WeeklyUpdates/2009-10-19

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Firefox

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Firefox 3.6 (Namoroka)

Firefox Future

Team News

Gecko

• Electrolysis {E10s)
  • Windowed plugins mostly working (Windows and Linux)
  • Windowless plugins working on Linux, to work on Windows soon. May have slow performance until work on asynchronous painting is done.
  • Plan to land the existing code into mozilla-central, preffed off, as soon as some blockers are done. See bug 523094 for details and a dependency tree.
  • Have very hacky demos of multi-process browsing
  • Working on getting Fennec working with multi-process browsing.
• Joe and GFX?
• CrashKill meetings will continue. We really dig into details of crashes and people seem to find the in-depth discussions on how to resolve a particular crash useful.
• Blockers:
  • P1: 1
  • P2: 92
  • P3: 0
  • Other: 0
• Team blocker numbers:
  • Layout: 14
  • Content: 19
  • GFX: 9
  • JS: 29

Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Firefox 3.5.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x

• Firefox 3.0.15 / Firefox 3.5.4

• Firefox 3.0.16 / Firefox 3.5.5

QA

Test Execution

Web Dev Testing

Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community

• COmmunity
  • Held a Website Compatibility Testing Testday for Fx3.6 on Friday, October 16th. See results.
  • Connected with two new community members via VolunteerMatch!

Test Development

Marketing/PR

PR

General

• Released the Plugin Check Page last Tuesday: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck
  • 389K page views in 6 days compared to get personal page (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/personal.html) which got 411K views in the same time period.
  • Planning on celebrating the release of this page sometime this week with a small cantina night.
• Next steps of the project are Localization and integrating all browsers into the service.

Mozilla Service Week

Events

• Jornadas Regionales de Software Libre en Chile and MozCamp Chile October 5 - 9, 2009, Santiago, Chile - We will be doing a brown bag this Wednesday 10/21 at 1PM PDT to talk about our experiences and the results of these two events. https://wiki.mozilla.org/JRSL_Chile
• Free Software and Open Source Symposium (FSOSS) October 29 - 30, 2009; Toronto, Canada.  We are sponsoring this event.  We currently have representation from both Mozilla Foundation and Corporation speaking.
• Music Hack Day November 21-22, 200; Boston, MA.  We are currently looking into sponsoring this event.
  
• Add-on-Con December 2009, Mountain View, CA.  We are sponsoring this event and starting to build sessions around the event theme.
• Internet Identity Workshop November 3-5, 2009.  Will be sponsoring this conference.  
• OWASP AppSec DC 2009  November 10-13, 2009; Washington, DC.  Web application security conference - we are currently looking into sponsoring this.
• Foundations of Open Media Software January 13 - 15, 2010; Wellington, New Zealand.  Perfect venue to promote open video.  We are currently looking into sponsoring this.
• SXSW Interactive 2010  March 12-16, 2010; Austin, Texas.  Working on putting together a Firefox party.  Please continue to check our wiki page for information.
  

Community

Support

• Time to start planning the SUMO goals in 2010!
• Three primary focus areas:
  • Improve the support experience for users
  • Provide better/more accurate/more detailed metrics and insights for other Mozilla teams and the entire Mozilla community
  • Make the SUMO experience more enjoyable for contributors
• Post your feedback in the contributor discussion
• See also blog post: Help us plan SUMO in 2010!

Metrics

• No updates this week.

L10n

Fennec

• Productization - Search engines
  • Staś posted in .l10n about choosing search engines for localized Fennec. We'd like to make sure we choose a good set of default search engines for each locale and we'd like to work on choosing the search providers in October.
  • The guidelines can be found at L10n:Mobile/Productization.
  • 34 per-locale bugs filed so far, all blocking the tracking bug (bug fennec10-l10n-search) (check a slightly more detailed view, too).
• Web pages
  • Pascal filed the tracking bug: bug fennec10-l10n-web
    • There are 5 UI strings added to your main.lang file too.
    • The /mobile/ pages are normal pages for people surfing mozilla.com and wanting to get information about fennec.
    • The /m/ are simplified pages (both content and design) for mobile devices where they can download Firefox (download logic will be added later).
    • Refer to the tracking bug (bug fennec10-l10n-web) for more information.
  • 34 per-locale bugs were filed as dependencies of the tracking bug
  • (we're experimenting with this new workflow (i.e. 1 tracking and n per-locale bugs) for web l10n bugs)
  • SMS issues are tracked in bug 517152