WeeklyUpdates/2009-11-23
Friends of the Tree 
The People People team would like to warmly thank Asa Dotzler for being such an emblematic figure for Mozilla and an awesome story teller. There's been a great deal of interest generated by all his blog posts, resulting in a big increase of people actually viewing our career website. How many viewers, are you asking? Just 11,000 in just over a year! Thanks Asa!
Development Updates
Firefox
( Projects | Status | Goals | People )
Firefox Future
Team News
Gecko
Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Firefox 3.5.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x
Thunderbird
SeaMonkey
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
QA
Test Execution
- Tested and shipped Firefox 2.0.0.20 to 3.0.15 Major Update
- Continued with Firefox 3.5.6 and 3.0.16 bug verifications. Closed most security bugs but have many non-security bugs to close
Web Dev Testing
- Shipped a special release of AMO 5.3.1, pretty much by myself
- SUMO 1.5 - Tested the new Forum search. Blogged about testing SUMO search.
- Selenium - Created a logic framework in Selenium for verifying details on persona page.
- Spread Firefox - Verified bug fixes and testing prior to release.
Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community
- Community
- Held a successful L10n+QA Test Firefox 3.6 Testday' last Friday. Top testers: Aleksej and AaronMT! [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=l10nfxtestday 11 bugs files!
- Held a very successful Open Source Meet-up in Munich with about 50 People attended during the evening, talked about Mozilla and get-involved. See photos.
- Today there will be another Open Source Meet-up in Leipzig, Germany. This is our first Open Source Meetup outside of Munich.
- Accessibility-
- Having trouble with different version of builds. Local builds, even when built for release, sometimes behave differently than regular nightly builds coming from the Mozilla build bots. Try-server builds also don't always behave the same. Couldn't reproduce some crashers when a nightly build reliably did. This made testing a bit extended since we often had to wait for a regular nightly to show some difference.
- Finished first article for German Webkrauts. It's about good markup for form controls and their labels. It hasn't been published yet.
Test Development
Security
Marketing/PR
PR
Five Years of Firefox
General
Events
Support
Metrics
Evangelism
Labs
Developer Tools
Add-ons
Webdev
L10n
Foundation Updates
- Just one week left to enter the Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge; the deadline for submissions is this Friday, November 27, at midnight Pacific time.
- First two Drumbeat local events scheduled for December, one in Singapore and one in Bangalore. Goal: get people to pitch open web project ideas that feed into the Drumbeat pipeline. If you know people in those cities, please promote.