April 28, 2008

Weekly Update 2008-04-28

Here’s an overview of this week’s Update Meeting: Fx 2.0.0.15 – Currently working on bug triage Firefox 3 RC 1 – No Report Gecko 1.9 RC 1 Code freeze: April 8th Builds start: QA starts: Release to beta channel: Final Release: Status: 26 Blockers remaining for RC Content: 7 (6 w/ patches) GFX: 10 (7 w/ Patches) JS: 3 (3 w/ Patches) Layout: 3 (3 w/ Patches) Platform: 3 (3 w/ Patches) General: 2 (2 w/ Patches) Still 1 unowned blocker. Approximately 8 have patches of some sort. Blockers closed in last seven days by platform team: 15 Blockers created…

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Microsoft/Yahoo: Deal or No Deal?

This past Saturday, April 26th was the deadline Microsoft had given Yahoo before they would go directly to the shareholders. This deadline was established via a follow-up letter from Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer to Yahoo on April 5th. On last Thursday, April 24th Microsoft finance chief Chris Liddell made comments to investors and then employees: …another of the company’s options is to abandon the bid entirely. If no deal was reached by Saturday, the options are “to try to facilitate a transition, to possibly go directly to Yahoo shareholders. Or to walk away and go back to our original organic…

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