Minutes of the mozilla.org Staff Meeting of Monday 7th February 2005

Monday February 14th, 2005

Present: raphael, mitchell, dougt, chofmann, sarah, asa, chase, myk, dbaron, cbeard, dmose, jst, bienvenu, mscott, blizzard, gerv, justdave, marcia.

Mozilla 1.8b6

• Freezing tomorrow
• New roadmap been published to the roadmap page and the relevant newsgroups

Firefox 1.0.1

• Got through all nominations, we've got 29 open blockers
• Lots of stuff on list that were minused on 1.0
• Some bugs have been around for a while; there are differences in perceptions in those problems since we shipped
• List was fairly load balanced
• Trying to get all of those knocked out by the end of the week, testing next week

Firefox 1.1

• Ben has posted a good update to the FF 1.1 roadmap and his preferences rewrite, and laid out the new schedule

Volunteer Awards

• Asa needs to get with cbeard and plan for nomination process
• Spotlighting contributors

Relationship between MoFo and mozilla.org

• Mitchell's view:
  • In the old days it was Mozilla.org.staff that made day to day decisions
  • Advantage of Mozilla staff is that it is broader than a single employment organization, single management chain, that is valuable
  • As a project we want to continue to have a role for Mozilla Staff that is separate from being a Foundation employee.
  • Foundation employees are involved in the day to day operation.
  • Role of staff would be the same as it as used to be, operational focus shift more toward Foundation employees.
  • Suggest that we have a role for Mozilla staff — meritocracy, based on skills and invitation
  • Some role for speaking for the project that is different from Foundation, has some legitimacy
  • Project bigger than Foundation
  • Shouldn't set Foundation up as the voice of the project
  • Need checks and balances

• Asa's thoughts:
  • Some functions that staff have performed are appointing module owners and peers; arbitrators of dispute
  • In light of weak ownership in some areas, and unowned modules, strong role for a group of people who don't have ties to the same management chain
  • It is probably more important now then it was then

• How does someone become a member of staff? Clearer process
• Sort out staff@ list vs. mofo@ list
• Email addresses have been given out ad-hoc
• Employees also need @mozillafoundation.org addresses

• gerv and blizzard only non-Foundation people involved in the last year
• shaver and dmose are staff associates; but do speak for the project a little bit

• Dmose's thoughts:
  • Need to first figure out what the different roles are.
  • Avoid duplicate chains of command.
  • Technical (drivers) vs. non-technical (staff).
  • Defining new policies is a staff job?

• Staff could report to the board on project progress
• Non-revenue voice for the project; the dynamics change once there's money involved

SpreadFirefox

• Offsite meeting last Friday with blake, bart, asa, Joe Houston, rafael, cbeard
• SpreadFirefox is going to structure itself as a project within Mozilla
• Code in CVS, issue tracking through Bugzilla
• Talked about sysadmin issues
• They will come back with a roadmap

UMO

• Still in a limbo state, a bit
• asa, ben, chase, myk, dave + cbeard met with scott k and mike m from OSL.
• Integrating build system with update services
• Security strategies + mirror integrity
• Client-side requirements — hashing etc.
• Bouncer tool tests mirrors already

• Can't do 1.0.1 without melting the system unless bouncer works

Other

• Desktop Linux Summit on Friday in San Diego
• Linuxworld in Boston — sharing booth
• mscott got his first birdie

Gerv/Marcia

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