WeeklyUpdates/2010-09-27

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Friends of the Tree Friends of the Tree

  • nominating Margaret Leibovic and Philipp von Weitershausen for climbing the learning curve in writing localization-friendly code with their b7 blockers (Axel).
  • nominating Aleksej, Daniel, db48xOther, dickey, Fry-kun, gaby2300, Jan, kbrosnan, Mathnerd314 for contributing test cases as part of the multiple bugdays during the recent QA work week [ashughes]

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 27 September

Tuesday, 28 September

  • Coffee/Brown Bag with Chris Jay Hoofnagle re Users' Views and Expectations on Privacy and Privacy Settings (10 Forward and Air Mozilla)--be there or be square! Contact Julie Martin if you have any questions.

Wednesday, 29 September

  • We host the jQuery Mobile project team meeting in R2D2/C3PO. Swing by if you want to see what they are up to.

Thursday, 30 September

Friday, 1 October

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox 4

  • Code freeze for Beta 7 marches on! Another bunch of big changes have landed:
    • 64-bit builds for OSX
    • GC Compartments (tracemonkey only right now)
    • there are 30 blockers left which we hope to close out in the next couple of days
    • The tree remains closed to all other bugs until we hit this milestone

Firefox 3.6 and 3.5

  • Code freeze for 3.6.11 and 3.5.14 is tomorrow, 2010-09-28 @ 11:59 pm PDT
    • Please email Christian if you have a blocker that won't be done by that time
  • Post-mortem for 3.6.9/10 will be held on Thursday (see the wiki page for details)

Mobile Firefox

  • Beta one is close!
  • Please help test builds

Thunderbird

  • Thunderbird trunk
    • add-ons manager has been brought back to life in a tab
    • now based on libxul
  • Account provisioning work continues

Drumbeat

Speakers

The limit is 3 minutes per speaker. It's like a lightning talk, but don't feel that you have to have slides in order to make a presentation.

Title Presenter Topic Media More Details
Game On 2010 Pascal Finette Mozilla Labs' "Game On 2010" Open Web games competition update tbd http://gaming.mozillalabs.com
Seabird Concept Phone Pascal Finette Some background on the Concept Series Seabird mobile phone concept http://mozillalabs.com/seabird http://mozillalabs.com/seabird
One Mozilla Domain Name Strategy David Boswell Proposal for a coherent domain name plan Proposal Governance thread
Change to OSX universal builds John O'Duinn blog post

Status Updates By Team

Firefox

Platform

Messaging

Mobile

IT

Release Engineering

QA

QA Org Highlights
  • Q4 Goals locked and loaded!
  • WebQA
    • AMO 5.12 is currently planned to go out on 09/28
    • Certify/ship Input 1.8
  • Browser Technologies
    • Tested and shipped Jetpack 0.8
  • Desktop Firefox
    • Fx 4 Beta 7: Code freeze delay. Holding pattern for test execution.
  • Community
    • Testday for recent Sync changes last Friday with 13 bugs filed.

Automation & Tools

  • Temporary android automation running, continuing to work on final automation with Bear and Aki.
    • Android Talos is running within the buildbot framework
  • Started War On Orange discussions with Metrics team and RelEng for a Hadoop centric build/test log storage
  • Have Mozmill testing ready for production on buildbot for Mac and Linux, working through the last issues with Windows - bug 516984
  • More information is always on our page

Security

Engagement

PR

Participation

Events

Creative Team

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

Introducing New Hires

  • Jason Grlicky, Webdev

Foundation Updates

Roundtable