WeeklyUpdates/2009-06-01
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Friends of the Tree
« previous week | index | next week »
Friends of the Tree 
aakashd writes in "I'd like to nominate tmyoung, shutnik, nemo and our MV intern Aaron Train for their excellent work on Friday's Fx3.5 Nightly Testday. Specifically, Aaron was able to give mconnor, ehsan, simon bünzli and dietrich some extra work on friday with a PB mode bug that'll be added to Fx3.5 RC1's release notes."
Development Updates
Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x
- Firefox 3.0.11
- Shipping this week (targeting Wednesday or Thursday)
- Firefox 3.0.12
- Targeting mid-July release
- Code freeze is set for June 16
- Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 / Gecko 1.8.1.22
- Missed code freeze
- Hoping to firm up today, hand off to build tonight or tomorrow
- Might shift final release date by a day or two
Gecko 1.9.1
- Down to 8 blockers!
- Welcome Luke Wagner who hails from Texas A&M. Joining the JS team and will be working in Mountain View.
- Blocker Status:
- 0 final blocker bugs left in content.
- 1 GFX final blockers (which is ready to land).
- 0 Layout final blockers.
- 4 JS Blockers. (Last week: 13)
- 2 Non-code related blockers which are tracking testing issues.
- 4 noms needing triage.
- For weekly engineering meeting notes and other info see the Platform page.
- 8 total 1.9.1 blockers (two weeks ago: 33).
Firefox 3.5
Firefox Front End Work
TB 3
Mobile
IT
- Started rolling out php5.2 support on the production web clusters
- LDAP password policy push
Release Engineering
QA
Test Execution
- Firefox 3.0.11 ship to beta
- Starting to test Thunderbird 2.0.0.22
- l10n Major Update dialog examination for Pascal. See Here
- Firefox 3.5 Bug Verifications last week
- 160 1.9.1+Trunk bugs verified (core/firefox/toolkit)
- 119 1.9.1 bugs verified
- Mozmill Testcase automation coverage
- fixed 7/23 (31%), assigned 12/23 (52%), pending 4/23 (17%)
- 9 tests are not doable at the moment
- Reached out to Nelson and Bob (current or ex-RedHat people) for testing instructions for bug 494899 (PKCS load/unload problem). We got some awesome illustrated instructions via mail and bug. Thanks Nelson and Bob!
- 28 unclear litmus testcases cleaned up last week
Web Dev Testing, Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community
- Community:
- Posted blog about Munich Meet-up that occured on May 14th. Next one is June 17th!
- Hosted a Firefox 3.5 nightly testday. Results found here. Had over 40 in the testday channel. 984 test cases run on litmus with 471 on Windows, 354 on Linux and 159 on Macs. 5 bugs found
- Community meet-up in Washington DC on June 4th
- Participating in the Swedish Community Meetup June 2-3
- Project Metrics: Worked on massive data migration that included bugzilla dump import. Thxs justdave!
- WebDev Testing: Wrapped up Fastest Firefox. Helped test and Ship GetPersonas.com 1.4. Completed lots of AMO 5.0.6 work
Test Development
- Heads down on 3.5 testing for the most part
- Writing & running video/audio tag tests
- Writing & running cross site XHR tests
- Writing & running JS tests
- Welcome Jonathan Griffin, who will be starting out working on Content test development
Security
Marketing/PR
Firefox 3.5 Launch
- Community Marketing Team will be kicking off efforts to promote Firefox 3.5 this week with the Fastest Firefox video campaign.
- Last week, campus rep Vineel Reddy shared a great video to highlight Firefox 3.5's features, including speed and customization. Video here.
- Video is up from our Launch workshops
Mozilla Service Week
Community Marketing Call
- Next Community Marketing call is Wednesday, June 3rd, at 10am PDT. 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. Please note the new the new Air Mozilla channel for all marketing-related activities.
PR
- Jetpack in the press
- John Lilly and Mitchell Baker at the D conference. John chats with Fox Business News
- Jay Sullivan participated in Google I/O keynote and media round table last week
- DailyMotion announced its support of open video
- Outcast Communication wins silver Sabre Award for Firefox 3 launch
Events
- Open Source Bridge, Portland, June 17 - 19:
- Mikeal Rogers and Dietrich Ayala are both speaking.
- Mozilla will participate in the Hacker Lounge. Our proposed session: Firefox & extension hacking. Dietrich will also participate in the Open Web Games session.
- We're also looking to participate in the Knowledge Fair
- More details on our participation here.
- Open Video Conference, New York, June 19 - 20:
- Help get the word out about the conference! http://openvideoconference.org/
- Chris Blizzard will be speaking on the future of open video
- We're hosting a video conference that will now kick off at the conference vs. wrapping up then.
- Open Web Conference, Vancouver, June 11 -
Support
- No updates this week.
Metrics
- Firefox market share hit 22.51% in May (up slightly from April).
- Published findings from recent SUMO website optimization test.
- Firefox Uninstall Survey
- Will soon be launching a revamped version. Goal is to update look/feel/questions and to make the data more usable by the community.
- Current version is here.
- Open discussion took place last year (we were just a little slow with implementation :)
- Thanks to Fred Wenzel from web dev for making this happen
- Firefox.com A/B test
- Testing a few different colors of the Firefox download button (blue, purple, and orange). Test should go live at firefox.com this week.
- Thanks to Alex Buchanan from web dev for helping drive this project
Evangelism
- Mozilla Developer Center upgraded to MindTouch 2009; some new features are not exposed yet but will be over the next few days. For details on what's changed and what still needs to be done, read Sheppy's blog post.
- Firefox 3.5 documentation is winding down now. The flow of "hey, we don't have docs for X yet" has just about stopped.
- Added new help pages to MDC to give helpful tips about how to use it, do fancy Lucene searches, and more.
Labs
Developer Tools
- No updates
Add-ons
Webdev
- AMO 5.0.6 is progressing - open bugs & fixed bugs
- SUMO
- Pushed 1.0.3 Thursday to support tracking of users coming from hitting F1 in Fx3.5
- QAing 1.1 - screencasts with <video>! (Let us know if you want to help out.)
L10n
Firefox 3.5
- 73 locales have opted in for Firefox 3.5 RC1
- Hope to add Turkish and Mongolian before final release
Web
- Firefox 3.5 on the web dashboard
- Fastest Fox came in over the weekend and 15 locales will participate
- ca, cs, en-GB, es-AR, es-CL, fr, kk, ku, nl, ro, sk, sq, sr, vi, zh-CN
- 3 or 4 expected to join later this week
- Mozilla IT survey postponed due to technical limitations from provider that we discovered after the project localization was launched. Look to restart that in Q3
Tools
- Silme 0.5.1 to be released June 2, 2009
- small API change to get_package
- 0.7 scheduled for release, please join the fun.
- sethb did two posts on community projects:
Foundation Updates
- We've been thinking and talking more about Mozilla's mission, including what makes the web better, how to describe Mozilla in one sentence, building vs. believing, and what it means to think like the web.
- We're trying to bring more community focus to www.mozilla.org, and inviting you to help us with this.
- We're planning a small event for info sharing with other hybrid orgs on June 16. You'll notice a bunch of interesting people around the building that day.
Roundtable
We have a few new interns who started last week and today. Please give a warm round of applause for:
- Margaret Leibovic (FFx)
- Sully (Michael John Sullivan) (platform)
- William Reynolds (Marketing)
- Anant Narayanan (Labs)
- Brandon Pung (Labs)