Minutes of the mozilla.org Staff Meeting of Monday 30th January 2006

Sunday February 5th, 2006

By Gervase Markham

Present: dria, polvi, bc, beltzner, coop, gerv, josh, shaver, dmose, mconnor, justdave, mitchell, jesse, mscott, bienvenu, chofmann, cbeard, graydon, justin, karen, schrep, davel, preed, robert strong, timr, blake, pav, mitchell, brendan, john lilly, jonas, vlad, asa, myk, jay, chase, aravind, marcia, dan (recruiter), scc, dveditz.

Firefox 1.5.0.1

32 locales, and 2 more we hope to get in soon
No open issues
Testing now
In good shape

Next on deck is 1.5.0.2 and 1.0.8
Full schedules coming out soon

schrep looking for managers for the 1.5.0.2 or 1.5.0.3 releases
email him if you are interested

Firefox 2 and 3

Automated branch syncing and merging mechanism between 2 and 3
Need to sync up by hand before we can turn this on
Only for the browser/ subtree and various other specific places
Perhaps also the l10n repository for the browser/ directory
See devnews posting or mozilla.dev.planning post

Thunderbird

There's also an update on deck; need to work out a schedule
Not sure whether it'll match up with Firefox 1.5.0.2

XULRunner

Initial release in next couple of days (1.8.0.1)
Labelled as a stable developer preview

Personnel

chase last day on February 7th
Goodbye lunch next Tuesday for those local to MV

Marketing

Driving development of a 2006 marketing plan

200 entries for the extension contest
Getting ready to send them off to the judges

Firefox Flicks goes from strength to strength
Check out http://www.firefoxflicks.com/
Keep getting deals and enhancing the prize package
Asa promoting at an indie film festival at SF
Only 5 or 6 entries so far, but 40-50 groups or people working
Launched Firefox Flicks Backstage weblog

Foundation

Localisers meeting at FOSDEM announced, with travel funding

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