{"id":100,"date":"2008-12-30T00:00:14","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T04:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/archives\/100"},"modified":"2008-12-30T00:00:14","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T04:00:14","slug":"mozilla-project-meeting-minutes-2008-12-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/archives\/100","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Project Meeting Minutes: 2008-12-29"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h1>WeeklyUpdates\/2008-12-29<\/h1>\n<h3>From MozillaWiki<\/h3>\n<div id=\"contentSub\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/WeeklyUpdates\/2008-12-22\" title=\"WeeklyUpdates\/2008-12-22\"> \u00ab previous week<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/WeeklyUpdates\" title=\"WeeklyUpdates\">index<\/a> | <a class=\"new\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/index.php?title=WeeklyUpdates\/2009-01-05&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\" title=\"WeeklyUpdates\/2009-01-05 (not yet written)\">next week \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Meeting Details<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> 1:00pm Pacific time (21:00 UTC until March 8, 2009)\n<li> Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table\n<li> +1 650 903 0800 x92 Conf# 8600 (US\/International)\n<li> +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 8600 (Canada)\n<li> +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8600 (US Toll Free)\n<li> sip:weeklystatus@mozilla.com from generic SIP clients\n<li> <a class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/air.mozilla.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/air.mozilla.com\/\">http:\/\/air.mozilla.com\/<\/a> to watch and listen\n<li> join irc.mozilla.org #staffmeeting for backchannel\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>note:<\/b> all participants are muted automatically; if you want to talk, press *1 to un-mute yourself<\/p>\n<p><b>WeeklyUpdate Live<\/b>: You can watch the weekly meetings live at <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/air.mozilla.com\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/air.mozilla.com\">Air Mozilla<\/a> You can also view previous meetings from the &#8220;on-demand&#8221; button on the Air Mozilla player. Meetings will be posted for on-demand consumption shortly after the meeting conclusion.\n<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"Friends_of_the_Tree\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h1><span class=\"mw-headline\"> Friends of the Tree <a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Image:Tree.gif\" title=\"Friends of the Tree\"><\/a> <\/span> <\/h1>\n<p>Please send FotT nominations to <a class=\"external text\" href=\"mailto:asa@mozilla.org\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"mailto:asa@mozilla.org\">asa@mozilla.org<\/a>. 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.\n<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"Development_Updates\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h1><span class=\"mw-headline\"> Development Updates <\/span> <\/h1>\n<p><a name=\"_Firefox_3.0.6_.2F_Major_Update\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\"> Branch work: Firefox 3.0.6 \/ Major Update <\/span> <\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> <b><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Releases\/Firefox_2.0.0.20_MU\" title=\"Releases\/Firefox 2.0.0.20 MU\">Firefox 2.0.0.20 to 3.0.5 Major Update<\/a><\/b>\n<ul>\n<li> Going out to Beta today (12\/29)\n<li> Final release in early\/mid January\n<li> Localizations are working on translating the new major update banner\n<\/ul>\n<li> <b><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Releases\/Thunderbird_2.0.0.19\" title=\"Releases\/Thunderbird 2.0.0.19\">Thunderbird 2.0.0.19<\/a><\/b>\n<ul>\n<li> Being released tomorrow at 11am (ahead of schedule!)\n<li> Next Thunderbird 2 release will likely be in March\n<\/ul>\n<li> <b><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Releases\/Firefox_3.0.6\" title=\"Releases\/Firefox 3.0.6\">Firefox 3.0.6<\/a><\/b>\n<ul>\n<li> Code freeze is January 6 at 11:59pm\n<li> Final release is targeted at early February\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"Gecko_1.9.1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\"> Gecko 1.9.1 <\/span> <\/h2>\n<p><a name=\"Firefox_3.1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\"> Firefox 3.1 <\/span> <\/h2>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Releases\/Firefox_3.1b3\" title=\"Releases\/Firefox 3.1b3\">Firefox 3.1 Beta 3<\/a><\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <b>Dec 31 &#8211; string freeze<\/b> &lt;&#8211; coming soon! take note!\n<li> Jan 13 &#8211; code freeze\n<li> Jan 19 &#8211; QA start\n<li> Jan 26 &#8211; ship to users\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> workin&#8217; on Beta 3 (<a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.org\/~beltzner\/triage.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.org\/~beltzner\/triage.html\">triage queries<\/a>)\n<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/6r2g75\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/6r2g75\">Firefox 3.1 Nominations<\/a>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5vuco5\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5vuco5\">Firefox 3.1 Blockers<\/a>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/6lhd9t\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/6lhd9t\">Fixed Firefox 3.1 Blockers that need 1.9.1 landing<\/a>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5d5qwm\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5d5qwm\">Firefox 3.1 &#8211; easy polish bugs we&#8217;re looking to take<\/a>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/6delb6\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/6delb6\">Firefox 3.1 &#8211; hard polish bugs we&#8217;re looking to take<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"TB_3\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\"> TB 3 <\/span> <\/h2>\n<p><a name=\"Mobile\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\"> Mobile <\/span> <\/h2>\n<p><a name=\"IT\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\"> IT <\/span> <\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> No real updates this week.\n<li> Last week was slow, took advantage of the slowness to run through kernel upgrades and other miscellaneous updates.\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"Release_Engineering\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\"> Release Engineering <\/span> <\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> Releases discussed above.\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"QA\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\"> QA <\/span> <\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> Releases (mostly covered above)\n<ul>\n<li> Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 testing, attempt to release this week\n<li> Pre-release testing of 2.0.0.20 Major Update to 3.0.5\n<\/ul>\n<li> 100,000 top site test ongoing\n<ul>\n<li> Found and reduced two crash bugs to reproducible testcases so far, more to follow\n<\/ul>\n<li> Tested and Released Alpha 2 for Fennec!\n<li> Keeping abreast of Firefox 3 testing in CSS Tranforms, Session Restore, and PPC support among others\n<li> Code coverage statistics are almost ready, getting the last kinks worked out\n<li> Mozmill 1.0 will be released this week\n<ul>\n<li> Bug fixing for Thunderbird support\n<li> UI improvements\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"Security\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\"> Security <\/span> <\/h2>\n<p>Mozilla is investigating the issue of improperly issued SSL certificates from a Comodo reseller.  See extra long thread here: <a class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/mozilla.dev.tech.crypto\/browse_thread\/thread\/9c0cc829204487bf#\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/mozilla.dev.tech.crypto\/browse_thread\/thread\/9c0cc829204487bf#\">http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/mozilla.dev.tech.crypto\/browse_thread\/thread\/9c0cc829204487bf#<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"Marketing.2FPR\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\"> Marketing\/PR <\/span> <\/h2>\n<p><b>PR<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Mozilla and John Lilly featured in <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2008\/12\/29\/BU8114QNPK.DTL\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2008\/12\/29\/BU8114QNPK.DTL\">SF Chronicle<\/a>\n<li> Firefox named <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chip.de\/downloads\/Firefox_13014344.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/www.chip.de\/downloads\/Firefox_13014344.html\">\u201cCHIP Online Download Award: Download of the Year\u201d<\/a>\n<li> Firefox wins <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.webtron.com.au\/blogs\/51\/Web-Browser-of-the-Year-Firefox-beats-Explorer-to-Technology-Award.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/www.webtron.com.au\/blogs\/51\/Web-Browser-of-the-Year-Firefox-beats-Explorer-to-Technology-Award.html\">Web Browser of the Year<\/a>\n<li> Fennec alpha 2 released. Coverage includes <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.betanews.com\/article\/Mozilla_updates_its_Fennec_mobile_browser_alpha\/1230567694\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/www.betanews.com\/article\/Mozilla_updates_its_Fennec_mobile_browser_alpha\/1230567694\">Beta News<\/a>, <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1035_3-10128919-94.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1035_3-10128919-94.html\">CNet<\/a>, <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20081224-mozilla-releases-second-alpha-of-fennec-mobile-browser.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20081224-mozilla-releases-second-alpha-of-fennec-mobile-browser.html\">Ars Technica<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<b>Engagement<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> New <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Engagement\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Engagement\">wiki page<\/a> posted with Dec08 update slides.\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<b>Community<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Campus Reps <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadfirefox.com\/campusreps\/onthestreet\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/www.spreadfirefox.com\/campusreps\/onthestreet\">&#8220;On the Street&#8221; Interviews<\/a> project completed&#8230; <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/jay\/2008\/12\/26\/watch-our-campus-reps-hit-the-streets\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/jay\/2008\/12\/26\/watch-our-campus-reps-hit-the-streets\/\">Check out the videos!<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"Support\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\"> Support <\/span> <\/h2>\n<p>No updates this week. Thanks to all SUMO contributors (and of course the SUMO team and all helpful peers) for a fantastic 2008! Here&#8217;s to an even more spectacular 2009.\u00a0\ud83d\ude42\n<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"Metrics\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\"> Metrics <\/span> <\/h2>\n<p><a name=\"Evangelism\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\"> Evangelism <\/span> <\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> No Updates.\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"Labs\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\"> Labs <\/span> <\/h2>\n<p><a name=\"Developer_Tools\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\"> Developer Tools <\/span> <\/h2>\n<p><a name=\"Add-ons\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\"> Add-ons <\/span> <\/h2>\n<p><a name=\"Webdev\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\"> Webdev <\/span> <\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> No updates.\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"L10n\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\"> L10n <\/span> <\/h2>\n<p><a name=\"Foundation_Updates\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h1><span class=\"mw-headline\"> Foundation Updates <\/span> <\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> Frank <b>investigated problems with SSL certificate issuance at Certstar<\/b>, a reseller of Comodo; see the <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/mozilla.dev.tech.crypto\/browse_frm\/thread\/9c0cc829204487bf\/e7177bfee11961ec?tvc=1#e7177bfee11961ec\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/mozilla.dev.tech.crypto\/browse_frm\/thread\/9c0cc829204487bf\/e7177bfee11961ec?tvc=1#e7177bfee11961ec\">public discussion in m.d.t.crypto<\/a> for full details.\n<li> David <b>updated www.mozilla.org with new or revised pages<\/b> for <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/about\/history.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/about\/history.html\">Mozilla project history<\/a>, <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/about\/roles.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/about\/roles.html\">project roles and leadership<\/a>, and a <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/about\/manifesto.ca.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/about\/manifesto.ca.html\">Catalan version<\/a> of the <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/about\/manifesto.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/about\/manifesto.html\">Mozilla Manifesto<\/a>.\n<li> David <b>migrated to MDC the <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/En\/List_of_Mozilla-Based_Applications\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/En\/List_of_Mozilla-Based_Applications\">list<\/a> of all known Mozilla-based applications<\/b>.\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"Roundtable\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h1><span class=\"mw-headline\"> Roundtable <\/span> <\/h1>\n<p><a name=\"Other_Business\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h1><span class=\"mw-headline\"> Other Business <\/span> <\/h1>\n<div class=\"printfooter\">\nRetrieved from &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/WeeklyUpdates\/2008-12-29\">https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/WeeklyUpdates\/2008-12-29<\/a>&#8220;<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WeeklyUpdates\/2008-12-29 From MozillaWiki \u00ab previous week | index | next week \u00bb 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209],"tags":[257],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}