WeeklyUpdates/2011-05-09

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Friends of the Tree Friends of the Tree

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 9 May

Tuesday, 10 May

Brown Bag
"Of Browsers and Robots"
Daniel Casner from Anybots on in-browser controls and telepresence robots.
12:30PM in Ten Forward

Wednesday, 11 May
Community Marketing Call: 10 a.m. PDT/17:00 UTC/19:00 CET. In-progress agenda and dial-in info here.

Thursday, 12 May

Friday, 13 May

  • [QA] Firefox Aurora bugday: details

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox 5 & 6

  • Merge from mozilla-aurora to mozilla-beta still planned for May 17 (next week!)
  • Beta meetings are already happening, Mondays at 2pm. See dev.planning for details.
  • Migration of beta users from old FF4 betas has begun - progress updates next week (or at the Wednesday, 11am product call)
  • Merge from mozilla-central to mozilla-aurora still planned for May 24 (2 weeks!)

Firefox 4

Mobile Firefox

Thunderbird

  • Having a community run litmus testing Event next week in order to make sure that nothing is regressing. Details on how you might help are in this email.
  • String freeze for Miramar at end of day tomorrow
  • Comm-central will branch for Miramar at the same time

Older Branch Work

Drumbeat

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
Product Marketing Manager Laura Mesa Coming Mark Up Campaign N/A The site will have a dark launch later this week--I'll send en email when its live so you can help test!

Status Updates By Team

Firefox

Platform

Messaging

Mobile

IT

Release Engineering

QA

Desktop Firefox
WebQA
QA Community
Browser Technologies
  • Mobile
    • Fennec 5 Beta -> ETA 5/17
    • Fennec 6 Aurora -> ETA 5/24
    • Beta Testday -> Friday, 5/20
    • Delayed in (Identity, Share, and Firefox Home) due to crypto and security issues. New plan of action in place
  • Services
  • Jetpack: Flightdeck 0.9.4 tested and shipped live

Automation & Tools

Security

Engagement

PR

Events

Creative Team

Contributor Engagement

  • Update on Contribute Inquiries:
    • The contribute group answered inquiries from over 1600 people using the Get Involved page. Before Firefox 4 and recent awareness efforts we got 300 - 400 a month. That's a growth rate of over 400%!
  • Wrapped up the Mozilla Tech Tour in Senegal.

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

Introducing New Hires

  • Kyle Huey
  • Abhinav Sharma
  • Hernan Rodriguez Colmeiro
  • Shawn Gong
  • Paul Stansifer
  • Nikhil Marathe

Foundation Updates

Roundtable