WeeklyUpdates/2011-05-23

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Friends of the Tree

• Gaby and Aleksej for contributing and demonstrating their eagerness to test out the mobile Firefox beta during the testday last Friday. - (Aaron)

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 23 May

Tuesday, 24 May

• [WebQA] - WebQA Automation Test Day

Wednesday, 25 May

• Community Engagement Call, 10 a.m. PDT/17:00 UTC/19:00 CET Dial-in Info: +1.650.903.0800, followed by 92# and then 7391# You can also join us on Air Mozilla and via irc in #mozillians or #marketing. Agenda can be found here.

Thursday, 26 May

• Contribute group meeting at 10 PDT -- forum to discuss ideas about how to help people get involved with Mozilla

Friday, 27 May

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox 5

• Offered to the existing Firefox 4 beta audience on Friday (throttled)
  • Will unthrottle this week

Mobile Firefox

• Shipped Firefox 5 Beta 2 last week (same time as desktop) - rel notes
  
• Two important bug fixes may go into next Fx5 beta
  
• Upcoming features and releases: see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Features/Mobile and https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Flight_Tracking#Mobile
  
  

Thunderbird

• Tuesday, May 24th: Central -> Aurora merge for TB 6
• Wednesday May 25th: L10n freeze for TB 6
• Wednesday May 25th: start of TB 5 beta, build 1

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
Your Title Here	Your Name Here	What are you going to talk about?	Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen	Link to where audience can find out more information

Status Updates By Team

QA

Test Execution

• Fennec
  • Shipped Fennec 5 to Beta Channel
  • Already known blockers needed to land in next beta
    • bug 655864 - Aurora: password field is not masked immediately and shows artifacts, when typing past the end of the field
    • bug 655852 - Typing past the boundaries of the textbox will start clearing the beginning characters, instead of scrolling
    • Testplan for Fennec 6 is up
    • Aurora merge scheduled for 5/24.
  • Services
    • Scheduled to deploy Python Sreg/reg server today. bug 654148
  • Sync Discovery feature is at-risk for aurora. bug 618913
    • ID, Share projects on hold for services work

WebQA

• AMO 6.0.10 on 5/18 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657459
• Input 3.5 on 5/16
• Mozilla.com 2.5 on 5/17
• SUMO 3.8.3 on 5/17

QA Community

Test Dev

Engagement

PR

Events

Creative Team

Contributor Engagement

• Check out our updates in yummy HTML: Week of May 16.
• Last week's about:mozilla newsletter. Please send story ideas, events and tips to about-mozilla[at]mozilla.com.

Introducing New Hires

We have 10 new (some of them are actually not that new to Mozilla) interns joining us this week:

John Kerahalis -- Dev. Engagement
Eshwaran Kumar -- Research
Vitor Menezes -- Platform (Layout)
Brinda Gupta -- SUMO
Sully (Michael Sullivan) -- Research, past JS intern (2009)
Sam Liu -- Automation/Tools
Josh Cranmer -- Platform (dxr project)
Rezwana Karim -- Research
Paul Sawaya -- Services
Ryan Pearl -- Platform (JS)

Total number of interns so far: 31. We're still 24 interns short to complete the program!