WeeklyUpdates/2009-07-13

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Development Updates

Firefox

Firefox Front End Work

Namoroka

Team News

Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x

• Firefox 3.0.12
  • on track to ship to beta tomorrow
  • final ship next week
• Firefox 3.0.13
  • please review the final schedule
  • blockers in place... 'please work on your blockers'
  • code freeze set for August 4 at 11:59pm

QA

Test Execution

Web Dev Testing

• AMO: Testing AMO 5.0.7 features. Created test cases for Tagging features, AMO homepage, and Contributions.
• Mozilla.com: Tested mobile pages and filed bugs.

Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community

• Community: a very good security Test day was held on Friday. See [[TestDay:2009-7-10|report]. 372 test cases run. Top tester: ghseeli!
• Accessibility: Reviewed these bug fixes: bug 418159, bug 501375, 501656 bug 501656. Worked with Steven Michaud on mac a11y. Hopefully, with his help, we can shed some light on bug 499927 and bug 499931. Over Twitter, worked with Everett Zufelt who is actively working on improving the accessibility of Drupal 7.
• Metrics: Completed scripts to run Mochitest in smaller chunks. Started working on JScoverage tool scripting.

Test Development

Marketing/PR

Firefox 3.5 Launch

• Firefox 3.5 Swag Requests: We now have 205 requests for swag packs for 3.5 launch parties (up from 106 requests last week). Some of the new requests this week have come from India, Macedonia, Spain and Mexico.
• Firefox 3.5 Parties: Over 20 parties this week alone on Spread Firefox. Some parties this week are taking place in Romania, Mexico and the UK.

PR

• Jetpack 0.3 released
• Open Web Tools Directory in the news
• Ubiquity 0.5 released
• Fast Company looks at FF3.5 and Web typography
• How to speed up Firefox in Lifehacker

Mozilla Service Week

Events

• Renegade Craft Festival, July 18 - 19, 2009, San Francisco - Opportunity to garner awareness for Personas and to get new ones created. Also a great place to expose add-ons. This is the last week to sign-up on the wiki.
• Maker Faire Africa August 14 - 16, 2009, Accra, Ghana - Looking to sponsor the event and bring together the local L10n community. Check out the wiki for early details.
• Jornadas Regionales de Software Libre en Chile October 7 - 9, 2009, Santiago, Chile - Looking to sponsor the event and bring together the Mozilla Hispanic Community. Check out the wiki for early details and let Laura or Sarah know if you are interested in participating.
  

General

Support

No updates this week.

Metrics

• Published some early stats from the Fx3.5 launch. More to come.
• Helped out with the “Movers and Shakers” feature on the getpersonas homepage. Thanks to Pedro and Eric.

L10n

Firefox 3.5

Web

Tools

Foundation Updates

• Along w/ the Service Week team, we agreed to work closely with One Web Day on joint activities and fundraising.
  • One Web Day is September 22. Ideas and participation from across Mozilla welcome.
• We held a meeting of Wikipedia / Creative Commons / Mozilla to find ways to jointly improve the CiviCRM online fundraising platform.
• We continue to prepare for the relaunch of www.mozilla.org:
  • Our launch date has been delayed slightly w/ likely launch in August
  • If you are interested in helping us embed Bespin as a site editor, please let us know
  • If you own any documentation on the site, please review the open documentation migration bugs
  • See our site roadmap for our plans for after relaunch
• Further updates have been posted to Committing Rules and Responsibilities

Roundtable

Show & Tell

This week we have the following interns presenting:

• Anant Narayanan (Labs)
• Brandon Pung (Labs)
• Irina Calciu (Platform)
• David Tran (IT)