WeeklyUpdates/2010-05-03

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Friends of the Tree

RobC writes in "I would like to nominate Philip for FotT for his prompt triaging of misfiled bugs in the Firefox::Developer Tools component in Bugzilla. He's a great help at keeping that component clean and it's appreciated."

Akaash says "I'd like to nominate Henrik Skupin for leading a great testday effort this past Friday for testing the new Addons Manager. He worked 16 **very** active hours pushing 30-40 people in channel to file 55 (!!!!) total bugs on the day; a Testday record."

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 03 May

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• Firefox 3.6.x triage Bug Day

Wednesday, 05 May

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Friday, 07 May

Next Week

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
Tryserver 2.0	Lukas Blakk	Detailing the upcoming Try-As-Branch roll-out	slides coming	bug - blog

Status Updates By Team

Firefox

We're still testing the version of Firefox 3.6 with plugins running out of process. Are you running the beta yet, to help us test? Awesome, thanks for your help! We knew we could count on you.

Dig that hep Planet Firefox for all the latest!

IT

Last Week

• Folks onsite in Phoenix installing new Weave cluster.

Open Issues

• Mountain View Office Internet Connectivity issues (bug 555794)
  • Have increased bandwidth through WiLine
  • Seeing some sporadic issues and are planning on upgrading the IPSEC VPN endpoint in San Jose.

QA

Test Execution

WebQA

QA Community

Test Dev

Security

Sid presented Content Security Policy at the 2010 International World Wide Web Conference last Wednesday, and it was well received. A few attendees were interested in using it on their sites, and at least one other paper presentation suggested using CSP to supplement their system.

The published paper is here.

The slides for the talk are here.

Marketing/PR

PR

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Evangelism

• MDC
  • Obviously having major performance and stability issues; we're working closely with MindTouch to get these fixed. Several specific performance issues have been identified and are being checked out and fixed that will hopefully resolve this.
  • Work is ongoing on Gecko 1.9.3 documentation, with js-ctypes docs currently in progress.

Labs

We updated the Test Pilot privacy policy to give users more control over their data: Previously we promised to delete collected data from your machine after you submitted it; now you have the option to save a permanent copy of your data first if you like.

Account Manager is graduating from Labs to become a Firefox 4 feature.

Developer Tools

• Bespin and Bespin Embedded 0.7.3 were released on April 29th.

Add-ons

• Jetpack SDK 0.3 released!
  • first two high-level APIs (context-menu, self)
  • lots of bug fixes and minor enhancements
  • read Daniel's blog post for an example of an addon built using 0.3
  • read Dietrich's blog post for a sneak peek at the next version of the SDK

Introducing New Hires

Katie Guernsey, new Operations Manager for Mozilla Foundation