2004-01-05 - Summary of mozilla.org staff meeting
Gervase Markham
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Present: mitchell, gerv, myk, bart, asa, chofmann, dbaron, ben, mscott,
scc, leaf.
*1.6 Final update*
- Not ready to ship quite yet
- Passing smoketests at the moment
- Asa is working with Myk on setting up TestRunner
- blockers are two security bugs and a prefs change
- leaf may be backing out some code which caused regressions (prefs
change)
- Want to post an updated schedule in the next day or so
- Shooting for this week, may end up being next week
*Mozilla Firebird 0.8 update*
- Now off on a branch
- May have picked up a few regressions from the trunk
*CD status*
- 1.6 and Mozilla Firebird 0.8 are now decoupled, in release terms
- Bart suggests we get 1.6 out the door, start burning CDs, and then
we can include recent MF bits on there (0.7, intermediate or
0.8), depending on what's available
*Talkback status*
- New server has arrived
- But it is so loud it disrupts conference calls!
- So no talkback 1-2pm PST Mondays ;-)
*Plans for the next few months*
- mscott and bienvenu (Thunderbird)
- Calendar
- Back on track with regular Thunderbird feature development work
- Planning to write a New Year's wishlist
- USB device stuff that chofmann is thinking about - portability
- More work to be done on Junkmail (better Bayesian, other tools)
- Installer
- asa
- Milestone release testcases written and moved into TestRunner
- Get a test suite into place for shipping 1.7
- Bug Days
- Identify the standouts and get them more involved
- myk (Tools)
- Working on a mozilla.org installation of TestRunner
- Looking for security issues
- Bugxula needs more work - showcase for XUL (3 weeks of work)
- IS takes up half of Myk's time - do we need an intern?
- Upgrading Bugzilla to latest trunk
- gerv
- Relicensing (Big chunk in 1.7a timeframe)
- MPL violations
- Bugzilla 2.18 release and email work
- dbaron
- Working on bugs, many of which are regressions in the last year or
so
- Feels he needs to work on bigger things more
- Standardising XUL layout model
- Changing what we do to conform to whatever we agree on
- Refactoring of layout so XUL and HTML layout interact better
- Printing particularly needs work
- Try and get more people involved with layout QA
- Try and restart the BugAThon to get test cases made from "page
doesn't work" bugs (related to evangelism)
- reviewing (ideally 20% of his time)
- leaf
- build automation fixes for Seamonkey
- chofmann
- Developer Day in the next month or two; send out feelers
- Talkback (shiva made a little progress over the holidays)
- scc
- Writing documentation for, and planning CVS over SSH
- bart
- Focussed on revenue opportunities
*PR*
- Firebird is Maximum PC pick for 2004, and we are on their CD
- Radio talkshow in Las Vegas tonight
Gerv
Peter Weilbacher
> 2004-01-05 - Summary of mozilla.org staff meeting
Hi Gerv,
thanks for a very informative post. I especially like this overview:
> *Plans for the next few months*
and specifically this bit:
> - dbaron
> - Printing particularly needs work
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Cheers!
Peter.
L. David Baron
> and specifically this bit:
>
> Gervase Markham wrote:
> > - dbaron
> > - Printing particularly needs work
That doesn't mean I'm going to do the work. It's one of many
priorities. I just meant that there are a bunch of crashes on the
layout side of printing (a bunch of which I suspect are regressions from
bug 145305), and that I'd like to try to fix some of them at some
point.
-David
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L. David Baron <URL: http://dbaron.org/ >
Frank Wein
> *Talkback status*
>
> - New server has arrived
> - But it is so loud it disrupts conference calls!
> - So no talkback 1-2pm PST Mondays ;-)
Does this mean TB might be soon avaible again (i don't download builds
from mozilla.org, so i don't know if it's in)?
Frank