June 8, 2007

Weekly Status 2007-06-08

This Week

  • Booked into to OSCON and Ubuntu Live
  • Teleconference with NSS team, beltzner, mconnor and johnath to discuss EV and Firefox 3 schedules
  • Weekly CABForum teleconference
  • Yet more discussions on Link Fingerprints
  • Watched jst's video on Gecko internals from devmo
  • Correspondence with Brett Smith at the FSF about GPLv3 draft 4
  • Updated devmo copy of Bug Writing Guidelines based on the new Bugzilla ones; they are now much shorter and clearer
  • Triaged the 5 MPL violation bugs:
    • Two of them were no longer relevant, because the company was gone or the product was old
    • WebRenderer do make source available on request
    • NetDive are taking down their "Oxygen" browser because they don't have the source; it's based on 2002-era code (!)
  • Another pass through some of the CA list - didn't get to the end this week, though

Next Week

Posted by gerv at June 8, 2007 3:12 PM
Comments

"Triaged the 5 MPL violation bugs:

* Two of them were no longer relevant, because the company was gone or the product was old
* WebRenderer do make source available on request
* NetDive are taking down their "Oxygen" browser because they don't have the source; it's based on 2002-era code (!)"

I assume these are seekret bugs?

Posted by: Matt Sayler at June 8, 2007 3:38 PM

Got a link to the Gecko internals video?

Posted by: Robin at June 8, 2007 3:50 PM

Matt: Yes, we keep alleged MPL violations secret because, like the FSF, we find that things are much more easily resolved out of the glare of publicity. In this case, I don't mind mentioning these companies; Webrenderer have nothing to be ashamed of, and NetDive have dealt with the problem.

Robin: DevMo Video presentations.

Posted by: Gerv at June 8, 2007 9:57 PM

No disrespect intended to the video presenters, but I don't think any of them should consider quitting their "day job" Hollywood does not becken.
A smiling Window Snyder with background MP3's might be better.
Seriously, the mov format is much more than I think is neccesary here.
Audio, and clickable thumbnails is all that is needed.
A couple of quick suggestions:
Technical presentation in audio only (MP3)
(I think the presenters would feel more comfortable)
Slide selection cued by the speaker: slide1 slide2 etc javascript controlled
And last but not least, a fallback to a high resolution image of Window S
if a link is not clicked within a minute of the cue.

JoeS

Posted by: JoeS at June 9, 2007 2:18 AM