentation soon. [harthur, ctalbert]
• Wrote script for “easy” running of tests on N800, need to add retrying behavior for when fennec dies.

Community

• Planning for European Developer Day in October [Clint, Marcia, tomcat]
• Help a Test Day for the Location Bar on Friday, Aug 8th. It was a pretty quiet day. It’ hard to compete with the Olympics opening day. Results
• Put final touches on the Firefox 3 with screen readers FAQ on Sumo and blogged about it. [marcoz]

Security

• Window was a judge for Iron Chef at BlackHat 2008

Marketing/PR

PR

Events

• Black Hat: Please update Chofmann’s recap on the Intranet if you attended.
• COSCUP 2008, Taipei, Taiwan: Mozilla is co-sponsoring and Gen Kanai is attending.
• BarCamp Bangkok, August 30 – 31: Mozilla is co-sponsoring and Gen Kanai is participating.
• Events Triage Call: Join us at 10 a.m. PDT on August 13th. Dial-in: 650-903-0800, ext 91, id 248.

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

• MDC relaunch still scheduled for Thursday, August 14th, although some work is taking longer than expected.
• Please attach your summit materials (presentations, notes, videos, etc.) to your session page at the wiki. Asa to send mail to all attendees with prodding.

Mozilla Labs

• Snowl
  • Snowl 0.1 experimental prototype released last week;
  • lots of feedback via blog comments, AMO reviews, blog posts, news articles, discussion forums, bug reports, etc.;
  • reviewing feedback and figuring out where to take it next.

• Ubiquity
  • Ubiquity 0.1 prototype will be released this week: Ubiquity Description, Command Tutorial
  • It’s an exploration of connecting the web with language, looking at lower-cost ways of extending the browser and exposing cross-site functionality with linguistic command lines.

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

• Working on AMO perf release, code freeze Monday
• Socorro was rewritten in PHP over the weekend (lorchard!!), looking to cluster it and resolve 500 ISE issues with outdates Pylons reporter this week
• Working on archive policies for crash reports
• Graph server is fully moved over to Hg and documented, 0.4 milestone is next — focusing on perf issues (triage is this week)
• Testing new MDC as needed
• Addressed a couple of security issues: upgraded SUMO Live Chat, fixed AMO cookies

L10n

• 3.0.2 / 3.1 updates
• Thai localization sprint. Here is the Twitter feed.
• Localization efforts in Uganda over the weekend resulted in a translation of Firefox into Luganda. Thanks to Friedel Wolfe for helping with this.
• Axel and others set up separate l10n repos in Hg and then Axel worked tirelessly to migrate our locales over to Hg. Special thanks to Axel for doing this…amidst the dot-release for Firefox (where we hope to add several languages), Axel is getting our localization community ready for 3.1 by preparing Hg. Seriously great work!

Foundation Updates

• CAs and related issues
  • Frank gave final approval to a request from Wells Fargo to include a new root CA certificate for EV use (bug 428390) and filed bugs 449393 and 449394 for the corresponding NSS and PSM changes.

• Public communications
  • David created a Mozilla brochure page on www.mozilla.org and posted to the l10n newsgroup to get ideas for localizing the brochure.
  • David followed up on several archiving related issues (including bugs 449185, 446213, 449148, 448870 and 449446) and blogged about the archiving process.
  • David updated the Projects page on www.mozilla.org to include featured Mozilla Labs projects.
  • David worked on a draft of a new Mozilla Foundation home page.

• Other
  • Frank and Gerv were on holiday all week.

• Upcoming activities
  • Gerv will be on holiday until August 20.

Roundtable

Other Business