Minutes of the mozilla.org Staff Meeting of Monday 18th August 2003

Sunday August 24th, 2003

By Gervase Markham

Present: gerv, myk, seth, asa, chofmann, scc. (mitchell, blizzard, brendan on vacation.)

Foundation update

• mscott and chofmann hired last Monday.
• Not 501c3 yet
• We chose meer.net for colo for the new servers.

1.5 beta update

• One bug outstanding (GDI issue)
• After release, about two more weeks on the trunk
• Branch for final with 5-12 bugs left.
• Not scheduled to branch until August 29th.

Mozilla Firebird 0.7 update

• There is a list of things that need to be implemented to get it to replace Seamonkey. See Bugzilla targetted bugs.
• scott has been working on adding Send Page/Send Link etc.
• Toolkit forking/reorg is 95% done (pierre chanial).
• 0.7 from the 1.5 final branch.

Thunderbird 0.2 update

• Thunderbird 0.2 in a couple of weeks, max.
• mscott is raring to go.
• There is some effort to sync up the releases of FB and TB.

Talkback

• We want to keep this going.
• We still have access to current reports.
• There isn't yet an open-source alternative. :-(

New test matrix

• Asa is working on a test matrix for shipping milestones.
• Currently 3 sets of docs — smoketest list, test plans, test cases.
• He is building a new master list of all tests.
• Eventually there'll be an automated tool.

1.4 branch (1.4.1)

• 1.4's focus is the fix for Windows installer crashes, and the GDI leaks.
• Windows installer crashes are fixed on the branch.
• GDI thing fixed, maybe — still looking into this.
• We've also taken other fixes meantime.

Other

• Also making changes to make 1.5 more user-friendly (e.g. search plugins.)

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