WeeklyUpdates/2009-07-06

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Development Updates

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

• Firefox 3.0.12
  • handed off to build a couple hours ago
  • still targeting mid-late July for release
• Firefox 3.0.13
  • proposed schedule to become final this week
  • will have a final list of blockers this week as well

Firefox

Firefox Front End Work

Namoroka

Team News

TB 3

• 3.0b3 schedule updated

IT

• @mozdashboard Experiment & Data
  • Peaks as seen from the ZXTM Load Balancer:
    • addons.mozilla.org: 6127 hits/second, 210Mbps
    • versioncheck.addons.mozilla.org: 4175 hits/second, 30Mbps
    • fxfeeds.mozilla.org: 7628 hits/second, 38Mbps
• Old builds & ftp.mozilla.org
  • Still working with Metrics on usage analysis
  • moz.dev.builds discussion

Release Engineering

• New Talos TP4 pageset enabled on mozilla-central bug 473821
  • faster then tp3, beginning of the end for fast talos.
• Graph Server migration bug 487329

QA

Test Execution

Web Dev Testing

Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community

Test Development

Marketing/PR

Firefox 3.5 Launch

PR

Mozilla Service Week

Events

General

• New Spread Firefox Affiliate Reward program: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/affiliates/rewards

Metrics

• Fx3.5 stats
  • In less than a week, we've seen 16 million downloads (thanks to Daniel for the cool visualization and live counter)
  • A couple different sources for real-time market share data (here's one example) show Fx3.5 at nearly 4% worldwide market share
• June market share – Net Applications is still working through some issues. Almost all data has been temporarily removed from their site and a note states, "Browser and O/S June stats under review. We are investigating some significant variations in browser and operating system statistics. The reports will not be available until we complete our review."

Evangelism

• hacks.mozilla.org awesomeness continues
  • Recently: XS-XHR, Video, etc.

Add-ons

• 5.0.7 pushed to next Wednesday (7/15) (help us test!)
• Upcoming projects welcoming discussion
  • Collections Phase II
  • Removing the sandbox
  • developer.AMO designs
• 365 pending updates and 268 nominated add-ons (graph)

L10n

Firefox 3.5

Web

Tools

Foundation Updates

• Chelsea Novak joins the Mozilla Foundation this week as fundraising manager, working out of the Toronto office; please join us in extending a warm welcome to Chelsea!
• We continue to prepare for the relaunch of www.mozilla.org:
  • Our launch date has been delayed slightly
  • If you are interested in helping us embed Bespin as a site editor, please let us know
  • If you own any documentation on the site, please review the open documentation migration bugs
  • See our site roadmap for our plans for after relaunch
  • The Hacking page on www.mozilla.org has been migrated to the Mozilla Developer Center, and the original URL redirected.
• We're continuing work on improving Bugzilla, with meetings of an advisory group to discuss overall issues and Gerv reaching out to major Bugzilla users; for more information see the wiki page.
• Gerv updated the Firefox Language coverage data for Firefox 3.5 and reblogged it.
• In grant news, the Mozilla Corporation made a $10,000 grant to the Software Freedom Conservancy to help the Conservancy expand its activities in support of free and open source software projects.

Roundtable

Show & Tell

This week we have the following interns presenting: