WeeklyUpdates/2009-06-29

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Development Updates

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

• Firefox 3.0.12
  • Code frozen as of Thursday last week
  • Targeting mid/late-July release
• Firefox 3.0.13
  • Proposed schedule on the wiki
  • Feedback? Email ss!

Gecko 1.9.1

• Static Analysis and Rewriting
  • Introducing DXR The most important code navigation tool ever
  • David Humphrey's announcement: http://vocamus.net/dave/?p=557
  • Taras' blog: http://blog.mozilla.com/tglek/2009/06/29/dxr-the-most-impressive-code-navigation-tool-ever/

Firefox 3.5

Firefox Front End Work

Namoroka

IT

• Experiments in IT & Operations Transparency
  • Dashboard
  • @mozdashboard
• Old builds & ftp.mozilla.org
  • Working with Metrics on usage analysis
  • moz.dev.builds discussion

QA

Test Execution

• Shipped RC3 to beta users
• Fx3.0.11->Fx3.5rc3 Major Update throttling against betatest
• Completed 100% of Firefox 3.5 feature testplan. results
• Mozmill smoketest automation is ~75% completed. 1 blocking [bug 501105 testcase]

Web Dev Testing

• Last friday, we had a fennec beta testday. Results here
  • Had a max of 41 in the testday channel at its
  • Major contributors outside mozQA: knotbeerdan, slowtin, tmyoung, lonelybob, kanth_, merike, mmm, atokubi1
  • 43 bugs filed (2 crashes and 4 major bugs)

Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community

Test Development

• Will land the JS library for using Bugzilla RPC API this week (a reusable component that we'll need for QAC redesign)
• Working toward Automatic Crash analysis
• Ran TUnit tests on non-sse machines for release testing
• Tested Fennec Beta releases
• Making progress on Mochitest on WinMobile, still hammering on subprocess.py hacking to move forward
• Jonathan completed the invalidation reftests required for bug 451332

Marketing/PR

Firefox 3.5 Launch

• Help promote Firefox 3.5! We created a summary of all the promotional activities you can help with tomorrow. Please pitch in!
  • Help us track online mentions and promotional efforts with our activity tracker.
• Firefox 3.5 Launch Parties: So far we have 106 requests for swag packs from all over the world. Some of the locations include Macedonia, Lithuania, Taiwan and Peru.
• Regional Social Network outreach. We need help updating regional social networks and Mozilla/Firefox groups. Please sign up here if you would like to take on one.

PR

• Fennec releases in the press - PC Magazine, Product Reviews, The Register, Gizmodo
• Fennec and Android coverage in ReadWriteWeb and CNET
• Firefox 3.5 coverage in Beta News, Technology Review, Financial Times, ComputerWorld, PC Mag, InfoWorld
• History of Firefox development in CNET

Mozilla Service Week

• Kicking off l10n efforts -- focused on Spanish, French and German for first round. Looking to push sites live by July 13th.
  • Overall tracking bug
  • Spanish
  • German
  • French

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. Sign-ups to work at the festival are 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.

General

• New Spread Firefox Affiliates Campaign: Upgrade the Web
  • Dynamic Buttons with browser specific messaging encouraging people to upgrade to Firefox 3.5.
  • Campaign Supported with a Word Press Plug-in and Google Gadget Ads.
    • Read more here: http://livetolaugh85.blogspot.com/2009/06/upgrade-to-firefox-35-shaking-up.html

Evangelism

• Mozilla Developer Center
  • Continuing development of custom plugins for MDC to adjust certain behaviors on the site, and to add features. More details soon.
  • Keeping in touch with MindTouch on their plans for their next release, due mid-summer, to ensure that some of our requests are handled.
  • Working on content clean-up not specific to any given release.

L10n

Firefox 3.5

Web

Tools

Foundation Updates

• Mark has been representing Mozilla at FISL in Brazil and has posted slides for his Mozilla Education talk.
• Mark also published a wrap-up of the Open Video Conference.
• We continue to prepare for the relaunch of www.mozilla.org:
  • Files on the staging server are being tweaked
  • Current site editors should be aware of the upcoming transition to Subversion
  • Archiving has reduced the number of files from roughly 24,000 to 14,000
  • Pages are being updated to tell more of the Mozilla story
• The public discussion about improving Bugzilla is winding down and Gerv will be working on following up the issues raised on the newsgroup thread and wiki page.
• We're continuing to work with new Mozilla Education partners and plan new projects:
  • Tomorrow (July 1) Universidad Rey Juan Carlos will be starting its Mozilla technologies course.
  • This October the University of Evry will be having a "Course on Mozilla Education and Technologies @ Evry" (CoMETe) at the University of Evry; for more information see the slide presentation.
  • A university in India is planning to add a Mozilla/open source course as a formal elective; more news on this later.