Minutes of the mozilla.org Staff Meeting of Monday 18th January 2005
Tuesday January 25th, 2005
By Gervase Markham
Present: bienvenue, asa, justdave, jst, mitchell, dbaron, myk, raphael,
chofmann, chase, mscott, ben, marcia, cbeard.
update.mozilla.org
- Need to figure out if it works properly
- If it doesn’t, fix the bugs that enable it to work when we do 1.1
- cbeard has a meeting on Wednesday
- Working with Alan Starr and Scott Kveton to identify the core set of things that we need to address to ensure security and stability
Feedback on 1.8a6
- Shipped with 2-3 bugs
- Jay is digging into Talkback
- It did not get wide enough distribution to surface any new issues
- 10-15K downloads so far, without any visible notice on the front page
- Chofmann noted that the data from top news site indicates 1.8 users have measurable market share
- Have we put up the warning to 1.8 users to upgrade to the alpha?
- Asa to work with justdave or dbaron to update the Start page redirect
- Need to get 1.8 trunk users on the latest alpha
Firefox 1.1
- ben has been working on a Firefox roadmap.
- What exactly we will do long term and for 1.1
- In the next four weeks we have to figure out a plan before the beta
Thunderbird 1.1
- Nothing specific to 1.1
- In the next week at so, we need the same level of roadmap for TB and FF
CDs
- Mozsource wants to cut a new set of CDs
- Three CDs — our images have become big
- There's a logical split between the products
- Split Firefox and Thunderbird from a media perspective
Infrastructure
- Waiting for our first set of machines
- They have been shipped today
- It will probably take a week to get them up and running in the colo
- New boxes which will be part of a new infrastructure.
- Main changes are that services will be named on a machine instead of using machine names
- This makes it more difficult for a developer to hack on a production machine
- They have to go to testing, staging machine and then push to production
...@mozilla.org e-mail changes
- Want to implement SPF and SRS
- Doing the upgrade — still send from @mozilla.org addresses
- Dave can write up a paper and send to staff regarding the server settings
Press
- Newsweek and Businessweek articles this week
- PC World
Conferences
- Desktop Linux Summit in San Diego in February
- Linuxworld in Boston
- Conferences listed on the wiki
- Let Raphael know regarding attendance
Marcia
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