{"id":486,"date":"2011-02-08T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T04:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/archives\/486"},"modified":"2011-02-08T00:00:04","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T04:00:04","slug":"mozilla-project-meeting-minutes-2011-02-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/archives\/486","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Project Meeting Minutes: 2011-02-07"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h1>WeeklyUpdates\/2011-02-07<\/h1>\n<h3 id=\"siteSub\">From MozillaWiki<\/h3>\n<div><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\/2011-01-31\" title=\"WeeklyUpdates\/2011-01-31\">\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\/2011-02-14&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\" title=\"WeeklyUpdates\/2011-02-14 (page does not exist)\">next week \u00bb<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Video for today&#8217;s meeting <\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&lt;video controls=&#8221;controls&#8221;&gt;&lt;source src=&#8221;http:\/\/videos.mozilla.org\/serv\/air_mozilla\/monday_meetings\/status-2011-02-07.ogg&#8221; type=&#8221;video\/ogg; codecs=&#8221;theora, vorbis&#8221;&#8221;\/&gt;&lt;\/video&gt;\n<\/p>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Friends of the Tree <a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/File:Tree.gif\" title=\"Friends of the Tree\"><\/a>  <\/span><\/h1>\n<p>Alice &#8220;Alice0775&#8221; White has been a tremendous contributor for several years. Without Alice&#8217;s tireless efforts testing, filing bugs and writing patches, Firefox 4 would not be the great browser that it is.<\/p>\n<p>(via robcee, joedrew, tn, etc.)<\/p>\n<p>Aleksej for helping to moderate the <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/quality.mozilla.org\/qmo-news\/2011\/02\/05\/results-of-the-firefox-4-fixed-bugday\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Firefox 4 FIXED bugday<\/a> and for helping out before the event went live.  Also, Steve Scott (:pxbugz) for verifying 45 fixes.\n<\/p>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Upcoming Events <\/span><\/h1>\n<p><b>This Week<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Monday, 7 February<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Tuesday, 8 February<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Please join one of our contributor town halls:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/gen\/2011\/02\/07\/town-hall-asia-meeting-feb-8th\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Asia Contributor Town Hall<\/a>, 4 p.m. UTC\/GMT.\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/somethin-else.org\/index.php?post\/2011\/02\/07\/EMEA-Town-Hall-Meeting-Tuesday-8-February-%40-9-p.m-CET\" rel=\"nofollow\">EMEA Contributor Town Hall<\/a>, 9 p.m CET.\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Wednesday, 9 February<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Thursday, 10 February<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Friday, 11 February<\/b> <\/p>\n<p><b>Saturday, 12 February<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dare2bdigitalconference.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dare2BeDigital<\/a> conference, Tech Museum: Mozilla will be running a video booth at the Dare2BDigital conference for young women (13-16) teaching girls how HTML5 and open video lets you run your own show &#8211; no YouTube or Flash needed! The key component of this tutorial will be demonstrating the Universal Subtitles project and we need localizers to show them how it works in realtime.  Sign up to help in-person or online <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Dare_2_Be_Digital\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Next Week<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Product Status Updates <\/span><\/h1>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Firefox 4 <\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>Blocker Progress<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> 49 hard blockers remaining (<a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=blocking2:f,b%20sw:hard\" rel=\"nofollow\">list<\/a>)\n<ul>\n<li> 19 of them require beta coverage (<a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=blocking2:b%20sw:hard\" rel=\"nofollow\">list<\/a>)\n<li> 23 of them require patches (<a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=blocking2:f,b%20sw:hard%20-sw:patch\" rel=\"nofollow\">list<\/a>)\n<li> thanks to Asa for keeping the software whiteboards up to date!\n<\/ul>\n<li> 12 blockers need categorization (<a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=blocking2:f,b%20-sw:hard,soft\" rel=\"nofollow\">list<\/a>)\n<li> 36 nominations need triage (<a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=blocking2:%22?%22\" rel=\"nofollow\">list<\/a>)\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Upcoming Releases<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Firefox 4 Beta 11 will ship Tuesday or Wednesday\n<li> Only 5 hard blocking beta bugs without patches, though one of them is the very invasive <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=626602\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 626602<\/a>. Hope is that we&#8217;ll be able to freeze for the final beta this Friday, will update on dev.planning as we know more.\n<li> Some people noticed that the <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Firefox\/Roadmap\" title=\"Firefox\/Roadmap\">Firefox Roadmap<\/a> was updated recently\n<ul>\n<li> this is a draft document, last updated in December, and is subject to change\n<li> the approach of the document is to indicate priorities, and work with engineering to determine which projects can be executed to meet those priorities\n<li> after Firefox 4, we are proposing moving to a &#8220;delivery train&#8221; model with more frequent releases to deliver new technology to users and the web more quickly\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Firefox 3.6 and 3.5 <\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>3.6.14 and 3.5.17<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Found what looks like to be a new crash regression during the beta period (bug 631105)\n<li> <b>We will not be releasing the security updates tomorrow<\/b>\n<li> We will be rebuilding today and plan to ship next Monday (2011-02-14)\n<\/ul>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Mobile Firefox <\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> Beta 4 shipped\n<\/ul>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Heartbeat of Engineering with Damon <\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a class=\"external free\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Firefox\/Planning\/2011-02-02\/top\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Firefox\/Planning\/2011-02-02\/top<\/a> (damon&#8217;s out today, check out the link and don&#8217;t forget to read the weekly Engineering Newsletter in dev.planning)\n<\/p>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Thunderbird <\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> 3.1.8 delayed to next week due to crash regression (see Firefox status)\n<\/ul>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Drumbeat <\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> New rebooted version of Drumbeat web platform launching later today.\n<ul>\n<li> In staging here: <a class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/batucada.mozillalabs.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/batucada.mozillalabs.com\/<\/a> (staging only &#8212; no live data, please)\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Speakers <\/span><\/h1>\n<p>The limit is 3 minutes per speaker.  It&#8217;s like a lightning talk, but don&#8217;t feel that you have to have slides in order to make a presentation.\n<\/p>\n<table class=\"fullwidth-table\">\n<tr>\n<th>  Title<\/p>\n<th>  Presenter<\/p>\n<th>  Topic<\/p>\n<th>  Media<\/p>\n<th>  More Details<br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> Your Title Here<\/p>\n<td> Your Name Here<\/p>\n<td> What are you going to talk about?<\/p>\n<td> Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen<\/p>\n<td> Link to where audience can find out more information<br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Status Updates By Team  <\/span><\/h1>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Firefox  <\/span><\/h2>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Platform <\/span><\/h2>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Messaging  <\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> New release of F1 upcoming after some bugfixing\n<\/ul>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Mobile  <\/span><\/h2>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> IT <\/span><\/h2>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Release Engineering  <\/span><\/h2>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> QA  <\/span><\/h2>\n<dl>\n<dt>Deskop Firefox\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<ul>\n<li> Fx4 Beta 11: Testing. Anticipated shipping Beta 11 this Tues\n<li> Anthony Hughes organized an extremely successful bugday for <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/quality.mozilla.org\/qmo-news\/2011\/02\/05\/results-of-the-firefox-4-fixed-bugday\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Firefox 4 FIXED bugs<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<dl>\n<dt>WebQA\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<ul>\n<li> Shipped <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/buglist.cgi?classification=Server%20Software&amp;query_format=advanced&amp;product=addons.mozilla.org&amp;target_milestone=5.12.8\" rel=\"nofollow\">AMO 5.12.8<\/a>\n<li> Updating a lot of automation tests, adding new ones for AMO and Mozilla.com, soon\n<\/ul>\n<dl>\n<dt>QA Services\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<ul>\n<li> Marcia participated in Drumbeat San Diego Festival on Saturday\n<li> Close look at crash reports from beta and currentl releases\n<\/ul>\n<dl>\n<dt>Browser Technologies\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<ul>\n<li> Signed off Firefox Home 1.1.1.  awaiting App store deployment\n<li> Signed off Sync 1.6.3 extension.  awaiting AMO push\n<li> Signed off Fennec 4 beta 4 to maemo and Android\n<li> Completed Fennec 4 beta 4 startup\/page load performance sheet.  This will be automated in the future by an extension that mobiledev&#8217;s are working on\n<\/ul>\n<dl>\n<dt>QA Automation\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<ul>\n<li> Henrik talked about crowd testing at FOSDEM 2011 (<a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/slidesha.re\/e2Sy66\" rel=\"nofollow\">slides here<\/a>)\n<\/ul>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Automation &amp; Tools <\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/tinderbox.mozilla.org\/showbuilds.cgi?tree=Mobile\" rel=\"nofollow\">Android Talos<\/a> is <b>LIVE<\/b>.\n<ul>\n<li> Many thanks to jmaher, bear, and aki!\n<\/ul>\n<li> Splinter extension is up and available for you to play with on <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla-stage-tip.mozilla.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">staging<\/a> (need LDAP access, sorry)\n<li> Final <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/brasstacks.mozilla.com\/orangefactor\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">War on Orange site<\/a> is <b>LIVE<\/b> and is now integrated with TBPL.\n<li> Taking steps to perform user responsiveness measurements in order to gauge the effects of E10S.\n<li> More exciting information is <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Auto-tools\/Meetings\/2011-02-07\" title=\"Auto-tools\/Meetings\/2011-02-07\">here<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Security  <\/span><\/h2>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Engagement  <\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>PR<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-30685_3-20030846-264.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mozilla embracing Chrome&#8217;s fast-rev ethos<\/a>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.conceivablytech.com\/5525\/products\/firefox-2011-mozillas-big-bet-on-the-open-web\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Firefox 2011: Mozilla\u2019s Big Bet On The Open Web<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.journalism.co.uk\/news\/mozilla-and-knight-foundation-join-forces-on-news-innovation-project\/s2\/a542676\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mozilla and Knight Foundation join forces on news innovation project<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theinquirer.net\/inquirer\/news\/2023768\/mozilla-releases-firefox-beta-android\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mozilla releases a Firefox 4 Beta for Android<\/a>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/blog\/open-source\/mozilla-releases-new-firefox-4-beta-for-mobile-devices\/8193\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mozilla releases new Firefox 4 beta for mobile devices<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2011\/02\/01\/mozilla_don_not_track_header_in_firefox_nightlies\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mozilla slips &#8216;Do Not Track&#8217; header into Firefox nightlies<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<b>Events<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dare2bdigitalconference.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dare2BeDigital<\/a> conference, Tech Museum: Mozilla will be running a video booth at the Dare2BDigital conference for young women (13-16) teaching girls how HTML5 and open video lets you run your own show &#8211; no YouTube or Flash needed! The key component of this tutorial will be demonstrating the Universal Subtitles project and we need localizers to show them how it works in realtime.  Sign up to help in-person or online <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Dare_2_Be_Digital\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Creative Team<\/b> <\/p>\n<p><b>Contributor Engagement<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> If you missed last week&#8217;s contributor engagement call, you can catch the video <a class=\"external free\" href=\"https:\/\/videos.mozilla.org\/serv\/air_mozilla\/020311townhall.ogg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/videos.mozilla.org\/serv\/air_mozilla\/020311townhall.ogg<\/a> here] or join one of the above mentioned sessions.\n<li> Please send tips for the about:mozilla newsletter as soon as possible to: about-mozilla[at]mozilla.com.  You can also subscribe <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/newsletter\/about_mozilla\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Support  <\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/2011\/02\/07\/whats-up-with-sumo-feb-7\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">What&#8217;s up with SUMO? &#8211; Feb. 7<\/a><br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/file\/get\/MichaelVerdi-WhatsUpWithSUMOFeb7903.ogv\"><\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Metrics  <\/span><\/h2>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Evangelism  <\/span><\/h2>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Labs  <\/span><\/h2>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Developer Tools <\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> Patrick Walton has created a new JavaScript <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/deminifier\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Deminifier<\/a> add-on that plugs into View Source\n<li> The latest version of Rob Campbell&#8217;s <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/workspace\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Workspace<\/a> add-on is up on AMO and has been reviewed\n<\/ul>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Add-ons  <\/span><\/h2>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Webdev  <\/span><\/h2>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> L10n  <\/span><\/h2>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Introducing New Hires <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Foundation Updates  <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Roundtable <\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"printfooter\">\nRetrieved from &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/WeeklyUpdates\/2011-02-07\">https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/WeeklyUpdates\/2011-02-07<\/a>&#8220;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"catlinks catlinks-allhidden\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WeeklyUpdates\/2011-02-07 From MozillaWiki &lt; WeeklyUpdates \u00ab previous week | index | next week \u00bb Video for today&#8217;s meeting &lt;video controls=&#8221;controls&#8221;&gt;&lt;source src=&#8221;http:\/\/videos.mozilla.org\/serv\/air_mozilla\/monday_meetings\/status-2011-02-07.ogg&#8221; type=&#8221;video\/ogg; codecs=&#8221;theora, vorbis&#8221;&#8221;\/&gt;&lt;\/video&gt; Friends of the Tree Alice &#8220;Alice0775&#8221; White has been a tremendous contributor for several years. 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