WeeklyUpdates/2011-06-13

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Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 13 June

Tuesday, 14 June

• Testing Talk with Lanette Creamer Noon PDT. Mountain View HQ in Holodeck.

Wednesday, 15 June

• Brown bag about Mozilla's Sync Service, Noon PDT. Mountain View in Holodeck.

Thursday, 16 June

Friday, 17 June

• Firefox 5 Web Compatibility Test Day

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox Future (5, 6, 7)

• Firefox 5 is coming real soon now
  • Spun beta 5 last week which is near-complete, if not a perfect match (drivers evaluating a couple of late bugs)
  • If all signs point to yes, aiming for a release next week

• Firefox 6 is halfway through the Aurora cycle
  • AMO team completed an automated compatibility bump successfully

• Firefox 7 is halfway through Nightly

Firefox Current (3.5, 3.6, 4.0)

• We have a Firefox 3.6.18 build, currently in QA

Mobile Firefox

• Firefox Mobile 4.* broke 1 million active Android users
• Firefox Mobile 5 Beta 4 was released

Thunderbird

• 5.0 beta (second build) should be out this week.
• 3.1.11 should also be out this week.
• We've added the "5.*" version for Thunderbird to AMO, and need addon authors to check that they're compatible.
  • Please check this blog post for more details.
  • We want to use the same compatibility bump mechanism as Firefox eventually, but we're not ready for that yet.

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
Your Title Here	Your Name Here	What are you going to talk about?	Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen	Link to where audience can find out more information
Security Reviews Discussions & You	Curtis Koenig	Security Stuff	slides	*Public Security Wiki *blog
Next release of Firefox	Product and Engagement	What to expect in next version of Firefox, what the launch will feel like	http://htmlpad.org/june21-launch/#	http://htmlpad.org/june21-launch/#
Website Documentation Project	Ryan Snyder, Website Taskforce	Need help from Mozilla to document information about our websites.	https://wiki.mozilla.org/Websites/Active_List	https://wiki.mozilla.org/Websites/Active_List

Status Updates By Team

QA

Test Execution

• Pushed Fennec 5 beta 4 to Android Market on June 7th
• Fennec 5 beta 5 to be skipped for market. Next target, RC by 15th
  • Reftest extension for mobile got a few tests running from the web server
• Services Team planning a beta and experimental channel
• Planning for open Web Apps testing has begun

WebQA

• Releases:
  • SUMO 6/7 release http://moxie.jamessocol.com/bugstats/sumo/2011-06-07
  • MDN 6/7 0.9.5
  • Spark 2.0 6/7
  • AMO 6.0.12 06/07
  • AMO 6.1.0 6/09

QA Community

Test Dev

Engagement

PR

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Introducing New Hires

Welcome Full-Timers!

• Crystal Beasley, UX Designer in Web Dev
• Ibai Garcia, Services Support Coordinator, SUMO
• Jared Wein, Firefox Engineer

Welcome New Interns!

• Vineeth Kashyap, Research
• David Keeler, returning intern (yay!), Security
• Nick Fitzgerald, FFx
• Alexandra Moss, Legal
• Didem Ersoz, started on 6/7, Labs