2006-02-27 - Summary of mozilla.org staff meeting
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Present: aravind, autonome, bc, beltzner, bienvenu, brendan, bsmedberg,
chofmann, coop, davel, dria, dveditz, enn, graydon, jay, Jesse, josh,
jst, justdave, justdave, justin, karen, marcia, mconnor, mitchell,
mrbkap, mscott, myk, pike, polvi, preed, rebron, rob_strong, sicking,
stuartp, timr, vlad
*Around the World, Around the World*
- jlilly and schrep are in Japan for a Mozilla Japan event
-
http://www.mozilla-japan.org/events/200603/seminar- The Mozilla Japan staff are planning to come to MozHQ soon, perhaps
for the quarterly all hands meeting
- cbeard and pkim are at FOSDEM and talking with ad agencies in London
*Firefox 1.0.8*
- keep finding critical security bugs before release
- hoping to get them in today and get the builds started (about 3 days
later than last scheduled date)
*Firefox 1.5.0.2*
-
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox:1.5.0.2:Schedule- hope to have it wrapped by Friday, about 16 bugs left to land
- turns out this works well since the team is busy testing 1.0.8
- still aiming for published release date
- QA is going to feel the crunch as testing requirements for Firefox 2
increase
* Suite 1.7.x *
- shaver and beard will come up with a crisp message about the
support/maintenance path for Suite/Seamonkey
* Firefox 2 *
-
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox2- need to finish product requirements document, based on that we can
come up with a better schedule that has more realistic dates (still
aiming at 3Q2006)
- discussion on wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox2 and
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- mitchell: so we need to get that first document in place and then get
a much more global understanding of what Firefox 2 is, and when it's
coming, because it's coming up quick
- sicking: when we do platform fixes, we're landing on trunk and the 1.8
branch almost automatically, is that slowing us down?
- shaver: I think that the things we're taking there are known-wanted
compatibility fixes. Anything we put in 1.8 should come through the
trunk. Haven't seen anyone complaining yet. So far it's been pretty
conservative stuff (crash fixes, etc) and we should be trying to
take them earlier than later, but if this starts to be a problem we
should back those things out to minimize churn.
- mconnor: as long as we're maintaining API compatibility, it
shouldn't slow us down at all
*Trunk/Firefox 3*
- cairo has been turned on by default on windows trunk builds
- we've also started to move to VC8
- there's been some pain points, but things are working pretty well
- preed: need to figure out what the tinderbox build farm needs to look
like in terms of compilers
- mscott: want to point out that stuart and vlad did an excellent job in
assisting with that transition
- things are looking good for making the move to cairo on all platforms
- sicking: when places landed on trunk/branch, Tp went up by 100% ; we
should avoid that sort of thing happening again.
- brendan: regression tests should be run locally before patches of
that size are dropped on the trunk
- sicking: we need some sort of rules about what size of regressions
will cause automatic backout
- brendan: those are the rules for sheriffing, and if we need to be
more aggressive there, we need to talk about it. currently sheriff
is #developers, but maybe that's too distributed
- shaver and brendan to take this issue to drivers@
*Other Engineering*
- bsmedberg: if you notice interesting linux distribution packaging
issues with Firefox, or XULRunner, please let me know, I'm trying to
build a list
- shaver: just so you know, we've been trying to go top-down to
address this with the major linux distributors
- mitchell: it's a big discussion, and there are lots of issues to be
explored; shaver and jlilly have been digging into this, but go,
benjamin!
*Marketing*
- Extend Firefox contest winners will be announced this week
*Foundation*
- FOSDEM went well, look for Gerv's blog post soon
- Foundation is sponsoring a booth at the CSUN Conference on Technology
for People with Disabilities
- Frank will be in California next week for the Mozilla Foundation Board
meeting
- Progress is being made on the Mozilla Code Relicensing
- Chris Blizzard's recent trip to India was interesting, and shows that
there's some opportunity there if we can find the actors to make it
happen
- mitchell is still looking at the history of "choice and innovation" as
the Mozilla Mission Statement, and hopes to get something published
about that soon
Mike (Beltzner)
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