Minutes of the mozilla.org Staff Meeting of Monday 9th February 2004

Monday February 16th, 2004

Present: chofmann, blizzard, ben, jst, mitchell, leaf, asa, scc, myk, chris blizzard, marcia.

1.7 Alpha

• Drivers met yesterday and went through blocker nominations, long standing things that didn't get done.
• Some progress made in fixing hard-to-reproduce and diagnose profile corruption bugs, but more investigation and fixing remains.
• 1.7a should have inprovments that we will be monitoring.
• List of things to go through is still pretty long
• Tree closes tonight at midnight

Firebird 0.8 Update

• shipped
• Firefox fans burned down the FTP farm
• ~73K downloads yesterday, 30K Failures [due to capacity issues]
• Major Corporate Sponsor agreed to let us use their FTP server farm — we now have 3 more servers in the mirror network than we did before
• One of the four servers in her network was actually down yesterday, that is why the issue with failures
• In theory it should be better, if they turn it off again we will need some other help
• In top 2000 websites on Alexa
• just under half of people that clicked on the Windows link came from IE 6.0 user agents (chofmann)

Branding

• bart is not here
• bart should receive kudos for all of his work on getting "Firefox" — made it happen (mitchell)

Developer Day

• Agenda needs to be posted on the site under Events
• Decision made to have it at the Mozilla Foundation offices
• Presentations:
  • chofmann, FTP servers, Talkback (infrastructure things)
  • brendan (roadmap/futures discussion)
  • asa (test tracker — couple of slides how you want people to get involved with this)
  • ben/mscott — Status and the road ahead for Firefox/Thunderbird — Next Generation Browser and Mail
  • george_cao — experiments with Mozilla as application platform with web services and SVG

CVS over SSH

• leaf testing it out over private — trying to figure out what the pitfalls are
• ben raised question of security of directories
• leaf advises repository will be easier to control user groups by directories

Thunderbird

• mitchell: What is the general thinking about the Thunderbird release?
• Press has been positive on the Thunderbird release
• 4 stars, and on the way to 5, with improvements we have planned for installer and are investigating for spam filter training

Marcia

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