WeeklyUpdates/2010-08-02

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Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 2 August

Tuesday, 3 August

Wednesday, 4 August

Thursday, 5 August

Mozilla in the Big Apple Meetup in NYC from 7-9pm at the Hilton New York.  RSVP and learn more here.

Friday, 6 August

BlogHer Conference - Mozilla will be in attendance at the GeekLab and our Hospitality Suite (#4339).  Keep up with us here.

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox 3.6

Firefox 3.6.9

• Schedule for Firefox 3.6.9 is now set at Releases/Firefox 3.6.9#Schedule
• The schedule allows some breathing room between 3.6.9 and the next 4.0 beta
• Code-freeze is Thursday August 12 @ 11:59 pm PST
  • That's 10 days from now
  • Let's make a strong effort to get the 23 open blockers in early rather than submit fixes in the last hour of the last day...

Thunderbird

• Trunk cleanup ongoing
• 3.1.2 builds happening today
• Tb 2 advertised updates planned to update to 3.1.2

Speakers

The limit is 3 minutes per speaker. It's like a lightning talk, but don't feel that you have to have slides in order to make a presentation.

Title	Presenter	Topic	Media	More Details
Your Title Here	Your Name Here	What are you going to talk about?	Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen	Link to where audience can find out more information

Status Updates By Team

Messaging

• Posted Quick Filter screencast to Messaging Add-ons Blog.
• Raindrop reboot continuing

QA

QA Highlights

• General
  • Planning QA work week Sept 13-16, 2010
• Desktop Firefox
  • preparing for FF 4, beta 3
• Browser Technologies
  • Shipped FF Sync 1.4.3
  • FF Home 1.01 approved in app store
• Web QA
  • Shipped AMO 5.11.6
  • Shipped Input 1.6
• QA Services
  • Community
    • Planning community outreach initiatives and better meetup management.

Automation & Tools

• Shipped Mozmill 1.4.2 b2, now with the new Bespin UI
• Completed Cross Weave weave testing framework
• Performance A11y (accessibility) Talos tests landed!
• Ran burn-in builds over the weekend on Fennec, some issues observed:
  • Need to ensure test harnesses stop remote webserver regardless of how they end (bug to be filed)
  • Fennec sometimes fails to start after running
  • Reftests need to be chunked
  • heartbeat monitors and agents worked well throughout the test
• More information always available: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Auto-tools/Meetings/2010-08-02

Engagement

PR

• Wall Street Journal Privacy Series "What They Know"

• Tighter security coming in Firefox 4

• Mozilla updates Firefox Home and Sync for iPhone
• Mozilla updates Firefox Home & Firefox Sync

• Tabs get tweaked in Firefox 4 beta 2
• How to use App Tabs in Firefox (video)
• Firefox 4 beta 2 preaches tabs-on-top love to fanbois
• Firefox 4 Gets Second Beta Release

Events

• BlogHer '10 - August 6-7, 2010 - We will be having a hotel suite and a presence in the GeekLab as well as a meetup on Thursday (open to non BlogHer folk)  - sign up for the meetup here.
  
• Open Video Conference 2010 - October 1-2, 2010; New York, NY  - Looking over sponsorship opportunities.
• Maker Faire Africa - August 27-28, 2010; Nairobi, Kenya - Looking into sponsorship opportunties.
• Renegade Craft Fair Chicago 2010 - September 11-12, 2010 - We will have a booth and be doing some innovative activities.  Check out the wiki for more details Looking into sponsorship opportunities.
  

Community