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== Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x == | == Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x == | ||
* '''[[Releases/Firefox_2.0.0.20_MU_2|Firefox 2.0.0.20 -> 3.0.10 major update]]''' | |||
** went to beta users last week | |||
** going live at the end of this week (Thursday) | |||
* '''[[Releases/Firefox_3.0.11|Firefox 3.0.11]]''' | |||
** still mostly code-frozen | |||
** handing off to build later today | |||
** on track for early-June ship | |||
* '''[[Releases/Firefox_3.0.12|Firefox 3.0.12]]''' | |||
** schedule on the wiki | |||
** comments, questions? | |||
** 6-week cycle, targeting a mid-July release | |||
* '''[[Releases/Thunderbird_2.0.0.22|Thunderbird 2.0.0.22]]''' | |||
** schedule on the wiki | |||
** comments, questions? | |||
** targeting mid-June release | |||
== Gecko 1.9.1 == | == Gecko 1.9.1 == | ||
* RC freeze this week. We're planning for Wed of this week as the freeze date, and will be discussing actual date during [ | * RC freeze this week. We're planning for Wed of this week as the freeze date, and will be discussing actual date during [[Platform#Meetings|tomorrow's dev meeting]]. | ||
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Seward Julian Seward], creator of [http://valgrind.org Valgrind] and [http://www.bzip.org/ bzip2] joins the Javascript team today. From his home in Stuttgart, Germany, he'll be working on nanojit and making the tracing engine even faster. | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Seward Julian Seward], creator of [http://valgrind.org Valgrind] and [http://www.bzip.org/ bzip2] joins the Javascript team today. From his home in Stuttgart, Germany, he'll be working on nanojit and making the tracing engine even faster. | ||
* Blocker Status: | * Blocker Status: | ||
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== TB 3 == | == TB 3 == | ||
* Thunderbird 3.0b3 schedule is still up in the air; we hope to nail it down shortly, after {{bug|474701}} lands. | |||
* We'll be adding a beta 4 release after beta 3. The hope is that beta 4 will be significantly shorter than previous betas. | |||
== Mobile == | == Mobile == | ||
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== IT == | == IT == | ||
* | * Lots of infrastructure work | ||
** major iSCSI storage firmware upgrades | |||
** kernel upgrades | |||
** <tt>crash-stats.mozilla.com</tt> database migration | |||
* Datacenter clean-up trip | |||
== Release Engineering == | == Release Engineering == | ||
* Lukas starting tomorrow (canadian holiday today) | |||
* production-master hiccup this morning; nightlies coming, still trying to figure out what happened | |||
* wait times | |||
** creating more build/unittest slaves this week, now that machines and new disks are coming online | |||
** needed because expecting a spike in load before FF3.5rc1 | |||
== QA == | == QA == | ||
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'''Web Dev Testing, Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community''' | '''Web Dev Testing, Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community''' | ||
* Top Site Testing: Filed a number of [http://tinyurl.com/oc823n new crasher bugs] | |||
* Web Dev Testing: | |||
** Continued working on [[Update:Remora_Meeting_Notepad|AMO]] version [http://tinyurl.com/r9vu25 5.0.6]. Tested the new 0.4 version of the Add-ons Collections extension, in tandem with the Collections-management web scaffolding. Worked on automating testing of the different button states in AMO. | |||
** Completed final [[Support/SUMOdev_Meeting_Notepad|SUMO]] version [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&product=support.mozilla.com&target_milestone=1.0.2&chfieldto=Now&known_name=Sumo&query_based_on=Sumo&order=bugs.resolution,bugs.bug_severity,bugs.priority 1.0.2] testing and shipped! | |||
** Helped test [https://sm-weave-proxy01.services.mozilla.com/store/ Get Personas] version [http://tinyurl.com/pkcqyk 1.3]. | |||
** Worked on [http://www.spreadfirefox.com Spread Firefox] redesign [http://tinyurl.com/pw7csx 3.1 milestone] testing. | |||
** Worked on Mozilla.com [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=492562 Fastest Firefox upload page]. | |||
* Community: | |||
** Lead a [http://blog.mozilla.com/tomcat/2009/05/06/mozilla-stammtisch-in-munchen-am-14mai-ab-18-uhr/ Munich Meet-up] on Thusday, May 14th. | |||
** Held a [http://quality.mozilla.org/events/2009/may/13/community-meetup-may-13th-630-pm-watch-clint-demo-reftests Mountain View QA meetup] on Wed, May 13th. Clint Talbert, QA Testdev lead, performed reftest demos! | |||
* Accessibility: | |||
** Trunk work on ARIA grid/ARIA tree grid implementation | |||
** Firefox 3.5 work for HTML 5 audio/video element embedded controls exposure to screen readers such as NVDA landed on Friday and have all "survived" the weekend! | |||
** Visited [http://www.sightcity.de the SightCity conference] in Frankfurt, Germany, on Thursday. Lots of low-tech stuff there this year. Nothing spectacularly new on the screen reader front. Handy Tech, a German braille display manufacturer, did show an iMac with VoiceOver and all kinds of Mac OS X applications. Unfortunately, they couldn't show Firefox yet :( | |||
** Did some initial testing of the new [http://www.camp-firefox.de German Firefox community forum], which was just upgraded to phpBB version 3 and is going to receive both an accessibility upgrade of stuff that's going to be in the phpBB 3.0.5 forum software update, as well as an Accessibility-related forum offering support to both screen reader users with Firefox, as well as web designers a place to ask questions about how certain things will be translated from HTML to a11y APIs. | |||
* Project Metrics: Added/updated: [http://people.mozilla.com/~mnandigama/timeplot2.html Regressions time plot], [http://people.mozilla.com/~mnandigama/codecov-video2/timechart_for_code_coverage.htm code coverage "bubbles" timeplot], [http://people.mozilla.com/~mnandigama/codecov-video1/codecoverage-results-timelapse-video.htm code coverage "bars" time plot]. This is work in progress and primarily for finding ways to best visualize the data. | |||
''' Test Development ''' | ''' Test Development ''' | ||
* [http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-1.9.1/pushloghtml?fromchange=b4f9568dd47b&tochange=0d35fc939701 Pushed a bunch of crashtests to Mozilla 1.9.1] | * [http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-1.9.1/pushloghtml?fromchange=b4f9568dd47b&tochange=0d35fc939701 Pushed a bunch of crashtests to Mozilla 1.9.1] | ||
* | * [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&emailreporter1=1&emailtype1=exact&email1=martijn.martijn%40gmail.com&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailqa_contact2=1&emailtype2=exact&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=2009-05-09&chfieldto=2009-05-16&chfield=%5BBug+creation%5D&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=Bug And filed several more :)] | ||
* Held the QA Meetup and demo'd Reftests. During the demo, managed to reproduce | * Held the QA Meetup and demo'd Reftests. During the demo, managed to reproduce {{bug|465489}}, evidently it just needs an audience. | ||
== Security == | == Security == | ||
No updates. | |||
== Marketing/PR == | == Marketing/PR == | ||
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* Firefox 3.5 Launch Workshops: | * Firefox 3.5 Launch Workshops: | ||
** May 20th: | ** May 20th: | ||
*** 9 a.m. PDT/16:00 UTC - [http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/ | *** 9 a.m. PDT/16:00 UTC - [http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/3785 Video] | ||
'''Mozilla Service Week''' | '''Mozilla Service Week''' | ||
* New timing! We'll soft launch on June 16th with the en-US site and build out the program and partners over the course of the summer. The actual service week will take place in mid-Sept. | * New timing! We'll soft launch on June 16th with the en-US site and build out the program and partners over the course of the summer. The actual service week will take place in mid-Sept. | ||
'''Community Marketing Call | '''Community Marketing Call''' | ||
* Next Community Marketing call is Wednesday, May 20th, at 10am PDT. Dial-in Info: +1.650.903.0800, followed by 92# and then 7391#. Or you can use our toll-free number: +1.800.707.2533, followed by 369# and then 7391#. For those that can't make the call or want to participate online, join us in #marketing on irc.mozilla.org. Please note the new the [http://air.mozilla.com/marketing/ new Air Mozilla channel] for all marketing-related activities. | * Next Community Marketing call is Wednesday, May 20th, at 10am PDT. Dial-in Info: +1.650.903.0800, followed by 92# and then 7391#. Or you can use our toll-free number: +1.800.707.2533, followed by 369# and then 7391#. For those that can't make the call or want to participate online, join us in #marketing on irc.mozilla.org. Please note the new the [http://air.mozilla.com/marketing/ new Air Mozilla channel] for all marketing-related activities. | ||
'''PR''' | '''PR''' | ||
* [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/16/mozilla_labs_tabs_challenge/ Mozilla Labs] [http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=4353 launches] [http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/164989/mozilla_to_designers_help_us_build_better_firefox_tabs.html new] [http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/18/1227247 Design Challenge] | |||
* Fennec alpha 1 for WM released. Highlights include [http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-302882.html ZDNet], [http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/news.phtml/24169/mozilla-fennec-windows-mobile.phtml Pocketlint], [http://lifehacker.com/5259143/firefox-mobile-fennec-alpha-up-for-windows-mobile-testing Lifehacker], [http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/browsers/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217500621&subSection=News InformationWeek] and [http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-10242094-12.html?tag=rtcol;relnews CNET] | |||
* Firefox 3.5 timing in [http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=4F119762-1A64-67EA-E415DC7D49E084DD ComputerWorld], [http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/05/firefox-35-rc1-coming-in-june.html Internet News] and [http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/252946/firefox-35-rc-to-land-first-week-of-june.html PC Pro] | |||
* Game-changing Firefox 3.5 features in [http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7326/ Linux Magazine] | |||
* [http://www.crn.com/software/217500307;jsessionid=YLJOMHRP1WWH2QSNDLPSKHSCJUNN2JVN Buzz] around the quest for an update to the Firefox logo | |||
'''Events''' | '''Events''' | ||
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* Currently surveying Live Chat and Forum contributors to get a better understanding of what's working well and what needs improvements to make helping users on SUMO easier and more fun | * Currently surveying Live Chat and Forum contributors to get a better understanding of what's working well and what needs improvements to make helping users on SUMO easier and more fun | ||
** See blog post [http://blog.mozilla.com/sumo/2009/05/15/firefox-support-wants-your-feedback-its-survey-time/ Firefox support wants your feedback… it’s survey time!] | ** See blog post [http://blog.mozilla.com/sumo/2009/05/15/firefox-support-wants-your-feedback-its-survey-time/ Firefox support wants your feedback… it’s survey time!] | ||
* Working with Metrics team to implement SUMO metrics dashboard ([[Support/SumoDevRoadmap2009#Automatic_metrics_dashboard_.28SUMO_1.2.29|SUMO 1.2 - Q2 goal]]) | |||
** Metrics team will do the majority of the work of getting the "data warehouse" implemented | |||
** They will also assist and provide feedback with the frontend / metrics presentation | |||
== Metrics == | == Metrics == | ||
* No updates this week | |||
== Evangelism == | == Evangelism == | ||
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** Added a new template, <code>[https://developer.mozilla.org/Template:embed_text embed_text]</code> that lets you embed a text file attached to the article into the body, with optional syntax highlighting. This can be used to let the same code appear in the body and be downloadable without having to maintain both separately. | ** Added a new template, <code>[https://developer.mozilla.org/Template:embed_text embed_text]</code> that lets you embed a text file attached to the article into the body, with optional syntax highlighting. This can be used to let the same code appear in the body and be downloadable without having to maintain both separately. | ||
** As usual, final updates for Firefox 3.5 are ongoing. | ** As usual, final updates for Firefox 3.5 are ongoing. | ||
* 35 days - going to sort out dates this week - expect mail from me | |||
== Labs == | == Labs == | ||
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== Add-ons == | == Add-ons == | ||
* 60% compatibility this week, up 4% | |||
* Positive response to [http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2009/05/11/a-peek-at-our-contributions-pilot/ contributions mocks] | |||
* [http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2009/04/23/come-to-our-add-ons-meetup/ Add-ons meetup] on 5/26 | |||
** Will be broadcast on air.mozilla | |||
** Over 40 RSVP's from add-on developers | |||
** Meet your favorite mozillian! | |||
** [http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/ List of sessions] | |||
== Webdev == | == Webdev == | ||
* Mark Hahnenberg starts his webdev internship today! Welcome Mark! | |||
* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&product=support.mozilla.com&target_milestone=1.0.2&chfieldto=Now&known_name=Sumo&query_based_on=Sumo&order=bugs.resolution,bugs.bug_severity,bugs.priority SUMO 1.0.2] pushed last week. 56 bugs fixed total plus a new search solution was deployed! Thanks to IT and the SUMO team for making this possible. [http://blog.mozilla.com/sumo/2009/05/18/rolling-out-with-a-new-search-engine-sumo-102/ See the SUMO blog for more info]. | * [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&product=support.mozilla.com&target_milestone=1.0.2&chfieldto=Now&known_name=Sumo&query_based_on=Sumo&order=bugs.resolution,bugs.bug_severity,bugs.priority SUMO 1.0.2] pushed last week. 56 bugs fixed total plus a new search solution was deployed! Thanks to IT and the SUMO team for making this possible. [http://blog.mozilla.com/sumo/2009/05/18/rolling-out-with-a-new-search-engine-sumo-102/ See the SUMO blog for more info]. | ||
* [http://blog.mozilla.com/webdev/2009/05/15/socorro-moves-to-new-hardware/ Socorro hardware migration] was a success - thanks to Aravind, Josh Berkus and Lars for making this happen. | * [http://blog.mozilla.com/webdev/2009/05/15/socorro-moves-to-new-hardware/ Socorro hardware migration] was a success - thanks to Aravind, Josh Berkus and Lars for making this happen. | ||
* Frederic worked on the mozilla.com survey and geolocation pages | * '''5.0.6''' [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?product=addons.mozilla.org&target_milestone=5.0.6&resolution=--- open bugs] & [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?product=addons.mozilla.org&target_milestone=5.0.6&resolution=FIXED fixed bugs] | ||
* Frederic worked on the mozilla.com survey and [http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/geolocation/ geolocation pages] | |||
== L10n == | == L10n == | ||
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* Moving Weekly Update meeting to 11 AM Pacific? | * Moving Weekly Update meeting to 11 AM Pacific? | ||
** Please add your thoughts to the news group: mozilla.dev.planning "Moving WeeklyUpdate meeting to 11 AM Pacific?" or the respective [http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.planning/browse_thread/thread/68685672ffb76f6b# google group] | ** Please add your thoughts to the news group: mozilla.dev.planning "Moving WeeklyUpdate meeting to 11 AM Pacific?" or the respective [http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.planning/browse_thread/thread/68685672ffb76f6b# google group] | ||
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Friends of the Tree 
Suneel Gupta writes in, "I'd like to nominate Toby Elliott and Donna Macomber (a personas community member) for their hard work in diligently filtering through submitted designs to the approval gallery and approving those that meet the community guidelines. thanks to Toby and Donna, Mozilla has welcomed over 10,000 pieces of art to the Personas gallery and over 7,000 new artists to the Mozilla community."
Cheng Wang writes in to nominate "Laura Thompson, Stephen Donner, Trevor Hardcastle, and Eric Cooper for staying up past 3:30 (at least for Laura) working on pushing SUMO 1.0.2 to production. I know they didn't get all the kinks ironed out but staying up 'till then and then dragging yourself into work the next day is MAD PROPS worthy if I've ever seen it."
Development Updates
Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x
- Firefox 2.0.0.20 -> 3.0.10 major update
- went to beta users last week
- going live at the end of this week (Thursday)
- Firefox 3.0.11
- still mostly code-frozen
- handing off to build later today
- on track for early-June ship
- Firefox 3.0.12
- schedule on the wiki
- comments, questions?
- 6-week cycle, targeting a mid-July release
- Thunderbird 2.0.0.22
- schedule on the wiki
- comments, questions?
- targeting mid-June release
Gecko 1.9.1
- RC freeze this week. We're planning for Wed of this week as the freeze date, and will be discussing actual date during tomorrow's dev meeting.
- Julian Seward, creator of Valgrind and bzip2 joins the Javascript team today. From his home in Stuttgart, Germany, he'll be working on nanojit and making the tracing engine even faster.
- Blocker Status:
- 5 final blocker bugs left in content.
- 1 GFX final blockers.
- 2 Layout final blockers.
- JS with 13 blockers, 4 w/ patch. (Last week: 18)
- 35 noms needing triage.
- For weekly engineering meeting notes and other info see the Platform page.
- 33 total 1.9.1 blockers (last week: 57!).
Firefox 3.5
Firefox Front End Work
TB 3
- Thunderbird 3.0b3 schedule is still up in the air; we hope to nail it down shortly, after bug 474701 lands.
- We'll be adding a beta 4 release after beta 3. The hope is that beta 4 will be significantly shorter than previous betas.
Mobile
- Fennec Windows Mobile Alpha 1 released
IT
- Lots of infrastructure work
- major iSCSI storage firmware upgrades
- kernel upgrades
- crash-stats.mozilla.com database migration
- Datacenter clean-up trip
Release Engineering
- Lukas starting tomorrow (canadian holiday today)
- production-master hiccup this morning; nightlies coming, still trying to figure out what happened
- wait times
- creating more build/unittest slaves this week, now that machines and new disks are coming online
- needed because expecting a spike in load before FF3.5rc1
QA
Test Execution
Web Dev Testing, Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community
- Top Site Testing: Filed a number of new crasher bugs
- Web Dev Testing:
- Continued working on AMO version 5.0.6. Tested the new 0.4 version of the Add-ons Collections extension, in tandem with the Collections-management web scaffolding. Worked on automating testing of the different button states in AMO.
- Completed final SUMO version 1.0.2 testing and shipped!
- Helped test Get Personas version 1.3.
- Worked on Spread Firefox redesign 3.1 milestone testing.
- Worked on Mozilla.com Fastest Firefox upload page.
- Community:
- Lead a Munich Meet-up on Thusday, May 14th.
- Held a Mountain View QA meetup on Wed, May 13th. Clint Talbert, QA Testdev lead, performed reftest demos!
- Accessibility:
- Trunk work on ARIA grid/ARIA tree grid implementation
- Firefox 3.5 work for HTML 5 audio/video element embedded controls exposure to screen readers such as NVDA landed on Friday and have all "survived" the weekend!
- Visited the SightCity conference in Frankfurt, Germany, on Thursday. Lots of low-tech stuff there this year. Nothing spectacularly new on the screen reader front. Handy Tech, a German braille display manufacturer, did show an iMac with VoiceOver and all kinds of Mac OS X applications. Unfortunately, they couldn't show Firefox yet :(
- Did some initial testing of the new German Firefox community forum, which was just upgraded to phpBB version 3 and is going to receive both an accessibility upgrade of stuff that's going to be in the phpBB 3.0.5 forum software update, as well as an Accessibility-related forum offering support to both screen reader users with Firefox, as well as web designers a place to ask questions about how certain things will be translated from HTML to a11y APIs.
- Project Metrics: Added/updated: Regressions time plot, code coverage "bubbles" timeplot, code coverage "bars" time plot. This is work in progress and primarily for finding ways to best visualize the data.
Test Development
- Pushed a bunch of crashtests to Mozilla 1.9.1
- And filed several more :)
- Held the QA Meetup and demo'd Reftests. During the demo, managed to reproduce bug 465489, evidently it just needs an audience.
Security
No updates.
Marketing/PR
Firefox 3.5 Launch
- Firefox 3.5 Launch Workshops:
- May 20th:
- 9 a.m. PDT/16:00 UTC - Video
- May 20th:
Mozilla Service Week
- New timing! We'll soft launch on June 16th with the en-US site and build out the program and partners over the course of the summer. The actual service week will take place in mid-Sept.
Community Marketing Call
- Next Community Marketing call is Wednesday, May 20th, at 10am PDT. Dial-in Info: +1.650.903.0800, followed by 92# and then 7391#. Or you can use our toll-free number: +1.800.707.2533, followed by 369# and then 7391#. For those that can't make the call or want to participate online, join us in #marketing on irc.mozilla.org. Please note the new the new Air Mozilla channel for all marketing-related activities.
PR
- Mozilla Labs launches new Design Challenge
- Fennec alpha 1 for WM released. Highlights include ZDNet, Pocketlint, Lifehacker, InformationWeek and CNET
- Firefox 3.5 timing in ComputerWorld, Internet News and PC Pro
- Game-changing Firefox 3.5 features in Linux Magazine
- Buzz around the quest for an update to the Firefox logo
Events
- Mozilla Party JP 10th Anniversary, May 30th, Tokyo, Japan: The Japanese Mozilla community, Mozillagumi, is celebrating it's 10th anniversary this May 30th in Tokyo at Belle Salle Nishi Shinjuku. Guest speakers include Asa Dotzler from Mozilla and Bob Chao from Mozilla's Taiwan community.
- The 2009 MSC Malaysia Open Source Conference, May 31 - June 4, 2009, Kuala Lumpur: Gen Kanai of Mozilla's Evangelism team will be on a panel discussion on breakthrough innovations via open source software. Gen will also present on the upcoming Firefox 3.5 release as well as other Mozilla efforts.
- eLiberatica Open Source and Free Software Conference (Bucharest, Romania) - May 22-23:
- Gandalf and William to present
- Special "Mozilla Community Booth" will be set up for presentations and contributor sign-ups
- Full details here
- Mozilla-Maemo Danish Weekend (Copenhagen, Denmark) - May 30-31:
- 2-day workshops focusing on Mozilla, Maemo and Mozilla-Maemo projects
- Details
Support
- We're now using the new Sphinx search engine on SUMO!
- Automatically searches in both native language and English (example)
- Automatically searches both Knowledge Base articles and solved forum threads (example)
- See blog post Rolling out with a new search engine (SUMO 1.0.2)
- Working on the upcoming about:SUMO newsletter
- People can already subscribe using the online subscription form
- See blog post Subscribe to the SUMO newsletter
- Currently surveying Live Chat and Forum contributors to get a better understanding of what's working well and what needs improvements to make helping users on SUMO easier and more fun
- See blog post Firefox support wants your feedback… it’s survey time!
- Working with Metrics team to implement SUMO metrics dashboard (SUMO 1.2 - Q2 goal)
- Metrics team will do the majority of the work of getting the "data warehouse" implemented
- They will also assist and provide feedback with the frontend / metrics presentation
Metrics
- No updates this week
Evangelism
- Documentation
- Mouse gesture events are now documented.
- Continuing to prepare to upgrade to MindTouch 2009, hopefully next week.
- Added a new template,
embed_textthat lets you embed a text file attached to the article into the body, with optional syntax highlighting. This can be used to let the same code appear in the body and be downloadable without having to maintain both separately. - As usual, final updates for Firefox 3.5 are ongoing.
- 35 days - going to sort out dates this week - expect mail from me
Labs
Developer Tools
No update
Add-ons
- 60% compatibility this week, up 4%
- Positive response to contributions mocks
- Add-ons meetup on 5/26
- Will be broadcast on air.mozilla
- Over 40 RSVP's from add-on developers
- Meet your favorite mozillian!
- List of sessions
Webdev
- Mark Hahnenberg starts his webdev internship today! Welcome Mark!
- SUMO 1.0.2 pushed last week. 56 bugs fixed total plus a new search solution was deployed! Thanks to IT and the SUMO team for making this possible. See the SUMO blog for more info.
- Socorro hardware migration was a success - thanks to Aravind, Josh Berkus and Lars for making this happen.
- 5.0.6 open bugs & fixed bugs
- Frederic worked on the mozilla.com survey and geolocation pages
L10n
Firefox 3.5
- Opt-in thread now open, please opt-in by Wednesday, May 20th, noon UTC.
- 43 green locales so far, and counting
- 9 opt-ins so far. Localizers: please opt in.
- 9 new strings to translate since beta4
- 6 strings landed after beta4
- 1 more string to translate mass-landed by Stas on Thursday, May 14 in
toolkit/chrome/global/videocontrols.dtd:<!ENTITY scrubberScale.nameFormat "#1 of #2 elapsed"> - 2 strings landed on Friday, May 15 in
browser/locales/en-US/chrome/browser/browser.properties(diff, newsgroups message)
Web
- Firefox 3.5 on the web dashboard
- Pascal updated the dashboard to indicate which bugs are release blockers
- Mozilla Service Week (see Mary's blog)
- first step: translate the headline: bug 493006
- Mozilla IT survey: bug 493096
- Mozilla's IT team is investigating the need for a data center in South America and in Asia-Pacific.
- Locales:
pt-BR(done), es-CL, es-AR, ms, ta-IN, ta-LK, th, jp, hi-IN, id
Tools
- Silme 0.5 released
- Available through easy_install too.
- Gandalf laid out Silme 0.7 release plan
Foundation Updates
- The www.mozilla.org redesign is now transitioning to implementation, as David reviewed the redesign effort and started working with others on deployment issues; for more information see the planning meeting notes.
- The revamp of education.mozilla.org is also well underway, including a new front page; for more information see James's blog post on EDMO changes.
- We continued the discussion on Mozilla as a hybrid organization, this time with Mark posting on the question of "why do hybrids organizations matter?", with a followup from Frank about how hybrid organizations might maximize public benefit.
- Based on Kathleen Wilson's recommendations, we approved CA requests from Verizon and DigiNotar to include a new Verizon EV root (bug 430700) and enable an existing DigiNotar root for EV (bug 369357).
Roundtable
Please join me in welcoming 2 new interns who just started today:
- Simon Krueger will be working in the Metrics group
- Mark Hahnenberg will be joining the Web Dev team
Other Business
- Moving Weekly Update meeting to 11 AM Pacific?
- Please add your thoughts to the news group: mozilla.dev.planning "Moving WeeklyUpdate meeting to 11 AM Pacific?" or the respective google group