WeeklyUpdates/2010-11-29

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Friends of the Tree

• Henrik Skupin would like to nominate the following people, who made our Mozmill test day last Friday a success by running our general and the brand-new landed l10n tests: adriank, kbrosnan, tanner, jan, merike, linostar, and especially aleksej for his all-day attendance.

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 29 November

Tuesday, 30 November

Wednesday, 1 December

• 12pm (pacific) Brown Bag presentation by Guillermo Rauch on Socket.IO - The web's most popular x-browser Web Socket library.

Thursday, 2 December

Friday, 3 December

Next Week

Wednesday, 8 December - Add-On Con Training Day and Party

Thursday, 9 December - Add-On Con 

Product Status Updates

Firefox 4

• As mentioned last week, the plan is to ship a Firefox 4 Beta for Desktop as close as possible to the Firefox 4 Beta 3 for Mobile devices, in order to align on some sync changes
  • The outstanding blocker list for beta 8 stands at 29, with JS and Sync being the largest single components.
  • Once complete, beta 8 will include stability fixes from graphics, some smaller js optimizations, and UI fixes notably around the styling in the addons manager.

Firefox 3.6 and 3.5

• Released 3.6.13 and 3.5.16 to the beta channel last week
• We will be creating a build #2 for a 3.6.11/.12 regression we were only recently notified of (bug 614565)
• Schedule is still holding (planning to ship December 9th)

Mobile Firefox

• Last few b3 issues are being knocked out
• Beta 4 code freeze is January 6 focused on the last big pieces that need a beta (GL, async places work, PICs)

Thunderbird

• Miramar Alpha 1 released (based on Gecko 2.0 trunk)
• 3.0.11 and 3.1.7 builds underway

Drumbeat

• Alpha version of http://learningfreedomandtheweb.org web site now up online.
  • Spin off site for content and projects coming out of Barcelona.
• Early protoype of Batucada software and new Drumbeat.org mockups coming later this week.
  • Details on Paul Osman's blog and on this wiki time 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
State of Mozilla	Mitchell Baker	Reactions, Responses, Survey	---	http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/annualreport/2009/

Status Updates By Team

Messaging

• Thunderbird Conversations add-on dev builds available and looking for feedback

QA

Highlights

• Browser Technologies
• Desktop Firefox
  • Fx4b8: Nightlies testing while we code freeze
• QA Services
  • Add-ons Manager test day on Friday, Dec. 3rd
• QA Test Automation
  • Very successful test day for Mozmill last Friday
  • Mozmill l10n tests for access keys and cropped elements have been landed. For now we support the preferences dialog.
• Web QA
  • Shipped Input 2.0.1

Automation & Tools

• Working on resolving mozmill difficulties from last week on m-c
• Bug hunter improvements made to make our crash signatures more socorro-ish
• Need a downtime on brasstacks this week for Orange factor (war on orange) and Bug stats websites.
• Notes here

Engagement

PR

• 5 Best Browser Innovations of 2010

• Be thankful for Mozilla: The least evil tech company of them all?

• Open source feats to be proud of

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

• What's up with SUMO? - Nov. 23
  

Introducing New Hires

• Corey Shields - IT/Ops Manager