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= Friends of the Tree [[Image:Tree.gif|Friends of the Tree]]  =
= Friends of the Tree [[Image:Tree.gif|Friends of the Tree]]  =
Bear writes in, "given how much trouble/pain tinderbox has been these last days/week, I think the following should become Friends of the Tree:
* nthomas - he pointed us in the direction that it might be old build data causing an issue
* rhelmer - for diving into old crufty tinderbox code to fix load/scaling issues that he found after getting profile data of tinderbox
* justdave - for enabling and being soo helpful in allowing rhelmer to do what he did
And from John O'Duinn,
* jlazaro and henry and jabba in IT for using putty knives to open up mac minis and do RAM upgrades. They upgraded 81 mac minis in a week, doing batches at a time, so no downtime was needed. This need came up recently for OSX10.6 64bit build symbols. Super fast (and very tricky) work, thank you.


= Upcoming Events =
= Upcoming Events =
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'''Tuesday, 17 August'''
'''Tuesday, 17 August'''
 
* TryServer "roast" , 11:30 PST in 10 Forward and on [http://air.mozilla.com/ Air Mozilla]
** Details here [http://groups.google.ca/group/mozilla.dev.planning/browse_thread/thread/51f467483f0d614e# http://groups.google.ca/group/mozilla.dev.planning/browse_thread/thread/51f467483f0d614e#]
'''Wednesday, 18 August'''
'''Wednesday, 18 August'''


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== Firefox 4 ==
== Firefox 4 ==
* '''Beta 3''' shipped last week
* '''Beta 4''' code freeze is today
** TabCandy has landed, but there are a couple of bad functional regressions we need to fix
** Firefox Sync has landed
** we're making a call on D2D on by default a little later today
* Currently around 500k beta users


== Firefox 3.6 ==
== Firefox 3.6 ==
'''Firefox 3.6.9'''
* Code freeze was last Thursday. We had pretty decent convergence, though we are still tracking down some stragglers that missed code freeze
* Bug verifications are ongoing, plan to create a build on [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_3.6.9 August 23]


== Mobile Firefox ==
== Mobile Firefox ==
* Working to get in the last remaining bugs for alpha.  All have patches, waiting on reviews


== Thunderbird ==
== Thunderbird ==


== Older Branch Work ==
== Older Branch Work ==
'''Firefox 3.5.12'''
* See the status for Firefox 3.6 above


== Drumbeat ==
== Drumbeat ==
* Big news for Drumbeat this week: milestone for WebMadeMovies project
* WMM is an open video lab aimed at producing awesome reference implementations and demos that showcase what open video and HTML5 can do
* Today the project is publicly launching its first major demo at drumbeat.org, showcasing early work on popcorn.js, a javascript library that enables video to interact with the rest of the web -- mashing up Google Maps, image feeds, Twitter accounts and other semantic data right into video.
* Check it out at [http://drumbeat.org/webmademovies drumbeat.org/webmademovies]


= Speakers =
= Speakers =
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| [http://people.mozilla.org/~pfinette/tmp/gameon.png The Site]
| [http://people.mozilla.org/~pfinette/tmp/gameon.png The Site]
| Coming soon...
| Coming soon...
|-
| Tours @ Mozilla!
| Mary Colvig
| [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozilla_Office_Tours Sign up/overview of tours]
| Please let me know if you'd like one + want to help!
|-
|-
|}
|}
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== QA  ==
== QA  ==
 
;QA Org Highlights
;Test Execution
* Browser Technologies
 
** Weave 1.4.4 tested and shipped to AMO in 2 1/2 hours
;WebQA
* Desktop Firefox
 
** Testday completed Friday covering Firefox Sync, TabCandy and Mozmill. [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&query_format=advanced&status_whiteboard=Aug-13-testday&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&resolution=---&resolution=FIXED 34] bugs reported.
;QA Community
* QA Services
 
** Community
;Test Dev
*** Tomcat sent out [http://blog.mozilla.com/tomcat/2010/08/15/introduction-of-the-nightly-testers-list/ request] to nightly testers to join a mailing list to better inform testers on the current issues and test focus for Firefox nightly builds.


== Automation & Tools ==
== Automation & Tools ==
* Almost completed a formal Tools staging area setup which will help us turn around new test frameworks and talos suites more efficiently
* CrossWeave found several good sync bugs last week, working with the Sync team to formalize the interactions they'd like to see from that tool
* We have an early profile management tool completed in alpha.  It's currently undergoing very focused usability and UI testing - ping ctalbert or jgriffin if you'd like a link to the tool. We will go to a public alpha once we finalize the UI this week.
* We also released Mozmill 1.4.2 beta 4 last week.
* We did a demo of Bug Hunter - our automatic crash reproduction tool last week.  It's currently finding many crashes and we're ensuring bugs are filed against those.
* More notes are [[Auto-tools/Meetings/2010-08-16|here]].


== Security  ==
== Security  ==
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'''PR'''  
'''PR'''  
*[http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/08/next-firefox-4-beta-arrives-now-with-multi-touch/ Next Firefox 4 Beta Arrives, Now With Multi-touch]
*[http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2367720,00.asp Firefox 4 Beta 3 Adds Windows 7 Multitouch Support]
*[http://www.pcworld.com/article/203127/firefox_4_now_with_multitouch.html Firefox 4: Now With Multitouch]
*[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/12/firefox_4_beta_3/ Firefox 4 hits third beta stage, gets touchy-feely with Windows 7]
*[http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-20013401-12.html New Firefox beta tweaks JavaScript, gains multitouch]
*[http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/08/firefox-4-beta-3-brings-js-math-optimization-and-multitouch.ars Firefox 4 beta 3 brings JS math optimization and multitouch]


'''Events'''  
'''Events'''  
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= Foundation Updates  =
= Foundation Updates  =
*Drumbeat Festival info page is up: http://www.drumbeat.org/festival
**Look for registration information soon


= Roundtable =
= Roundtable =
[[Category:Weekly Updates]]
[[Category:Meeting Notes]]

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Video for today's meeting

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Friends of the Tree Friends of the Tree

Bear writes in, "given how much trouble/pain tinderbox has been these last days/week, I think the following should become Friends of the Tree:

  • nthomas - he pointed us in the direction that it might be old build data causing an issue
  • rhelmer - for diving into old crufty tinderbox code to fix load/scaling issues that he found after getting profile data of tinderbox
  • justdave - for enabling and being soo helpful in allowing rhelmer to do what he did

And from John O'Duinn,

  • jlazaro and henry and jabba in IT for using putty knives to open up mac minis and do RAM upgrades. They upgraded 81 mac minis in a week, doing batches at a time, so no downtime was needed. This need came up recently for OSX10.6 64bit build symbols. Super fast (and very tricky) work, thank you.

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 16 August

  • Firefox 4 Beta 4 Code Freeze (likely early evening PT)

Tuesday, 17 August

Wednesday, 18 August

Thursday, 19 August

Friday, 20 August

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox 4

  • Beta 3 shipped last week
  • Beta 4 code freeze is today
    • TabCandy has landed, but there are a couple of bad functional regressions we need to fix
    • Firefox Sync has landed
    • we're making a call on D2D on by default a little later today
  • Currently around 500k beta users

Firefox 3.6

Firefox 3.6.9

  • Code freeze was last Thursday. We had pretty decent convergence, though we are still tracking down some stragglers that missed code freeze
  • Bug verifications are ongoing, plan to create a build on August 23

Mobile Firefox

  • Working to get in the last remaining bugs for alpha. All have patches, waiting on reviews

Thunderbird

Older Branch Work

Firefox 3.5.12

  • See the status for Firefox 3.6 above

Drumbeat

  • Big news for Drumbeat this week: milestone for WebMadeMovies project
  • WMM is an open video lab aimed at producing awesome reference implementations and demos that showcase what open video and HTML5 can do
  • Today the project is publicly launching its first major demo at drumbeat.org, showcasing early work on popcorn.js, a javascript library that enables video to interact with the rest of the web -- mashing up Google Maps, image feeds, Twitter accounts and other semantic data right into video.
  • Check it out at drumbeat.org/webmademovies

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
Mozilla Labs Gaming: Game On! Pascal Finette The Teaser The Site Coming soon...
Tours @ Mozilla! Mary Colvig Sign up/overview of tours Please let me know if you'd like one + want to help!

Status Updates By Team

Firefox

Platform

Messaging

Mobile

IT

Release Engineering

QA

QA Org Highlights
  • Browser Technologies
    • Weave 1.4.4 tested and shipped to AMO in 2 1/2 hours
  • Desktop Firefox
    • Testday completed Friday covering Firefox Sync, TabCandy and Mozmill. 34 bugs reported.
  • QA Services
    • Community
      • Tomcat sent out request to nightly testers to join a mailing list to better inform testers on the current issues and test focus for Firefox nightly builds.

Automation & Tools

  • Almost completed a formal Tools staging area setup which will help us turn around new test frameworks and talos suites more efficiently
  • CrossWeave found several good sync bugs last week, working with the Sync team to formalize the interactions they'd like to see from that tool
  • We have an early profile management tool completed in alpha. It's currently undergoing very focused usability and UI testing - ping ctalbert or jgriffin if you'd like a link to the tool. We will go to a public alpha once we finalize the UI this week.
  • We also released Mozmill 1.4.2 beta 4 last week.
  • We did a demo of Bug Hunter - our automatic crash reproduction tool last week. It's currently finding many crashes and we're ensuring bugs are filed against those.
  • More notes are here.

Security

Engagement

PR

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Documentation

  • Lots of movement on Firefox 4 documentation the past week.
  • Please be sure to add the dev-doc-needed keyword to any bugs that may impact documentation, even if they're not fixed yet!

Support

Metrics

  • The metrics team is currently collecting logs for our production Hadoop and Hbase cluster inside HIVE. More info at http://bit.ly/hive_flume
  • Mozilla properties can now import their logs in near real-time inside HIVE and query using HQL (SQL'ish language)
  • HIVE can be used for querying the log data thereby improving our ability to make decisions based on data.
  • It's a work in progress, data won't be lost but might not work as intended on first attempt.
  • Contact us if you would like to import your data.

Evangelism

Labs

Developer Tools

  • A number of refinements to the Web Console landed on trunk in time for Firefox 4 beta 4.
  • Good progress has been made on many aspects of the new Inspector tool. Expect to see a much nicer Inspector in beta 5.

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

Introducing New Hires

  • Lloyd Hilaiel (Staff Engineer - Mozilla Labs)
  • Margaret Leibovic (Firefox)

Foundation Updates

Roundtable

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