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Friends of the Tree

• Henry Langi: All the great work he has been doing. Running all the brownbags and helping all the users.
• Ed Morley for getting commit access and immediately diving into checkin-needed and merge duty.

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 29 August

Tuesday, 30 August

Wednesday, 31 August

Thursday, 1 September

• Contribute Group meeting at 10 AM PDT (meeting info and agenda on wiki) -- a forum for discussing issues around helping people get involved with Mozilla.

• Interns Show & Tell at 1 PM PDT presentations by William Chen, Jezreel Ng, and Michael Kurze

Friday, 2 September

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox Future (7, 8, 9)

• Release trains continuing smoothly
• Mitchell and Johnath both wrote posts about the rapid release process (and actually so have Jesse and Kairo, too)

Firefox Current (3.6, 6.0)

• There will be a Firefox 3.6.21. Main goal is to backport Firefox 7 security fixes, will ship at the same time as Firefox 7
  • There is a schedule available on the wiki with freeze dates
• 3.6 EOL? No news to share on that yet. Assume we are sticking with the status quo (creating updates for 3.6) until told differently

Mobile Firefox

Thunderbird

• Thunderbird 7 was released to Beta channels.
• Thunderbird’s Channel Page is up.

Drumbeat

(no voice update this week) What would you include in a "Webmaking 101" course?

• The School of Webcraft is designing a beginner's "Webmaking 101" course
• The heart of the course will be a series of projects and learning challenges
• Looking for feedback from MDN and broader Mozilla community on these draft challenges: http://webmaking101.p2pu.org/challenges
  • a) are these challenges good?
  • b) what's missing? what else do you need to know to become an effective novice web developer?
• Please post feedback as comments to this blog post

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.

Status Updates By Team

Firefox

Platform

Messaging

Mobile

IT

Release Engineering

QA

Test Execution

WebQA

• MDN 1.0
• SUMO http://moxie.jamessocol.com/bugstats/sumo/2011-08-23
• AMO
  • We moved AMO to the Phoenix datacenter, from San Jose
  • Push on 8/24
• Mozilla.com/.org unification (One Mozilla)

QA Community

Automation Services

• Running the 'Mem Buster' endurance test
• Selenium 2.5 has been released

Automation & Tools

• Jmaher could use a hand diagnosing some leaks caused by the special powers refactor, please ping him on IRC
• Talos Addons Testing system has moved into beta state, we have the full system from AMO site to specific addons talos staging pool working for testing.
• Bugzilla now has inline history on by default for all users on BMO
• GoFaster project has new web dashboards live
• More notes are here

Security

Engagement

PR

• Firefox to Keep Version Numbers After All
• Mozilla Will Keep Firefox Version Numbers...For Now
• Mozilla: We won't ditch Firefox version numbers

• Mozilla's WebAPI Wants To Replace Native Apps With HTML5
• Mozilla's WebAPI eyes cross-platform mobile apps

• Firefox 6 Already Sees Bump In Traffic Soon After Debut

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

Introducing New Hires

• Artur Adib: joining the Innovation team as a Software Engineer, managed by Bill Walker, located in Washington, DC.
• Michael Edwards: joining the Research Engineering Team as a Sr. Software Engineer, managed by Andreas Gal, located in Mtn. View.
• Erin Lancaster: joining the Engineering team as a Project Manager, managed by Sheila Mooney, located in Mtn. View.

Introducing New Interns

• Matt McPherrin -- Platform
• Mohamed Dabbagh -- QA
• Trevor Fairey -- Tools

Foundation Updates

Roundtable