WeeklyUpdates/2010-08-16
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Video for today's meeting
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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
- TryServer "roast" , 11:30 PST in 10 Forward and on Air Mozilla
Wednesday, 18 August
Thursday, 19 August
Friday, 20 August
- Brownbag by Diaspora, 12:30 Pacific in 10 Forward and on Air Mozilla
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.
- Community
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
- Next Firefox 4 Beta Arrives, Now With Multi-touch
- Firefox 4 Beta 3 Adds Windows 7 Multitouch Support
- Firefox 4: Now With Multitouch
- Firefox 4 hits third beta stage, gets touchy-feely with Windows 7
- New Firefox beta tweaks JavaScript, gains multitouch
- Firefox 4 beta 3 brings JS math optimization and multitouch
Events
Creative Team
Community Marketing
Documentation
- Lots of movement on Firefox 4 documentation the past week.
- Please be sure to add the
dev-doc-neededkeyword 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
- Drumbeat Festival info page is up: http://www.drumbeat.org/festival
- Look for registration information soon