WeeklyUpdates/2009-12-14
Friends of the Tree 
Daniel Einspanjer <deinspanjer@mozilla.com> wrote in "Cheng really hit a home run with the "answer a SUMO forum question" project. I believe that he deserves a FotT for that work."
Anthony Hughes <anthony.s.hughes@gmail.com> wrote in "I'd like to nominate Tony Mechelynck and Milos as Friends of the Tree for being Top Testers in QAs Seamonkey test day last week."
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
Last Week
- (Finally) Mastered KVM, spun up QA VMs
- Valgrind
- Windows Purify
- (Finally) Got through the bulk of user-facing RHEL kernel upgrades
This Week
- Rolling out geo-ip aware bouncer/
download.mozilla.org- bug 459919
Release Engineering
- 3.0.16 and 3.5.6 set to release tomorrow
QA
Test Execution
- Testing of Fx3.6b5 this week
- Shipped Fx3.5.6 to beta, and plans for production this week
- Signed off on personas 1.5 extension and 3.6 compatibility
- Currently working on designing a "Report Broken Website" extension for Mobile Firefox. Current mock-up ideas can be found here
- Crashkill QA Testing progress is very active. In particular, these bugs had a lot of traction last week:
- bug 530989 - regression ranged narrowed, fix in place
- bug 501429 - rstrong has enough data to work on a fix
- bug 525277 - week of onsite reproductions, have located the cause
- Special thanks to marcia for filing and reproducing over a dozen bugs in one week!
Web Dev Testing
- Tested and shipped AMO 5.4
- GetPersonas.com 2.0 - Almost done with bug fix verifications
Accessibility, Localization, Community
- Community
- Held the Seamonkey 2.0 Testday last Friday.
- New blog post about the German Open-Source Meetups.
- Localization: Completed testing of 16 key locales for Firefox 3.6
Test Development
Security
Marketing/PR
PR
Five Years of Firefox
General
Events
- Add-on-Con December 11, 2009, Mountain View, CA. We sponsored this event and had a number of sessions: Taking Flights with JetPack (Aza), Mobile Firefox Add-on Development (Mark Finkle), Future of Add-on Ecosystem (Justin, Aza, Chris Finke), Opening Keynote: Do Add-ons Need a Marketing Place (Justin Scott) and participation in closing keynote - the Future of the Web Browser (Mike Shaver). A special thanks to Mark Finkle, Justin Scott, Aza Raskin, Chris Finke and Mike Shaver for speaking at add-on-con. Also the night prior we had an add-ons workshop on Thursday night 12/10 where we will work on 3.6 compatibility and porting extensions to mobile.
- Foundations of Open Media Software January 13 - 15, 2010; Wellington, New Zealand. Perfect venue to promote open video. We are currently sponsoring this - Matthew Gregan, Chris Double and Chris Pearce will be attending and representing Mozilla.
- Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL) 2010 January 20-22, 2010; Madrid Spain. We are sponsoring this event.
- Techkriti, GNUnify, Quark - February 2009; India. Looking into participation and sponsorship at these events in India.
- 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
- Thanks to everyone who helped users in the forum last week!
- SUMO 2010 roadmap (draft)
Metrics
Evangelism
Labs
Developer Tools
Add-ons
Webdev
L10n
Foundation Updates
- This week we're launching a campaign to raise money to support Namoroka Park. Take a look at our plans and please help us get the word out.