WeeklyUpdates/2009-12-14

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Friends of the Tree

Daniel Einspanjer <deinspanjer@mozilla.com> wrote in "Cheng really hit a home run with the "answer a SUMO forum question" project. I believe that he deserves a FotT for that work."

Anthony Hughes <anthony.s.hughes@gmail.com> wrote in "I'd like to nominate Tony Mechelynck and Milos as Friends of the Tree for being Top Testers in QAs Seamonkey test day last week."

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 3.0.16 / Firefox 3.5.6

IT

Last Week

• (Finally) Mastered KVM, spun up QA VMs
  • Valgrind
  • Windows Purify
• (Finally) Got through the bulk of user-facing RHEL kernel upgrades

This Week

• Rolling out geo-ip aware bouncer/download.mozilla.org - bug 459919

Release Engineering

• 3.0.16 and 3.5.6 set to release tomorrow

QA

Test Execution

• Testing of Fx3.6b5 this week
• Signed off on personas 1.5 extension and 3.6 compatibility
• Currently working on designing a "Report Broken Website" extension for Mobile Firefox. Current mock-up ideas can be found here
• Crashkill QA Testing progress is very active. In particular, these bugs had a lot of traction last week:
  • bug 530989 - regression ranged narrowed, fix in place
  • bug 501429 - rstrong has enough data to work on a fix
  • bug 525277 - week of onsite reproductions, have located the cause

Web Dev Testing

• Tested and shipped AMO 5.4
• GetPersonas.com 2.0 - Almost done with bug fix verifications

Accessibility, Localization, Community

• Community
  • Held the Seamonkey 2.0 Testday last Friday.
  • New blog post about the German Open-Source Meetups.
• Localization: Completed testing of 16 key locales for Firefox 3.6

Test Development

Marketing/PR

PR

Five Years of Firefox

General

Events

• Add-on-Con December 2009, Mountain View, CA.  We are sponsoring this event and will have 3 sessions:  Taking Flights with JetPack (Aza), Mobile Firefox Add-on Development (Mark Finkle), Future of Add-on Ecosystem (Justin, Nick, add-on developer community member). There will be an Add-ons workshop on Thursday night 12/10 where we will be working on 3.6 and fennec compatibility.  Please signup for the Pre-Add-on-Con workshop here.
  
• Sunlight Labs Great American Hackathon December 12-13, 2009; Mountain View, CA.  We will be holding a hackathan at Mozilla HQ on Saturday and Sunday 12/12-12/13.  Please signup for the workshop here.
  
• 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.
• Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL) 2010 January 20-22, 2010; Madrid Spain.  We are sponsoring this event.
  
• SXSW Interactive 2010  March 12-16, 2010; Austin, Texas.  Working on sponsorship opportunities and Firefox party.  Please continue to check our wiki page for information.
  
• Programming Languages and Analysis for Security (PLAS 2010) June 10, 2010; Toronto, Canada.  We are sponsoring this event.
  

Support

• Thanks to everyone who helped users in the forum last week!
• SUMO 2010 roadmap (draft)

Foundation Updates

• This week we're launching a campaign to raise money to support Namoroka Park. Take a look at our plans and please help us get the word out.