2006-03-13 - Summary of mozilla.org staff meeting
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Present: bc, beltzner, bienvenu, chofmann, coop, neil deakin, gerv,
josh, justdave, polvi, schrep, marcia, robert strong, mscott, aravind,
jay, justin, rafael, dave liebreich, asa, pkim, lilly, sherman, vlad,
myk, daron, pav, tim riley, preed, sicking, matthew zeier, mrbkap,
karen, brendan, mitchell, jesse, dria.
*Openness and communication discussions*
- Various discussions in mozilla.dev.general about openness
- Mitchell wants the part of the Monday meetings focused on shipping
product and other general topics to move from current scope (Mozilla
Foundation and Corporation employees and mozilla.org staff) to include
a broader range of contributors.
- Mozilla Corporation meeting will move to a different day
*1.0.8 and 1.7.13*
- Delayed to sync with 1.5.0.2
- Start and bookmarks pages still point to Google for CJK, but that may
be OK
- A few locales left to test
*Firefox 1.5.0.2*
- Firefox part has passed basic testing
- Doing simultaneous FF/TB release
- Exit survey is looking good (http://survey.mozilla.com/)
- preed is working on universal binaries
- Current planned date is April 11th
*Firefox 1.5.0.3*
- Meeting in next few days to decide schedule
- 44 blocker nominations, 23 non-blocker approvals
- Trying to smooth out the curve of landings so they aren't all
last-minute
- schrep is still looking for a shepherd for this release; volunteers?
*Firefox 2*
- 11am open meeting; bonecho mailing list is open; discussion in
m.d.a.firefox
- places has landed and is on
- Trying to release Alpha 1
- Ongoing discussions in the newsgroups about front end changes
*Misc*
- New person (Matthew Zeier) doing network stuff on the support team
- Have been doing back-end work on Talkback which has improved
performance
- Trying to extend history to more than 20 days online
- 50,000 incidents a day
- addons.mozilla.org is having its front end rewritten (scalability and
perf)
- targetted to ship with 1.5.0.2 release
*Foundation*
- MoFo Board meeting was last week
- Suggestions are welcome for things to fund which are not duplicative
of Corporation work
- Frank in LA Wed-Fri for the CSUN accessibility conference
*Google Groups*
- Discussion about peering for the newsgroups; full or GG-only?
- Some think making an exception for GG is odd
- But they have a decent web interface, and we need one
- Decided to try and open up to GG only for the moment, but to consider
requests from other providers on a case-by-case basis
- Technical issues may yet intervene
Gerv
