WeeklyUpdates/2009-07-13

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Development Updates

Firefox

Firefox Front End Work

Namoroka

Team News

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

• Firefox 3.0.12
  • on track to ship to beta tomorrow
  • final ship next week
• Firefox 3.0.13
  • please review the final schedule
  • blockers in place... 'please work on your blockers'
  • code freeze set for August 4 at 11:59pm

QA

Test Execution

Web Dev Testing

• AMO: Testing AMO 5.0.7 features. Created test cases for Tagging features and AMO homepage.

Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community

• Community: a very good security Test day was held on Friday. See [[TestDay:2009-7-10|report]. 372 test cases run. Top tester: ghseeli!
• Accessibility: Reviewed these bug fixes: bug 418159, bug 501375, 501656 bug 501656. Worked with Steven Michaud on mac a11y.

Test Development

Marketing/PR

Firefox 3.5 Launch

PR

• Jetpack 0.3 released
• Open Web Tools Directory in the news
• Ubiquity 0.5 released
• Fast Company looks at FF3.5 and Web typography
• How to speed up Firefox in Lifehacker

Mozilla Service Week

Events

General

Support

No updates this week.

Metrics

• Published some early stats from the Fx3.5 launch. More to come.
• Helped out with the “Movers and Shakers” feature on the getpersonas homepage. Thanks to Pedro and Eric.

L10n

Firefox 3.5

Web

Tools

Foundation Updates

• Along w/ the Service Week team, we agreed to work closely with One Web Day on joint activities and fundraising.
  • One Web Day is September 22. Ideas and participation from across Mozilla welcome.
• We held a meeting of Wikipedia / Creative Commons / Mozilla to find ways to jointly improve the CiviCRM online fundraising platform.
• We continue to prepare for the relaunch of www.mozilla.org:
  • Our launch date has been delayed slightly w/ likely launch in August
  • If you are interested in helping us embed Bespin as a site editor, please let us know
  • If you own any documentation on the site, please review the open documentation migration bugs
  • See our site roadmap for our plans for after relaunch
• Further updates have been posted to Committing Rules and Responsibilities

Roundtable

Show & Tell

This week we have the following interns presenting:

• Anant Narayanan (Labs)
• Brandon Pung (Labs)
• Irina Calciu (Platform)
• David Tran (IT)