WeeklyUpdates/2009-11-02

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NOTE: The US and many other countries ended Daylight Savings Time early Sunday morning and returned to Standard Time. So now the Update meeting with be at 19:00 UTC (the "new" 11am PST) Monday.

Friends of the Tree

• KaiRo wants to nominate Philip Chee (Ratty on IRC) for sending an add-on compatibility message for SeaMonkey 2.0 to several forums and now going through authors to send individual emails for making their add-ons compatible with 2.0 - of course, all on his free time.

Development Updates

Firefox

( Projects | Status | Goals | People )

Firefox 3.6 (Namoroka)

Firefox Future

Team News

Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Firefox 3.5.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x

• Firefox 3.0.15 / Firefox 3.5.4
  • shipped last Tuesday!
  • 3.5.4 stability issues caught after push...

• Firefox 3.5.5
  • scheduling a short-cycle release
  • developers jumped on creating fixes and had them ready by Friday evening (yay!)
  • hoping to start builds today or tomorrow

• Firefox 3.0.16 / Firefox 3.5.6
  • code freeze is November 10 at 11:59pm
  • please work on your blockers
  • targeting mid-December release

SeaMonkey

• SeaMonkey 2.0 has been released last Tuesday!
• Mostly good feedback, some migration issues from xpfe suites

QA

Test Execution

• Shipped Firefox 3.0.15 and 3.5.4 (with much delay on day of shipping)

Web Dev Testing

• We now have in-litmus? and in-testsuite? flags for AMO and SUMO!
• Created automated testcases to validate search functionality with advanced options; Completed test cases for platforms and applications.

Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community

• Accessibility:
  • Oversaw the landing of all the table accessibility patches on the 1.9.2 branch. Nominated a few ones that landed on central during my vacation. Verified all the bugs listed here. This basically completes the feature set of the a11y module, except for one or two patches David and Alex might still have in the pipeline.
  • Published a new Easy ARIA tip in response to a result from WebAIM's second screen reader survey results.
• Community
  • Testday: 2 day Testscripting with MozMill 1.3 even was held last week. It was hosted by Seneca College student and previous Mozilla intern, ashughes. See Testday Results
  • Recently found 7 people interested in getting involved via VolunteerMatch and http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/
• Helped with OpenSource meeting up involving Thunderbird in Munich. See Tomcat's blog entry.
• Metrics - Windows coverage is now available!

Test Development

Marketing/PR

PR

• Mitchell Baker and John Lilly's Net Neutrality Wall Street Journal op-ed
• Webmonkey.com review of Firefox on Nokia N900
• Firefox 3.6 beta released on Friday
• More WOFF!

General

Mozilla Service Week

Events

• Firefox Developers Conference 2009 November 8, Tokyo, Japan. Add-on authors will get together. Aza Raskin on Jetpack, Chris Blizzard on the future of the Web. 200+ attendees.
• Music Hack Day November 21-22, 200; Boston, MA.  We are sponsoring this event.
  
• Add-on-Con December 2009, Mountain View, CA.  We are sponsoring this event and starting to build sessions around the event theme.
• Internet Identity Workshop November 3-5, 2009.  We are sponsoring this conference.  
• OWASP AppSec DC 2009  November 10-13, 2009; Washington, DC.  Web application security conference - we are currently looking into sponsoring this.
• Foundations of Open Media Software January 13 - 15, 2010; Wellington, New Zealand.  Perfect venue to promote open video.  We are currently looking into sponsoring this.
• SXSW Interactive 2010  March 12-16, 2010; Austin, Texas.  Working on putting together a Firefox party.  Please continue to check our wiki page for information.
  

Community

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