WeeklyUpdates/2010-04-12

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Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 12 April

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Friday, 16 April

Testday on Mobile Firefox 1.1 Beta via #testday on irc.mozilla.org!

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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
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Status Updates By Team

IT

• Moved www.spreadfirefox.com behind our Zeus load balancers
• NetApp OS Upgrades - April 17
  • See bug 502151 for details
  • See mrz's blog too

Release Engineering

• Releases
  • Firefox 3.7 Alpha 4
  • Fennec 1.0.1 (Maemo)
• Enabled unit tests for Fedora and Fedora 64 on mozilla-central
  • blog post - bug
• 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
  • Community
    • Completed successful test day for the Tab Matches Awesomebar feature. Reported 6 bugs!
    • Tomcat is organizing the Germany linuxtag conference for Mozilla. We will have a booth!

Marketing/PR

PR

• Firefox Lorentz Beta Isolates Plug-in Crashes for Uninterrupted Browsing
• Firefox Lorentz beta sandboxes Flash
• Firefox 3.6 Crashes 30% Less than 3.5
• Firefox 3.6 is 40% More Stable than at Launch, Better than 3.5

• Firefox Mobile for the Nokia N900 hands-on

• Mozilla Contacts Helps Firefox Discover Your Social Web

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

Metrics

• Lots of new metrics news...
  • 60,000,000 Additional Firefox downloads – read how an experiment led to this discovery
  • Firefox Stability analysis – 40% improvement in past 5 months, more focus/work on the way
  • Firefox Menu Item analysis – an update to the data

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 :)