{"id":526,"date":"2011-04-11T23:00:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T03:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/archives\/526"},"modified":"2011-04-11T23:00:04","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T03:00:04","slug":"mozilla-project-meeting-minutes-2011-04-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/archives\/526","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Project Meeting Minutes: 2011-04-11"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h1>WeeklyUpdates\/2011-04-11<\/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\/2011-03-28\" title=\"WeeklyUpdates\/2011-03-28\">\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\/2011-04-18&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\" title=\"WeeklyUpdates\/2011-04-18 (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-2011-04-11.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<ul>\n<li> beltzner, for all he has done for Mozilla and for offering to report back his impressions as a community member\n<\/ul>\n<h1> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Upcoming Events <\/span><\/h1>\n<p><b>This Week<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Monday, 11 April<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Tuesday, 12 April<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Wednesday, 13 April<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Thursday, 14 April<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Friday, 15 April<\/b> <\/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 5 <\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> This week we merge to aurora for the first time!\n<ul>\n<li> <b>This means the last day to land fixes for Firefox 5 is today (2011-04-11)<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li> really?  Don&#8217;t we have until 4-12?\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<li> Extensive discussions in dev.planning, but Tuesday we take the current mozilla-central and use it to create a new mozilla-aurora, as part of our new rapid release program.\n<li> JP has compiled a <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/RapidRelease\" title=\"RapidRelease\">high level overview<\/a> of the new process, the decisions made and those still outstanding\n<li> If you have engineering questions, come to the <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Platform#Meetings\" title=\"Platform\">Tuesday engineering call<\/a> (11am, conf #8605)\n<li> If you have high level product questions, come to the <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Firefox\/Planning\" title=\"Firefox\/Planning\">Wednesday product call<\/a> (11am, conf #8605)\n<\/ul>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Firefox 4, 3.6, 3.5 <\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Releases\/Firefox_4\/Macaw\" rel=\"nofollow\">Firefox 4 Macaw<\/a>, the first update to Firefox 4, is slated to ship April 26th (<a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Releases\/Code_Names\" rel=\"nofollow\">why use a code name?<\/a>)\n<ul>\n<li> <b>Fixes need to make it in by tomorrow, 2011-04-12!<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li> Fixes land on the default branch of mozilla-central and releases\/mozilla-2.0. Mobile will transplant or pull from releases\/mozilla-2.0 for their update\n<li> If a bug is fixed on mozilla-central and hasn&#8217;t made it for Macaw we will hg transplant it tomorrow. <i>We don&#8217;t want to do this as it adds risk&#8230;please take care of landing the fixes yourself!<\/i>\n<\/ul>\n<li> If you have a critical fix for Macaw (the bar is high as Macaw is small and directed) not being tracked for the update, please set it to blocking2.0:? and send an email to <a class=\"external text\" href=\"mailto:release-drivers@mozilla.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">release drivers<\/a> with justification. Please note the default response will be &#8220;this can wait for Firefox 5&#8221;.\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Releases\/Firefox_3.6.17\" rel=\"nofollow\">Firefox 3.6.17<\/a> and <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Releases\/Firefox_3.5.19\" rel=\"nofollow\">Firefox 3.5.19<\/a> have been pushed back a week to align with Macaw\n<ul>\n<li> We&#8217;ll be deferring outstanding blockers and only focus on security bugs fixed in Macaw (so we don&#8217;t 0day ourselves)\n<li> <b>Fixes need to make it in by tomorrow, 2011-04-12!<\/b>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> The prompted update for Firefox 4 (3.5.x and 3.6.x \u2192 4.0.1) is scheduled for 2011-05-03\n<ul>\n<li> This has to go after 3.6.17 and 3.5.19 due to <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=646054\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 646054<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Draft plan of how to end 3.5 support will be sent around this week for comments\n<\/ul>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Mobile Firefox <\/span><\/h2>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Thunderbird <\/span><\/h2>\n<p>No Thunderbird-specific news today, but see the Messaging section of this page for some organizational updates.\n<\/p>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Older Branch Work <\/span><\/h2>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Drumbeat <\/span><\/h2>\n<p>(no voice update this week)\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <b>Check out the new HTML5 Hyper-Audio demo: <a class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/yoyodyne.cc\/h\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/yoyodyne.cc\/h\/<\/a><\/b>\n<ul>\n<li> Working towards initial implementation with <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radiolab.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Radiolab<\/a>\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<p>Mozilla Messaging is being integrated into Mozilla Labs.  Blog posts by <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.lizardwrangler.com\/2011\/04\/04\/increasing-mozilla-focus-on-messaging-and-communications-on-the-web-re-integration-of-mozilla-messaging\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mitchell Baker<\/a> and <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/ascher.ca\/blog\/2011\/04\/04\/the-future-of-messaging\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">David Ascher<\/a> have more details.\n<\/p>\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>Test Execution\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<dl>\n<dt>WebQA\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<ul>\n<li> Shipped AMO 6.0.4\n<\/ul>\n<dl>\n<dt>QA Community\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<dl>\n<dt>Test Dev\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Automation &amp; Tools <\/span><\/h2>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Security  <\/span><\/h2>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Engagement  <\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>PR<\/b> <\/p>\n<p><b>Events<\/b> <\/p>\n<p><b>Creative Team<\/b> <\/p>\n<p><b>Community Marketing<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Support  <\/span><\/h2>\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<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<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/marlenacompton.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Marlena Compton<\/a>, WebQA, will be working on AMO automation\n<li> Aaron Train, Mobile QA.  converted from Contract to FTE\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brandonsavage.net\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Brandon Savage<\/a>, Webdev.  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