WeeklyUpdates/2009-02-23
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Meeting Details
- 1:00pm Pacific time (21:00 UTC until March 8, 2009)
- Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
- +1 650 903 0800 x92 Conf# 8600 (US/International)
- +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 8600 (Canada)
- +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8600 (US Toll Free)
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Friends of the Tree 
Please send FotT nominations to asa@mozilla.org. This is a great opportunity for the community to recognize those who go above and beyond, so please tell me when you see that happening. Thanks.
Development Updates
Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x
- Firefox 3.0.7
- Beta this Wednesday afternoon
- Release next Wednesday at 3pm if all goes well
- Firefox 3.0.8
- Code freeze is March 17 at 11:59pm
- Release in mid-April
- Thunderbird 2.0.0.21
- Code freeze this Friday
- Fixes in sync with Firefox 3.0.7
- Aiming to release in mid-March
Gecko 1.9.1
- 10 Bugs still blocking beta 3. There are a few difficult bugs to work through--all are correctness issues or performance regressions that we cannot allow to be introduced. So, we're fixing them, and solid progress is being made. Overall, stability is good.
- Other areas are looking pretty good to wrap up blockers soon:
- 20 final blocker bugs left in content.
- 4 GFX final blockers.
- 6 Layout final blockers.
- 2 SVG final blockers.
- JS with 49 blockers (down from 53 last week).
- Component leads are checking nom queues daily. 21 noms are in the queue right now.
- For weekly engineering meeting notes and other info see the Platform page.
- Interesting queries related to Gecko 1.9.1
- 108 1.9.1 blockers (down from 125).
Firefox 3.1
TB 3
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
QA
Test Execution
Test Development
- Landed many fixes for Sisyphus and Javascript tests
- Planning to release SpiderMonkey 1.8.0 this week - bug 428420
- Tomcat will be at CeBIT next week
- Changed QA Companion to use native JSON for a huge performance improvement (about 50% perf improvement judging from stop-watching it - Thanks Heather!)
- Integrated XPCShell into Maemkit TUnit test suite for maemo mobile.
- Beginning investigations into the "Random Orange" problem.
Security
Marketing/PR
General
- Social Actions "Change the Web Challenge" announced today. Submissions for add-ons and Web apps due on April 3rd. Winners announced on April 28th!
- Community Marketing Guide: It's coming to a computer near you on Wednesday, Feb. 25th. It's a comphrensive resource guide on marketing for Mozilla. Please provide feedback!
- Next Community Marketing call is this Wednesday, Feb. 25th, at 10am PST / 6pm UTC. Dial-in Info: +1.650.903.0800, followed by 92# and then 7391#. Or you can use our toll-free number: +1.800.707.2533, followed by 369# and then 7391#. For those that can't make the call or want to participate online, join us in #marketing on irc.mozilla.org. Agenda will be posted late today.
PR
Events
- Future of Web Apps
Support
- Mockup of new SUMO Localization Dashboard. Goal is:
- To provide a clear overview and status of the l10n work on SUMO
- To make the l10n work on SUMO feel less daunting by making it obvious where to start
- To answer the question: “which article is the most important to translate next?”
- To establish a baseline of what we define as a healthy status of a locale, so we can make sure we provide help where it’s needed the most.
- Working on some SUMO start page optimizations to ensure that more users are getting the help they need.
- See also the blog post Not everyone wants to search
Metrics
- Lots of new insights published:
- 84,000,000 reasons to reexamine the Firefox Getting Started page.
- How do Firefox users interact with Mozilla's most popular product/web page? (heat map included)
- How do Firefox users use Firefox support?
Evangelism
Labs
- Labs Night this Thursday, 6-9pm in bldg. K. We are excited to welcome Edwin Khodabakchian, developer of Feedly, a Firefox extension which weaves twitter and Google Reader into a magazine like experience.
Developer Tools
Add-ons
- 5.0.2 release last week: Fixed bugs
- Updated developer dashboards
- Extension permalinks (now developers can link directly to the latest version of an add-on)
- Enhanced stats tracking of logged-in vs logged-out users
- Compatibility update
- 79% of add-ons compatible with Fx3.1
- Email to developers went out a little over a week ago, response has been positive but many are waiting for b3 before putting significant work into compatibility
- AMO Mascot/Logo by Sean Martell
Webdev
- SUMO 0.9 will go out this week
- Active work on the Prior Art project continues between the webdev and legal teams.
L10n
Foundation Updates
- We're planning a "Open|Web|Content|Education" online course for educators.
- The education.mozilla.org site is now live (as a redirect to the Mozilla Education wiki page).