Minutes of the mozilla.org Staff Meeting of Monday 5th April 2004

Saturday April 24th, 2004

[Note: there was no staff meeting on 2004-04-12 due to Easter.]

Present: bart, leaf, blizzard, chofmann, mitchell, myk, dbaron, scc, gerv, ben.

Mozilla 1.7 final

• This will be the new stable branch
• Still talking 6/7 weeks and a couple of release candidates
• People are upset that the announcement wasn't made earlier
• That is, we didn't make official-sounding announcements in all the right places
• We are apologising, and committing to doing better in the future
• Need to split the roadmap into two parts — soon and future — and get the "soon" part out there [Correction from Mitchell Baker: Not quite. I said that the roadmap had already been organized this way, we had the place to put the 1.7 info earlier, we just didn't do it.]
• We need to find a good balance between doing the basic research and thinking, and communicating those things that have enough cohesion to be beyond the squishy stage.

Firefox 0.9

• Extension Manager UI is now working
• For the server side, Ben is writing a Java web service based on Tomcat, with MySQL back end
• DNS name will be update.mozilla.org
• Software update — notifications only — is on the plan for 1.0
• blake is working on an ActiveX control which runs in IE, to download and install Firefox more smoothly

Thunderbird 0.6

• Pinstripe has landed; that was the last 0.6 feature
• 12-15 bugs on the list

GRE

• Still a very long term plan
• This is really a post-Firefox-1.0 thing

Matters arising from the board meeting

• Mozilla Foundation matters
• Mitchell focused on management cohesion of the Foundation

Reorganising the newsgroup names

• Still running on Netscape's news server
• There has always been a plan to move to our own hardware
• But this requires resources we don't have right now
• Need an experienced newsgroup admin to set them up on our new hardware

Trademarks

• Trademark policy document in the works

Other

• Looking at current support options — improvement, higher visibility
• Google Answers?

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