Minutes of the mozilla.org Staff Meeting of Tuesday 2nd September 2003

Wednesday September 10th, 2003

By Gervase Markham

Present: gerv, myk, asa, blizzard, chofmann.

1.5 Final update

• No disastrous feedback from the beta release
• 5 blocker bugs remain
• 25 bugs nominated to evaluate
• We are about 1 week behind schedule - slip everything out one week
• This gives us breathing room around Thanksgiving too

Thunderbird 0.2

• Going to happen any minute now
• mscott has cut a branch, which needs a fix or two
• He is aiming to ship 0.3 at the same time as 1.5
• Perhaps Firebird 0.7 as well

FTP

• We need to set up a mirror network and/or FTP server ourselves
• We should use 1.6 alpha as a bandwidth/load test for komodo alone — help to judge
• What about bittorrent? P2P? Push builds there first?

More user-friendly builds

• Focus on 1.5, rather than 1.4.1, for friendly builds
• 1.5 is not too locked down yet, but we need to hurry up
• Pull out Tinderbox sidebar panel; reduce hits on mozilla.org servers
• We need to move discussion directly to a tracking bug

Software patents demo

• It's possible there will be a repeat of the online demo at the end of September
• There's disagreement about whether we want to do anything on this
• We need to have a discussion before we alter the website again

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