WeeklyUpdates/2009-09-21
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Development Updates
Firefox
Firefox Front End Work
Team News
Gecko
Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Firefox 3.5.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x
Thunderbird
SeaMonkey
Mobile
IT
Last Week
- The Amsterdam Reboot
- Now serving addons.mozilla.org!
- Now serving developer.mozilla.org!
- Dropped avg. page load times on AMO by 2 sec.
- Turned up 4Gbps connection to Layer42, sending production traffic
This Week
- Building up infrastructure to support Personas feature in 3.6
Release Engineering
QA
Test Execution
Web Dev Testing
- Testing AMo 5.1 is in progress
- Verified changes for phase 3 of Mozilla Service Week.
- Testing of Student signaturecontest is in progress.
- Testing of SUMO 1.4 is in progress.
Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community
- Community
- Community helped with flash crash issue: We sent out calls fro help via QMO (1, 2), irc, and Facebook. Several people responded!
- Held a Test Day last Friday on New features for 3.6
- Next Open Source meet-up in Munich on Friday, September 25. Tell your German Friends!
- Next community meet-up is on Wednesday, Sept, 23. Topic is Feature Exploration/Live Testing.
- Prague Dev day is Friday, October 2nd. Members of the QA team will be talking about testing projects and how to get involved.
- Detected that users on Ubuntu with an official release/nightly build from Mozilla are not able to send Crash reports due to use of a non-default installed libcurl library bug 517493
Test Development
Security
Marketing/PR
PR
Mozilla Service Week
Events
Community
Support
Metrics
Evangelism
(blizzard traveling for work; arun to give update)
- Held a "Summit" of developers to get feedback on Firefox's future directions. Attended by recognized developers, including folks from Facebook, Apple (mobileMe), Google, Yahoo, Ruby devs, etc.
Labs
Developer Tools
- Ben and Joe were at The Ajax Experience
- Firefox Platform summit was on Friday
- Bespin 0.4.4 "Bubba Ho-Tep" was released (bugfixes)
This week:
- Live file history - initial release of this feature planned for this week.
- Bespin "Reboot" planning (next week, we're on site to work through a structural overhaul of Bespin's code)
- Plugin loading/infrastructure for Bespin Reboot
- Set up new Bespin hg repositories that will be a home for the Reboot code. Will also be breaking the server and client into separate repos.