WeeklyUpdates/2011-05-09

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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

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!)

• New blog for tracking updates to the channels process: [1]

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

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

QA

Test Execution

WebQA

• Socorro 1.7.7.2 -- adding a "Channel" field to crash reports
• Mozilla.com 2.3 http://bit.ly/jrPzKi
• MDN 0.9.4.2 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654706
• AMO 6.0.8: https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=QA/Execution/Web_Testing/AMO/Current_Release/6.0.8
  • Includes the switch to EdgeCast's CDN: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648146
• Personas, May 3rd, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654135
• SUMO 2.8.1 on 5/3
  • [2]

QA Community

• Write up of last week's London Tester Gathering event: http://blargon7.com/2011/05/london-tester-gathering-with-mozilla/

Test Dev

Automation & Tools

• Meet Toolbox: a place to find our tools http://brasstacks.mozilla.com/toolbox/

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.
  • William Quivigier, Anthony Ricaud, Mounir Lamouri and others concluded a week of Mozilla talks and a Firefox 4 [3].
  • More info:
    • http://hanblog.info/blog/
    • http://blog.oldworld.fr/

Introducing New Hires

• Kyle Huey