WeeklyUpdates/2009-11-30
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Development Updates
Firefox
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Firefox Future
Team News
Gecko
Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Firefox 3.5.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x
- Firefox 3.0.16 / Firefox 3.5.6
- builds started today
- planning to go to beta this week, after QA spot checks
- on track for mid-December ship date
- Firefox 3.0.17 / Firefox 3.5.7
- schedules posted
- early February release target
- any feedback on these?
- Firefox 3.0.15 -> 3.5.5 Prompted Major Update (PMU)
- overall crashes in 3.5.5 are down from 3.5.3 and 3.5.4 thanks to CrashKill
- some crashes were fixes in our code, others were blocklisted add-ons
- even more fixes coming in 3.5.6
- as a result, we'd like to resume pushing users from 3.0.x to 3.5.x
- planning to go live with a PMU tomorrow morning
Thunderbird
SeaMonkey
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
QA
Test Execution
Web Dev Testing
Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community
Test Development
Security
Marketing/PR
PR
Five Years of Firefox
General
Events
- Add-on-Con December 2009, Mountain View, CA. We are sponsoring this event and will have 3 sessions: Taking Flights with JetPack (Aza), Mobile Firefox Add-on Development (Mark Finkle), Future of Add-on Ecosystem (Justin, Nick, add-on developer community member). There will be an Add-ons workshop on Thursday night 12/10 where we will be working on 3.6 and fennec compatibility. Please signup for the Pre-Add-on-Con workshop here.
- Sunlight Labs Great American Hackathon December 12-13, 2009; Mountain View, CA. We will be holding a hackathan at Mozilla HQ on Saturday and Sunday 12/12-12/13. Please signup for the workshop here.
- 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.
- Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL) 2010 January 20-22, 2010; Madrid Spain. We are sponsoring this event.
- SXSW Interactive 2010 March 12-16, 2010; Austin, Texas. Working on sponsorship opportunities and Firefox party. Please continue to check our wiki page for information.
- Programming Languages and Analysis for Security (PLAS 2010) June 10, 2010; Toronto, Canada. We are sponsoring this event.
Support
- No updates this week.