{"id":145,"date":"2009-03-09T23:00:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T03:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/archives\/145"},"modified":"2009-03-09T23:00:15","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T03:00:15","slug":"mozilla-project-meeting-minutes-2009-03-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/archives\/145","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Project Meeting Minutes: 2009-03-09"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h1>WeeklyUpdates\/2009-03-09<\/h1>\n<h3>From MozillaWiki<\/h3>\n<div id=\"contentSub\"><span class=\"subpages\">&lt; <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/WeeklyUpdates\" title=\"WeeklyUpdates\">WeeklyUpdates<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/WeeklyUpdates\/2009-03-02\" title=\"WeeklyUpdates\/2009-03-02\"> \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\/2009-03-16&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\" title=\"WeeklyUpdates\/2009-03-16 (not yet written)\">next week \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Meeting Details<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> 1:00pm Pacific time (20:00 UTC until November 1, 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><span style=\"color: red\"><b>TIME CHANGE NOTICE<\/b><\/span>: <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daylight_saving_time\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daylight_saving_time\">Daylight Saving Time<\/a> (DST) began last Sunday in the United States. Meeting time until November 1, 2009 will be 20:00 UTC.<\/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>\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<ul>\n<li> Catherine Brady writes in with two nominations:\n<ul>\n<li> &#8220;I&#8217;m nominating Alex Buchanan for building the awesome trademark infringement reporting tool.  He worked hard and I think it looks great.&#8221;\n<li> &#8220;Tomcat as a friend of the tree for his invaluable help in reviewing and analyzing the code on sites we&#8217;re investigating for potential infringement.  His work has helped us to obtain successful results in several enforcement actions.&#8221;\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Carsten Book has several nominations:\n<ul>\n<li> &#8220;Jane Finette for an stellar job in organizing Mozilla&#8217;s first appearance at the CeBIT!&#8221;\n<li> &#8220;Kai Engert for helping us at the CeBIT booth Saturday and Sunday\u00a0!!!&#8221;\n<li> &#8220;Our Community, we got thousands of visitors from our community and great feedback and questions for all areas in Mozilla\u00a0!&#8221;\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\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=\"Branch_work:_Firefox_3.0.x_.2F_Thunderbird_2.0.0.x\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\"> Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x \/ Thunderbird 2.0.0.x <\/span> <\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> <b><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Releases\/Firefox_3.0.7\" title=\"Releases\/Firefox 3.0.7\">Firefox 3.0.7<\/a><\/b>\n<ul>\n<li> Shipped last Wednesday\n<li> Caused a few server issues (see IT&#8217;s update below)\n<\/ul>\n<li> <b><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Releases\/Firefox_3.0.8\" title=\"Releases\/Firefox 3.0.8\">Firefox 3.0.8<\/a><\/b>\n<ul>\n<li> Code freeze is a week from tomorrow\n<li> Aiming for mid-April release\n<\/ul>\n<li> <b><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Releases\/Thunderbird_2.0.0.21\" title=\"Releases\/Thunderbird 2.0.0.21\">Thunderbird 2.0.0.21<\/a><\/b>\n<ul>\n<li> Beta this Wednesday\n<li> Release in a week\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<ul>\n<li> Now cranking on Beta 4.  Groups other than JS are fixing issues as they find them at this point.  JS still has a decent size bug list of 42.\n<li> Other areas are looking pretty good to wrap up blockers soon:\n<ul>\n<li> 14 final blocker bugs left in content.\n<li> 3 GFX final blockers.\n<li> 6 Layout final blockers.\n<li> 2 SVG final blockers.\n<li> JS with 42 blockers.\n<\/ul>\n<li> Triage needed.  47 noms are in the queue right now.\n<li> For weekly engineering meeting notes and other info see the <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Platform\" title=\"Platform\">Platform page<\/a>.\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/3jsumu\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/3jsumu\">86 total 1.9.1 blockers<\/a> (last week: 90).\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"Firefox_3.1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\"> Firefox 3.1 <\/span> <\/h2>\n<p><b>Firefox Front End Work<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/is.gd\/mzK3\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/is.gd\/mzK3\">10 blockers left<\/a>, only 1 of which is complicated\n<li> Good progress on <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Firefox3.1\/Sprints\" title=\"Firefox3.1\/Sprints\">code sprints<\/a> for items that could opportunistically be taken for Firefox 3.1, but will be taken on trunk.\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Releases\/Firefox_3.1b3\" title=\"Releases\/Firefox 3.1b3\">Beta 3 Progress<\/a><\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> tagged and built early last week (one respin required)\n<li> QA underway and on schedule\n<li> on target for a release of this Thursday afternoon\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Beta 4 Schedule<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> proposed schedule (not final):\n<ul>\n<li> string freeze: Thursday, March 19th at 11:59pm PDT\n<li> code freeze: Monday, April 6th at noon PDT\n<li> qa start: Tuesday, April 7th at 9am PDT\n<li> release: Tuesday, April 14th, afternoon PDT\n<\/ul>\n<li> will discuss this at tomorrow&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Platform\/2009-03-03\" title=\"Platform\/2009-03-03\">platform meeting<\/a> and Wednesday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Firefox3.1\/StatusMeetings\/2009-03-04\" title=\"Firefox3.1\/StatusMeetings\/2009-03-04\">delivery meeting<\/a> before finalizing\n<li> you may also comment on the <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/mozilla.dev.planning\/browse_thread\/thread\/0d903b84a00f50b2#\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/mozilla.dev.planning\/browse_thread\/thread\/0d903b84a00f50b2#\">newsgroup thread<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Firefox3.1\/3.5\" title=\"Firefox3.1\/3.5\">Reversioning to 3.5<\/a><\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> as has been <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/devnews\/index.php\/2009\/03\/06\/shiretoko-to-be-named-firefox-35\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/devnews\/index.php\/2009\/03\/06\/shiretoko-to-be-named-firefox-35\/\">announced on MDC DevNews<\/a> we will be reversioning Shiretoko to Firefox 3.5\n<li> first public release with this number will be Firefox 3.5 Beta 4\n<li> <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Firefox3.1\/3.5\" title=\"Firefox3.1\/3.5\">project plan<\/a> is available for comment, please use the <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/mozilla.dev.planning\/browse_thread\/thread\/1411b51e167208f7#\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/mozilla.dev.planning\/browse_thread\/thread\/1411b51e167208f7#\">newsgroup thread<\/a> or find Sam (ss) on IRC\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"TB_3\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\"> TB 3 <\/span> <\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> 3.0b3 and 3.0 planning continuing\n<li> Lots of heads-down coding work\n<li> Thunderbird traffic from mozilla.com has been <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/gozer.ectoplasm.org\/blog\/archive\/2009\/03\/mozillacom-are-you-sending-us-tr.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/gozer.ectoplasm.org\/blog\/archive\/2009\/03\/mozillacom-are-you-sending-us-tr.html\">redirected to mozillamessaging.com<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"Mobile\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\"> Mobile <\/span> <\/h2>\n<p>Beta 1 is still in testing, but we expect a release in the next day or two. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Mobile\/Notes\/09-Mar-2009\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Mobile\/Notes\/09-Mar-2009\">Weekly Meeting notes<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"IT\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\"> IT <\/span> <\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> Managed 3.0.7 release\n<ul>\n<li> Had network capacity issues, <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/mrz\/2009\/03\/05\/fx-307-release-this-mornings-network-performance-issues\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/mrz\/2009\/03\/05\/fx-307-release-this-mornings-network-performance-issues\/\">brief summary<\/a>\n<li> Call out to mirrors &#8211; we need help!\n<\/ul>\n<li> Moved mozilla.org behind Postini for spam filtering\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"Release_Engineering\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\"> Release Engineering <\/span> <\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> major update discussions in dev.planning or here: <a class=\"external autonumber\" href=\"http:\/\/oduinn.com\/2009\/03\/04\/fun-and-games-with-major-updates\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/oduinn.com\/2009\/03\/04\/fun-and-games-with-major-updates\/\">[1]<\/a> <a class=\"external autonumber\" href=\"http:\/\/oduinn.com\/2009\/03\/09\/fun-and-games-with-major-updates-followup\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/oduinn.com\/2009\/03\/09\/fun-and-games-with-major-updates-followup\/\">[2]<\/a> <a class=\"external autonumber\" href=\"http:\/\/oduinn.com\/2009\/03\/09\/fun-and-games-with-major-updates-followup\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/oduinn.com\/2009\/03\/09\/fun-and-games-with-major-updates-followup\/\">[3]<\/a> <a class=\"external autonumber\" href=\"http:\/\/oduinn.com\/2009\/03\/09\/fun-and-games-with-major-updates-some-new-options\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/oduinn.com\/2009\/03\/09\/fun-and-games-with-major-updates-some-new-options\/\">[4]<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li> fake major update coming to QA this week for FF3.0.7 -&gt; FF3.1b3\n<\/ul>\n<li> new parallel l10n repacks used in FF3.1b3.\n<ul>\n<li> linux: reduced from ~1h15m -&gt; 20mins\n<li> mac: reduced from 1hr -&gt; 20mins\n<li> win32: reduced from ~6hrs -&gt; 1hr\n<li> big tip of the hat to Armen, Axel and Coop for this.\n<li> more details soon.\n<\/ul>\n<li> Rebranding from FF3.1-&gt;FF3.5 in next week\/so.\n<li> New Talos mac regression in Ts over weekend &#8211; see dev.tree-management for details.\n<li> Mothballing dm-pageload01 &#8211; details in <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=433595\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=433595\">bug 433595<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"QA\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\"> QA <\/span> <\/h2>\n<p><b> Test Execution <\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Shipped Fx3.0.7 to the world on 3\/4\n<li> Testing Firefox 3.1 Beta 3, ETA ship thursday\n<ul>\n<li> No active blockers atm.  up-to-date <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/QA\/Firefox3.1\/TestPlan\/Beta3#Detailed_Results\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/QA\/Firefox3.1\/TestPlan\/Beta3#Detailed_Results\">results<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n<li> Timr and Tomcat at CeBit last week, recruited around 10 volunteers to community QA\n<\/ul>\n<p><b> Test Development <\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/9018\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/9018\">Mozmill 1.1<\/a> Released\n<li> Continued JS Testing, some exploratory work on Narcissus\n<li> Began the builds for Random Orange testing from changeset 356458e646d0 on MozillaCentral\n<li> Tested Fennec Beta 1 candidates, continue to improve maemkit scripts\n<ul>\n<li> ETA ship tomorrow\n<li> Investigating <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=482091\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=482091\">bug 482091<\/a>, crashing with flash installed\n<\/ul>\n<li> Martijn attended <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/MozCamp\/Utrecht\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/MozCamp\/Utrecht\">MozCamp Utrecht<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"Security\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\"> Security <\/span> <\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> Secunia 2008 Security Report &#8211; Addressing some misrepresentations in their report regarding relative numbers of security bugs in browsers.\n<li> Ebay issue &#8211; We are away of an issue that is being currently exploited on Ebay and we are addressing it.\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"Marketing.2FPR\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\"> Marketing\/PR <\/span> <\/h2>\n<p><b>General<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Next Community Marketing call is this Wednesday, March 11th, at 10am PDT.  Dial-in Info: +1.650.903.0800, followed by 92# and then 7391#.  Or you can use our toll-free number: +1.800.707.2533, followed by 369# and then 7391#. For those that can&#8217;t make the call or want to participate online, join us in #marketing on irc.mozilla.org.\n<li> Spread Firefox:  New design to go live on March 18th.\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<b>PR<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Labs announces <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/09\/mozilla-labs-a\u2026e-sxsw-editionmozilla-labs-announces-2009-design-challenge-sxsw-edition\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/09\/mozilla-labs-a\u2026e-sxsw-editionmozilla-labs-announces-2009-design-challenge-sxsw-edition\/\">2009 Design Challenge: SxSW Edition<\/a>\n<li> Firefox 3.1 changes to 3.5 is covered in <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&amp;taxonomyName=software&amp;articleId=9129254&amp;taxonomyId=18&amp;intsrc=kc_top\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&amp;taxonomyName=software&amp;articleId=9129254&amp;taxonomyId=18&amp;intsrc=kc_top\">ComputerWorld<\/a>\n<li> Mozilla <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/06\/beware-the-security-metric\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/06\/beware-the-security-metric\/\">responds<\/a> to Secunia security report\n<li> Mitchell was on media tour in New York last week. <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/digits\/2009\/03\/04\/questions-for-mitchell-baker-mozilla-chairman\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/digits\/2009\/03\/04\/questions-for-mitchell-baker-mozilla-chairman\/\">Coverage<\/a> is <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/187745\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/187745\">rolling in<\/a>\n<li> Paul Kim chats with <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com.mx\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com.mx\/\">Rolling Stone Mexico<\/a> about open source and Mozilla\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><b>Design<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Work on the <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Design\/CreativeCollective\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Design\/CreativeCollective\">Mozilla Creative Collective<\/a> site is proceeding &#8211; Tara, Ryan and John are refining scope &amp; details with Airbag. Should have wireframes soon.\n<li> We need your input on the MCC logo. If you&#8217;re interested, <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.intothefuzz.com\/2009\/03\/06\/mozilla-creative-collective-logo-round-1-your-input-needed\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/www.intothefuzz.com\/2009\/03\/06\/mozilla-creative-collective-logo-round-1-your-input-needed\/\">leave a comment on intothefuzz<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Events<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Confer 2009, Rajagiri College of Engineering &amp; Mountain View, March 12, 2009:  Chofmann is hosting a presentation on Air Mozilla at 5:30 p.m. PDT about Mozilla and open source.\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/sxsw.com\/interactive\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/sxsw.com\/interactive\/\">SxSW<\/a>, March 13 &#8211; 17, 2009, Austin, Texas:  Brendan Eich &amp; Arun Rangnathan participating in <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/sxsw.com\/interactive\/talks\/schedule?action=show&amp;id=IAP0900700\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/sxsw.com\/interactive\/talks\/schedule?action=show&amp;id=IAP0900700\">browser panel<\/a> again on March 16th, John Resig speaking on <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/sxsw.com\/interactive\/talks\/schedule?action=show&amp;id=IAP0901059\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/sxsw.com\/interactive\/talks\/schedule?action=show&amp;id=IAP0901059\">JS libraries<\/a> on March 14th, David Baron on <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/sxsw.com\/interactive\/talks\/schedule?action=show&amp;id=IAP0900767\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/sxsw.com\/interactive\/talks\/schedule?action=show&amp;id=IAP0900767\">CSS3 panel<\/a> on March 15th.  Labs holding a <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/labs.mozilla.com\/2009\/03\/announcing-the-mozilla-2009-design-challenge-sxsw-edition\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/labs.mozilla.com\/2009\/03\/announcing-the-mozilla-2009-design-challenge-sxsw-edition\/\">get together<\/a> on March 16th at 4:30 pm at the Moonshine Grill.\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/nten.org\/ntc\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/nten.org\/ntc\">NTEN Conference<\/a>, April 26 &#8211; 28, 2009, San Francisco:  They are looking for volunteers:\n<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/nten.org\/ntc-dos\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/nten.org\/ntc-dos\">Day of Service<\/a>, Sunday, April 26th:  Two opportunities:\n<ul>\n<li> Strategy consults, 9 a.m. &#8211; 11 a.m.: Organizations are looking for everything from technology help to marketing and fundraising tips. <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ntenonline.org\/EWEB\/DynamicPage.aspx?WebCode=DoSProjects&amp;hide=0\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ntenonline.org\/EWEB\/DynamicPage.aspx?WebCode=DoSProjects&amp;hide=0\">Sign ups here.<\/a>\n<li> Help install wireless networks at St. Anthony&#8217;s in SF&#8217;s Tenderloin district or on Treasure Island.  <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ntenonline.org\/EWEB\/DynamicPage.aspx?WebCode=DoSProjects&amp;hide=0\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ntenonline.org\/EWEB\/DynamicPage.aspx?WebCode=DoSProjects&amp;hide=0\">Sign ups here.<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"Support\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\"> Support <\/span> <\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> A <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Support\/UX\/Audit\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Support\/UX\/Audit\">SUMO usability audit<\/a> was recently done by neilio. Currently in the process of filing bugs for many of the suggested improvements, which will be part of the SUMO 1.1 milestone (see our <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Support\/SumoDevRoadmap2009\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Support\/SumoDevRoadmap2009\">roadmap<\/a>).\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Firefox3.1\/3.5#SUMO\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Firefox3.1\/3.5#SUMO\">List of updates required for the 3.5 version number update<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"Metrics\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\"> Metrics <\/span> <\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> No updates this week\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"Evangelism\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\"> Evangelism <\/span> <\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> Documentation\n<ul>\n<li> Firefox 3.1 references have (mostly, at least) been updated to 3.5 in the developer documentation.\n<li> New article: <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/En\/Manipulating_video_using_canvas\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/En\/Manipulating_video_using_canvas\">Manipulating video using canvas<\/a>, based on Paul&#8217;s awesome demo.\n<li> Firefox 3.5 documentation touching-up is ongoing, but the docs are essentially complete.\n<li> Testing and evaluation of Mindtouch Deki &#8220;Lyons&#8221; is ongoing; we hope to upgrade MDC to this new release of the wiki software in April.\n<li> MDC skin tweaks are in progress to improve discoverability of certain features.\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Want more feedback on website compatibility page: <a class=\"external free\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Evangelism\/WebsiteCompatibilityInternational\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Evangelism\/WebsiteCompatibilityInternational\">https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Evangelism\/WebsiteCompatibilityInternational<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"Labs\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\"> Labs <\/span> <\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> Personas 1.0b3 has been released with a variety of bug fixes. <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/10900\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/10900\">Get it from addons.mozilla.org<\/a> and <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/labs.mozilla.com\/forum\/?CategoryID=18\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/labs.mozilla.com\/forum\/?CategoryID=18\">give us feedback in the discussion forum<\/a>.\n<li> Design Challenge: <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/labs.mozilla.com\/2009\/03\/announcing-the-mozilla-2009-design-challenge-sxsw-edition\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/labs.mozilla.com\/2009\/03\/announcing-the-mozilla-2009-design-challenge-sxsw-edition\/\">South-by-southwest edition<\/a> will be on the topic of how to improve the File Upload interface in Firefox.\n<li> Weave: Server is now at 2000-4000 active users and has effectively zero load, so we will be ramping up to five digits of users over the next week.  We released Milestone 4 and will release Milestone 5 soon.  If you want to help test you can request a Weave account <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/services.mozilla.com\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/services.mozilla.com\">here<\/a>.  If you have a Nokia N810, here is <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Labs\/Weave\/InstallWeaveFennec\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Labs\/Weave\/InstallWeaveFennec\">a tutorial on how to install Fennec and Weave<\/a>.\n<li> Ubiquity: we&#8217;re launching a project to figure out how to internationalize\/localize the command-line interface.  There is a lot of blog discussion (<a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/felipe.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/03\/thinking-ubiquity-in-portuguese\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/felipe.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/03\/thinking-ubiquity-in-portuguese\/\">portugese<\/a> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/mitcho.com\/blog\/projects\/ubiquity-in-firefox-japanese\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/mitcho.com\/blog\/projects\/ubiquity-in-firefox-japanese\/\">japanese<\/a> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yetanothertechblog.com\/2009\/03\/08\/thinking-ubiquity-in-italian\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/www.yetanothertechblog.com\/2009\/03\/08\/thinking-ubiquity-in-italian\/\">italian<\/a> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/mitcho.com\/blog\/projects\/localizing-ubiquity-an-open-letter-to-linguists\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/mitcho.com\/blog\/projects\/localizing-ubiquity-an-open-letter-to-linguists\/\">general<\/a>) about this; there&#8217;s also a mailing list at ubiquity-i18n@googlegroups.com, and now a weekly internationalization phone meeting on Tuesdays at 5pm Pacific time.  We&#8217;d love your feedback, especially from localizers.\n<li> We have <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/labs.mozilla.com\/2009\/03\/new-tab-page-proposed-design-principles-and-prototype\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/labs.mozilla.com\/2009\/03\/new-tab-page-proposed-design-principles-and-prototype\/\">a working prototype for the proposed design of the New Tab page<\/a> that puts useful things into a newly opened tab, instead of a blank white area.  We hope this can go into a future version of Firefox, so please try it out and give us feedback!\n<\/ul>\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 class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&amp;product=addons.mozilla.org&amp;target_milestone=5.0.3&amp;resolution=FIXED\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&amp;product=addons.mozilla.org&amp;target_milestone=5.0.3&amp;resolution=FIXED\">5.0.3 release this week<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/spreadsheets.google.com\/ccc?key=pKVzd_aYsqk84TJCrrR1PWw\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/spreadsheets.google.com\/ccc?key=pKVzd_aYsqk84TJCrrR1PWw\">Anonymized Survey Results<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> The biggest request involves the review queue and the time it takes to get out of the sandbox. (24 requests)\n<li> There is a real need for better documentation (22 requests)\n<li> Tutorials are scattered across the internet and are often out of date.  (21 requests)\n<li>  The IDE&#8217;s\/tools for writing and debugging extensions are lacking.  (15 requests)\n<li> A few developers really want some sort of marketplace for extensions (6 requests)\n<\/ul>\n<p>Next step: some form of roundtable to reach out to developers to go over these results and what we are doing to address some of the big requests<\/p>\n<p>\nCompatibility Update\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> 83.5% of add-ons compatible with 3.1\n<li> Will kick off 3.5 project plan this week so we can be ready for the version change.\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"Webdev\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\"> Webdev <\/span> <\/h2>\n<p><b>Just what&#8217;s in the wiki<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Fraud form released last week &#8211; <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.giantspatula.com\/?p=272\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/www.giantspatula.com\/?p=272\">read David&#8217;s post on this<\/a>\n<li> AMO 5.0.3 code freeze is today\n<li> Socorro &#8211; work week this week, focusing on performance and architecture\n<li> Austin, Lars, Les are here this week so say hi if you see them.\u00a0\ud83d\ude42\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"L10n\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\"> L10n <\/span> <\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>  <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/informationisart.com\/stas\/on\/fennec\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/informationisart.com\/stas\/on\/fennec\">Stas is blogging about &#8220;productizing&#8221; Fennec<\/a>.  More posts to come this week.\n<li>  Axel and Coop have teamed up to solve many build related issues for our localized versions of Firefox.  Today, Coop is turning off bsmedberg&#8217;s machines.  More explanation to follow&#8230;\n<li>  Continue to work on improving QA services provided to localizers\n<ul>\n<li>  <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/seth\/2009\/03\/06\/localization-qa-survey-results\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/seth\/2009\/03\/06\/localization-qa-survey-results\/\">Post from Seth on results and possible action steps<\/a>.\n<li>  <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yetanothertechblog.com\/2009\/03\/07\/about-localization-qa-survey-results\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/www.yetanothertechblog.com\/2009\/03\/07\/about-localization-qa-survey-results\/\">Nice follow-up comments by flod, our Italian localizer<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n<li>  Localizing Ubiquity.  Mitcho is leading.\n<ul>\n<li>  <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yetanothertechblog.com\/2009\/03\/08\/thinking-ubiquity-in-italian\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/www.yetanothertechblog.com\/2009\/03\/08\/thinking-ubiquity-in-italian\/\">Another nice post from Francesco, in Italy<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"Foundation_Updates\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h1><span class=\"mw-headline\"> Foundation Updates <\/span> <\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> Frank and Armen Zambrano of Seneca <b>participated in the &#8220;<a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hfoss.org\/symposium09\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/www.hfoss.org\/symposium09\/\">Integrating FOSS into the Undergraduate Computing Curriculum<\/a>&#8221; symposium<\/b>; for more information see the <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hfoss.org\/symposium09\/?page_id=133\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/www.hfoss.org\/symposium09\/?page_id=133\">reports from the symposium<\/a> (including audio of the sessions, video interviews, blog posts, tweets, etc.).\n<li> Mark presented a <b>keynote talk on &#8220;the open web is your future&#8221;<\/b> to 200 IT management students at Ryerson University&#8217;s Connect IT conference.\n<li> Based on Kathleen Wilson&#8217;s recommendation, Frank <b>approved the CA request from <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/projects\/security\/certs\/pending\/#Hongkong%20Post\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/projects\/security\/certs\/pending\/#Hongkong%20Post\">Hong Kong Post<\/a><\/b> (bug <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=408949\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=408949\">408949<\/a>).\n<li> Added <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/about\/manifesto.cs.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/about\/manifesto.cs.html\">Czech version of Manifesto<\/a>\n<li> Continued working on www.mozilla.org redesign &#8212; first round of concepts available for review this week <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Mozilla.org\/Redesign\/Design_Lunch#Some_Context\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Mozilla.org\/Redesign\/Design_Lunch#Some_Context\">on Thursday at the design lunch<\/a>\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\/2009-03-09\">https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/WeeklyUpdates\/2009-03-09<\/a>&#8220;<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WeeklyUpdates\/2009-03-09 From MozillaWiki &lt; WeeklyUpdates \u00ab previous week | index | next week \u00bb Meeting Details 1:00pm Pacific time (20:00 UTC until November 1, 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 [&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\/145"}],"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=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}