April 2005
Friday 29 April 2005
- Status update for week of April 29, 2005 - News - Firefox hit 50 million downloads! - SVG now included in Firefox trunk builds for Windows and Mac - Lead Sysadmin position notice posted on MoFo careers page - 2 new Mac build systems added, full configuration pending - met with bclary about JavaScript QA while he visited MoFo - met with tor about SVG while he visited MoFo SVG - Windows and Mac build systems configured to build SVG and their builds now include SVG by default. Using it requires flipping a pref since it's disabled by default. (bugs 285177, 285178) - new Linux build system capable of building with SVG enabled, overcoming problems in building profiled (bug 292377) New build systems - Six new systems: 2 dual G5 XServes, 4 dual Xeon HP DL360 G4s - Worked out cabinet depth problems at colo, two XServes (atlantia and triton) are now properly mounted, attached to network - One XServe (atlantia) is serving as the Firefox trunk build system - One XServe (triton) is allocated to Firefox aviary branch, next step to configure - One DL360 (prometheus) is configured as a Linux build system, shaking out profiled build problems - One DL360 has Windows Server 2003 installed, next step to add build tools - One DL360 has a hardware problem that led to reboots while OS was installing - One DL360 hasn't yet been tested Firefox 1.0.3 - made he-IL build links on firefox/all.html live Deer Park - meetings, emails - provide feedback and thoughts on software update to darin, ben, dougt, dveditz Et cetera - MIME::tools, potential use of this CPAN module in the build scripts to send multiple files to the Tinderbox server (rather than just the build log) - ideas to speed up CVS checkout for some of our build systems - staff meeting... (16:27 | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 26 April 2005
- SVG here we come - SVG is now enabled in the Firefox trunk nightlies: windows, mac Linux coming soon. Update: I should choose my words more carefully. s/enabled/included/... (14:14 | 13 Comments)
Saturday 23 April 2005
- Saturday - Guinevere's Garden Delight (R)... (16:07 | 0 Comments)
Thursday 14 April 2005
- +1, Freedom - "Online Freedom of Speech Act Introduced in House" Let your voice be heard, regardless of stance and forum! You probably won't be able to speak to these officeholders directly, but the staffers will be happy to pass along your opinions. As for me, I appreciate their effort to keep blogging free of FEC regulation. Congressman Jeb Hensarling (contact) 132 Cannon House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Phone: 202-225-3484 Fax: 202-226-4888 Senator Harry Reid (contact) 528 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Phone: 202-224-3542 Fax: 202-224-7327... (18:24 | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 6 April 2005
- Firefox 1.0.3 and Mozilla Suite 1.7.7 candidates available for testing - Asa has posted about our latest builds and in an effort to help him spread the word, I'll post too.. We've ironed out some issues on the branches and came up with a set of Firefox 1.0.3 and Suite 1.7.7 builds that we'd like to get eyes on for testing purposes. If you'd like to join in the testing effort, feel free to try out any or all of them. The more testing they can get the more solid the releases we can offer back to you! Thanks! Firefox 1.0.3 Linux Mac Windows Suite 1.7.7 Linux GTK1 Linux GTK2 Mac Windows... (21:31 | 0 Comments)