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'''Friday, 16 April'''  
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Testday on [http://quality.mozilla.org/events/2010/apr/16/testday-mobile-firefox-11-beta Mobile Firefox 1.1 Beta] via #testday on irc.mozilla.org!


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== Firefox  ==
== Firefox  ==
* [[Firefox/Goals/2010Q2|Firefox team Q2 Goals]]!
* [http://planet.firefox.com/ Planet Firefox]!
* [http://www.gavinsharp.com/blog/2010/03/31/accessingmodifying-the-firefox-tab-context-menu-from-extensions/ Tab changes, impact on addons]!


== Gecko ==
== Gecko ==


== Branch work: Firefox 3.5.x / Firefox 3.6.x / Thunderbird 3.0.x ==
== Branch work: Firefox 3.5.x / Firefox 3.6.x / Thunderbird 3.0.x ==
== Old Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x  ==


== Thunderbird  ==
== Thunderbird  ==
* Announced [https://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2010/04/09/thunderbird-2-0-0-24-security-update-available-for-download/ 2.0.0.24] as last planned release off Thunderbird 2 branch
* 3.1b2
** Code/string/feature freeze: very small number of days after landing of:
*** Quick Filter Bar {{bug|545955}}
*** Migration Assistant {{bug|545563}}


== SeaMonkey  ==
== SeaMonkey  ==
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== IT ==
== IT ==
* Moved [http://www.spreadfirefox.com  www.spreadfirefox.com] behind our Zeus load balancers
* <b>NetApp OS Upgrades - April 17</b>
** See {{bug|502151}} for details
** See [http://blog.mozilla.com/mrz/2010/03/29/upcoming-downtime-april-17-san-josempt/ mrz's blog too]


== Release Engineering  ==
== Release Engineering  ==
* Releases
** Firefox 3.7 Alpha 4
** Fennec 1.0.1 (Maemo)
* Enabled unit tests for Fedora and Fedora 64 on mozilla-central
** [http://armenzg.blogspot.com/2010/04/unit-tests-for-fedora-utont-project.html blog post] - {{bug|557918|bug}}
* Mac OS X 64-bit builds and nightlies


== QA  ==
== QA  ==
;QA All


;Test Execution
* More details for weekly QA status can be found in the in individual status reports located [https://intranet.mozilla.org/QA#QA_Staff_Status here]


;WebQA
;QA Highlites


;QA Community
* Desktop Firefox QA
** Shipped Firefox 3.6.3plugin1 (Lorentz)
** Shipped Firefox 3.7 alpha 4
** Finalized schedule and preparation for testing and shipping Firefox 3.6.4 beta (includes OOPP) end of next week, Apr 16.
* Browser Services QA
** Weave 1.2 testing completed and shipped on Friday, Apr 9
** Working on Weave 1.3 test planning
* Mobile QA
** Fennec 1.1 builds delayed due to landing of Fx3.6.4 code dependencies. Testing of 1.1 Fennec will commence Mon Apr 12.
* Web QA
** Pushed Sumo 1.5.2 on the 6th
** Preparing for testing and ship of AMO 5.9
* QA Services
** Community
*** Completed successful test day for the [https://wiki.mozilla.org/TestDay:2010-04-09 Tab Matches Awesomebar] feature. Reported 6 bugs!
*** Tomcat is organizing the Germany [http://www.linuxtag.org/2010/en.html linuxtag conference] for Mozilla. We will have a booth!


;Test Dev
== Automation & Tools ==
* Mozmill 1.4.1 targeted for Wednesday release
* Got Talos Ts running on Windows and Linux, got preliminary numbers for the top 500 addons
* Started looking into reviewboard bugzilla integration, following asuth's lead.
* Established the Ted's TopFails report into a [http://brasstacks.mozilla.com/topfails/topfails new home].
* More detail [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Auto-tools/Meetings/2010-04-12 here]


== Security  ==
== Security  ==
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'''PR'''  
'''PR'''  
*[http://lifehacker.com/5513281/firefox-lorentz-beta-isolates-plug+in-crashes-for-uninterrupted-browsing Firefox Lorentz Beta Isolates Plug-in Crashes for Uninterrupted Browsing]
*[http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/357109/firefox-lorentz-beta-sandboxes-flash Firefox Lorentz beta sandboxes Flash]
*[http://lifehacker.com/5513592/firefox-36-crashes-30-less-than-35 Firefox 3.6 Crashes 30% Less than 3.5]
*[http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/firefox_36_40_more_stable_launch_better_35 Firefox 3.6 is 40% More Stable than at Launch, Better than 3.5]
*[http://recombu.com/news/firefox-mobile-for-the-nokia-n900-hands-on_M11628.html Firefox Mobile for the Nokia N900 hands-on]
*[http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/04/mozilla-contacts-helps-firefox-discover-your-social-web/ Mozilla Contacts Helps Firefox Discover Your Social Web]
*[http://www.photography-colleges.org/52-useful-firefox-add-ons-for-photographers/ 52 Useful Firefox Add-Ons for Photographers]


'''Events'''  
'''Events'''  
*[http://roflcon.org/ ROFLCon II] April 30 - May&nbsp; 1, 2010; Boston, MA.&nbsp; We have a join sponsorship with the Mozilla Foundation and will be live streaming and archiving the event with HTML5 open video.<br>
*[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Education/Projects/ProcessingForTheWeb/BostonWorkshop Processing.js Boston] - April 10-11, 2010; Boston, MA.&nbsp; Putting together an event with the Processing.js team.
*[http://jsconf.us/2010/ JSConf.US] April 17-18, 2010; Washington, DC.&nbsp; We are sponsoring this event.&nbsp; We will also have Mitcho, one of our Jetpack Ambassadors conducting a Jetpack talk and putting together Jetpack hacking session in the lounge.
*[http://www.e27.sg/ e27 echelon 2010] June 1-2, 2010; Singapore.&nbsp; Gen will be participating in this event.
*[http://www.linuxtag.org LinuxTag 2010] June 9-12, 2010; funding from Mozilla Europe is secured; Mozilla staff and community will manage a 12m2 booth at Europe's largest Linux tech fair; Tristan Nitot, Paul Rouget and Brian King all confirmed to give keynote talks; Carsten Book and WQ leading community outreach and organization
*[http://www.guadec.org/index.php/guadec/2010 GUADEC 2010] - July 24-30, 2010; Netherlands.&nbsp; We are sponsoring at the bronze level. &nbsp;More information to come soon.<br>
*Open Video Conference 2010 - Looking over sponsorship opportunities.
*[http://www.blogher.com/blogher-10 BlogHer '10] - August 6-7, 2010 - Looking into sponsorship opportunities.
*[http://www.renegadecraft.com/chicago Renegade Craft Fair Chicago 2010] - September 11-12, 2010 - Looking into sponsorship opportunities.
*Browser &amp; Bubbles: Exploring two consumer-focused events in SF &amp; London. Reworking [http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AfzN8XSjH4rlZGNzcWpwNG5fMGc0Z2p0cWY1&hl=en plan]; WQ/IS meeting with JSC/NN on 04/07 for kick-off brainstorm


'''Creative Team'''  
'''Creative Team'''  


'''Community Marketing'''
'''Community Marketing'''  
* [http://bit.ly/sfxedutoolkit Spread Firefox Education Toolkit]: We're looking to localize the toolkit!  Please ping sarah at mozilla dot com for details on how to do this.
* [http://moz.marketing.sgizmo.com Marketing Survey]:  We're closing this down today and will share results at the community marketing call this week.
* Calling all case studies and examples of awesome work!  [http://bit.ly/mozspotlight Please share] your events and other marketing efforts so the team can learn from you.
* Community Marketing Call:  Next call is Wednesday April 13th at 10 a.m. PST/17:00 UTC.  Please send agenda items to mary at mozilla dot com. Preliminary agenda [http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/5982 here].


== Support  ==
== Support  ==


== Metrics  ==
== Metrics  ==
* Lots of new metrics news...
** 60,000,000 Additional Firefox downloads – read how [http://blog.mozilla.com/metrics/2010/04/05/firefox-page-load-speed-%e2%80%93-part-ii/ an experiment led to this discovery]
** Firefox Stability analysis – [http://blog.mozilla.com/metrics/2010/04/08/dramatic-stability-improvements-in-firefox/ 40% improvement in past 5 months], more focus/work on the way
** Firefox Menu Item analysis – [http://blog.mozilla.com/metrics/2010/04/06/menu-item-usage-study-an-update-to-the-data-2/ an update to the data]


== Evangelism  ==
== Evangelism  ==
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== Developer Tools ==
== Developer Tools ==
* Bespin "Bryce" (0.7.1) [http://mozillalabs.com/bespin/2010/04/07/bespin-0-7-1-bryce-released-bespin-rebooted/ was released] last Wednesday. This is the first Bespin server update since the client side "reboot".
* Now that we've cleared that hurdle, releases will be coming along more frequently. To prove the point, [http://mozillalabs.com/bespin/2010/04/09/bespin-0-7-2-bugfix-release/ Bespin 0.7.2] was released on Friday :)


== Add-ons  ==
== Add-ons  ==


== Webdev  ==
== Webdev  ==
* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?classification=Server%20Software&query_based_on=Socorro-1.6&query_format=advanced&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&component=Socorro&product=Webtools&target_milestone=1.6&known_name=Socorro-1.6 Socorro 1.6] launched
* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?classification=Other&query_format=advanced&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&product=support.mozilla.com&target_milestone=1.5.3 SUMO 1.5.3] launched
* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced;product=addons.mozilla.org;resolution=FIXED;target_milestone=5.9 AMO 5.9] launches 4/13
* Bouncer launch pushed then rolled back Thursday.  Learned what we needed to learn.  Read [https://intranet.mozilla.org/User:Wenzel/Tuxedo_Postmortem Postmortem notes] and future plans.
* clouserw submitted a [http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/13316 patch to Django] that got approved!


== L10n  ==
== L10n  ==


= Introducing New Hires =
= Introducing New Hires =
*David Chan has just joined the security engineering team.  He will hopefully be breaking everything in sight, with special focus on client/server projects.


= Foundation Updates  =
= Foundation Updates  =


= Roundtable =
= Roundtable =
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Status Updates By Team

Firefox

Gecko

Branch work: Firefox 3.5.x / Firefox 3.6.x / Thunderbird 3.0.x

Thunderbird

  • Announced 2.0.0.24 as last planned release off Thunderbird 2 branch
  • 3.1b2
    • Code/string/feature freeze: very small number of days after landing of:

SeaMonkey

Mobile

IT

Release Engineering

  • Releases
    • Firefox 3.7 Alpha 4
    • Fennec 1.0.1 (Maemo)
  • Enabled unit tests for Fedora and Fedora 64 on mozilla-central
  • Mac OS X 64-bit builds and nightlies

QA

QA All
  • More details for weekly QA status can be found in the in individual status reports located here
QA Highlites
  • Desktop Firefox QA
    • Shipped Firefox 3.6.3plugin1 (Lorentz)
    • Shipped Firefox 3.7 alpha 4
    • Finalized schedule and preparation for testing and shipping Firefox 3.6.4 beta (includes OOPP) end of next week, Apr 16.
  • Browser Services QA
    • Weave 1.2 testing completed and shipped on Friday, Apr 9
    • Working on Weave 1.3 test planning
  • Mobile QA
    • Fennec 1.1 builds delayed due to landing of Fx3.6.4 code dependencies. Testing of 1.1 Fennec will commence Mon Apr 12.
  • Web QA
    • Pushed Sumo 1.5.2 on the 6th
    • Preparing for testing and ship of AMO 5.9
  • QA Services

Automation & Tools

  • Mozmill 1.4.1 targeted for Wednesday release
  • Got Talos Ts running on Windows and Linux, got preliminary numbers for the top 500 addons
  • Started looking into reviewboard bugzilla integration, following asuth's lead.
  • Established the Ted's TopFails report into a new home.
  • More detail here

Security

Marketing/PR

PR

Events

  • ROFLCon II April 30 - May  1, 2010; Boston, MA.  We have a join sponsorship with the Mozilla Foundation and will be live streaming and archiving the event with HTML5 open video.
  • Processing.js Boston - April 10-11, 2010; Boston, MA.  Putting together an event with the Processing.js team.
  • JSConf.US April 17-18, 2010; Washington, DC.  We are sponsoring this event.  We will also have Mitcho, one of our Jetpack Ambassadors conducting a Jetpack talk and putting together Jetpack hacking session in the lounge.
  • e27 echelon 2010 June 1-2, 2010; Singapore.  Gen will be participating in this event.
  • LinuxTag 2010 June 9-12, 2010; funding from Mozilla Europe is secured; Mozilla staff and community will manage a 12m2 booth at Europe's largest Linux tech fair; Tristan Nitot, Paul Rouget and Brian King all confirmed to give keynote talks; Carsten Book and WQ leading community outreach and organization
  • GUADEC 2010 - July 24-30, 2010; Netherlands.  We are sponsoring at the bronze level.  More information to come soon.
  • Open Video Conference 2010 - Looking over sponsorship opportunities.
  • BlogHer '10 - August 6-7, 2010 - Looking into sponsorship opportunities.
  • Renegade Craft Fair Chicago 2010 - September 11-12, 2010 - Looking into sponsorship opportunities.
  • Browser & Bubbles: Exploring two consumer-focused events in SF & London. Reworking plan; WQ/IS meeting with JSC/NN on 04/07 for kick-off brainstorm

Creative Team

Community Marketing

  • Spread Firefox Education Toolkit: We're looking to localize the toolkit! Please ping sarah at mozilla dot com for details on how to do this.
  • Marketing Survey: We're closing this down today and will share results at the community marketing call this week.
  • Calling all case studies and examples of awesome work! Please share your events and other marketing efforts so the team can learn from you.
  • Community Marketing Call: Next call is Wednesday April 13th at 10 a.m. PST/17:00 UTC. Please send agenda items to mary at mozilla dot com. Preliminary agenda here.

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Developer Tools

  • Bespin "Bryce" (0.7.1) was released last Wednesday. This is the first Bespin server update since the client side "reboot".
  • Now that we've cleared that hurdle, releases will be coming along more frequently. To prove the point, Bespin 0.7.2 was released on Friday :)

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

Introducing New Hires

  • David Chan has just joined the security engineering team. He will hopefully be breaking everything in sight, with special focus on client/server projects.

Foundation Updates

Roundtable

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