WeeklyUpdates/2010-05-10

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Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 10 May

Tuesday, 11 May

Wednesday, 12 May

Thursday, 13 May

Friday, 14 May

• Testday on the next version of AMO! Hop on over to #testday via irc.mozilla.org to join us!

Next Week

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
Plugin Check: Cross Browser Functionality	Laura Mesa	Newest Release of Plugin Check now supports all modern browsers!	http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/	Try it out yourself! http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/
Student Reps: Introducing Office Hours	William Reynolds (remote, speaking via phone)	Reps and community members now have times during the week to help each other on IRC	http://bit.ly/repsOfficeHours	#studentreps on IRC

Status Updates By Team

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

• Found some issues in the last Firefox 3.6.4 build. Schedule is now TBD.
  • 3 blockers in Firefox code
  • 2 blockers with 3rd parties
  • 7 possible issues we are tracking. Could become blockers, likely pushed to 3.6.5
• Firefox 3.5.10 went out out to beta audience, no issues to report yet
• Thunderbird 3.0.5 builds hoped to start this week

Thunderbird

• Thunderbird 3.1RC1 is scheduled to code freeze on Friday.
• Anyone interested in helping out, please ask in #maildev

Release Engineering

• trees were closed all weekend and remain CLOSED
  • Windows build slaves have been disconnecting after 3 minutes: bug 555794
  • continue working with IT on a fix/workaround

QA

QA Highlites

• New Hires
  • Rebecca Billings starts in WebQA today, May 10
  • Interns
    • Ayan Shah, Browser Technologies, start today, May 10
    • Tanay Gavankar, WebQA start next Monday, May 17
• Desktop Firefox QA
  • 3.6.4 beta build 2 delayed to Monday. We will determine what testing will be conducted for release.
  • Prepare for 3.5.10 release next week.
• Mobile QA
  • Wrote plan for Waverly Software who will be performing testing of nightly fennec builds. Kick off meeting Tuesday May 11.
• Weave 1.3
  • testing 1.3 build 5 client.
  • load testing with uTest delayed until Monday this week.
• Web QA
  • Shipped/pushed AMO 5.10 - a monster of a release!
  • (And had to ship a followup 5.10.1 release to fix a few crashes
    
• QA Services
  • Community
    • Working on promo video for QMO 2.0 launch

Automation & Tools

• Rolling out Bug Hunter crash & unit test failure system, gave demo to developers last week
• Working to iron out issues with Fennec + electrolysis unit tests this week
• Meeting about rolling Addon Performance into Talos this week
• Gave Design Lunch on Reviewboard/Splinter Bugzilla integration
• More items here

Marketing/PR

General

• Plugin Check: Cross Browser Functionality
  • Works with all recent versions of modern browsers
    • Chrome
    • Safari
    • Opera
    • IE
      • http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/

PR

• Firefox's New Add-Ons Manager Looks Great, Adds Search Plug-In Management

• Hands-on: Mozilla's foxy Fennec prerelease build for Android
• Firefox Mobile gets started on Android
• Why Mozilla Wants the Fennec Browser on Android (and What It Looks Like)

• Firefox Wants to Be Your Online Identity Portal Too
• Firefox Steps Up to Challenge Facebook's Claim to Identity
• Account Manager for Firefox Graduates from Mozilla Labs

Events

• 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
• Black Hat USA 2010 July 24-29, 2010; Las Vegas, NV - Look into putting together the "traditional" Mozilla milk & cookies party.
  
• GUADEC 2010 - July 24-30, 2010; Netherlands.  We are sponsoring at the bronze level.  no Mozilla talks schedules.
  
• Open Video Conference 2010 - October 1-2, 2010; New York, NY  - 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.
• London Add-ons Challenge (name TBC): Exploring two consumer-focused events in SF & London.
  

Creative Team

Community Marketing

• Community Marketing Call: Join us on Wednesday for our bi-weekly call!
  • May 12th @ 10 a.m. PST/17:00 UTC. Please send agenda items to mary at mozilla dot com.
  • Labs overview w. Pascal Finette: Join us immediately overview of Labs. Including:
• An update on some new projects including Account Manager
• How to get involved
• Student Reps
  • Now offering "office hours" for questions, catching up, etc. Details here.
  • Getting ready for l10n of new website. Reps will help with translating.

Webdev

• The new version of Bouncer has landed, now with Build integration!

Introducing New Hires

• Rebecca Billings Sr. QA Eng, WebQA
• Ayan Shah, QA Intern