WeeklyUpdates/2011-05-16

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Friends of the Tree

• aceman for triaging the most bugs during the Firefox Aurora Bugday last Friday. - ashughes

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 16 May

Tuesday, 17 May

Wednesday, 18 May

• Contributor Engagement Brownbag on Wednesday @ 12:00PM Pacific on Air Mozilla: Learn what the Contributor Engagement team is working on and how it can help you and new contributors

Thursday, 19 May

Friday, 20 May

• [QA] Firefox Mobile Test Day [details]

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox 5 & 6

• Aurora goes to Beta this week!
  • Beta planning meeting today at 2pm PDT (details in dev.planning)
  • Beta population is over 100k now, but once the beta goes live we turn on the tap
  • The source merge happens on Tuesday (tomorrow). Please note that this is not the date users will see an update available
    • If you have a bug approved for mozilla-aurora that has not landed, it needs to land today
• Nightly goes to Aurora in one week!
  • Details of the merge (specific time / plan) will be sent around soon

• Remember to check the channels blog for rapid release process updates.

Firefox 4, 3.6, 3.5

Firefox 4

• Turned on the advertised update, still processing feedback
• At this time there is no plan to create a 4.0.2
• If there are any major issues please email release drivers

Firefox 3.6.x

• Firefox 3.6.18 is scheduled for release at the same time as Firefox 5
  • Detailed schedule coming out this week
• We are triaging nominations and approving patches Monday/Wednesday/Friday morning PDT every week

Firefox 3.5.x

• There are no plans to do another Firefox 3.5 update
• An end-of-life plan for Firefox 3.5 has been posted
  • If there are any major issues with the plan, please respond on dev-planning

Thunderbird

• Miramar beta builds planned to start this week
• Miramar.next merges to aurora next week in sync with FF 6
• After meetings at the Ubuntu Desktop Summit last week, Thunderbird may become the new default email client in Ubuntu.

Drumbeat

(No voice updated this week)

• Knight-Mozilla Journalism Project (MoJo): Innovation Challenge #2
  • Beyond Comment Threads: How can we reinvent online news discussions?
  • Looking for your ideas & submissions here. Ends May 22.

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
Toolbox	Jeff Hammel	Toolbox is an index of Mozilla software tools	http://brasstacks.mozilla.com/toolbox/	http://brasstacks.mozilla.com/toolbox/about
Community Directory	Gervase Markham	The Mozilla contributor directory ("phonebook") is an effort to make the community feel smaller and improve communication and friendliness	None	Screencast: http://www.mozilla.org/phonebook/ https://wiki.mozilla.org/Domesday https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozilla_Contributor_Directory
Mozilla Colombia	Jeff Balogh, Matthew Claypotch, Philip Von Something	We went to Bogota Colombia for a Firefox party	http://www.flickr.com/photos/62646177@N02/sets/72157626682490100/

Status Updates By Team

QA

WebQA

• SUMO 2.8.2 went out on 5/10: http://moxie.jamessocol.com/bugstats/sumo/2.8.2
• Input 3.5 going out today
• Mozilla.com 2.4 http://bit.ly/mlt2nb - went out on 5/10
• MDN 0.9.4.3 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=656033

QA Community

• Romania Firefox 4 Launch party (May 3rd) blog [1] post
• London tester meetup (May 3rd) blog [] post
• Good turn out for a Selenium test meetup here in 10 Forward last friday CSS vs XPath Locators
• Successful bug day last Friday Firefox Aurora Bugday

Automation & Tools

• Talos Tp5 (new pageset) is finished, working with RelEng to roll out
• Toolbox is released - registry for tools.
• Working with Ehsan to improve the War On Orange (WOO) UI
• Blocking bug "errors are not enumerable" bug 650646 fixed for Mozmill, released 1.5.4pre last week for QA.
• More notes and status here

Engagement

PR

• Test builds of Firefox 5, Firefox 6 for Android now available
• Mozilla Firefox On Top Of Security Issues: Fixing Them Fast

• Mozilla resists US gov't request to nuke "MafiaaFire" add-on
• Mozilla Building on Firefox's Dominant Share in Indonesia

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Developer Tools

• The Scratchpad has landed and is on track for a Firefox 6 arrival. The Scratchpad helps people more easily prototype and experiment with JavaScript code. We'll talk more about this tool leading up to the Firefox 6 release.
• Join us each week on Thursdays at 8am PDT to hear more about tools-in-progress and to get involved with developer tools projects.
• Last week's meeting notes included 3 quick video demos and we plan to do more of that from week to week.

Introducing New Hires

• Benoit Girard (introduced by Joe Drew in Toronto)
• Matthew MacPherson (introduced by Wenzel)

Interns of the week

Andrew Drake
Trevor Saunders
Erik Holk
Wilson Guaraca
Tanay Gavankar
Wesley Dawson
Siddharth Agarwal
Matt Basta