WeeklyUpdates/2009-08-10

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Development Updates

Firefox

Firefox Front End Work

Namoroka

Team News

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

• Firefox 3.0.14 / Firefox 3.5.3
  • code freeze tomorrow
  • targeting early September release

• Thunderbird 2.0.0.23
  • making progress on release
  • build is green!
  • please test the nightlies thoroughly

QA

Test Execution

Web Dev Testing

Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community

Test Development

Marketing/PR

Firefox 3.5 Launch

PR

Mozilla Service Week

Events

General

Evangelism

• Mozilla Developer Center
  • Documentation effort for Firefox 3.6 ramping up; don't forget to tag relevant bugs with the "dev-doc-needed" keyword!
  • Interface Reference reorganization continues.
  • Started work on designing a unit test plan for MDC.
  • More back-end work
    • Wrote and had deployed (thanks again, IT) a new MindTouch plugin to automatically find and replace tag strings; will be using this to fix some bad tag names as well as to work on organization cleanup.
    • Assorted minor tweaks.

Webdev

• James Socol starts today full-time in webdev. James is from Michigan State University and is passionate about web design, accessibility and standards. He will be working on support.mozilla.com with the SUMO team.
• AMO 5.0.8 launched last week, Wil wrote a blog post about the add-on verification suite RJ and Wil worked on, which is now live.
• Labs 2.0 site is nearing completion; hope to launch this week or next week.
• The Mozilla Creative Collective (MCC) team has been working on theMCC site and we are in the final stages of QA.

L10n

Web

Tools

Roundtable

Intern Show & Tell

This week we have the following interns presenting: