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Friends of the Tree

Upcoming Events

This Week

• Mozilla Corporation platform team employees gathering for a work week in Mountain View

Thursday, 25 February

• Labs Night at Wikimedia Foundation HQ in San Fransisco
  • 6pm - 9pm
  • Guest speaker Michael Fertik, CEO of Reputation Defender
  • See this post for more information.

Friday, 26 February

• Open-Source-Meetup in Munich/Germany
  • Special Guests : Chris Hofmann and Kev Needham
    • RSVP to this Event via email to tomcat

• [/Labs/DesignLunch Design Lunch] Friday 12:30PST - Results of the Test Pilot menu item usage study: What menu items in Firefox are used the most, how are people using them, and what does this mean for the Firefox 4 menu redesign?

Next Week

• Mozilla Corporation Firefox team employees gathering for a work week in Mountain View
  • purpose is to finish up our goals for this quarter
  • also plan on doing some Jetpack hacking, general tools hacking, and meeting with other groups
  • are looking into how we can use Air Mozilla to make it as open and interactive as possible

• Also visit us next week from March 2 - 6 at the CeBIT in Hannover/Germany! The Mozilla Booth will in be Hall 2 - F34!

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.

Status Updates By Team

Firefox

• work continues on mozilla-central for our primary projects
  • out of process plugins (destined for a 3.6.x update)
  • new theme work (destined for next major Firefox release)
  • tab matches in awesomebar (destined for next major Firefox release)
  • come to the developer meeting on Tuesday to find out more!

Gecko

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

• Firefox 3.0.18 and 3.5.8 shipped last week.
• Working on schedule this week for 3.0.19/3.5.9/3.6.2.

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

• See above for Firefox 3.0.x
• Waiting for final check-ins for Thunderbird 2.0.0.24. No final schedule.

Thunderbird

• 3.1b1 string/code freeze tomorrow (Tuesday, Feb 23) at 23:59 Pacific
• 3.0.2 released to beta channel; final planned for Thursday

SeaMonkey

Mobile

IT

Release Engineering

• some new win32 hardware (as opposed to VM) builders joining the production slave pool today
  • should mean faster (4x in some cases) win32 build turnaround
• EU ballot builds: many thanks to Kev for dealing with the repacks and shepherding them into the right places
• security releases for Firefox 3.0.18 and 3.5.8 were done by John Ford and Armen respectively. This was the first release for both team members.
• tracked down and helped fix a particularly nasty Windows bug that kept the tree closed for a week. See bug 543034 for the gory details.
• got rid of the Release Engineering:Future bugzilla component. Going to start tracking bugs like everyone else.
• talos rev3 machines seem to be running well. We will likely be pulling the plug on the rev2 machines this week.

QA

Test Execution

• First pass at firefox.next assignments done
  • 3.next test plan and assignments are here
• Out or Process Plugins
  • 2 weeks of testdays have been completed
  • Digging through electrolysis spec to revamp the OOPP testplan
  • Creating litmus tests
    • 9907
    • 9908

WebQA

• Shipped SUMO 1.5.1
• Tested the Browser Choice and Open To Choice sites
• Testing of MCC 1.1 is in progress.
• Release has been postponed to Thursday(2/23) as Marketing content was not ready.
• AMO 5.7
  • Tested a the new Email a friend feature on 5.7
• EU Ballot / Choice Campaign:
  • Browser Ballot: created and sent out the test plan
  • Choice Campaign: created and sent out the test plan

QA Community

• Held the Mobile Firefox 1.1 Alpha Testday. Recap can be found here

Test Dev

• Creating patches to change localtest to mochi.test in all tests using the mochitest webserver bug 544097
• Proposing a session at the platform work week on getting rid of enable priviledge in mochitest-plain
• Working with mobile and build to get the maemo unit tests green
• More notes here.

Security

Marketing/PR

PR

• About.com Reader's Choice Awards
• Above the Fold post with mobile and Weave coverage
• Opera's Bid to Become an iPhone Browser
• Firefox Mobile for Android launching “late this year”
• Mozilla Offers New Choice for Smartphone Users
• When Mozilla Updates Go Bad

Events

• India University Tour - February 2010; India.  Seth, Arun and Ragavan are in India during February to participate in a number of university based events.
  
• MAOW Lima 2010 - February 27, 2010; Lima, Peru.  Working with community members and Jorge Villalobos to put together a one-day add-ons workshop on XUL and Jetpack.
• SXSW Interactive 2010  March 12-16, 2010; Austin, Texas.  We have a small sponsorship and are hosting a Mozilla party on Saturday, March 13th from 6-8pm at the Cedar Door.  Sign-ups for our party are here.  Please continue to check our wiki page for information.
  
• ROFLCon II April 30 - May  1, 2010; Boston, MA.  We have a join sponsorship with the Mozilla Foundation and will be live streaming and archiving the event with HTML5 open video.
  
• Processing.js Boston - April 10, 2010; Boston, MA.  Looking into putting together an event with the Processing.js team.
• JSConf.US April 17-18, 2010; Washington, DC.  We are sponsoring this event.  We will also have Mitcho, one of our Jetpack Ambassadors conducting a Jetpack talk and putting together Jetpack hacking session in the lounge.

Creative Team

• As part of the web universe re-org, we're working with MoFo to refine the homepage content on mozilla.org (more details in Tara's blog post and the project brief).
• Working with developer marketing & evangelism on the Mozilla Developer Network logo.
• Thinking about a new direction for the Firefox getting started page.
• Attention designers: Mozilla Bosnia and Herzegovina needs your help creating a new logo.

Community Marketing

• Open to Choice is live!
  • This week's focus is getting the Open to Choice campaign off the ground. We need your help. Here's how:
    • Write a blog post on your local community website and/or personal blog
    • follow @opentochoice and retweet (if you haven't already)
    • Write about open to choice on your favourite social networks
    • comment on the open letter (either as a comment on opentochoice.org or on your blog sending a trackback to the campaign site)
    • Write to bloggers, local media informing them about the open letter
    • localize the open letter (if you haven't already; languages already

covered: en, de, fr, sp, it, pl, ro)

• • • Start a thread in technology and FLOSS related forums and mailing

lists about the browser choice screen

• • • do some research on future local events and the possibility of

bringing Open to Choice there (doing a talk, having a booth, having a flyer distributed in the welcome pack, putting a banner on the event front page)

• • • Become a browser choice screen watcher: did you see the browser

choice screen pop-up on your screen? Send us an email, post it on your blog, Tweet about it (use the #opentochoice tag). Give details (country, time of day, choice of browser).

Support

Metrics

• Figured out a long-time riddle -- Why do Fx downloads spike on release days?
• Published results from installer feedback -- we eliminated two of the last paint points that were adversely affecting people while downloading/installing Fx.

Evangelism

• No updates.

Labs

Developer Tools

• Bespin Embedded 0.6.1 released with a new syntax highlighting engine

Add-ons

• Read about the upcoming plans for requiring Private Browsing compliance in Firefox extensions here. Also, we need volunteers to create a tool for checking the compatibility of extensions with Private Browsing mode; more info here, and tool spec here.

Webdev

• SUMO 1.5.1 went out Thursday with a minor update Friday. This release had all the EU ballot changes.

L10n

Introducing New Hires

• Please welcome Chris Leary, who is joining the Javascript team.

• Felipe Gomes, located in Brazil, has joined the Firefox team. blog, twitter

Foundation Updates

• Staging version of Mozilla Drumbeat is available for feedback and testing.
  • http://commonspace.wordpress.com/drumbeat-site-almost-live/
  • Bigger round of content creation and feedback testing will start when site live on production server later this week.

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