WeeklyUpdates/2010-06-28

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Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 28 June

Tuesday, 29 June

Wednesday, 30 June

• Brownbag @ 1pm : MDN Roadmap
  • Learn more about the Mozilla Developer Network
    • Website update and development plan
    • Upcoming programs
    • Info on Summit session

• Developer Event: Mozilla Add-ons Workshop London

Thursday, 1 July

Friday, 2 July

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox 3.6

• Firefox 3.6.4
  • Went out last Tuesday, yay!
  • Too early for metrics yet (and we have been messing with throttling). OOPP looks good so far though

• Firefox 3.6.6 (where's 3.6.5?)
  • Quick chemspill release to increase the OOPP hang detector timeout (ONLY bug 574905)
  • Created late Friday night, went out Saturday
    • Thanks to everyone that gave up 1/2 their weekend

• Firefox 3.6.7
  • Any 1.9.2.6 approvals are now implicitly for 1.9.2.7
  • Codefreeze was Friday
  • Still have too many open blockers (12 for 3.6.7 and 8 for 3.5.11)
    • Most are security fixes with trunk patches, we need to fix them on branches as we are exposing users, especially before BlackHat (end of July)
  • Only taking blockers at this time, and we need to get them all in TODAY

Older Branch Work

• Firefox 3.5.11
  • Release is tied to 3.6.7, Codefreeze was Friday
  • Still have too many open blockers (8 security bugs for 3.5.11)
    • Most are security fixes with trunk patches, we need to fix them on branches as we are exposing users, especially before BlackHat (end of July)
  • Only taking blockers at this time, and we need to get them all in TODAY

• Firefox 3.0.x
  • RelEng has shut down the 3.0 build machines, so we can no longer do an update for 3.0 users easily
  • We will be doing an advertised update (the pop-up window) to 3.6.6 for users shortly (we have done previous versions already to get people to move off 3.0)

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
Mozilla Summit Social Scheduler Thingy	Atul Varma	A nifty social app for learning about Summit attendees and seeing what schedules they'll attend.	The App	The App
Bugzilla Awesome Interface Thingy	Aza Raskin	An app to make Bugzilla beautiful and easy to use.	The App	The App
Powering off TB2 machines	John O'Duinn			bug#574901

Status Updates By Team

Release Engineering

• Releases:
  • Firefox 3.5.10/3.6.4
  • Firefox 3.6.6 chemspill (awesome quick turnaround)
  • Fennec 1.1rc1
• turning off Thunderbird 2.0 machines - YAY!

QA

QA Highlights

• General
  • Completed QA org goals for Q3
• Desktop Firefox
  • Fx Input is live at input.mozilla.com!
    • Testpilot studies landed within the feedback extention for beta program
  • 3.6.4: Shipped on Tuesday
  • 3.6.6 chem-spill farmville issue shipped over the weekend.
• Browser Technologies
  • Testing Firefox home RC1, scheduled to ship this next week
  • Jetpack SDK 0.5 shipped
• Web QA
  • AMO 5.11.3 testing is in progress
    • Shipped:
      • SUMO 2.1/1.5.5
      • AMO 5.11.2
  • Student Reps
• QA Services
  • Community
    • Start planing for QMO 2.1 and 3.0
    • A11Y
      • My article on how to test websites with NVDA has been published in the 6th issue of the German Webstandards-Magazin, and the printed issue arrived on Wednesday. This will give NVDA some greater exposure to web devs in Germany. Mozilla is a recognized funder of the NVDA project.
      • Wrote a blog post regarding Apple iOS 4 and their support for WAI-ARIA landmarks. Mozilla was one of the driving forces behind innovating and implementing these in the WAI-ARIA spec, and Apple are the first to release an accessible mobile phone with support for these landmarks.

Engagement

PR

• Thunderbird 3.1 arrives with new filter bar

• Firefox 3.6.4 Addresses Plugin Issues
• Firefox 3.6.6 Released To Fix Crash Protection On Old Computers
• Mozilla updates Firefox to crush Farmville complaints

• Mozilla moves tabs to the top for Firefox 4
• Mozilla Explains Why Firefox 4 Has Tabs on Top [VIDEO]

• New APIs for Mozilla's JetPack: tabs, selection and Ajax

• New Firefox 3.6.4 Blocks Crashing Plugins
• Firefox 3.6.4 Adds Crash Protection

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Developer Tools

• The Bespin 0.8 blog post went up on Tuesday of last week and has the details of this major Bespin release.