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'''This Week'''  
'''This Week'''  


'''Monday, 19 July'''  
'''Monday, 26 July'''  
* [http://conferences.oreillynet.com/oscon OSCON] in Portland, Oregon.  Some Mozillians attending and giving talks.


'''Tuesday, 20 July'''
*Black Hat (July 24 - 29, 2010) is the premier North American security conference. Mozilla will be in attendance at the event as well as having our own "[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Black_Hat_2010 Milk and Cookies]" Party on 7/28.


<br>


'''Wednesday, 21 July'''<br>
'''Tuesday, 27 July'''  


*[http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/ FISL 11 (Fórum Internacional do Software Livre)] in Porto Alegre, Brasil.&nbsp; Mozilla has a presence with a Mozilla room, community and scheduled talks.&nbsp; Follow information on Mozilla at FISL on the [https://wiki.mozilla.org/FISL:2010 wiki here].
*Black Hat (July 24 - 29, 2010) is the premier North American security conference. Mozilla will be in attendance at the event as well as having our own "[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Black_Hat_2010 Milk and Cookies]" Party on 7/28.
*[https://intranet.mozilla.org/Brown_Bag_Presentations Brownbag]: Jan Bosch, VP Engineering at Intuit on "Towards Compositional Software Engineering" at Noon (PT) in Ten Forward and on Air Mozilla




'''Thursday, 22 July'''  
'''Wednesday, 28 July'''<br>


*[http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/ FISL 11 (Fórum Internacional do Software Livre)] in Porto Alegre, Brasil.&nbsp; Mozilla has a presence with a Mozilla room, community and scheduled talks.&nbsp; Follow information on Mozilla at FISL on the [https://wiki.mozilla.org/FISL:2010 wiki here].
*Black Hat (July 24 - 29, 2010) is the premier North American security conference. Mozilla will be in attendance at the event as well as having our own "[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Black_Hat_2010 Milk and Cookies]" Party on 7/28.




'''Friday, 23 July'''  
'''Thursday, 29 July'''  


*[http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/ FISL 11 (Fórum Internacional do Software Livre)] in Porto Alegre, Brasil.&nbsp; Mozilla has a presence with a Mozilla room, community and scheduled talks.&nbsp; Follow information on Mozilla at FISL on the [https://wiki.mozilla.org/FISL:2010 wiki here].
*Black Hat (July 24 - 29, 2010) is the premier North American security conference. Mozilla will be in attendance at the event as well as having our own "[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Black_Hat_2010 Milk and Cookies]" Party on 7/28.


<br> '''Friday, 30 July'''


'''Next Week'''
*Black Hat (July 24 - 29, 2010) is the premier North American security conference. Mozilla will be in attendance at the event as well as having our own "[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Black_Hat_2010 Milk and Cookies]" Party on 7/28.
 
<br> '''Next Week'''


= Product Status Updates =
= Product Status Updates =


== Firefox 4 ==
== Firefox 4 ==
* code freeze for Beta 2 is [[Releases/Firefox_4.0b2|scheduled]] for tonight at 11:59pm PT
* due to the chemspill, we're a bit behind on schedule for [[Releases/Firefox_4.0b2|beta 2]]
* there are a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=OPEN%20blocking2.0:beta2 good number of blockers] left
* getting a QA update today, hoping for release tomorrow
** some are being moved to [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=OPEN%20blocking2.0:beta3 beta3] and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=OPEN%20blocking2.0:betaN betaN]
* beta 3 planning and landings going on this week
** if you think your blocker should be moved, say so
* a set of [[Firefox/4/Beta#Milestones|planned milestones and release dates]] for beta revisions is available
** if you think your blocker shouldn't be moved, and won't be ready, tell beltzner ASAP


== Firefox 3.6 ==
== Firefox 3.6 ==
* Firefox [[Releases/Firefox_3.6.7|3.6.7]]/[[Releases/Firefox_3.5.11|3.5.11]] scheduled to be released tomorrow
* Released Firefox 3.6.7 on last Tuesday
* beltzner will be running the show
* Saw a high-volume crash regression with certain combinations of object and embed tags ([https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=575836 bug 575836])
* Released Firefox 3.6.8 with the fix on Friday...an amazingly quick turnaround!
* Post-mortems for 3.6.(7|8) will be happening the week of the 1st and 3.6.(4|6) will be happening the week of August 9th. Exact dates will be sent out today
* We are ready to do a chemspill release if anything comes up at BlackHat, though there are no talks we are too concerned about for Firefox
* The [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_3.6.9 Firefox 3.6.9 schedule] will be out today
* Any approvals for 1.9.2.'''8''' are now for 1.9.2.'''9'''


== Mobile Firefox ==
== Mobile Firefox ==


== Thunderbird ==
== Thunderbird ==
* Released Thunderbird 3.1.1 and 3.0.6
* Found a bad crasher; we expect to need to spin 3.1.2 before offering advertised major updates to 3.1.x from older versions


== Older Branch Work ==
== Older Branch Work ==


= Speakers =
= 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.
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.  


{| class="fullwidth-table"
{| class="fullwidth-table"
|-
|-
! Title
! Title  
! Presenter
! Presenter  
! Topic
! Topic  
! Media
! Media  
! More Details
! More Details
|-
| Mozilla Social Media Toolkit<br>
| Sarah Doherty<br>
| Mozilla Social Media Toolkit<br>
| [http://mozilla.sarahdoherty.net/temp/MozillaSocialMediaToolkit.zip http://mozilla.sarahdoherty.net/temp/MozillaSocialMediaToolkit.zip]
| [http://mzl.la/sfxsocialmediatoolkit mzl.la/sfxsocialmediatoolkit]
|-
| Firefox 3.6.8 in almost 24 hours
| John O'Duinn
| FF3.6.8 
| [http://oduinn.com/blog/2010/07/26/firefox-3-6-8-by-the-wall-clock-numbers blog post]
|-
|-
| Your Title Here
| Your Title Here  
| Your Name Here
| Your Name Here  
| What are you going to talk about?
| What are you going to talk about?  
| Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen
| Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen  
| Link to where audience can find out more information
| Link to where audience can find out more information
|-
|-
| Firefox 4 Beta
|  
| Johnathan Nightingale
|  
| Public announcement about code freeze
|  
| ''no slides''
|  
| ''above in these notes''
|  
|-
|}
|}


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== Firefox  ==
== Firefox  ==
* Announced Tab Candy on Friday. Over the weekend we had:
** 28 press articles, including dream headlines: "Firefox Just Perfected Tabs Browsing" from Techcrunch and "With FireFox's Tab Candy Feature, We'll Finally Achieve Tab Nirvana" from Gizmodo.
** 3 million views of the video, with half a million watching all the way through.
** Tens of thousands of tweets, with many saying they'll never look at another browser again.
** 30k+ installs of the Tab Candy alpha build of Firefox.
** Hundreds of feature suggestions and votes for them, not all of which say Opera did it first.
** Dozens of direct emails, some of which expressing a desire to have babies with Firefox.
* The Tab Candy team (especially Ian Gilman, Edward Lee, and Mitcho Erlewine) deserve all the credit for pushing long and hard to get Tab Candy this far.
* Please do some dogfooding with our [http://azarask.in/projects/tabcandy/build.php Tab Candy build].
* [[Firefox/Projects/2010Q3_Dirty_Startup_Reduction|"Dirty" startup goal]] work underway with [http://shawnwilsher.com/archives/421 interesting results].


== Platform ==
== Platform ==


== Messaging  ==
== Messaging  ==
Due to scheduling conflicts, noone will be talking on the call for the Messaging team today; we'll be back next week.
* Raindrop is rebooting: the backend is being rewritten for simplicity and speed on top of SQLAlchemy & MySQL/sqlite
 
* related to Tb participation work, dmose held BOF at OSCON about community & contribution metrics, will blog soon
* Trunk nightlies have been resurrected after the Great XPCOM Registration Overhaul
* Effort to make Thunderbird participation more fun and rewarding started; see [http://groups.google.com/group/tb-planning the tb-planning archives] for details, and [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/tb-planning join the list] to participate.
* Post-3.1 planning discussions underway in tb-planning as well.


== Mobile  ==
== Mobile  ==


== IT ==
== IT ==
''' Last Week'''
* Working through Firefix Sync scaling issues
* Pre-planning for Amsterdam datacenter move (could happen as soon as Friday)
* Wrapped up long-delayed Firewall upgrades in San Jose
'''This Week'''
* Performance problems with the generic web server cluster this morning
** Affected <code>wiki.mozilla.org</code> as well as others


== Release Engineering  ==
== Release Engineering  ==
Releases:
 
* major update for 3.5.10 -> 3.6.6 published
Other:
* reftests now running with direct2d enabled
* now reporting regressions in trace-malloc, codesighs, refcnt leaks same as we do for other talos tests
* if you use TryServer, please read this post to mozilla.dev.planning: [http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.planning/browse_thread/thread/402306d36d838d50# Changing what TryServer jobs are run by default]
* automated cleanup policy for stage is now in place. See details here: [[ReleaseEngineering:StageCleanupPolicy]]


== QA  ==
== QA  ==
;QA Org Highlights
* '''Desktop QA''':
* Desktop Firefox
** 3.6.8 chemspill release testing. Shipped next day (Friday).
** Firefox 3.6.7/3.5.11 shipped to beta
** 4.0beta2, ongoing testing. Should ship tomorrow.
* Browser Technologies
* '''Browser Technologies QA''':
** FF Home deployed to App store
** [https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Fennec/Milestones/2.0 Fennec 2.0 features] are landing and specs are getting assigned. looking to eta an alpha end of month
* Web QA
** Sync 1.4.2b1 tested and pushed to AMO
** Ship [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?resolution=FIXED&classification=Server%20Software&query_format=advanced&product=addons.mozilla.org&target_milestone=5.11.4 AMO 5.11.4]
** Firefox Home 1.0.1 tested and submitted to App Store
* QA Services
* '''WebQA''':
** Community
** Pushed [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=578053 AMO 5.11.4] on 7/13
*** Marcia and Tomcat attended Community Leadership Summit in Portland.
** Shipped a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579341 new version] of [http://input.mozilla.com/en-US/ Input] last week
** Pushed a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579983 small change] to fix some galleries in Personas
** Released the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?resolution=FIXED&classification=Other&query_format=advanced&component=plugins.mozilla.org&product=Websites&target_milestone=1.1 1.1 version] of the plugin directory
* '''QA Services''':
**Meetup next week in NYC: http://www.meetup.com/Mozilla-in-the-Big-Apple/calendar/14115600/ as part of BlogHer - all NYC community welcome to attend! As part of the action packed weekend there will also be a Drumbeat Festival in NYC on August 7


== Automation & Tools ==
== Automation & Tools ==
* [http://bitbucket.org/jonallengriffin/grafxbot/downloads Grafx bot] test day going ahead this Friday - we'll throw in the reftest scrolling tests just to see if we can tickle the recent retained layer code, we need to run the tool through QA anyway to be sure it's ready to go
* Lots of things in progress:
** Submitting it to AMO this week
** Android work finalizing apace
* Landed updated sutagent and devicemanager.py for Android
** Mozmill moving quickly toward 1.4.2
* Updated splinter extension for bugzilla, should have it finalized this week (waiting on a corresponding bugzilla change) {{bug|570786}}
** Cycle collector talos runs in progress
* Starting work on cycle-collector performance tests {{bug|572542}}
** Cross weave full automation should be ready for production at the end of the week
* More information is always on [[Auto-tools/Meetings/2010-07-19|our page]].
* Held test day on grafx bot on Friday, submitted it to AMO.
* More info [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Auto-tools/Meetings/2010-07-26 here].


== Security  ==
== Security  ==
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'''PR'''  
'''PR'''  
*[http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_15587773?nclick_check=1 Mercury News interview: Mitchell Baker, chairwoman, Mozilla]


*[http://arstechnica.com/apple/2010/07/firefox-home-hands-on-firefox-on-your-iphone-sorta.ars Firefox Home hands-on: Firefox on your iPhone... sorta]  
*[http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/23/firefox-tab-candy/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29 Firefox Just Perfected Tabbed Browsing. It’s Like Apple’s Expose Plus Spaces For The Web]  
*[http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/Apple-Lets-Firefox-Ride-Along-on-Safari-70430.html?wlc=1279301709&wlc=1279555583 Apple Lets Firefox Ride Along on Safari]  
* [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/23/firefox_tab_candy/ Mozilla tames Firefox tab monster with Candy]  
*[http://www.fastcompany.com/1670785/firefox-home-enters-the-app-store-connects-your-pcs-browser-to-your-iphones Firefox Home Enters the App Store, Connects Your PC's Browser to Your iPhone's]  
*[http://gizmodo.com/5595017/with-firefoxs-tab-candy-feature-well-finally-achieve-tab-nirvana With Firefox's Tab Candy Feature, We'll Finally Achieve Tab Nirvana]  
*[http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/15/firefox-iphone/ Firefox Home For iPhone Approved, Lets You Sync Bookmarks, Open Tabs And More]  
*[http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/07/firefox-offers-a-taste-of-tabcandy/ Firefox Offers a Taste of Tab Candy]  
*[http://mashable.com/2010/07/15/firefox-home-app-store/ Firefox Home Is Now in the App Store]
*[http://mashable.com/2010/07/23/tab-candy-firefox/ Tab Candy: Firefox Invents a Better Way to Manage Tabs [VIDEO]
*[http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20010756-264.html Apple approves Firefox sync app]
*[http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/firefox-home-hits-the-iphone-looks-handy/36815 Firefox Home hits the iPhone: Looks handy]


*[http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1723107/mozilla-raises-bug-bounty Mozilla raises its bug bounty]  
*[http://www.ghacks.net/2010/07/24/firefox-3-6-8-released/ Firefox 3.6.8 Released]
*[http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2010/07/mozilla-ups-bounty-for-reporting-vulnerabilities-to-3000.ars Mozilla ups bounty for reporting vulnerabilities to $3,000]  
*[http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Mozilla-delays-second-Firefox-4-beta-1045234.html Mozilla delays second Firefox 4 beta]  
*[http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2366627,00.asp Mozilla Ups Security Bounty from $500 to $3,000]
*[http://www.itproportal.com/portal/news/article/2010/7/26/mozilla-firefox-368-update-released/ Mozilla Firefox 3.6.8 Update Released]  
*[http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9179638/Mozilla_re_patches_Firefox_3.6_to_fix_plug_in_problem Mozilla re-patches Firefox 3.6 to fix plug-in problem]  


*[http://www.scmagazineus.com/mozilla-to-revamp-add-on-code-review-process/article/174658/ Mozilla to revamp add-on code review process]
*[http://www.technologyreview.com/web/25803/page1/ Can Mozilla Deliver an Open App Store?]


<br> '''Events'''  
<br> '''Events'''  


*[http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-us-10/bh-us-10-home.html Black Hat USA 2010] July 24-29, 2010; Las Vegas, NV - We will be hosting our "traditional" Mozilla milk &amp; cookies party on 7/28.&nbsp; Check out the information here: [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Black_Hat_2010 https://wiki.mozilla.org/Black_Hat_2010 ]<br>  
*[http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-us-10/bh-us-10-home.html Black Hat USA 2010] July 24-29, 2010; Las Vegas, NV - We will be hosting our "traditional" Mozilla milk &amp; cookies party on 7/28.&nbsp; Check out the information on the [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Black_Hat_2010 wiki].<br>  
*[http://www.fisl.org.br/10/www/en FISL 2010] July 21-24, 2010; Porto Alegre, Brasil - We will have a Mozilla room, talks and other activities.&nbsp; Follow all of the activities that are going on through the [https://wiki.mozilla.org/FISL:2010 wiki page].&nbsp;  
*[http://www.guadec.org/index.php/guadec/2010 GUADEC 2010] - July 24-30, 2010; Netherlands.&nbsp; We are sponsoring at the bronze level.&nbsp; No Mozilla talks scheduled.
*[http://www.guadec.org/index.php/guadec/2010 GUADEC 2010] - July 24-30, 2010; Netherlands.&nbsp; We are sponsoring at the bronze level.&nbsp; No Mozilla talks scheduled.<br>  
*[http://www.blogher.com/blogher-10 BlogHer '10] - August 6-7, 2010 - We will be having a hotel suite and a presence in the GeekLab as well as a meetup on Thursday (open to non BlogHer folk)&nbsp; - sign up for the meetup [http://www.meetup.com/Mozilla-in-the-Big-Apple/calendar/14115600/ here]. <br>  
*[http://www.openvideoconference.org/ Open Video Conference 2010] - October 1-2, 2010; New York, NY&nbsp; - Looking over sponsorship opportunities.  
*[http://www.openvideoconference.org/ Open Video Conference 2010] - October 1-2, 2010; New York, NY&nbsp; - Looking over sponsorship opportunities.  
*[http://www.blogher.com/blogher-10 BlogHer '10] - August 6-7, 2010 - We will be having a hotel suite and a presence in the GeekLab as well as a meetup on Thursday (open to non BlogHer folk)&nbsp; - sign up for the meetup [http://www.meetup.com/Mozilla-in-the-Big-Apple/calendar/14115600/ here]. <br>
*[http://makerfaireafrica.com/ Maker Faire Africa] - August 27-28, 2010; Nairobi, Kenya - Looking into sponsorship opportunties.  
*[http://makerfaireafrica.com/ Maker Faire Africa] - August 27-28, 2010; Nairobi, Kenya - Looking into sponsorship opportunties.  
*[http://www.renegadecraft.com/chicago Renegade Craft Fair Chicago 2010] - September 11-12, 2010 - We will have a booth and be doing some innovative activities. &nbsp;Check out the [https://wiki.mozilla.org/RenegadeCraftFair2010_Chicago wiki] for more details Looking into sponsorship opportunities.<br>
*[http://www.renegadecraft.com/chicago Renegade Craft Fair Chicago 2010] - September 11-12, 2010 - We will have a booth and be doing some innovative activities. &nbsp;Check out the [https://wiki.mozilla.org/RenegadeCraftFair2010_Chicago wiki] for more details Looking into sponsorship opportunities.<br>


'''Creative Team'''  
<br> '''Creative Team'''  
Summit Visual Identity: http://musingt.com/?p=317


<br> '''Community Marketing'''


'''Community Marketing'''
*Community Marketing Call: Next call is Wednesday July 28th at 10 a.m. PST/17:00 UTC. Please send agenda items to mary at mozilla dot com.
*Community Marketing Call: Next call is Wednesday July 28th at 10 a.m. PST/17:00 UTC. Please send agenda items to sarah at mozilla dot com.


== Support  ==
== Support  ==
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== Labs  ==
== Labs  ==
* People's Choice voting for the [http://design-challenge.mozillalabs.com/contacts/ Contacts Design Challenge] is open - [http://design-challenge.mozillalabs.com/contacts/vote/ vote now]!
 


== Developer Tools ==
== Developer Tools ==
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== L10n  ==
== L10n  ==
*  Firefox 4 beta 2 will be a localized beta, with the release team incorporating the "l10n-merge" tool for the first time
*  The L10n-drivers and Firefox Home team are finalizing a plan to localize the application.  An announcement to the l10n newsgroup on instructions is forthcoming, hoping to post this week.
*Localizations with untranslated strings on Mozilla Central will have the original English strings appear in the user interface
*  Firefox 4 beta 2 will ship with 23 locales, some taking advantage of our "l10n-merge" technology. 
*All localizers [http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.l10n/browse_thread/thread/36e8e6baf73db09a# have been invited and encouraged] to participate
Firefox 4 beta web l10n work has been led by Pascal C. (Excellent work by Pascal)  This [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=578126 tracking bug] gives a good summary of the status of pages.   
**  We will continue to use this path until we declare a formal product string freeze later in the release cycle
KaiRo (Robert Kaiser) posted [http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.platform/msg/611e83f34faba1f7 an explanation about the goals of the l20n project] in the dev.platform newsgroup.  Thanks, KaiRo!
* Along with product l10n, Pascal has been driving all web l10n for the beta release
*  Congrats to the Malayalam localization for moving out of beta and into "official" status
The Jetpack 1l0n API work is ahead of schedule with Gandalf running an instance of the implementation that is being created by the team from Indifex
**  Oriya, es-CL, and es-MX will be next to de-beta
*  Axel started [http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.planning/browse_thread/thread/629155e90992676e# a thread on Dev.Planning proposing a shift in the way we release new locales].  Comments and feedback are welcomed and encouraged.
**  L10n-drivers have a quarterly goal to reduce the number of locales in beta
*  Stas continues to work on releasing the To-Do app that he demoed during the science fair in Whistler
* Several new locales are expected for Firefox 4 as the l10n-drivers team starts afresh with outreach to long-standing contributors trying to make it into an official release
*Because of that, the team is refining the process by articulating more clearly what it takes to enter an official release, what is expected from both the l10n-drivers and the community proposing the new localization, and what are the consequences if all to-do items are not completed.


= Introducing New Hires =
= Introducing New Hires =
* Paul Craciunoiu, Webdev
* Laura Forrest
* Ravi Pina, IT
* Paul Biggar, JavaScript


= Foundation Updates  =
= Foundation Updates  =


= Roundtable =
= Roundtable =
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